Hewlett Packard Deskjet 450 > Reviews > HP Deskjet 450

Author's product rating:   

Picture quality	Good
Printing speed	Fast
Colour sensitivity	Good
Ease of use	Very easy
Value For Money	Good

Advantages:	good speeds and print quality
Disadvantages:	could look better

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

This printer has really only one feature, however it’s a good one as it can print onto A3 sizes paper. This could come in handy for anyone who needs to print large documents, maybe to make some kind of large presentation, or someone who needs to print off large, good quality images.

I guess if you don’t need this feature a lot then this printer is kind of wasted on you as you wouldn’t use it that much and also its a lot dearer than a normal a4 printer, however if you do want to print off onto a3 size paper and you would use this one a lot, then this printer is a real buy.

This printers getting a little old now and although quite expensive of a price around £250 when they first came out you can now pick one up for about £100 new or around £50 second hand so they really have dropped down in price quite a lot. It is however still dear compared to a decent a4 printer of the same quality. However you have to think, this is a great feature to have, and even if you don’t use it as much as a4, you do still have the capability there to print out normal prints too so there is more options out there.
Also even though this does sound dear, its a lot cheaper than most of its rivals equivalent a3 sized printers.

This printer is very large, but you would expect it seen as it can print such large documents, however its sheer size doesn’t make it look too ugly. It looks quite neat and tidy but I wouldn’t really say it looks very stylish.

The input paper tray which can hold 100 sheets of paper is located at the top of the printer which unfortunately means you have huge wads of paper hanging out all over the place.
It doesn’t do too bad on printing speeds though, it can do about 25 pages a minute for black a4 text document however if your printing a best quality a3 photo your lucky to get one every few minutes.

The pictures quality of this is fantastic, even on the huge a3 prints there’s never any running ink, or splotches of colour where the ink heads have messed up a bit. Some of the bad quality pictures printed off don’t come off that well though as they are memorized and don’t look as good quality, but as long as you’ve took a good picture it will come off fabulous.

It’s a great printer although most people don’t really need its a3 capability that it has, but if you do then its now at a quite reasonable price to buy and use and its also good quality too. Definitely if you need to make a lot of large presentations or folder work in a3 size then this is great, and if you enjoy doing art or do it for a living then this is also a fantastic printer to have.