Advantages: great value colour cartidges,volume quality printing.Excellent scanner and copier Disadvantages: struggles with heavy photo quality papers,photos not as sharp as hoped for an HP
I have always been an HP user and have had 3 photosmart printers. I upgraded to an officejetProL7780 All In One because I needed to do a lot of flyers for my small business. The best thing about this machine is the 4 excellent long lasting colour cartridges. It will print 1000 A4 full colour pages before running out of a colour. It scans and copies well and the feeder tray for copying is a real bonus on a home machine.
If you work from home and want a small desktop machine that will do the job of a larger office version then this is the one for you! However, don't expect superior photo quality. It doesn't match the quality of the old photosmart for personal photos and it struggles with paper weights over 90grms so is a no no for trying to print high quality 120grm photos for personal use. But , that's not what its made for to be fair. ...
Advantages: none Disadvantages: wont print more that 100 sheets per print head
I bought a H5400 duplex and within 2 weeks the print head started to malfunction and readable black copies could only be made in 'Photo' mode. I waited nearly 2 more weeks for a replacement print head and within 2 days this also malfunctioned. HP echanged the machine within 10 more days with a reconditioned unit. I complained I didnt buy a recon unit I wanted a new one because the recon unit didnt work from the get go. I wouldnt buy a new car with 20,000 miles on the clock would you. Also it will only print labels in best quality mode as it skids them through and miss aligns them in normal mode. It also will not print edge to edge envelopes. The closest it will print to the left edge is 1 inch I print my company logo in the top left corner. Not anymore. It can take up to 5 minutes to warm up in a morning churning and whiring away ...
Advantages: Good build quality, quick, networkable, quiet, excellent results, fax Disadvantages: Software can be obtuse
I needed a new printer to replace my aging LPT Officejet 635, and this was on special offer (£111 inc VAT) at a local Cash & Carry. I needed a network printer, which could produce high quality photographs, and a flat bed scanner.
As far as high quality photos are concerned, the 4800x1200 dpi of this printer matches the best.
The flat bed scanner, with built in 35 sheet Automatic Documnent Feeder, is great for photocopying books, or scanning in documents, although manual scanning is quicker for single sheets. Optical Character Recognition is a little difficult to find, but Read Iris 9 is supplied with the device. It is selected by the type of output you request from the scanner, which can be confusing. The program itself is very good and accurate. Accuracy increases with use, especially when using the same typeface. I found that ...
