Nice when it worked...
Written: Mar 31 '05
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Pros: Convenience of having a secondary printer, a copier and fax.
Cons: When one part goes, the machine is useless. Waste of money.
The Bottom Line: I bought this to replace $2/page faxes. I wasted time fixing jams and refaxing, and money since I did not fax $400 worth of faxes.
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| alisakrisa's Full Review: Hewlett Packard OfficeJet 6110 All-In-One InkJet P... |
I bought this machine to use as a fax machine to save money on those $2 per page faxes at every other stationery store in NY. I used it as a secondary printer, when my ink jet unexpectedly ran out of ink. I used it as a copier, as well.
When it worked...
The actual printer is pretty good; the color printing is of good quality as well. Copies were not as good as those of a true photocopier, but hey for the money, the convenience and savings outweighed the difference. The scanning quality was very good. Pictures came out crisp. The software allows you to edit the pictures, but it's no PhotoShop. The ink cartridges are small, and they run out pretty quick. They're pretty expensive, so I'd buy them at Costco and seldom use color when printing.
When it jammed...
I had this machine for about 2 years. It worked okay as long as the papers did not jam while it was printing. The papers seldom jammed, but when they did, it would pretty much show an error message until I pressed the "Cancel" button, the On/Off button and unplugged it enough times. The machine has a feeder which makes faxing and copying documents a breeze. No need to place each document on the glass one at a time, like a flat bed (although it does have the flat bed part so you can place an item, like a book, on the glass). The problem with the feeder was when faxing or copying over three pages, the feeder was pull in 2 or 3 pages at a time and either jam or not fax all the copies. If you're not standing over the machine watching its every move, you don't see a) that it sucked in a few pages at once (they all either wind up in a neat pile or fall to the floor after being fed with no indication of what went through and what didn't) and b) the indicator on the machine gives you 1.3 seconds to see "5 pages sent", and if you don't see it, you won't know. (I seldom hooked it up to my computer so I am sure if you use the software there would be an indicator on the number of pages sent.)
When it stopped...
While printing up a document, a page got jammed in the machine. I pulled it out carefully and pressed the buttons the book told me to press. The motor was still running on it even though I tried turning it off. It started to smell like it was overheating. I left it alone since I didn't have time to play mechanic that week. I turned it on a few times since to try to get it to print or copy. Pages would go through but no printing. I tried to turn it on two weeks later since I had time to sit on the phone with a tech and play the "try this" game. We tried "this" and tried "that" and it would not come on. Since it's out of warranty (what else is new!?) I'd have to bring it to a company and have it serviced to find out what the problem is.
The problem...
I paid $400 for this machine to avoid paying $2 per page for faxes at corner stationery stores. Well, I don't think the savings has added up to $400, and to fix it would be an additional cost. Now that I have eFAX at 10 cents per page to fax, I am sure that since I bought this machine, I have not faxed $400 worth of pages (by boutique prices or eFax prices). So...the risk I took of buying this machine to save fax dollars turned out to be a big loss - in money AND time (the times I had to refax pages because one of the pages didn't go through, or tryng to fix a jam, running out to the store to fax a time-sensitive document at the last minute, etc.).
The recommendation:
Get a good scanner (I pulled out my old scanner from the closet and faxed a document off by eFax with no trouble) and use a company like eFax or your computer's fax utility to fax. If you fax huge quantities of paper, then I'd suggest getting a real copier/fax that uses toner, not ink jet. My needs do not include scanning pics for friends and family so if the machine jams I send everyone an "oh well" message. I've got clients that need documents, and I don't have all night to sit at the machine trying to fix it so I can get the fax to a client by close of business. In the end I'd wind up running to Kinko's to beat the deadline anyway.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 400
Operating System: Windows
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