( 92 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 16 2009
This is a painfully slow device. I don't know if it's the hardware or if it's just the software that's to fault, but honestly the fault is irrelevant since both are part of the package and required for getting it to work. Scanning: Awful. Every step of the way is sluggish and there are several nag screens you must complete in order to make a scan. As far as I can tell there's no way to automatically detect multiple documents which is a major flaw. It took at least 20 minutes for me to scan 8 business cards because of this. Allow me to explain: you tell the scanner to scan. Then it asks you to specify some settings, it scans the entire bed, you crop out the business card, you finish the document, and then the UI returns to the main menu. In order words, you can't continue to crop portions out of 1 scanned image into multiple documents. You can continue to scan multiple documents if you want them to be placed into the same final output PDF, but if you want individual output files you must perform this tedious process for each item. I think the scanner I bought in 1997 was faster than this one. Printing: I have never used a printer that spends so much time spinning its wheels before it decides to print the document you've sent to it. It waits so long before printing that one of the first times I used it I actually popped up the Print Manager to see what the problem was. There was no problem! Once it starts printing it's fast, so don't be misled by HP's claims on how many prints you get in a minute because I doubt those take into account the large amount of prep time the printer requires. Fortunately this is just a cheap disposable printer that will break down within a year so I won't have to deal with it very long.
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Posted: Aug 16 2009
Perfect!!! it could be super perfect if it eats less inks. Still it's worth the price.
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Posted: Aug 14 2009
I have been able to easily use this computer on a Network running MAC OS X, Linux, UNIX & Windows. The scanner works very well for it's price and the print quality is very good.
