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It is an ink hog (even using conservation settings) and it's one where you're forced to buy HP products - the big office supply places won't refill it either. Hopefully I'm getting wiser. I'd say we're average home users. I am so sick of HP and their disposable printers, customer no service, and price gouging for ink with no compatible options available. Whatever it ends up being, it won't be HP. HP used to be the only game in town but new players are getting better.
Enough already.
They stop working properly the day after the warranty expires.
A cheap printer with a monopoly on overpriced ink is no bargain at all.
We seem to go through HP printers at a rate of one every year or two.
I've already eliminated several models based on Amazon reviews (I love this site).
Not only does it guzzle their outrageously priced ink, it pulls multiple pages at a time printing parts on up to four sheets of then unusable paper.
I just printed fewer than 100 pages on a new cartridge they claim yields approximately 210 and it is empty.
I'll pay more for something I can find reasonably priced ink for.
They could do so much better - too bad.
Yes, it uses quite a bit of ink in a short space of time but nobody can complain about the quality of the prints. Despite its ONE flaw, this printer works really well. It is somewhat unfair to rate the entire product solely on its ink economy. This device offers a good range of features, especially considering its price, and it executes its tasks flawlessly. Overall, its a good buy but I would suggest purchasing slightly more expensive XL cartridges when the time comes to replace them.
HP is the accepted way to go for printers. A seemingly bad mishap, turned out to be a blessing in disguise. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I looked in Staples at HP's, and wound up getting a phenomenal deal on a HP Officejet 6500.
I ordered this printer and had it all budgeted in; this order was cancelled at the very end for spome reason, and it was offered on Amazon for $20 more. He told me the HP USB cables are universal, so I kept the one that I bought from Amazon; the ink that I had already bought was no longer used, but Staples bought the ink from me, and took that amount off of the price. I owned a couple Lexmark printers, and I had them both break and head to the dumpster (eBay, not Amazon).
I had a really cool, decent salesman, and he helped me a lot. I had already ordered the USB and ink for it. Those came, and I thought that it figured.
The total for a brand new, quality printer came to $87-and change. As Jay-Z would say "thank God for that."Blessings,
For some reason it constantly makes new copies of itself, so that I am up to copy 15 right now in my available printer list. The scanner is okay, but again is just another trap to get to you buy it so that you buy more ink in the future.
Sure the printer is cheap, so cheap I doubt HP makes much if anything from the printer itself. This printer was likely designed as part of a new business model whereby all profit is made off of ink.
Engineers have assured that ink goes fast, and replacements hold as little ink as possible. But do not be tempted by the price.
As you print, even on 'fast draft', you can literally watch the ink levels drop on the estimated ink levels interface. The software is also horrid.
This is going out the window as soon as I am done writing.
Now when the printer is low on ink I can't scan. I've had this printer for 2 years now. You can't deactivate their software that checks for the printer and updates. It randomly tries to reinstall new versions of the printer every couple of weeks or so. I tried to get help from HP and they sent me a 1000 line set of instructions that seems to repeat various tips. Their software is pretty much a virus. Too bad, the printer is a reasonable machine.
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