The $129 HP Photosmart 5520 e-All-in-One color inkjet multifunction offers an automatic duplexer and booklet and mulltipage printing. It has a 2.65-inch LCD touchscreen for the navigation buttons. Is also features a dual SD Card/Memory Stick reader for offloading scans and performing direct photo printing.

The Photosmart 5520 has an 80-sheet input tray and the output exits just above that. It has an automatic duplexer that eases two-sided printing chores. However, the Photosmart 5520 isn't suitable for scanning long documents because there isn't an automatic document feeder. Also, it can't accommodate thick items such as books.

The Photosmart 5520's printer driver is easy-to-use. It offers layout option for booklets and multiple pages. It also supports push scanning.



Compared to the Photosmart 5510, the 5520 is a bit slow with 8.8 and 7.9 pages per minute for a monochrome pages on PC and Mac respectively. Photos are printed at 4.1 pages per minute to plain paper and 1.0 pages per minute to glossy paper. Printing on Mac is a bit slower.

Output from the Photosmart 5520 generally looks good when it arrives. Though a tad on the light side, photos have a largely realistic color palette (with a slight pinkish cast) on both plain and glossy photo paper. Text is dark, crisp, and sharp. Scans have a slightly cool temperature but are more than acceptable.

The Photosmart 5520 uses a four-cartridge ink system. The black standard size cartridge lasts for 250 pages, the cyan magenta and yellow last for 300 pages making printing cost a bit cheaper. But for the high-yield "XL" cartridges, it lower the costs more for a colored print with a 750 pages for colored, and 550 pages for black.

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