What are these other reviewers smoking?
Written: Dec 07 '03 (Updated Dec 07 '03)
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Pros: It makes good landfill.
Cons: Non-backlit display slow interaction jams pulls multiple sheets can't refill color and UGLY
The Bottom Line: Avoid like the plague. Look at other manufacturers. Consider total cost of ownership, not just price of printer.
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| chopperpilot's Full Review: Hewlett Packard PhotoSmart 1115 InkJet Printer |
This printer is another fine example of how HP is committing fraud against its diehard believers. Gone is the day of the well made laserjets like my old Laserjet 4 which is still churning out perfect docs, and my old Deskjet 820C and full size plotter, a Designjet 650C which work flawlessly. HP wants to give away printers so they can rape the buyer on its super expensive and impossible-to-refill color cartridges. They even stated it in so many words the other day, in their financial report which indicated almost all other product lines were in the red, while the inkjet market had super huge profits. It is clear their engineers were tasked with making these color cartridges impossible for the user to refill. But that wasn't enough, they had to cheapen the printer itself to junk status, by designing around a cheap and slow microcontroller and non-backlit fifty cent lcd display. The thing is as dumb as a brick, and will, for example move the carriage to an appropriate spot for you to remove the cartridge when the door is lifted, and then without warning after some delay, with the door still up, will run the carriage (with the flip-up cartridge retainer still up) across to home position and slam into the case edge, nearly destroying itself in the process. Then there are the excruciating delays when the printer pulls 6 or 7 sheets at a time, gives a paper jam, then sits there for 2 minutes still displaying the error despite your having fixed the problem and pressed the ok button 2 minutes ago. I can go on and on...how about the nasty pressed-in dent the thing drives into the paper the full length of each and every sheet, ruining an otherwise good printout? Or all the "eraser dust" and rubber marks the drive rollers leave on every sheet? And my printer is nearly brand new!
The answer here my friends is not just avoiding THIS printer...the answer lies in boycotting HP printers in general, as this is the level of (read:lack of) quality that HP has bowed to at present. Look at Canon and others that build good printers and are more "refill-friendly" to boot. And to think I am not even financially affilliated with any of the printer manufacturers.
With all these other glowing reviews for this product, I highly suspect these reviews are from some of the PR folks at HP. OR people who ran 1 or 2 sheets thru a new printer and wrote opinions before knowing the reality of this piece of sh*t.
Conclusion: do yourself a huge favor and steer clear of HP junk.
Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 149
Operating System: Windows
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