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Summary: This is a great All-In-One!
Review: Although the price was a bit high, you get a great all-in-one scanner/printer/copier! The programs are simple to use and the quality is excellent. You can even send scanned items directly into certain programs, like an e-mail service. The speed is incredible, it takes very little time to print in either black and white or color. Pretty much, this all-in-one is great if you want quality, speed, reliability, and ease.
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Summary: Great all-on-one
Review: Great for home, light-weight, not all that big. Prints fast, scans fast, copies are good too. THe only thing I hate about it is the lack of the USB cable!!! But mostly it's a great little thing for a small amount of money
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Summary: MAXIMUM RELIABILITY
Review: I am very impressed with the negative reviews!....this printer is awesome, it does everything, and does it well...even the hp image editor is simple for day by day use. I own it for more than a year and and a half and it works 100%, without a single flaw. Here in Venezuela the cartridges are VERY expensive, and now under currency exchange control it gets even worse, so i have always used it with "refilled" (maybe so-so quality ink) cartridges, and it still performs beatifully.
You can buy this multifunction with your eyes closed.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!
Review: I did a LOT of research before settling in on this product by HP. Some of the crucial things I looked at were macintosh OS X support, support reliability, color print quality, black text quality, scan speed, size, and how obvious the controls are. The HP came out great in almost all of these catagories-- but I have to admit, the things that really got me was the color print quality. I stuck a piece of photo paper in the store demo and slapped down a vivid color print I took in Wales, and I was blown away-- I thought it looked great, and was very true to the original image. And that was the COLOR COPY option-- in other words, no software interface or scanning. Since I've had it a couple months now, I have to say the thing I use it for the most and that has been consistantly the most valuable is the black copy option. I took 5 minutes to get used to the top control panel and now I regularly run off 5-10 copies of important things for my business, lectures, etc.. Any *major* copy job I still take to Kinkos, but it's so convenient to get a couple more copies when you just need one or two-- which for me, is a lot. The scanning software works very well, generally. It's not as great as I would like, but it does do scans quickly and efficiently to Photoshop, Mail in OS X, or Preview. Just the fact that HP put some real EFFORT into OS X support makes me on their side. I'd like to be able to do better work with the images and cropping before scanning, though. The OCR only seems to work using OS 9 software.[...] The creative copying option-- right there on the top of the machine-- is a brilliant design. With a few selections I can have a color copy of a photo automatically fit to the page I'm printing to. That's pretty cool. All in all, I'm really pretty happy with my purchase. The software went buggy once and did some weird things, but I uninstalled and reinstalled it and it seems to be fine. If you can find a good price on the black refills it seems to really work as a cost-efficient option as well. I've seen reviews that seem to dog the PSC series as not being up to the OfficeJet standards-- maybe, but they work great as a home business/cost-efficient option and really pack in a lot of the whallop of the OfficeJet. I wish there was a direct FAX option-- surely that's only another $15 at this point? But still, I haven't needed to use the FAX option yet, and I use everything else every day. I love it. Good Job, HP.
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Summary: Great product-- a real victory for HP
Review: I did a LOT of research before settling in on this product by HP. Some of the crucial things I looked at were macintosh OS X support, support reliability, color print quality, black text quality, scan speed, size, and how obvious the controls are. The HP came out great in almost all of these catagories-- but I have to admit, the things that really got me was the color print quality. I stuck a piece of photo paper in the store demo and slapped down a vivid color print I took in Wales, and I was blown away-- I thought it looked great, and was very true to the original image. And that was the COLOR COPY option-- in other words, no software interface or scanning. Since I've had it a couple months now, I have to say the thing I use it for the most and that has been consistantly the most valuable is the black copy option. I took 5 minutes to get used to the top control panel and now I regularly run off 5-10 copies of important things for my business, lectures, etc.. Any *major* copy job I still take to Kinkos, but it's so convenient to get a couple more copies when you just need one or two-- which for me, is a lot. The scanning software works very well, generally. It's not as great as I would like, but it does do scans quickly and efficiently to Photoshop, Mail in OS X, or Preview. Just the fact that HP put some real EFFORT into OS X support makes me on their side. I'd like to be able to do better work with the images and cropping before scanning, though. The OCR only seems to work using OS 9 software.[...] The creative copying option-- right there on the top of the machine-- is a brilliant design. With a few selections I can have a color copy of a photo automatically fit to the page I'm printing to. That's pretty cool. All in all, I'm really pretty happy with my purchase. The software went buggy once and did some weird things, but I uninstalled and reinstalled it and it seems to be fine. If you can find a good price on the black refills it seems to really work as a cost-efficient option as well. I've seen reviews that seem to dog the PSC series as not being up to the OfficeJet standards-- maybe, but they work great as a home business/cost-efficient option and really pack in a lot of the whallop of the OfficeJet. I wish there was a direct FAX option-- surely that's only another $15 at this point? But still, I haven't needed to use the FAX option yet, and I use everything else every day. I love it. Good Job, HP.
