The HP Photosmart 6520 is a compact wireless multifunction inkjet printer designed for home and student use that delivers high-quality photo and document printing, scanning, and copying through an intuitive 3.45-inch color touchscreen and versatile media handling including a dedicated photo tray.

It connects easily via Wi-Fi with support for HP ePrint and AirPrint, features automatic two-sided printing to save paper, uses individual ink cartridges for cost efficiency, and is ENERGY STAR certified with a recycled-plastic design while many users praise its print quality and ease of use though some note it can be noisy or have occasional paper handling quirks.

Features and Highlights

Duplex Printing and Copying

The HP Photosmart 6520 includes automatic two-sided printing and copying, which helps reduce paper usage and makes everyday printing more convenient. This feature allows the printer to print and copy on both sides of a sheet without requiring manual flipping, saving time and minimizing waste. It’s especially handy for printing and copying long documents, drafts, or personal files where conserving paper matters.

Document Scanner

With the flatbed scanner that the HP Photosmart 6520 offers as one of its built-in feature, you can turn paper, photos, or printed materials into digital files you can store, edit, share, or archive with ease. It’s missing what an automatic document feeder (ADF) excels at, which is feeding multiple sheets automatically for scanning, but it has its own strength. Its versatility is simply something an ADF can’t match because of how it works.

Stay Connected

It doesn’t matter where you are. As long as you are in a location the internet network can still reach, you will be able to stay connected to the printer. It’s all thanks to the HP ePrint, a cloud based service that lets you send print jobs to the Photosmart printer via an email address. This feature works after you connect the printer to the internet and activate its email address.

Ink Cartridges

The HP Photosmart 6520 is built to print photos, yet it only uses one black and three color ink cartridges, so the photo print quality is not as good as other photo printers that use more colors. On the upside, the printer uses a hybrid ink system where the black is a pigment ink while the color cartridges are dye based inks. Pigment ink is good for text, while dye based ink is good for photo printing.

HP Photosmart 6520 Driver Free Download

Print speed is up to 12 ISO ppm for black pages and 8.5 ISO ppm for color pages. Printing in draft mode speeds things up to 22 ppm whether you print in black or color. The printer’s recommended page volume is 100 to 300 pages per month, so it’s not one for anyone with high printing needs.

The printer has an 80-sheet paper tray and a 20-sheet photo tray, with space for up to five envelopes. Before you can print whatever you want to print, however, the printer needs its driver to be installed. You can click the link below to download HP Photosmart 6520 Driver for Windows: