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Summary: 'Out of Paper' Errors
Review: I picked this printer because I needed a simple and cheap printer. Realizing that it was cheap, I wasn't expecting or asking for much from it. Yet I got so, so much less.
The most infuriating problem with it is that the paper feed simply does not work correctly. I've attempted to find many workarounds but there is simply no other option than to manually hand feed each page to the printer as it is printing. When I leave a large stack of paper in the tray, the printer constantly alerts me that it is out of paper. Then I have to take a single page and manually push it into the printer for it to accept the page and print it. Repeat X number of times for X pages. It's fun....
Anyway, this experience has completely turned me away from buying HP products. I bought a bottom of the barrel printer and found that a Lexmark bottom of the barrel is vastly superior to HP's bottom of the barrel.
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Summary: High quality ... low price - perfect entry level printer
Review: I purchased this printer because I wanted an inexpensive printer to do light printing while engaged in a six month project and temporarily living 3000 miles from home. I was pleasantly surprised by how quiet this printer prints, and although only rated at 6 pages per minute (for black or color), it churns out page after page at the rated speed. It also doesn't vibrate when printing - I have mine on a flimsy serving tray that was pressed into service as a printer stand and it's perfectly stable when the printer is working.Installation and set-up were simple - connect the USB cable and place the CD ROM that comes with the printer in your drive and it practically self-installs. You will have to go through a calibration step in which a page of horizontal and vertical lines are printed and you select the lines that are the most perfect. This assures that the printer accurately produces documents that look the same on paper as they do on your screen. I was pleased by the vivid colors in the final test page that is printed after the installation completes. For the price this printer is capable of quality that is amazing. I also like the software that comes with it because it gives you control over output quality (I use mine in fast draft mode to conserve ink) and allows you to select the type of paper you're using so that you get optimum results. This printer will work well with plain paper, which is a nice feature for anyone who is cost conscious. When you're printing you can see how much ink is remaining in your cartridges, which is also a nice touch for such an inexpensive printer.
There are a few things facts that you need to know about this printer: (1) it has a single interface (USB), unlike many printers that come with both parallel and USB. Also note that you'll have to purchase your USB cable because the printer does not ship with one (most USB printers don't, so this does not detract from the value). However, I was a bit disappointed to discover that it ships with a single color cartridge, although it is configured for separate color and black cartridges. Also, you need to know that a set of color and black cartridges will cost as much as the printer itself. If you want an entry-level printer or have light printing requirements this is a bargain and well worth the price.
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Summary: Prints great! If you can get it to work..
Review: I purchased this printer for Christmas. It printed out great pictures,documents and information from the web. But by week 2, the paper was getting jammed. Called HP support and had husband look and fix printer. A wheel had come off. Still printer printed great again for about another two weeks. Just when I was about to file the most import income taxes, the printer just started making this strange noise and sliding back and forth on that metal wheel inside. Now it wont print,move,make noise or anything. I think it has died. Best I can tell you is that you will love this printer untill it start to come apart.
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Summary: HP 3320 printer Review
Review: I took a fifty dollar bill out to Wal Mart the other day to buy a cheap printer and decided to buy the HP 3320. Frankly, I didnt expect much ( you get what you pay for...right??) Anyway, the Printer preformed VERY WELL. The paper feed ALWAYS worked, the quality of the photos I printed were excellent and combined with the easy set-up made my 50 bucks go a long way!
I read some of the other reviews on this printer......Had to laugh........Come on people........Complaints on windows 95 drivers???? Windows what????? hehe. No, the ink only comes with
one cartridge, and no extra cables........but it is well worth the FIFTY bucks.
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Summary: Good deal for the money.
Review: I was surprised to see so many bad reviews on this product.
I bought mine about 3 months ago, and it worked pretty well so far. I use it for my everyday needs and I also print pictures sometimes. I like the quality of prints.
There are also of course drawbacks, like noise, and the fact that it drinks ink like an orange juice. But comon guys, it is only 40 bucks after all.
Good quality for the money overall.
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Summary: GRRRR!! i'm so mad it broke already.
