This cost included Olivetti photo glossy paper, which we found at £11.75 for a pack of 35, A4 sheets. For colour, we printed 631 pages, giving a page cost of 41p, for 30 per cent cover. We printed 524, five per cent black text pages before we saw a visible drop off in print quality, giving a page cost of 4.66p. We’ve assumed the same use for photo ink as for standard colour in calculating the cost of colour prints. There are two ink cartridges used by the ANY_WAY, black and tri-colour, and you replace the black with a second tri-colour photo cartridge when printing photos. These are all four-colour prints we couldn’t test six-colour printing as, despite our request, a photo cartridge wasn’t forthcoming. The high quality print is also fair, but there’s a noticeable band running vertically down it, and some of the dithering is obvious. The photo mode print is reasonable, but not as good as the best available from Canon or HP.
#Olivetti photo plus Pc#
The long PC print times might be acceptable if the print quality was superb. Definitely the way to go, if you’re in a hurry. Unusually, prints from PictBridge and from an SD card were much quicker, with a fastest time of one minute 35 seconds. All these times were using the USB 2.0 interface, which is always quicker than either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. We tried a print in high quality mode (one step down), which took two minutes 25 seconds, a more reasonable time but at visibly lower quality. We were worried the paper might have jammed inside, it took so long. How long to print a 15 x 10cm image? 10 minutes 09 seconds.
So we printed a 15 x 10cm image, borderless on 15 x 10cm Olivetti paper, in the machine’s photo mode, the highest quality mode the machine can produce. You may say we’re being unfair, as the ANY_WAY is sold as a photo machine, specialising in printing images from digital cameras, not printing plain A4 pages. Even given that we print in normal mode and Olivetti (like all other printer manufacturers) quotes a speed in draft mode, it bears so little relation to what you’re likely to see in normal use, it’s pretty useless as a specification. This machine took two minutes 29 seconds to print our five-page text piece, just over 2ppm. The job cancel button, for example, uses a big C, when X is more common, and the scan button uses an icon that’s supposed to look like a raised scanner lid, but which actually looks more like a greetings card.
#Olivetti photo plus Bluetooth#
With Bluetooth selected, you can print from a Bluetooth-equipped camera-phone or camera.Īll buttons and lights on the control panel use icons and not all of these are obvious. Bluetooth works in a similar way, but you can’t have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth activated at the same time, which is a shame. The Wi-Fi setup is a bit fiddly, as you have to get the correct wireless settings to the printer before disconnecting the USB cable, to force it to communicate through the ether.
#Olivetti photo plus install#
In each case, you install the software and then connect the ANY_WAY. The most conventional is a USB 2.0 link at the back, but the device also offers Bluetooth and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. There are three ways to connect the ANY_WAY photo wireless to other devices, apart from memory cards and a PictBridge camera link.
Prints feed through to a telescopic output tray at the front and the machine can handle paper from A4 down to 15 x 10 photo blanks and beyond. You also have to be quite a way away, which makes the screen awkward to use for viewing photos.Ī pair of supports rise like little antennae from the rear of the machine to support around 75 sheets of paper at a time in the input tray. On the ANY_WAY, you have to be at a pretty low angle for the top of the screen not to be obscured by the scanner housing, positioned above it. The base of the device is an odd place to put an LCD display and it’s easy to see why all other manufacturers choose to set them higher up on their all-in-ones you can view them close up. The machine provides for all the common card types, including xD and MicroDrive. Buttons arrayed around this display only light up when you insert a memory card into one of the slots, again in the scanner edge. The angular, all-black design is broken by a strip of indicators and buttons along the front edge of the scanner section and by an LCD display set into the machine’s foot. The ANY_WAY photo wireless is at the top of the range and, as its name suggests, it’s designed to print photos and to work with a wireless connection.įirst impressions are all good. It has been a while since Olivetti marketed an ink-jet printer, but with the ANY_WAY it has launched into the home multi-function market with a range of smart-looking devices.
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