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Summary: Can't print in black and white or grey scale
Review: Driver doesn't allow you to print in black and white or grey scale. This makes printing web pages a bit difficult unless you don't mind spending alot on consumables. Contacted HP about problem, they don't seem to mind...
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Summary: Compact, Easy to use, Great quality at this price!
Review: I am very happy to have HP quality for the copy/print functions at this price; tossing in a scan capability at this price is pure bonus. If that fits your use pattern, this is the machine you want. Buy it and be happy.I have a low volume demand for copies and prints in my office. I rate highly ease of training and ease of use. I like the small footprint of this unit. I did check the scan dpi before I bought and I knew that it's not photo-quality scanning but for this price no all-in-one product can be expected to give you that. Scanning is my "third" priority use.
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Summary: HP psc 1210 such a disappointment
Review: I'm not giving this unit more than two stars because it is designed to scan and print already. It does both, but badly. After satisfactorily using an HP 672C printer and an HP 3300 scanner for years, the printer developed a problem which wasn't cost effective to repair so I sadly packed up the pair and purchased the all-in-one PSC 1210 for just under 100.00. I'm sorry I did. It's a very fussy unit, someone said "brittle," I agree. The "get started" page doesn't correspond to the actual installation of the software. I'm still looking for the "green check mark" which indicates the software has installed properly. I've got the correct amount of boxes in the "HP director" indicating so, but the unit doesn't work properly and isn't in sync with the software which doesn't seem to accommodate the unit, needing to be uninstalled and reinstalled several times..., actually recommended in the manual because HP KNOWS there's a problem. Having struggled through several installs, I still can't get the unit to work properly. There are problems during reboots..., and another warning in the instructions about this..., not a good sign..., several actual crashes, and I keep getting an "illegal operation, invalid page fault" for files "Stimon, HPGTPUSD." A "find files or folders" search proves the files are there! I made sure to uninstall the old units completely so there'd be no conflicts, doesn't matter. The unit makes quite a racket while printing. It is very slow too, and scanning is too much trouble, again, software is complex, slow, & tedious. Quality of photos is mediocre..., now I print photos at regular print settings because using the photo setting is just a waste of ink which, by the way, is going too fast. After several reinstalls and bad prints, I'm ready to pack this one in.
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Summary: HP 1210 psc
Review: This is by far the best unit I have owned and it is my third HP. I like the speed of the printer and the fact that the ink is dry. No smearing! The scanner is quick and accurate, so is the copier. I like the fact that the computer does not have to be on to copy something too. All in all it is worth the money and I am very pleased with it.
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Summary: Good but has it's drawbacks
Review: My family has had this printer for about three months now and it is just like my title. The printer is rather slow and can be annoying (I prefer laser it's fast.) The printer also tends to shake and rattle as it prints and I also suggest you don't put anything on top of it (it prints slower and not as well.) But does print accurately and since I don't print many pictures it has worked well. Ink is really expensive but does last longer than my previous printer. You'll find that most ink cartridages are expensive. (If you are a student or teacher you may be able to get a discount.) The scanner is good and works well with the HP photo and imaging software. The scan button doesn't work very well but if you click scan in the software it works great. The imaging software doesn't have a whole lot of features but you can make it work if you are patient and resourceful. The copier has only two functions 100% and fit to page while another all-in-one does much more (it is also over twice the size). Since I am going off to college I am going to purchase another one because it is small in size and space is of the essence (I can make do without the speed and extra features.)
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Summary: My HP1210 printer experience
Review: Wanting a multifunction printer that was reasonally priced with photo quality features at the hundred dollar budget price cap I had at the time, led me to the 1210. Having done a web search on this printer yielded very little info to make a confident purchase decision, I went ahead and bought it at retail sale price. I was not dissapointed at the print quality, which is quite good when print is at best setting, with glossy type photo paper used. Although print speed at these settings could reach about 3 minutes for a full page printout, I can tolerate this but others may not. Now for the really good stuff. I have had this baby for about a year now, having already replaced the black print cartridge once but still using the tri-color cart. Sure the thoughtful software kindly reminded me 6 months ago that I should replace it, but ignored it and it still is going.
I mostly print out playlists,and regularly printout full color images that don't always take more than half page, and for most non photo printouts I engage FASTDRAFT mode, which is fast and uses a lot less color ink. Being dilligent about using FASTMODE I believe is the reason the ink has lasted so long because the printer defaults to NORMAL print mode after every print job. I think it is amazing the tricolor ink cart has lasted me this long, although I sense it going out any day now. Other than not having any photocard slots, this is a very nice second printer. And lastly, use your own judgement as to when to replace the ink.
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Summary: Slightly better than adequate
Review: I've now had this printer for almost six months. It is not the main printer in my home, but it gets a fair amount of use. The copying function works very well. Scanning is a little too complicated, but also works well. Where the printer falls down is in paperfeed during printing. It will often (but inconsistently) grab too much paper and jam. This makes the machine very unreliable for large printing jobs when one might walk away from the printer, and irritating for shorter jobs that require a lot of refeeding to get one or two good pages out.
This does not happen often enough that I would advise somone not to buy the machine, but it does often enough that I would consider, if there is a better model, spending a bit more for something more reliable.
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Summary: Pretty nice little all in one!
Review: I purchased this printer mainly for the copier as I greatly needed this function at home. Much to my delight, it also made very nice lab quality borderless 4x6 prints using the HP 4x6 photo paper with just the tri-color cartridge supplied! I have switched out trying the HP photo cartridge, which was even better w/my prints but not necessarily needed to get nice prints.
I can use other photo papers besides HP but you'll have to experiment to find out what is to your liking with the different papers. Not all papers reacted well with the HP ink and some of the other brand papers simply made the prints look "flat" while HP and Office Depot store brand photos papers worked very well for me.
