Excellent Home Office Product
Written: May 28 '01 (Updated May 27 '05)
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Pros: Relatively quiet compared to similar systems, reasonably fast, reliable, cheap
Cons: Expensive cartridges, can not accurately scan photographs
The Bottom Line: Excellent solution for Low to Medium output home office applications.
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| Techdude49's Full Review: Hewlett Packard OfficeJet T45xi All-In-One InkJet ... |
Update 5/27/2005:
The printer is still running strong. The print quality is excellent and no mechanical failures have occurred.
Update 12/28/2003:
After using this parallel printer for over two years, it still works great! The replacement color cartridges are a little pricey, but I can't say enough good things about build quality of this printer. If you're looking to print high detail photographs or create very hight quality scans, look elsewhere. Otherwise, this has been a very good low cost solution to an all-in-one printer/copier/fax/scanner. The new HP USB models look just as good and should be inherently faster.
Original Review 5/28/01:
This is a very good home office solution. I purchased it at WWW.EGGHEAD.COM and it has been very reliable. The copies are excellent (b&w and color) with good reproduction of previously scanned images. The integrated sheet-fed scanner was not designed for color photographs. A flatbed would produce much better results.
The print quality rating reflects the detail compared to the quality of the original (not including HP OfficeJet T45xi scanned photographs.) The printer only attaches to PCs using a Parallel Port interface and the transfer of data may take a good amount of CPU cycles (as most Parallel Port devices usually do with large jobs.)
The paper tray is small and only holds around 50 sheets of paper, so don't leave large print-jobs unattended. The integrated fax and simple buttons on the unit's face are very easy to use. You can make copies and send faxes without turning on your PC.
Overall, it will be a difficult to find a higher quality product for the price. One a closing note, remember to look at the price of replacement cartridges and their capacity before buying any printer.
Here are the specifications:
Scan Specifications:
300x300 dpi (up to 1200 dpi enhanced)
24 bit color, 8 bit grayscale (256 levels of gray)
Copy & Print Specifications:
Print Speed (pages per minute)
Best Mode Black: 4
Best Mode Color: 1
Normal Mode Black: 5
Normal Mode Color: 3.5
Econofast Mode Black: 8
Econofast Mode Color: 6
Print Resolution: Black: 600 dpi
Color: HP Photo REt II color layer technology
Paper Tray: 50
Copy Speed:
Color = 2 cpm (copies per minute) Black = 6 cpm
Copy Resolution: 300x300 dpi
24 bit color, 8 bit grayscale (256 levels of gray)
Multiple Copies: up to 50
Copy Reduction/Enlargement: 50-200%
Supported Paper Sizes & Envelopes
Plain paper
U.S. letter = 8.5x11 in.
U.S. legal = 8.5x14 in.
U.S. executive = 7.25x10.5 in.
A4 = 210x297 mm
A5 = 148x210 mm
B5 = 182x257 mm
HP Premium Transparency Film
U.S. letter = 8.5x11 in.
Envelopes
U.S. #9 = 3.9x8.9 in., U.S.#10 = 4.12x9.5 in.
DL = 110x220 mm
C6 = 114x162 mm
A2 = 111x146 mm
Cards
U.S. index cards = 3x5, 4x6, 5x8 in.
A6 = 105x148 mm; Hagaki = 100x148 mm
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 249.00
Operating System: Windows
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