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HP Tango X

 & William Harrel Former Contributing Editor

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Meet the HP Tango X

The Tango X has a book-cover-like outer "wrap" that, when open, provides a nice cloth runway on which printed pages can land.

It's a Wrap

The Tango X wrapper material feels like a hardcover book's cover, upholstered in fabric. It folds around the top, front, and bottom of the printer.

An Apple-Esque Color Scheme

The Tango X's body is mostly white, with color highlights only under the lid.

Tag, You're It

This tag on the end of the wrap tended to interfere with the flow of paper when printing large, multipage documents.

Out of the Wrapping

Without the wrap, and with the paper tray closed, the Tango X measures 3.6 by 15.3 by 9.7 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.5 pounds.

No Wired Interfaces

This AC adapter connection is the only wired port on the Tango X.

Lid Up

You pop open the top of the Tango X to ready it for printing and expose the input tray.

Exit Page Left

The Tango X has no output tray apart from the cloth-covered wrap.

The Paper Path in Full

Here's the Tango X with the paper tray full and the wrap stretched out to catch pages.

Ready for Action

HP rates the Tango X at 11 pages per minute (ppm) for monochrome pages, 8ppm for color.

Insert Paper Here

The Tango X paper tray, positioned at the back of the chassis, holds 50 sheets of paper, five envelopes, or 20 index cards or sheets of photo paper.

Send More Cartridges!

With Instant Ink, you pay a modest monthly fee, and the printer monitors your ink levels; HP sends you new cartridges as needed.

The Ink Arrangement

The Tango X is a four-color printer with a two-cartridge arrangement.

About Our Expert

William Harrel

William Harrel

Former Contributing Editor

Bill's Experience

For nearly a decade, Bill focused on printer and scanner technology and reviews for PCMag, and wrote about computer technology since well before the advent of the internet. He authored or co-authored 20 books—including titles in the popular Bible, Secrets, and For Dummies series—on digital design and desktop publishing software applications. His published expertise in those areas included Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and QuarkXPress, as well as prepress imaging technology. (Over his long career, though, he covered many aspects of IT.)

In addition to writing hundreds of articles for PCMag, over the years he also wrote for many other computer and business publications, among them Computer Shopper, Digital Trends, MacUser, PC World, The Wirecutter, and Windows Magazine. He also served as the Printers and Scanners Expert at About.com.

Bill's Expertise

  • Imaging and prepress technology
  • The SOHO, SMB, and enterprise printer and scanner markets
  • Printer and scanner technology (and accompanying software)
  • Consumer-grade and pro-grade photo printing
  • Mobile printing and scanning
  • Optical character recognition (OCR)
  • Document management

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