I had absolutely no trouble installing this printer -- nor using it and the paper feeds very well, including the 4x6 photo stock. Just move the "arm" over to hold that size.
This printer has PictBridge which works beautifully, was very easy and a joy to use! It allowed me to print borderless 4x6 photos, crop, rotate and make adjustments. I have printed close to 40 borderless photo's so far, made lots of color copies, printed scans and still have a good amount of ink left in the cartridges that came with the printer.
I find that I need to use the color button for most of my copying needs. When I copy using the B/W command when there is anything more than text to copy, it will not look as nice as a copy using the color command, but that may not matter to you depending on what is being copied.
So far, I have not experienced any "cutting off" problems when copying. I find the color copies to be very good. I don't care as much to copy glossy photo's, they were okay on photo paper but then I would not want to use this printer strictly to copy nice photo's although I found that matte photo paper was more forgiving of that and compensated when making just photo copies of actual photo's. If I copied from a glossy 4x6 onto glossy photo paper, and even when I tried this on the demo's in store of same and higher quality models as well as different brand of all in one's that the copy just never was as nice as the original. This printer is a slow but print speed really hasn't been an issue for my home needs. I like the price of this printer so I can tolerate the slower speed. Besides, I can command numerous print jobs (one after the other) without problems and walk away. No jams or paper feed issues have happened.
Overall, this printer does exactly what it claims to do and I think is a bargain for the price.
Sometimes the cartridges get damaged. A damaged cartridge will give you a B/W print out or some other horrible variation of print that will never be right until you replace the damaged cartridge with a good one. I have had this happen in the past on one occasion. HP was super and replaced the damaged cartridge for me. I was very satisified with that gesture because I think that I was the one who unknowingly, accidentally damaged that cartridge! HP cartridges have the printheads built right into their cartridges, thus the higher cost. However, I prefer the printheads built in over the other which is why I tend to like HP printers although I do wish the ink was less expensive or more ink for your money. The newer, larger ink tank is limited to certain newer than this models and not even available in all the different cartridges and are not compatible with this model.
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Summary: Best Printer I Ever Bought
Review: If there were any piece of electronics I'd like to take back
20 years and show it to people in 1984, this would be it.
And only $85 ??
I bought the printer from Amazon and it arrived in 2 days.
I forgot to get the special printer cable, but while waiting for this I found that the copier function works right out of the box!
The copier is great. Just like a Xerox machine. Put the original in and hit the copy button (black or color) and the copy is printed out in about 30 seconds or so. The color is almost exactly like the original ! It is very hard to see any difference even on a very colorful photograph. A+. Even if you don't need a printer, buy this for a copier !
The printer replaced my $380 HP870CSE which finally refused to print clearly anymore. The 1210 prints just as quickly, perhaps quicker. The quality is A+. It is less noisy. I don't understand the reviews where people call it "clunky." Also, no paper jams
yet.
Another nice feature is the "cancel" button on the printer. Have you ever had your printer spew out pages of garbage that you couldn't stop ? Not this one. Just hit "cancel" and it stops instantly and ejects the page.
Yet another nice feature is that it doesn't turn on when power comes up. So if you turn on your computer system power and you don't want to print, it just stays off. They've thought of all my pet peeves about printers.
My only complaint is that the instruction manual is extremely abbreviated. For example, how to modify scanner files is left to a sofware "help" section which is all broken up. They should spend the money on a 100 page detailed printed manual.
This thing does everything but FAX . I notice they have more expensive models that also FAX, so some might consider these.
I'm an Engineer, and if any HP guys are reading this : Congratulations on a great design !
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Summary: Good value
Review: I found this combo refurbished machine in OM, (...). I realized that there was a better deal for this machine at (...) after all rebates in June, well, I missed out but I still think this is a good value.
For the printer function, I give it 4 stars. Print quality is good. User can default a draft mode for printing documents, which can save substantial ink. However, this machine sometimes has paper jam problem: to prevent paper jam and waste of ink, I need to feed in page by page for printing. This is fine for me as I don't print a lot.
For copying function, I give it 4 stars. The copying function is pretty good. Without using your PC, you can make copies directly from the machine. [They provide 2 jelly bean style copy buttons (color or b/w) on the machine]. However, the scan head seems getting noisy (higher pitch noise) after 50+ times usage.
For scan function, I give it 2.5 stars. Other than the aforementioned scan head issue, the scanning speed is pretty slow.
For the quality of scanned image, I tried to scan a color magazine page with 100dpi and 300dpi, the 300dpi output had a lot of rough lines, while the quality of 100 dpi output looked a little bit better than the 300 dpi output but a bit blur.
For Scan to document feature, it took me over 40 secs to complete scanning a b/w document. This 40+ secs included the scanner software launch -> pre-scan ->scan preview -> document scan -> document translation to .doc file. Moreover, the document recognition program in HP software is doing a mediocre job in translation.
- 1st, it cannot recognize check box / radio box in a document, and you will find weird symbol in your output word document.
- 2nd, before using "scan to document" feature, make sure your document is printed on fine quality paper. I tried to scan a page in my Princeton GMAT book (which is print on rougher paper). The quality of scanned output in .doc file was really lousy. I got a bunch of weird symbols in the output .doc file.
For HP software, the installation program is pretty buggy. After "successful" installation claimed by HP wizard, launching the HP director program only showed 2 icons instead of 5. Fortunately, I went to HP support web right away and troubleshooted the issue by copying missing folders from CD to my PC.
All in all, this machine is really cute and neat, given its all-in-one functionalities, it is especially good value for non-frequent/home/budget users.
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