This is the printer I have been waiting for.
Written: May 20 '04
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Pros: A real all in one (and it works both ways).
Cons: Communications software sometimes crashes (no biggie).
The Bottom Line: For small office or home office or networked house with multiple machines... you must buy this printer.
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| raypendergraph's Full Review: Hewlett Packard PSC 2510 Thermal Inkjet Multifunc... |
This is an awesome product. Good job HP. I was surprised to see any bad rating on this product. As far as computer peripherals go it was a snap. The Ethernet and wireless access is *awesome*. I have a home Ethernet network and this thing is a must... one printer serves all. Hey and if you have a wireless hub, great this thing will hook up to it.
Most setup can be done via a very clean web interface served off of the unit. You can check ink levels and other system stuff via its web interface, even do a quick scan of something with the scanner through your browser... very nice. No clunky scan software needed. The really cool thing is that you can scan on the scanner and send it to a variety of places in a variety of formats... Word docs, JPG file, just about whatever. I scanned dozens of tax documents like this and it just kept on dropping them on my computer upstairs. Worked like a champ.
Color photo printing is what you would expect(very good). My wife is an artist an takes pictures of art work and loves the sharpness an ease of use. She likes that you don't have to go to a computer to print out digital photos. She actually set the thing up and I'm the computer person in the house! That's why I am surprised to see any postings talking about how hard this was.
IP (wireless and Ethernet) always works... no special software is required for this other than the printer drivers. The scan part is a little different, it requires the software which is actually pretty decent but it takes forever to install. One issue is that the resident in-memory driver that runs as a communications manager for the printer occasionally crashes (I have Win2K) and you get a dialogue box displaying one of those esoteric error messages we have all grown to love. At this point the scanner-to-computer link (not the other way around) gets hosed and the computer has to be rebooted for the scanner to "see" the machine (it presents a list of machines that it finds).
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 350
Operating System: Windows
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Member: Ray Pendergraph
Location: Acworth
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