HP OfficeJet D135 Multifunction

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Summary: Print Quality in the TANK!
Review: This printer has the all great all in one functionallity. . .but beware! To get this printer to print at any decent level of quality, you have to turn up the ink consumption. HORRIBLE, absolutely HORRIBLE overall print quality. Its OKAY when you are printing full color. . .but there will be so many dropouts when printing grayscale/black that you think you have an old 8 pin dot matrix printer. GET WITH IT HP!!

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Summary: MAGNIFICENT, SUPERB PRINTER
Review: This printer, in nothing short of magnificent. I can't say enough good words about, it would be an owners dream printer, some thing to be real proud of, and to show off to all your friends. Every one knows that Hewlett Packard is number ( ONE )

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Summary: STAY AWAY FROM THIS THING!!
Review: This thing is full of bugs. From paper jams to it simply shutting down mid-print with no explanation, it does it all. I use it with both Mac and PC and it's problematic with both. Mac in particular is a disaster. On a hundred page document it will mysteriously stop printing on page 29 or 56 or whatever and simply refuse to print those "problem" pages. Faxing is no better. It will take 15 minutes to get a page and then freeze up and disconnect without printing. Good luck with tech support. They will guide you through the impossible menu system and try to get the settings right, but it will take an hour and it's all on your dime. When it does work, it's very slow to warm up and then works in fits and starts. Nothing like being in a hurry and watching your printer twitch like an epileptic. I bought this to replace the older r80 model that I thought was awesome. This one had USB connections which I now need. I wish I could hook up the old one and use the d135 as a boat anchor. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!

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Summary: Mac users beware!!!!
Review: This uses the same software as all the other useless HP all-in-ones that have come down the pike. Constant crashes and nothing but problems. Be prepared to spend alot of time on the phne with tech support

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Summary: Not Impressed
Review: We had the G85 - the predecessor to this unit. The D135 has better performance specifications than the G85. All of our testing indicates the D135 is slower than our G85 - about 20% slower. Put a page in to photocopy, it's slower. Printing, it's slower (with same settings). Now you have to install print heads separately from the printer ink cartridge. Get a G85 - it's simply a better unit.

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Summary: Good multi-function device
Review: We've had this printer/scanner/fax for about 14 months and are satisfied with it. It is connected to our network and is our primary printer. It has also replaced our copier, fax and scanner.

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Summary: When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it sucks.
Review: When it is working perfectly, the D135 makes beautiful printouts, has great fax reception, and creates multipage PDFs in a fraction of the time it would take to create them using a flatbed scanner. The problem is, it never works perfectly.

I use a Mac with OS 10.3 and the print driver does not play well with Classic. If you send too large a file to the printer it will cause the printer to hang. When this happens, you will have to restart the computer and/or the printer not once, but several times. When it finally does start working again, it starts spewing pages and pages of random characters. I was never able to figure out the exact combination of actions that would get it to work again. It made me very unhappy when someone would bring me a PowerPoint document to print out, because it would unfailingly involve hours of agravation to get it done. Since I got OS 10 versions of PowerPoint and Acrobat and stopped launching Classic as a result, I had been having better luck until just recently, when the black ink started printing extremely lightly. My black and white printouts are now blue and purple. I am using a remanufactured cartridge than went through a move, so this latest misfortune may be my own fault, but given my history with the machine I question this.

The scanner works much better, especially now that HP has updated the scanner software. Before that point, a multipage scann would result in multiple image files with random, non-sequential file names, which I would then have to save with sequential files names and manually compile into a PDF. With the newer software (available for download at hp.com), it will automatically produce a PDF from multiple pages, which is exactly what I had hoped it would do in the first place.

I only recently began using the fax function, and have had mixed results with it. It receives incomming faxes and produces sharp printouts of these faxes (when the printer is working properly). Some times outgoing faxes will not send and an error page will print. This may be a problem with the phones, but I'll never know, because the error page includes and error code with no additional information and I have not been able to find information about the fax error codes anywhere. My co-worker has a D135 as well, which he has hooked up to a PC, and he gets numerous errors when he attempts to send faxes.

At the time I bought the machine it was the only machine I could find that would do what I wanted to do (multipage scans) for the price I was willing to spend ($200-$300). I took my chances, and that is exactly what you will be doing if you buy one of these machines. DO NOT buy it if what you will be doing with it is mission critical, because it is not reliable.

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Summary: Windows 98 Compatibility Problems
Review: Win 98 users beware that the hp product software will not install on some Win 98 machines. I've spent several hours on line with HP Tech support to no avail. They have bumped me up to a higher level of support, and told me that someone would get back to me within 3 days with a fix. I thought I was buying a great unit at a reasonable price. But after figuring in my time, and the fact that the machine is still not up and going with my Win 98 Machine, this purchase appears to be a big blunder.