Hewlett Packard DeskJet 612C Color Inkjet Printer

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Summary: Great Buy
Review: A friend recommended this printer, so I ignored the detracting reviews left by other Amazon customers. I'm glad I did; the printer was easy to set up and speedy. At this price, I am completely satisified with the product. This printer is fifty times better than the cheap Canon printer I purchased last year. For fifty dollars more than the Canon Colorjet, I've landed a good piece of hardware. Thanks Hewlett-Packard.

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Summary: Spend more on a better printer
Review: Don't even bother trying to get support. The printer works great for about a month and then starts sending all these weird technical messages and just won't print. I was told to uninstall the software and reload it to fix problems. It worked for two days and then starting sending messages again. Spend your money on a better printer, preferably not HP.

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Summary: Great quality for the price
Review: I do a considerable amount of printing. My son has used this agreat deal for school projects, homework and the like. Results arealways good on a variety of papers from the plain cheap stuff to photo-grade to notecards. With the optional photo-quality cartridge and good photo paper (I have only used Kodak paper) I was very pleased with the results; however, the 800 series do seem to do better on photos. One downside is that the black cartridges for this model only hold half the ink of the other 600 series printers. Considering that I use black the most, this would have steered me to a different model had I know this before the fact. I have tried refilling cartridges, but really don't find it worth the effort--the quality just isn't as good either. I previously had two Epson Stylus printers and in comparison I am very happy with this HP, it strikes a good compromise between quality, ease of use and cost. In general, this is a very good home printer for your everyday printing needs.

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Summary: It quits when the warranty quits!
Review: I have a 600C series printer at home and it has been so frustrating. Just after 6 months of use, the black print would smear and we were told to buy new ink cartridges. I purchased new ones even thought the ones we had were not very old and it made not difference. We followed the directions for cleaning. No difference. We could only print in color, any black ink would smear. I tried HP printer paper, regular printer paper, copy paper, nothing helped. We cleaned and cleaned. At last it started to print clear again just about the time the warranty was to run out. A few weeks later it quit feeding paper. We have to feed one sheet at a time and sometimes try it several times before it takes it. Tried cleaning the rollers, no help. Here it is, a few months later and now it is smearing black ink again and not feeding the paper. I would not recommend the 600 color series to anyone. I have two HP540 inkjets at work and they are over 4 years old. No problems at all. I run an average of 50 pages a day on them. I just purchased an HP896Cse for work and so far no problems. Prints clear photo quality pictures. The warranty has not expired YET!

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Summary: Great for the price
Review: I have had this printer for over a year and have had no problems. The ink products are very easy to find, especially online at hp.com. The cartridges have been renamed however, C6614A is now called HP 20 their basic black ink cartridge. This information is easy to find on the hp.com web site.

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Summary: Great for the price
Review: I have had this printer for over a year and have had no problems. The ink products are very easy to find, especially online at hp.com. The cartridges have been renamed however, C6614A is now called HP 20 their basic black ink cartridge. This information is easy to find on the hp.com web site.

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Summary: No INK!
Review: I have had this printer only 3 months. I don't print very much but now when I need ink, it's run out! Okkkkkkkk, I go shopping for an ink cart. Can I find one? Not a Black one! I have looked everywhere online and cannot find the black ink #c6614A ANYWHERE! And Although I did find a close match to the color cart. The desc. does not list the Deskjet 612C as a model that uses it. BEWARE BUYER! What good is a printer with NO INK?

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Summary: Not as bad as reviewed
Review: I have this printer, because I received it "free" with a new computer purchase. I am a dedicated HP user for printers so I was happy the free one was an HP. I checked out the reviews and was horrified by the comments. However, I have now had this printer for 3 months and have had absolutely NO problems. Certainly it isn't as good as my older higher level HP, but you wouldn't expect it to be for the price. I put it with my older computer which is now my son's. He runs all sort of stuff on it, mostly in color (he's 5), and has had no problems...and it has had a lot of use. If you want something inexpensive, this should be fine.

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Summary: Nice while it lasted
Review: I have two problems with this printer. Number 1 is that my 612C work out and would not printer anymore after about only 6 months of use. I was well under the monthly duty for what this printer is expected to printer. The second is that the documentation that came with this product led me to believe that my printer was under warranty for an enitre year, but when I called HP to have it fixed I was told my warranty was expired, and that additional documentation was released showing only a 90 day warranty.

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Summary: Nice while it lasted
Review: I have two problems with this printer. Number 1 is that my 612C work out and would not printer anymore after about only 6 months of use. I was well under the monthly duty for what this printer is expected to printer. The second is that the documentation that came with this product led me to believe that my printer was under warranty for an enitre year, but when I called HP to have it fixed I was told my warranty was expired, and that additional documentation was released showing only a 90 day warranty.