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Summary: Perfect for me
Review: First - I love my printer! I only gave it four stars because, to be honest, it is the only multi-function printer I have ever owned (and I use it very lightly). So this is hardly going to be a comprehensive review. I have owned mine for a year now, and I use it at home for printing (I haven't tried printing photos), copying, occasional scanning, and faxing. I love it! The combo flatbed (necessary for copying pages from books) and feed tray (necessary for sending multi-page faxes or copying many pages at a time) is really the only way to go. Combine this with the great space-saving ability of this machine (everything in one!) and you really have a great deal. Initially, I had a problem with the pages printing slightly crooked. I emailed HP, which was no help at all. I ran all the diagnostic tests, to no avail. Finally, I happened to notice that the back plate to the printer wasn't latched properly - and in fact, it WOULDN'T latch properly. With a little bit of paper stuck in the latch to force it to close (annoying, but hardly worth paying the shipping to send it back to have it repaired) it worked fine - no more crooked pages.True, the ink cartridges cost a lot. OEM cartridges are cheaper, but then you run the risk of damaging your machine - the best option is to find cartridges at your local Costco, and stock up when they are in stock. Given that I only use this machine at home for occasional use (I am a student, so I definitely DO use it), and that I try to print everything in black and white, and usually on the fastest, least ink-intensive settings to save $, I have no complaints myself about the ink usage. If you print intensively, or have to use the best quality settings, you will probably resent the price of the ink cartridges, but I do not mind so much. Neither do I have any complaints about the drivers, as other people have had (according to their reviews); after running the included installation CD on my Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Home, and Windows 98 machines, all of them successfully printed from my small home network. (Those of you with network problems should try running the software on each computer, not just the main one.) If you are looking for a top-quality, industrial machine for intensive/business use, why are you looking at one of the cheapest multi-function combo flatbed/document-feed machines available? If you want a machine for a small home office or personal use, and you want the convenience and space-saving ability of a multi-function, all-in-one, combo flatbed/document feed machine without paying an arm and a leg for one, and don't mind shelling out for more expensive ink cartridges to make up for the inexpensive price of this printer (or, like me, are willing to print out at fast-quality instead of best-quality all the time), then I highly recommend this printer - it has certainly served me well so far, and I am quite happy with it! p.s. You WILL need a USB printer cable - easily purchased at your local radio shack or any other computer or electronics store, or you can order one from amazon. It is rather annoying that HP won't include a cable, which really doesn't cost that much, considering how much you are shelling out for the machine, but there it is. So don't be shocked when you can't hook it up out of the box, if you forgot to get a cable with it!
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Summary: Photo printing capability way over-rated
Review: After reading all the reviews and comparison shopping, I opted to replace my good old T45 (which had an internal part break off that could not be repaired) with an officejet 6110. I bought this model rather than a less expensive one on the positive reviews for its photo printing capacity and we do a lot of digital photography in my house. We had to return the first one as it continually gave us error messages on setup and wouldn't print a sample page. The second one installed immediately and seems to print, fax, scan and copy as well as the old one, but the photo printing has been a huge letdown: we can only print about 10-20% as many photos compared to the T45 before the color cartridge is out of ink and the quality is nowhere near professional. The color isn't that true to the photos viewed on the computer, either. I may return this one as well.
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Summary: Does the job very nicely
Review: I bought this to replace an old laserjet and have been very happy with it. Copying and scanning work well and printing from either the ADF or the flatbed has given me no problems. I am using it with both MAC and PCs on the same network -- no problems there either (after I downloaded the latest MAC drivers). Copy quality and speed are great for our home office. Photo quality is pretty darn good too. The printer uses most paper --- including borderless 4x6 with is a great snapshot size. I have a higher end photo printer too (an Epson 2200) which is great for larger more "serious" photos but for quick jobs I often use the HP. Can't confirm the negative comments about drivers/software -- have had no problems with either OS. I do agree with the comments on the inks -- three separate color cartridges would be better -- but that's a small ding. There are many multifunctions out there now -- and several are likely good. For the money and features, the 6110 still seems to me (after about 4 months) one of the best. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Save your time and money
Review: I bought one of these thinking the automatic feeder would save me loads of time. Now instead of minutes it takes hours. HP's tech support's only advise was to buy more equipment and to reboot my computer. I thought they realized we outgrew that trick 10 years ago. When I tell the machine to read from the feeder it reads from the flatbed and vise versa. Don't spend your money on this untested product. The only nice thing I can say about this product is that if you can keep it working for more than 1.4 minutes it can print four pages on one sheet of paper.