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Summary: great for home and great price
Review: I have had this all-in-one for about two years. it was tricky to install at first b/c I use OS X, but its been very reliable since. Sometimes it seems like the printer has suddenly been uninstalled butall you have to do is run the set-up wizard again. its not hard. I think its a wonderful little machine. i like to make personalized cards and special wrapping paper with all of its functions, as well as printing out reports.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!!!!
Review: I spend more time fixing paper jams, uninstalling and reinstalling the software. I wold not recommend this product. It has been a disaster!!! There has to be better options than this. I wish that I could return it. I am going to contact HP and look into this.
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Summary: Printer does the job, good support
Review: My wife has a Macintosh that that we hooked this printer up too. She is very satisfied with the color quality, and speed, and she even boasts about the speed it scans documents with.
I had to contact HP support once because I messed up the all-in-one software (I should have read the documentation better).
HP's support set me on the right path, and sent me an updated CD with the latest drivers on it.
I think this printer was a wise purchase for us, and I would recommend it to a friend.
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Summary: Good all-in-one let down by flaky software and support
Review: The HP PSC 720 combines a fast, high quality color printer with a fast, high quality scanner. Unfortunately, the PC software and drivers don't work with all applications, and HP Support's response is to point the finger at the application vendors. Normal print quality is more than good enough for black & white text documents, which come out crisp with strong black text on good inkjet paper. The quality of color printing of digital photos in "best" mode on glossy inkjet photo paper suprised me -- it is very good indeed. Not as good as dye sublimation, but then the cost per print is a fraction of dye sub. There is only a hint of pixellation upon close inspection, and the color balance is a little "bright". Print speed in best mode is good for an inkjet -- a couple of minutes per page. Unfortunately, printing in best mode is also where the software problems show up. I cannot print in Best mode from Adobe Photoshop 5.0LE or Microsoft Word 2000. When I try, my PC locks up and the only recovery possible is the reset button (Ctrl-Alt-Delete doesn't work) or power cycle. HP's support answered my call quickly, but were unwilling to do anything except tell me that it was Microsoft and Adobe's problem. The fact that I can print to Canon and another HP printers in best mode with no problems in all applications was brushed off as irrelevant. I was also pleasantly surprised by the speed and quality of the scanner. It very quickly gives you a scan preview, from which you can click and drag the area you want to scan. Low res scans are very fast indeed, but even higher res scans are completed in under a minute. Results are good with very little image noise and few scanning artefacts. The maximum scan resolution is sufficiently high to allow photographic negative scanning. Finally, installing the HP printer software also disabled my Olympus digital camera (also on a USB connection). I had to go into Windows device manager and manually re-enable it and reboot. In summary, I really like the speed and quality of the hardware, but the software needs more work. I have found an application that will print photographs outside of Photoshop, but I cannot print anything in best mode from Word.
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Summary: not quite there yet
Review: This all in one promises a lot: scanning, coping, and printing. However this printer suffers from the same problem that many current printers have: 1. It cannot print evelopes correctly. Only 1 in 3 attempts are printed correctly. 2. You cannot scan pictures into email unless you are using Outlook. 3. The print quality is so/so. 4. It uses a lot of disk space. You're better off waiting until the technology is perfected (which for item 1, may be never!)
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