The high-yield sizes are impressively cheap: a $32, 1200-page black and $15, 700-page cyan, magenta, and yellow (2.1 cents per color, per page). The standard sizes include a $20, 420-page black (4.8 cents) and $10, 300-page cyan, magenta, and yellow (3.3 cents per color, per page). The printer ships with a special “setup” version of the standard size, which comes with a little extra ink to account for what’s used during printer initialization. The inks are reasonably priced below the average in both the standard and high-yield sizes. Our test scans were of good quality, with slight banding in our line-art test page and dull, flat looking colors in our photo scans. Photos also lacked the depth and shadow detail found in prints from HP’s Photosmart printers, which feature extra inks formulated to enhance photographic images. Photos had a ruddy cast and colors were a bit oversaturated. Our PDF graphics pages showed good color quality, but again we found soft edges. Our print quality tests showed that for a business printer, text was only of fair quality, with surprisingly fuzzy edges. In our speed testing, we found the Officejet 6500A to be an average performer on the Mac, with text speed of 6 pages per minute, 1.5 pages per minute in our PDF test, and 0.4 pages per minute in our photo test prints.
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