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"HP Should Apologise For This Unit!" on by MartinSchn828
Pros: Above Average Print & Pic Printing
Cons: Breaks Down Often - Unit Pick Ups 7-10 Sheets Per Pass
Summary: I puchased this unit as I am a huge fan of HP. I own HP computers, Printers( Laser & Inkjet), Ipaq, Laptop, Media Receiver & much More. I had this unit for about a year and it appeared to be a good buy. I only used it about once a week to fax and maybe printed about 1 or 2 pages per week as I have a HP 1320n & an HP 3210. Slowly but surely this printer started to pick up 5+ pages per print and later would give me problems faxing. I had to hook up the old Panasonic fax to get the job done. I finally gave up on this unit and tossed it in the trash to cut my losses & frustration. I still have 4 ink cartridges that I will give to charity. I suggest you look elsewhere, maybe even another HP, but I suggest you stay away from the 4315.
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"HP Officejet 4315 - Fits Well within a Small Trash Can" on by Capt Quahog
Pros: Fits well into a standard home office trash can
Cons: Confusing and inconsistent controls. In the overal ~ Junk!
Summary: Have an old HP Laserjet 4P printer that's given faithful service for over 12 years now. At some point Hewlett Packard went off the rails with their products. Bought an upper end HP scanner last fall that was found to have dedicated software that was horrendously poor and of no use. The scan quality of that unit for negatives and slides was also low grade and not up to the standard of even the cheapy scanner tossed in for free with a DELL computer purchase. Soon got rid of that HP scanner on eBay for half of what was paid. Since my wife bought this HP 4315 two months ago (against my advise) it seems to be stuck in some sort of FAX mode. Don't send FAX messages as it's an obsolete technology reserved for throwbacks and people stuck in the 1980s. Unable to get this useless thing to make a basic print-out from MS Word, it was just tossed in into the trash. Enough is enough! The faithful ancient HP Laserjet 4P has been pressed back into service. A simple rule of thumb to save time, effort and hard earned money . . . Stay clear of recent era HP products! For the most part, the products offered today are mostly crap. In the modern era at least, Hewlett Packard is far more hype than past high quality substance.
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"Good all-around product for minimal use" on by anebt
Pros: Fast, clean copying; fast faxing
Cons: Slow scanning and copying: ink use heavy
Summary: I purchased this for my small business, where printing and copying are minimal.
The print quality is excellent, but watch out for those cartridges, which use up ink very fast and need to be replaced very often. Faxing is super-fast. The program for the printer is a bit clunky and confusing. The scanning and copying is very slow, so if scanning documents into a disc or flash drive is a must, it will take forever to do this.
Outside of the slow scanning and copying, as well as the clunky interface and rapid use of ink, I'm very pleased, but only because I use this product minimally, and the print quality alone and easy, fast faxing is what I use the most.Updated
Sory, I meant that the unit *prints* and faxes fast, but copies and scans slowly. -
"HP 4315 - Lite Duty Scanner" on by chrismb
Pros: inexpensive scanner/fax/copier
Cons: slow scanning and poor software
Summary: I bought this for about $99.00, of course the price is hard to beat.
I can continue to use the scanner, because I have some software for manipulating the pdfs, which the scanner couldn't handle.
I got the scanner because I didn't want to spend $1000+ for a high end scanner. My project: I wanted to scan my personal library of articles that I use in my research, these articles have lots of equations, so lots of small print. I have perhaps 1000+ articles I've collected over 15+ years or more.
Some major immediate glitches with the scanner.
I would insert an article and the feeder would send 2 or 3 or more pages through. but NOWERE in the FAQ did HP ever mention how to correct this problem. They probably had no idea.
2. Don't bother hitting "cancel" on the scanner. It just doesn't stop anything.
3. You can't cancel a scan in progress.
4. The scanner lets you adjust the scan on the first page (if you have scanned several), and as each page is scanned from memory, shows you the scan size, BUT DOES NOT LET YOU CHANGE THE SCAN DIMENSION ON PAGES OTHER THAN THE FIRST.
5. Some of the articles I had to scan were old and faded and the scanner refused to scan pages that were too faded.
6. For some bizzare flaw in engineering, everytime you scan an individual page, the software needs to take an extra few seconds to 'fly' the HP banner across the screen.
7. I did get a number of error messages, which to the best I can understand must have been some hardward incompatibility.
My remedy, fortunately I have access to ADOBE Professional at work, so, I can fix a number of the sins encountered during the scan, e.g. skipped pages, pages that won't scan.
So, if you are thinking of a scanner, consider that this scanner is, about $99, and if you get it I'd suggest you get some software to manipulate the pdfs (adobe or similar), perhaps another $500. You should be able to find a scanner that "does it all" for 99+555 or about $600.00.
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"Great little all in one machine" on by jim621
Pros: My experience is much better than others
Cons: Wish I had the model with the handset
Summary: I didn't have a problem installing this machine . The instructions were clear and I used full install. It went fast and smooth, time was under 5 mins on my computer.
As for print quality; even in draft mode I got clear sharp copies and scans were quick enough for me. Color as far as I used it was very good . I printed some documents with text and color pictures and they were very good.
Printing and scanning noise is very low level other than the clicks involved with the initial start up which aren't that bad.
Scanning is easy and the feeder takes just about any size paper from 8 x 10 down. I scan flimsey receipts and business cards with no problem at all. The software automatically identified PhotoShop and my other installed programs allowing easy selection of appropriate applications.
FAX is great and easy to use with the document feeder allowing automatic feed of multiple pages.
I don't see any minuses for my uses of this machine. and its small footprint takes little much needed space. If you are a high volume user or need very high quality photo output it would pay to get a dedicated printer but for all around office use I think this is a great little machine
I got this at Office Depot for $68+tax after a $20 rebate.
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