Difficult Paper Handling
Written: Nov 12 '00
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Pros: Printing quality for both photos and type is excellent
Cons: The paper feed is a constant source of frustration. It does not work!
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| abhayakaruna's Full Review: Hewlett Packard Deskjet 952c InkJet Printer |
The paper feed on the first machine we received did not work. We took the machine back the second day we owned it and exchanged it for another.
We purchased our 952C for two users, myself and my wife.
My wife uses the 952C for photo printing. For this task the 952C is a great success. The quality of the photos printed by the 952C is excellent, far better than the Epson we were using.
I use the machine for correspondence, printing multiple copies of articles which I use in my teaching, and for revising and adding pages to 4x6 notebooks.
Printing multiple copies of multi-paged articles is an exercise in frustration. If I am printing ten copies of a five page article I have no problems printing the odd number pages. The machine prints 10 copies of pages 1,3, and 5 without difficulty. But when I attempt to turn over the pages to print on the other side the paper feed does not work. If I place ten pages in the feed I will loose 4-5 of them because of feeder errors. Printing on the back side of an already printed page is so bad that I now print each individual page separately.
To repeat myself, when I put a stack of ten pages in the 952C that has already been printed on one side it is a disaster. The machine pulls one or two pages a time and then mis-aligns them in the feed so that when they come through the top half of the page is on one sheet and the bottom half is on the second. Two pieces of paper spoiled and a lot of ink wasted!
In order to prevent this from happening I now feed the even numbered pages of the document I am duplicating through the printer a sheet at a time. A great waste of time!
Working with 4x6 sized pages is very difficult, especially given the problem with paper feeder. Not only (with 4x6) must I feed the pages through one at a time. The machine is physically structured so that it is very very difficult to work with small (less than 8 1/2 x 11) sized pieces of paper. There are crooks and crannies in the feed tray's construction that catch on the paper as you try to insert it. Paper insertion is not a smooth process. You have to jab the sheet of paper three or four times before it correctly aligns in the feeder tray.
With small sized pieces of paper unless you fully extract the feed tray from the body of the computer you spend much of your time working at the back of the feed tray under the main body of the computer. Bad news for big fingers! When you are forced to print only one page at a time you find yourself constantly pulling the feed tray out and putting it in.
The arm on the feeder tray that is there for aligning small sized pages has a "hook" at the end that catches the pieces of paper as you try to insert them.
The feed tray itself does not insert smoothly. It catches on the sides of its slot. More frustration!
If your main interest is in duplicating photos this machine works fine. But for printing several copies of multiple paged documents, it is a lousy choice.
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