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Summary: printer's great - install's horrible
Review: I got this muti-functino printer about a month ago -- took me about 3 days to finally get it working. Called up HP several times b/c scanner/fax drivers weren't being installed properly.
However, after all that, i finally got it installed & since then, it's been working great. I would recomend this for any1 looking for a multi-function printer ... but, during the install, just be a bit carefull & try not to get too frustrated
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Summary: Good printer. Drivers did not install properly at first.
Review: Good printer. Drivers did not install properly at first and required several calls to HP's help desk. Not that it works, I really like it.
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Summary: It's the drivers, stupid!
Review: HP is known for dreaming up some great ideas in hardware. This multi-function is one of them. Too bad the folks who write their drivers don't have the same abilities. The drivers for this unit are the weak link, and this could be a 4 or 5 star unit if even the tinyest bit of thought went into the drivers. The scanner on this unit defaults to maximum optical resolution and maximum color depth. Worse, even if you adjust the resolution and color depth for a scan, the unit sets back to the defaults after each and every scan. This means that if you are using the automatic document feeder to scan 30 pages of text, you cannot select 200 dpi in B&W - you must use 300 dpi at full color depth. So instead of your scan saving in less than 2 megabytes of disk space for 20 pages, your scan ends up consuming several GIGAbytes of disk space! Worse, when you go to print your 20 page black & white text file, since it was scanned in color, it will now print in color (a slower, more expensive process - even when the only color is black) That is just plain stupid and renders the document feeder all but useless. I returned my HP and bought a Brother. Brother works with Paperport software, the industry standard. HP forces you to use their own clunky software. HP's manual says you can use Paperport, but after trying it with very limited success, HP customer care informed me that the scanner will only work properly with HP's own software. Brother's drivers also allow you to easily and permenently change the scanning defaults so you can taylor your scanner to what you do the most of, instead of forcefitting your life to what HP wants. Disclosure:
I own a fair amount of stock in HP-Compaq.
I own No stock in Brother. sad, but true. I wish for the sake of my portfolio that HP would get with it. Look at the way Brother does things and emulate them. Please!
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Summary: decent if somewhat flawed multifunctional printer
Review: Our four-year old R80xi workhorse multifunction printer quit printing one day. After spending a week trying to coax it back to life, I finally took it in to Radio Shack to drop off for repairs. It is still waiting a diagnosis as I write this. During that week, the whole family felt the need for this multifunction printer. I didn't realize just how much we had come to depend on it. When I looked at a replacement, I compared this to HP's 5510, 7110, 7130, and 7140, as well as the psc2410 and psc2510. I briefly looked at the Canon and Brother multifunctionals, but didn't really seriously consider them since their printer cartridges didn't seem to be any cheaper, but are certainly less ubiquitous. I settled on the 6110 mainly because of the price and features - autodocument feeder for faxing, HP's Photo Smart technology (the 5510, and 7110-7140 have an older photo technology), alleged networkability, and the low price. The 6110 price was less than half the original price of the R80xi. I almost didn't buy the 6110 because of all the complaints posted in customer reviews about it in various websites. Finally, I gritted my teeth and decided that we really couldn't live without one of these things, and so I decided to buy it. I bought it locally from Staples because they had a rebate offer going, and because I could return it more easily if I really hated the thing. So, after about a week of use, I thought that I should address some of the issues written about this printer - some turned out to be true, some not: CONS: 1. Smaller, lower capacity, and MORE EXPENSIVE inkjet cartidges. This actually isn't a fair comparison. The R80xi's inkjet cartridges are much older technology and have become much cheaper over the last year or two. If you take HP's posted online prices and print capacity ratings for the inkjet cartridges, then the 56 black cartridge of the 6110 is 23.4% more expensive than the 45 black cartridge of the R80xi (per sheet of paper printed), while the 57 tricolor cartridge of the 6110 is 66% more expensive than the 23 tricolor cartridge of the R80xi. If you look at discounted prices, however, the difference is even more striking - the 56 black is now 38.8% more expensive, while the 57 tricolor cartridge is some 258% more expensive. That's right! That's two and a half times more expensive! 