Review: I was very pleased with the price of the printer (I got it for $50 a few months back) and everything was working fine until all of a sudden the ink cartridges wouldn't move anymore. Since I have had the printer for about 4 months, the warranty no longer covers my printer. There's a 30 day guarantee if you live in the U.S. but something like a year for Asia and Europe countries. Anyway, it's stupid to pay for shipping it back to HP, and then have them charge me to repair it cuz it was a cheap printer after all. I might just be better off buying another one. So I opened up the printer (you need a star shaped screw driver cuz HP doesn't want you to fix it yourself) and i found that a piece of plastic that holds the cartridges on to a chain (allowing the ink cartridge to move) broke off. I don't know how this plastic just broke off all of a sudden. It bothers me that I haven't been tossing my printer around and it still broke. I'm just going to fix the problem with crazy glue cuz there is no way I'm paying more money to HP to fix a cheap printer for me. My suggestion: this printer is cheap so don't have high expectations for the quality. It might be best to find a printer with a one year warranty or something.
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Summary: Deskjet 3320 - 0 Wins, 2 Losses
Review: I work at a school and have had two 3320's break in the past week. HP's aren't what they used to be when you consider that there are still a lot of DeskWriter C's and DeskWriter/DeskJet 500 series printers still working on campus. Shame on HP for not fixing the design and continuing to sell printers with the same fatal flaw!
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Summary: It broke!!!!!
Review: I wrote a sterling review of this printer the month after I got it (Back in January of 2003). Now, 11 months later, I'm writing another review, this time not so good. A few days after I wrote that review, I got more printer jams, or more to the point, the printer didn't recognize the paper that was in it. I'd take the paper out and put it back in and push the button. I'd take the back off and put it back on and push the button. Too bad, I like to not have to worry about the printer if I'm printing long documents. Today I was printing something, and it wouldn't recognize the paper no matter what I did, so I ended up gently pushing the paper towards the feeder so it would catch. That seemed to work for a page or two, but every other page it stopped. So I removed the back and put it back on, which seems to work sometimes. No sooner did I do this than I hear a loud "whir whir" noise coming from the printer. The ink wasn't moving. The Whir was the sound of the motor that moves the ink cartridge back and forth going without actually moving the ink. Just spinning it's wheels, so to speak. Now, I looked in the back and I don't see that I could've broke anything as I put the door on, but even if I did, who would design a printer that could be broken so easily? This printer costs about as much as the ink you put in it, and lasts about as long. If you need a disposable printer, I guess this is a good price, but if you want a printer for the long haul, look elsewhere. I used to trust the Hewlett Packard name, I've had HP printers that lasted years.... they probably still work for someone somewhere. Now I'm not so sure. Especially after that Compaq merger. There ought to be enough "this printer broke" reviews on this site to steer you away from this one. I'm not the only one.
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Summary: Printer Fine, Ink Doesn't Last..
Review: I've read most of the reviews here, and they either say the printer works great, or it breaks down. I've had this for a few months, and the printer works fine. I've no complaints about the printer itself. My complaint is that the ink runs out far too quick. I bought this because I was tired of having to shell out so much money for an ink cartiridge every time I needed one. So this time I figured I'd look for the cheapest ink cartridge, see what printer it was for, and that's the printer I'd buy. So I found the Deskjet 3320. Now I find out why the cartridges are so cheap. You print 20 (twenty!) pages with color and your ink is out. You have to buy another cartridge. In the few months that I've had this printer, I've bought at least 8 color cartridges, and who knows how many black. The cartridges cost half the price of other ink cartridges, so you think they'd do at least half the pages others do. I think 8 cartridges in just a few months is nowhere near half what others do. The printer and the ink are cheap. If you only print occasionally, this is a great printer. But if you print a lot of stuff, or on a regular basis, in the long run you'll be paying a lot more than if you went with something more expensive initially. That's what I'm planning to do. Take this one into the other room on the computer I rarely want to print something on, and get a different one for this computer.
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Summary: Yah, mine broke too ...
Review: In response to "GRR..." ... I had this same printer for about 4 or 5 months before the same plastic piece broke. It's a tiny plastic "tooth" that holds the whole print head to the toothed drive belt to pull it back and forth across the paper. The first time I fixed it was, similarly, with superglue. I glued the little plastic piece back on the print head, slid it back onto the drive belt, and it worked just fine after that ... for another month. The second time when it broke, it was the same piece broken again, so I took another look.
The print head has no real reason to be detached from the drive belt. The teeth serve to keep it in _one place_ on the belt, so it can be pulled back and forth ... so I glued/melted the whole print head onto the drive belt, and 2 days later, the same damn thing broke again.
This is the flakiest and most short-lived printer I've ever dealt with. Sure, it was cheap, but my last printer (Xerox) was $25 and lasted well over 2 years.
This printer is a nice example of bad engineering overcome by massive advertising. Don't waste your time and money.
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