The HP Deskjet F380 is a low-cost all-in-one printer designed for light home use. It combines printing, scanning, and copying into one reasonably compact device for about $80.
The body of the light-gray-and-white printer is boxy and made of more lightweight plastic. This cheap printer measures 16.8 inches wide, 10.2 inches deep (with the paper tray folded in), and 7 inches tall, and weighs a light 10.3 pounds. Still, it feels well-enough constructed, though the glossy white scanner lid is a bit wobbly and flimsy. A transparent blue-plastic tray in the front folds out to serve as both the input and output tray. The input tray can hold up to 100 sheets of paper. Along the left side of the printer’s top sits a row of off-white buttons that comprise the very limited control panel. A power button, a cancel button, and two indicators (paper jam and low ink) round out the control panel.
The HP Deskjet F380 also includes two full ink tanks: one black and one tricolor (CMY). The printer can be used with Windows 98/98 SE/2000/Me/XP PCs and Mac OS X versions 10.3.9 and 10.4. HP includes its Photosmart Essential software, which helps you organize, edit, print, and share your photos. The basic features of F380 include: borderless printing (up to 4×6 inches), multiple copies (up to 9 pages), and copy scaling.
Printer prints text at 3.94 pages per minute (ppm), a PowerPoint presentation at 1.21ppm, graphics at 1.14ppm, and 4×6 photos at 0.38ppm. Text printer is dark, cleanly formed, and legible down to very small point sizes.