HP DeskJet 1515 is an elegant multifunction printer with black and tri-color inks. Whether you need to print, copy, or scan, it is ready to handle the job. And when it is idle, the money saving feature kicks in, saving you from unnecessary cost.

The printer has some nice features but also lacks some of them, such as ADF. One look at its body is sufficient to tell that such feature doesn’t exist. However, the drawback shouldn’t be a problem if you don’t scan or copy pages frequently.

Features and Highlights

Just like any other printer, HP DeskJet 1515 needs to be turned off when it is not used to save money on the electricity cost. However, you don’t need to do it manually every single time you finish printing some pages. The reason is that the printer is capable of turning itself off after two hours of inactivity. During the inactivity period, the printer is in sleep mode, which is automatically enabled after five minutes of inactivity.

To print and copy pages, HP DeskJet 1515 needs one cartridge containing black ink and another one containing inks in different colors. So, there are two units of cartridge in one printer. They are disposable cartridges. Replacing them is easier and faster than refilling an ink tank unit because they can be simply removed and replaced with the new ones.

The ink cost of cartridges are higher, though, especially for the tri-color ones. Unlike standard cartridges, regardless of which color runs low in the tri-color cartridge, the whole cartridge must be replaced because there is no available method to remove individual color. This is perhaps the biggest downside of HP DeskJet 1515 that anyone should know about before deciding to buy the machine.

However, for users who occasionally print, HP DeskJet 1515 may be a better choice than an ink tank. The reason is that its price is cheaper than an ink tank which has similar features.

The highest resolution that HP DeskJet 1515 supports is 4800 x 1200 optimized dpi, and the lowest resolution is 300 x 300 dpi. Users who’d like to save ink as much as possible should print pages in draft mode which uses the lowest resolution.

Printing pages in draft mode reduces the amount of ink used to print pages. Aside from saving the ink, the draft mode makes it possible for the printer to print faster, which is around 20 black pages per minute.

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How fast the printer can print a page after it is idle for a period of time is also as important as the print speed. No one wants to wait too long for the first page to come out of the printer. Unfortunately, HP DeskJet 1515 takes around 17 seconds to print the first black page and 24 seconds for the first color page.

Although the first page out time may not as fast as expectation, HP DeskJet 1515 is still a good printer to handle low to moderate volume printing. You can click the link below to download HP DeskJet 1515 Driver for Windows: