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hey it's Justin from CNET this is a first look at the HP Officejet 46 mid-range multifunction printer but unlike most of these things that use a copier to send faxes over the Internet this one actually has a fax machine built-in too so taking a closer look the 4630 has a new design for HP that puts the paper tray on the bottom and that gets it out of the way so you could push the printer up against a wall and you won't lose any of those functions it can hold a hundred sheets of plain paper in the tray and you can also put an extra 35 sheet stack into the auto document feeder on top you'll use that to batch scan and fax and the adjustable sliders let you use all different kinds of paper different sizes and things like heavy cardstock letters and more setup is also really easy which is really no small feat for a printer you can hook it up to a computer with just a USB cable but HP really wants you to connect it with a wireless router that way you can print from the cloud using services like Apple air print Google Cloud Print HP's own ePrint that's a service that sends photos to the printer from anywhere using a unique email address lift up the middle part here and you'll see the cartridge Bay there's one for black ink and the other actually holds three different colors in one cartridge cyan magenta and yellow of course the disadvantage of that tricolor cartridge is that you'll have to replace the entire thing when even one color runs out so to save money on consumables you can actually use the auto duplexer built-in to print on both sides of the single sheet of paper but to save ink you really only have two options you can either purchase XL capacity cartridges from HP and that'll cost you a bit more up front but you get more ink in the reservoir or you can opt into HP's latest and newest ink program it's called instant ink and it keeps track of your usage as you print and then it automatically sends you a new cartridge when you're running low the 46:30 is a bit lacking in terms of performance it registered slower than average print speeds and the tricolor ink cartridge showed visible signs of banding but nothing too serious I printed a bunch of full 4x6 color photos on it and while there are some definite limitations to the tricolor cartridge it's good enough to use in a scrapbook or for professional documents like resumes and presentation slides you can read more details in my full review on CNET but that's it for this video I'm Justin this is the HP Officejet