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HP Color LaserJet 2840 All-in-One Printer/Copier/Scanner/Fax (Q3950A#ABA) | List Price: $1,066.99
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Color prints, copies, scans, and faxes
- Up to 20 ppm print speed; first page out in 18 seconds
- 600 dpi print resolution, 1,200 x 1,200 dpi scan resolution, 24-bit color
- 125-sheet multipurpose tray, 250-sheet paper tray, and 50-sheet ADF
- Built-in Ethernet and USB interfaces; PC and Mac compatible
Terrible [Posted on 2008-02-21]
This product sucks. We use this product for our color copier in our office and it is terribly slow, loud, and expensive to maintain. Furthermore we have had this machine slightly over a year and now we are incurring all types of issues with it. We called HP and since our warranty expired they want to charge us $480 just to come out and see what is wrong with it. DO NOT BUY THIS MACHINE.
Disappointed in this product [Posted on 2008-03-12]
I wished I had read more of the user reviews prior to purchasing this product. It prints a nice page, scans images, and can send a fax, but so could my HP Laserjet3200 before it was time to upgrade. This printer is certainly much faster than my older HP.
This printer is super noisy and a color toner eating machine.
I called HP soon after receiving the product because I noticed that even though I was printing black only pages, it was still using the YMC toners. They helped me put it on black only print, but please note that if there is a fax error report that prints, it will spit a little blue ink on the page. This is completely useless and only wastes blue toner.
I was surprised how long it took to install this unit.
If you get this printer, I strongly suggest that you do not install the color toners unless you plan on running a color job. I printed 5 pages that used a little bit of color and the once a week fax error page report in the 3 months that I have had the printer and I am down to 94% on the color toners and 87% on the black toner. I basically print invoices and fax pages (all black ink) and this makes no sense on how I am down to the low 90s with barely use of color.
This printer constantly calibrates itself. I leave the printer on all the time and there are times when I haven't printed anything for over an hour and it starts making loud sounds. I contacted HP support and they told me about a few features on how to minimize the calibration times. It would make sense that on installation you could dictate how often this would happen.
Don't put this printer next to a phone. There were numerous times that I was speaking with someone and I did not initiate any printer command and this 2840 printer starts making tons of noise. People ask what the heck is that?
I utilized the online support for this printer and that was a big waste of 6 hours. It didn't correct my problems and all it did was keep it through the motions of calibration and noise making.
I am grateful that toner was included with the printer to start off, but when I have to replace the color toner, I don't plan on putting it in the printer until I have a color print job.
I have the printer hooked up to an XP PC and for some reason it won't print my Microsoft Works files. An hour before installing this printer, I was able to print the Works files to a Lexmark printer with no issues. When I tried to print, I got several garbage pages before I hit cancel to stop the madness.
I can't believe that this is one of the best all in one printers in this category.
Somewhat noisy and quirky, but excellent quality prints and easy installation. [Posted on 2008-03-24]
The HP Color LaserJet 2840 is everything I hoped it would be, aside from being kind of loud when it prints. The plastic casing of the product is bordering on flimsy...I guess I will find out after several months if this thing is going to rattle itself apart. Print/copy quality is fantastic. Very happy with it. And once a print job gets going, it is quite quick (black and white). Curious to see how long the color cartridges last--we print our own letterhead and it has a lot of color in it, and we print many letters. Installation was a breeze. We have two computers--one is a Mac and the other is a PC--and they are both hooked up to the printer via a share switch. Installation of software on both the Mac and PC was virtually problem free, and the printer works beautifully with the switch. We don't have a network, so it's a direct plug-and-play for us, so I can't offer an opinion about how this printer works on a network, but if the share switch is any indication of that, then I can't see that a network would pose much of a problem. If you can get this machine for MUCH less than full price (HP sells for nine hundred, we got it on sale for six hundred), then go for it. There isn't much else out there in the six hundred price range that is comparable or even as good. Great value printer.
Worst software installation in the world [Posted on 2008-05-06]
What are they thinking? A 1 hour long install process and full of garbage install programs. And on Windows XP they should be using the default drivers and scanner on Windows. Not recommended for normal use unless you have plenty of time to burn.
VIsta Software non-functional [Posted on 2008-05-08]
I have owned this printer for a few years and like the quality of the hardware. I operate on a home network, so my comments are relative to that environment. When I purchased this AIO unit, I had an XP computer and the HP Director software was somewhat problematic, but at least everything worked. Now that I have a Vista Ultimate computer I am forced to use the infamous HP Solutions Center software for Vista. Ironic name, given that the scanner cannot be made to work and there appears to be no solution to that issue. I spent 7.5 hours on the HP support chat site (after paying $25 for the privlege) without any success. The support personnel did not seem surprised that it did not work. Now, instead of retiring my old XP machine, I must keep it running so that I can use the scanner. I have purchased at least 6 HP printers over the years. This one will be the last.
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