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4.0 stars
"What a machine, Hp has done it again. If the ink yeild is good"
Pros: So hard to list all. Network, daul paper tray, shared memory card slot, software, speedy,
Cons: Bottom paper tray seems flemsy, cost, photo detail output compared to Epson
Summary: The HP 3210 inkjet printer is great. What can I say, HP has done it again. This has got to be the number 1 machine for the workgroup environment. It does everything you could expect of a small office All-In-One and then some. Scan images can be a little slow, but were very good, even the 3D scan of a pair of swing shears looked great. The memory card slot reader worked just fine, it has a 2.5 inch built in screen on this machine and printing from this was also very easy. Now here?s the kicker this machine can be hooked up to a network. You can get a LAN/CAT5 cable plug right in back of the printer. The HP 3310 model also has wireless communications and both can have Bluetooth. The 3310 also has a built in fax machine. This is great communications support. All the above items (Fax, Scanner, Card Reader and Printer) can be shared over the network cable. The software install was a breeze. You unpack the printer remove all shipping material, install ink and network cable. The software scans the network for the printer. Once it fines the printer it starts the install. Now please be patient, this will take a while. This software installation needs 1.3GB of hard drive space. You get everything you need to use your system. Photo and Fax management ability. Everyone can use all the functions right from their desktop. When you do the install on your desktop all the functions of the device are installed specifically for your desktop environment (on one desktop the compact flash card may be drive E, on another computer it may be drive K). OCR software also comes with the machine. There is no one who even gets come to the software that HP is giving you. These machines also comes with a built in film and slide scanner, Duplexer for printing on both sides of the paper and Picture bridge for digital camera hook up. Hp has finally given in on the replacing the print head every time you change ink cartridge. This really drove up the cost of replacing ink ($24-$35), but gave you a perfect print every time. Just what does this mean to us the consumer? Cheaper ink replacement yes, but the machine does not last a long. People gets mad and just throw away the whole machine once they get the print head replacement cost ($50-$130). Epson and Canon has been doing this for a while now. After a number prints (maybe some where in the 1000s area) the head starts to wear out. This just what happen to my Canon i860 printer from Best Buy, I had insurance and the maintenance company decided to just replace the printer with Canon 6200 (this was not a deciding factor for the printer. I needed a second printer for my kids on another floor. I don?t know if this new HP ink will yield the same number of pages as my old 895cxi, if it does Canon and Epson watch out. Speed, this thing spits out paper like a big office copier. It is very fast. I could not get 32 pages per minutes. But it was very fast (closer to 17ppm on my 3 page resume with copies).
Now for the bad! After all that I?ve said above I still returned the printer for one main reason, photo output. After paying $400 plus tax for a machine and I walk up to a $72-$139 Epson with a card reader and screen and printed a picture from my camera card and the details were outstanding on the Epson. The details that this thing printed was like a photo lab. The main thing I use my printer at home for is photos. I can print text documents at work on my laser when I need it to be nice crisp text output. When the Epson R340 printed I could see hairs standing up on a person hands, not on the HP. The shadows under the eyes looked more real to life than HP?s muddy looking effect. The bottom paper tray looks to be quite flimsy. It may be tougher than what it looks like. But it did not seem like it would wear well. I was worried that I may bump it one time to hard and break it. The rest of the printer is built so well, to short the printer here just does not make since.
To sum it all up, if photo out up details from an inkjet printer is critical to you, than this is not the printer for you. Go with the Epson, neither Canon nor HP?s 6 ink printers can touch this machine from a walk up prospective.
Where to buy
HP Photosmart 3310 All-in-One:
$159.95 - $599.99
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