OFFICEJET 4215 user reviews (MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER - COLOR - INK-JET - PRINT, FAX, SCAN, COP)

4.5 stars

"Great unit; solved my scanning problems" on February 15, 2005

Pros: I bought this to scan documents. My hope was that I could make archives in PDF format, and let the documents feed in without assistance. HP allows scanned images to be saved in a variety of formats, including PDF. It holds 20 pages at a time, and prompts

Cons: No flat glass for rigid objects (like DVD's, books). Buy another cheap scanner for this, or upgrade to the next HP model.

0.5 stars

"Junk, junk, junk, junk, junk." on July 31, 2005 by PatentLawyerGuy

Pros: I threw it in the garbage. I couldn't even sell it on Ebay for 5$ and sleep well.

Cons: Never worked right. I should have returned it, but I figured it would start to work. Stupid. Lesson learned

Summary: How about this for a start -
I will never buy another HP product.
And I'm the kind of guy who, when he says that, means that. Ever.

I have two officejet d135 and they are OK. My review on those is under 102bguy.

I have two other smaller HPs that I am currently sellign on Ebay.

This piece of filthy garbarge is sitting in the garbage can downstairs where it belongs.
I got it for Xmas for my wife at a wholesale club for about 100 bucks.

The thing was jamming and copying poorly from day 1. So I tinkered, and tried to adjust, and crossed my fingers. And? And 1/2 year later I decided to get rid of it. After tinkering some more, I decided that I couldn't even give it to somebody in good faith, so I threw in the trash, took the 100 dollar loss, and learned my lesson. I will never buy another HP product. You hear, "HP" and you think "quality." Well, I guess with the first generation HP lasers, that was the case. IMO, no more.

Here's a brief list of things wrong with this device . . .
Cheap throughout. Cheap buttons, cheap paper guides, cheap catch trays. All in all, everything is loose and shabby. Paper doesn't go in easily. Paper doesn't come out easily. The print cartridges weren't seating correctly from day 1. Error error. Open the door, reseat them. Get ink off hands. The copies would jam. Error error, clear paper jam.

JUNK JUNK JUNK>

HP, all you needed to do was make a decent machine to keep my business. You have not.

Good bye.

Finally, if you read through the reveiws, you get 4 or 5 reviews in a row that are all rating a 9 (see Jan 12 of this year). The reviews list no bad things or only generic things (all inkjets are relatively expensive). Several of the titles end in apostrophes - like - Great all-in-one! Can't beat this price! Not top of the line, but great printer!
Folks, that is a shill. That is one or a few people peppering this site with spam reviews to keep the overall rating up. I rarely lie. I have no reason to deceive you. They do.

I recommoned NOT buying this garbage.

4.5 stars

"Great printer for the price , easy to install and setup,"Pleased"" on March 2, 2005 by labialover

Pros: I guess one of the main "Pros" would be -bang for your buck-this is a multi-task unit that actually works like it should as opposed to some of the other fine units that I have owned .

Cons: Can't really come up with any "Cons" for this little jewel, if you want some cons ask me about my Canon or Epson .

Summary: I like the simplicity of changing the ink cartridges and the fact that there are only two to deal with . If you don't mind going the refill route you can get by very reasonably , like $3.25 for 20 ml of black ink and $3.75 for 25 ml of color . Hey , it's not that hard to refill . Back to the printer , it seems that the "HP" engineers were at their best when they designed this printer again because of the simple and straight forward operation . I am happy with my purchase.

1.0 stars

"Do not buy" on June 9, 2005 by tparty

Pros: price was the only good thing

Cons: can't stop a print job

Summary: Once you have started printing there is no turning back. If you try to stop a print job before it is finished you are in a world of trouble. It will stop, but then it won't do anything else. The software just hangs up. After about 10 min. it will say print job canceled, but it won't let you start another print job. You have to completely shut everything down and start from scratch.
Also Very Loud printing.
I returned mine back to the store.