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hey i'm justin you for cnet.com this is a first look at the HP officejet pro x 576 DW printer so the pro in the name is a good tip that this printer is meant for small businesses and home offices looking for a workhorse printer it's also 799 bucks but with plenty of extra features you won't find with other printer manufacturers it's really well worth the cost for those that really need a high output device it's the top-of-the-line model in the x series of office jet printers from HP it's a big guy as you can see it measures 20.3 inches tall and 20 point 3 inches wide but it's actually easy to pick up and move around thanks to the small grooves on the side here where your hands go and the bulk of the size is because of the two paper trays that feed media into the printer there's one on the bottom that can hold up to 500 sheets of paper and there's another 50 sheet multi-purpose tray on the side where you can put photo paper or cardstock whatever you want and finally there's another 50 sheet auto document feeder on top that one's used for putting stacks of documents to be scanned hands-free so you don't have to sit around and monitor the job so the really innovative part of the X 576 DW is found behind this panel here it gives you a quick look at the duplexer and a little bit of the new printhead the printhead is part of the printer that usually moves back and forth to place ink on various parts of the paper but this one by HP sits in one place and let the paper do the work moving back and forth across all the little ink nozzles now the benefit of this new ink system means big improvements in print quality and especially speed HB brags that this can print about 70 pages of text per minute and while our test results don't exactly fit that claim it certainly just as fast as competing laser printers that are known for their speed the X 576 DW uses for different types of inks that install behind this door on the front there's one for cyan one for magenta another for yellow and of course black using HP zinc costs in their online store we estimate that a page of black texts costs about two and a half cents while a page of color will set you back three point two cents per page that's about average compared to a laser but it is a lot less than most inkjets you can also save a little bit of in the long term by investing in HP's high capacity ink tanks up front so there's a lot of options in high connect this printer to your computer to you can hook it up through a hard wired USB port in the back here or you can connect it to an Ethernet network for an array of computers but the best way to do it is definitely through the Wi-Fi network the Wi-Fi server inside is going to sniff out any open networks and of course prompt you for your password before it connects after that's done though you'll be able to use all of HP's exclusive cloud printing features when I say cloud printing I mean that you can print from this thing from a mobile phone from an internet browser or a web-connected device that can access email this 4.3 inch screen up top is also one of the unique features and something we've grown to love about HP there's an app store built into the display that's similar to a smartphone screen and it lets you download various apps that make it really easy to print out games for kids sports scores the news of the day etc you can also plug your own USB storage Drive into this port here and forego the computer entirely so you can read even more details about this device including speed test results and comparison test products but that's going to do it for me I'm Justin you you just took a first look at the HP Officejet Pro X 576 DW thanks for watching you