HP's print drivers allow you to make exhaustive tweaks, such as adding a watermark or adjusting individual color levels. The latter installs automatically with the drivers and helps you organize your photos and perform basic editing functions, such as cropping, red-eye removal, lightening dark photos, or creating projects such as scrapbook pages, flyers, and calendars. The HP Deskjet 6840 comes with HP's useful, easy-to-master Director, an umbrella interface for HP peripherals, as well as Image Zone software. The 6840 is also wireless network key-compatible, so you can quickly add the printer to your Wi-Fi network by plugging a USB flash drive that holds network settings into the PictBridge port.
The HP 6840 conceals USB and Ethernet ports in its back panel, as well as built-in 802.11g/b Wi-Fi compatibility and a PictBridge camera port in front, though it lacks the digital media-card slots commonly found on photo printers such as the Epson Stylus Photo R320. But families, small home offices, and organizations on a tight budget might appreciate this understated, network-ready, solid performer-either for general use or as a spare color printer-to pair with a laser model. Office workgroups may prefer a color laser that offers high-volume printing with zippy text. What's more, you can add reasonably priced double-sided printing or an extra paper tray. But, for the same $200 price as the base model in the 1200 series, whose network-ready model costs $250, the Deskjet 6840 delivers comparable print quality, faster photo-print speeds, and built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet capability. The HP Deskjet 6840 occupies the high end of HP's line of home and home-office inkjet printers, so it handles less traffic than the HP Business Inkjet 1200d, and it lacks office-oriented features such as software to monitor the printer over a network. Editor's note: We have changed the rating in this review to reflect recent changes in our rating scale.
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