2. Scanner function of 6110 CANNOT be networked! I was told by HP's pre-sales agent that the 6110 could indeed be networked, by attaching it to the HP 175x external print server. However, after getting the 6110, I found in the user's manual this statement that the scan function of the 6110 WOULD NOT WORK if the printer was hooked up to a print server. The print server works only for printing. And so I have not gotten a print server for the 6110. Currently I have it print off one computer only. The other computers can print through this computer across the network. 3. Flimsiness - the two main areas where the 6110 is flimsier than the R80xi is in the inkjet cartridge locking mechanism and the plate holding the paper for the automatic document feeder. Two small plastic tabs hold the ADF paperfeeder plate in place. 4. Slow - definitely prints slower than the R80xi. Much of this slowness is in the waiting period at the beginning of the print job. It almost seems as if the printer CPU was some older generation (cheaper) model and it just had to slog quite a bit to figure out how to print the document. 5. Lower quality control - the main thing here was the dust covering the entire flatbed scanner glass pane. The underside of the glass plate also had some streaks of some type of filmy residue. Fortunately, this filmy stuff was mainly at the edges and so I have not tried to take off the entire cover plate to clean up the underside. 6. No USB cable included. Yes, this is a pain, especially since these specialty electronics stores seem to think that this is where they can make some added profit out of you by charging exorbitant amounts of money for a USB cable. So plan on looking around a bit for a Type A/B male USB cable. I found one for just a few bucks. PROS: 1. Works well with my Windows XP (Home Edition) and Office 2000 system. I have been able to use the Microsoft Scan program (part of the the Office package, I believe) and have not had to touch any of the troublesome HP scan software mentioned by others. Dunno what other people's complaints are all about - probably they are using different OS/software. 2. Fax and copy functions, and autodocument feeder all work fairly well. Have not looked into this issue of holding the incoming faxes in memory. We don't get that many unsolicited faxes. I'm not that big of a fax user - the ADF was mainly for my wife. 3. Quality of photo prints is MUCH IMPROVED over the R80xi. And this is with the regular 56/57 cartridges. The 58 photo cartridge is supposed to be even better! (and more expensive! - the 58 photo cartridge is rated for only 125 sheets of paper - compared to 391 for the 57, and 649 sheets for the 59). 4. Scanner light can be set to turn off after one hour!(user manual explains how to do this). Several reviewers complained about the scanner light always being on. Actually, the default setting is for the scanner light to turn itself off after 12 hours. You can adjust that down to as low as 1 hour. The R80xi had a similar setting where the the scanner light was turned off after 12 hours, but it could NOT be set to turn the scanner light off sooner. So this is an improvement 5. Smaller than the R80xi. Anyway, I am planning to use remanufactured inkjet cartridges on the 6110 to keep the costs down. I am also hoping to get the R80xi repaired and back into action. This new 6110 printer will then just become a backup copier/fax/scanner/printer until the inkjet cartridges start to get cheaper.
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Summary: Get the Lexmark x6170 instead
Review: I purchased this and the product was found to be defective immediately. The store I bought it from had another "returned" item for sale and after I returned mine learned that nearly half come back defective. I usually don't write reviews, but thought I'd save someone else the trouble, according to the guys in the store the Lexmark 6170 is a much better product and with the $50 rebate is only $200 now.
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Summary: LOUSY. Don't bother
Review: This machine lasted 137 days. Used it maybe 80 times. HP would not replace it, they insisted on repair. I Sent the machine in and it was returned unchanged. They still would not replace it. I had to send it in again. I have had to buy another machine to replace it. Terrible service and a piece of junk.
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