Deskjet Review

I have no idea about this photo ink cartridges thing. Can someone please explain like how many cartridges should be used when printing photos? I mean there should be a colour cartridge and a black cartridge too right?

Also, will HP Deskjet 3744 will produce quality pictures?

There is only two cartridges that you can use with this printer. The black cartridge is #27 and the color cartridge is #28. There is no special photo cartridge for this printer, because this printer is not designed for printing high quality photos.
Yes, you can print some photos, but the qualitiy of them won’t be very good. The photos won’t look as sharp as if you were printing them with a printer designed to print photos.
I would suggest looking at a Photosmart printer by HP or a printer of your choice.

Here’s what I found on HP’s website:
One or more optional photo cartridges may be available, depending on your printer model.
Use the photo cartridge with a tri-color cartridge for best-quality color photos and graphics, and sepia or antique photos.
Choose a gray photo cartridge to print black and white photos with truer grays and richer blacks

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Following numerous years of inflated specs unable to meet expected values, you’d imagine the public would have learned its lesson. But, with producers even now waving 4,800dpi inkjet printers under our noses, it seems we have got some way to go. High resolutions may seem remarkable, however it is only a really small portion of the formula. HP has also recognised that high resolution is not the be-all and end-all: although the Deskjet 5550 offers huge numbers such as 4,800dpi, additionally, it provides HP’s very first six-colour photo engine.

What’s more, HP will immediately acknowledge that the brand-new 600dpi PhotoREt IV machine creates identical quality to 4,800dpi in nearly one fourth of the speed. Rather than changing PhotoREt III (that is still used with the standard cartridges fitted), the following generation of PhotoREt has been made specifically for HP’s brand new C6658A photo cartridge.

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