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Summary: Horrible Execution
Review: It is not only Mac users who will want to throw this thing out the window. I had numerous errors using a G3 and G4 Mac running OS9, including printing and especially scanning, so I finally gave up and connected it to a PC running Win 98, only to experience about the same thing. Errors, system crashes, etc. I give this one star because as a copier and standalone fax it works fine. The software is abysmal, atrocious, etc., and I tried to get help on their website which is hopeless and then they take over 24 hours to respond to emails with no real help. I have a HP 4M+ which has been 100% reliable for ten years so I thought I was safe to stick with HP, but apparently they think in order to compete they have to churn out junk and then run and hide.
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Summary: Horrible Execution
Review: It is not only Mac users who will want to throw this thing out the window. I had numerous errors using a G3 and G4 Mac running OS9, including printing and especially scanning, so I finally gave up and connected it to a PC running Win 98, only to experience about the same thing. Errors, system crashes, etc. I give this one star because as a copier and standalone fax it works fine. The software is abysmal, atrocious, etc., and I tried to get help on their website which is hopeless and then they take over 24 hours to respond to emails with no real help. I have a HP 4M+ which has been 100% reliable for ten years so I thought I was safe to stick with HP, but apparently they think in order to compete they have to churn out junk and then run and hide.
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Summary: NOT Macintosh compatible
Review: The HP LaserJet 3300 mfp printer is not Macintosh compatible. it is, I would like to see the circumstances that pass for the determination of "compatibility"Some people have been waiting months for updates to drivers. HP's suggested workaround is to enable print-only functions by using Apple's newer Jaguar ppd. However the ppd that would enable (EN-able?, come on, DIS-able) the multiIfunction device to ONLY print is overwriten by HP's outdated pre-Jaguar ppd on installation. I have spent a month of weekends trying to get just a single print, on OS 10.2, to no beneficial result. I have gone from clean system installs (in order to recover overwritten ppd's) to the lastest releases of GIMP print and HPIJS and Foomatic printer drivers. LinuxPrinting.org suspects that HP is using an incompatible version of USB communications for printing to this device. Operating while connected to an Mac OS 9 is (occasionally) possible, but HP states that the 3300 is incompatible with Apple's usb printer sharing, further thwarting attempts to set up an OS 9 shared usb printer and printing via LPR.
Note that any success with this printer on an OS X or mixed environment involves the addition of a network interface (3330 etc.) and not simply USB. I am now (after 30 days) left to hope that Amazon will accept the the return of the HP Laserjet 3300 mfp for a device that renders toner on paper.
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Summary: Great hardware, hideous software
Review: This is a great, commercial-quality machine for a small office. It is an upgrade of the LJ3100 and LJ3200. I had a LJ3100 and used and abused it for 5 years. This latest version is improved by addition of a flatbed copier/scanner. The paper feed has been re-designed into a flat stack that holds an entire ream, so that should eliminate the multiple-page feed problem that plagued earlier models. The duty cycle has been increased to 10,000 per month. The fax modem (in the 3330 model only) is faster, and fax resolution is improved. The good news about the scanner is that it allows true color scans in a variety of resolutions. This is great if you want to email color jpegs. The (slightly) bad news about the scanner is that the increased functionality results in a slower operation. If the only thing you want to do is scan text into pdf files, this scanner (and the automatic document feed) are slower than the LJ3100 and LJ3200. The only thing flat-out horrible about this thing is the HP software. HP doesn't give you the option to load only the drivers. You are forced to load absolutely gigantic "Document Manager" and "LaserJet Director" files that nobody would ever use, but which files are plugged into your msconfig and startup folders. It takes some messing around to clean up your computer after you load up the HP software, and HP doesn't allow you to uninstall features you'd never use.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: We purchased one for our small office. Set up went smoothly, but it would hang in the middle of printing any job over 3 pages. The web site and user's manual had no description of these problems. The web site is particularly useless. 6 days after setting up the printer, the power went out. This printer never recovered, even though every computer in our office was unaffected. Don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: We purchased one for our small office. Set up went smoothly, but it would hang in the middle of printing any job over 3 pages. The web site and user's manual had no description of these problems. The web site is particularly useless. 6 days after setting up the printer, the power went out. This printer never recovered, even though every computer in our office was unaffected. Don't waste your time or money.
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