HP Officejet Pro K5400

The HP Officejet Pro K5400 costs about £80 (it depends where you get it from) and its marketing point is that it is supposed to be the world's fastest desktop printer for business color. I'n not quite sure what the differnce between business colour and other sorts of colour are, but hey, who's worrying! It's a good machine to have if you want a reasonable nod towards a colour laser printer, but don't actually want the expense and desk space of owning one. It does colour printing of a very good quality - good enough for photos It works really well with HP photo paper (I've done a separate ... more

At first I had a few problems loading the cd,it kept saying the disc couldnt be read,found out it was just a faulty disc which was promptly replaced (from the shop I brought it from) As for the printer it does everything and more. You can get too types of cartridges for this printer,the standard ones which print about 500 pages and the XL cartridges that print about 2400 (thats a lot of printing) My printer came complete wth 4 inks,and 2 printerheads - (I think this is standard,across the board) So far I have printed off holiday photos,leaflets and flyers and I can say the printer is fast and ... more

Has never worked, went back without printing a single sheet. I have had 6 printers prior to this - all Epson or Canon - and never had a problem. 30 minutes with this HP pile of poo and I was on the helpline already. Just refuses to load paper - any paper, any way up down or sideways. Total utter rubbish - like HP customer services and Misco, where I bought it. I've had plenty of experience with printers, and never seen one so badly designed, poorly made, or that would not work at all straight out of the box, brand new. It's a disgrace. My advice: do NOT buy this printer. In fact do NOT buy ... more

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 ... more