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59 of 59 found the following review helpful:
 Great for a basic printer Dec 16, 2007
By Leon M. Bodevin
"Do right and fear no man"
Bought this printer to use while deployed out of the US. I just needed a basic printer that would last me a year. I find the print quality to be better than I expected it to be and it can churn it out pretty quickly if you put it on the low quality setting. It is also very quiet. Don't know if it will stay that way but so far so good. One bad thing: it sucks down those black ink cartridges faster than you would think it would. For someone just needing a basic printer though with good print quality this should fit the bill.
30 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent simple printer Nov 01, 2007
By M. C. Torres
I got this printer because its cheap, the ink was affordable, and I trust HP. I've been using HP printers for 6 or 7 years now and have had no problems. I needed an affordable compact printer for a dorm room, and this fit the bill. The print quality is very nice, I find it to have a good print speed. I haven't had any problems with it like I have seen other reviewers complaining about, and I don't foresee any. I'd recommend this for someone that just wants something that prints with nothing fancy.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Good basic printer Jan 14, 2008
By Charles Burns
I ordered several of these for the school at which I work. The printer is nothing fancy, but it is very inexpensive and "just works." It does not come with a black ink cartridge, but it can still print black by mixing ink from the color cartridge (though it resembles a very very dark brown rather than black).
I consider this a feature -- if the black ink runs out (once you purchase a black cartridge), the printer is still fully functional even if the black ink cartridge runs out.
Amazon had by far the best price on this printer (never underestimate the value of free shipping!) and their service has always been top-notch.
Rated 5 stars, taking into account the low cost of this basic printer.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Nice but not so nice Feb 11, 2008
By Matthew Dyer
The printer got to me very quickly, even with free shipping, and as others have said there's not a USB cable or a black cartridge in the box, but what can one expect for $40?
The install took a long time, and while installing it I began to notice some of the not so nice features. First, doing the recommended install, it puts three icons on your desktop. That's a bit much. Second, the install takes a over a common feature of the web browser. I found that when I went to copy something to paste it into another window, the copy function had sort of been taken over by the printer so that I could directly print what I had just highlighted. That doesn't sound that annoying, but several of the other common functions were taken away. It is, though, an easily fixable problem as you can deselect this function right away. Third, at the end of the install comes product registration. Not a big deal, typing in all my info, and as I'm about to hit send I decide to check out HP's privacy policy. I HATE spam. So I click on FAQ and on the second link, the one about their privacy policy. How interesting: it's a dead link. Yeah, don't think I'll be sending them any information.
But last and most importantly was an incredibly godawfully annoying thing. I hook the printer up, print out a couple things, and I unplug the printer. I'm going to keep it on a counter out of the way and not hooked up to my laptop all the time. Well, the computer starts going ape. It's sending me an alert every five seconds along with an error tone and I'm trying to hit the close the windows and tell the computer that I know the printer is disconnected and just leave me alone and nothing works. Everytime I open the start menu, the alert comes back on and closes the start menu. This goes on for 10 minutes. Finally I just restart the whole machine.
I suppose I could have gone through the whole remove hardware procedure, but come on. What I wanted to do couldn't have been that uncommon a thing, and having to restart a computer just because it's unplugged from the printer is absurd. It was totally done printing, and I even turned it off and then unplugged it, and it freaks out. If I have to do this every time I use the thing, I'm not going to be happy.
All that said, it printed reasonably quickly and the images are crisp.
22 of 27 found the following review helpful:
HP printer surprise - no ink Oct 19, 2007
By Joseph Krecz
The package has the black ink cartridge not included. Sort of a trick which I don't care for. Otherwise, the printer in OK.
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