 Great printer, never had any problems! |
| Review Date: July 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: CCH, New Orleans, LA |
| I purchased this printer in 2005 (my OS is Windows XP). I have NEVER had any problems with it. The print quality is excellent, the fax, copier and scanner work great, and it prints beautiful color/black & white photos. My printer even survived Hurricane Katrina and still works great! It also prints beautiful greeting cards too! |
One of the best Printers I've had
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| Review Date: April 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: C. Ward, Jackson, Michigan United States |
I've had the printer for 3 years now and have not had a single issue. Love it. I use it for printing/scanning/copying and they all work great for me. I do not use it to print pictures so can't comment too much regarding this quality.
Never had an issue with software like other people have noted, but I got too be honest, I only need the machine for basic work and don't monkey around with settings too much. |
This printer is suspect
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| Review Date: December 26, 2008 |
| Reviewer: D12, |
This printer has the bells and whistles I needed but falls ways short.
* I don't want to sound 100% negative so I'll start with--it has a slick design and when working is pretty good ...
* The card reader has been useful as I use it to transfer music/photos/video to my phone.
Now the bad..
*The printer (couple times daily) takes in and prints on 2 sheets of paper at a time rather than one.
* The Software is landfill ready from the start. All it does is add about about 6 or 7 extra processes that are running in your task manager. The software constantly crashes and half the time I can't scan anything. So I have to resort to "other" methods to get this thing to scan to my pc.
*The printer(at least mines) will not constantly print a black word document without color ink installed. For example yesterday without any color ink installed, I PRINTED black word documents. Today, without any color ink installed I COULD NOT print any black word documents. Where is the consistency?? Why is color ink not needed one day but needed another day in order to print a BLACK word document??
* Printer is suspect
*Borderless 4-by-6 photo paper doesn't seem to print right on this printer on a reliable basis. Half the time the heads are cut off while the other half are ok. Where is the consistency??
*The print speeds reflect a mini diagram of our economy..Slow...Fast..Slower..somewhat Fast...Super duper slow...One second it spits the papers out so fast and violently that the papers flies out and hit the floor if you don't have the paper catcher extended all the way. The machine shakes my file cabinet as the papers just fly out one after another. So the next day comes, I'm expecting the same results except this time the printer takes it's slow precious time printing each and every letter ONE BY ONE. The same documents that flew out yesterday now print at a snails pace. When I purchased this printer no one told me that it had a human brain and printed fast or slow when it felt like it.................This thing is possessed
If you can get this printer to thoroughly work then enjoy it and all it has to offer. If not get your hypertension meds out and some hair dye to cover the gray you will encounter while hassling with this thing.
**Update**
Installed brand new premium hp color ink. Printer will not print in color. Only Black ink..... |
One of the best purchases I ever made.
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| Review Date: June 13, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Questor, |
I've had this all-in-one for over three years now and still think it's one of the best purchases I ever made. I love it. I use every feature on it (print/scan/copy/fax).
I have never had a problem installing the software that came with it and now have the unit hooked up on a router which is hardwired to a desktop and laptop and wireless to a second laptop. Works like a dream.
I would have no hesitation recommending this unit to someone else and will certainly be buying another HP all-in-one when the time comes (although this one is still going strong). |
HP SOFTWARE IS AWEFUL
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| Review Date: May 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: M. Oliva, |
HP Software is the worst I have ever dealt with. I will never buy another HP product, nor should you.
I've uninstalled and re-installed this printer so many times. I'm 2 more installs from throwing it out the window. |
Worst purchase I ever made
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| Review Date: April 9, 2008 |
| Reviewer: T. Helle, Glen Carbon, IL United States |
| The print quality is great - the software from HP is...is...is.. I can't even think of the right word. I have to reinstall the software every other month. Sometimes it prints sometimes it doesn't. It constantly errors for some reason or another. I find myself on the HP troubleshooting section more than I check my e-mail. I would recommend a pass on this printer. Unless you like troubleshooting. |
Don't buy this printer
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| Review Date: August 27, 2007 |
| Reviewer: gtbuzz, Atlanta, GA |
| As other reviewers have noted, the print quality is good, but the reliability is very poor. It took forever to install the software successfully, was very difficult to get network printing working. Now that it is about 3 years old, it requires frequent resets and the scanner has recently failed. I won't buy another HP. |
Good printer for light use. Poor tech support.
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| Review Date: May 2, 2007 |
| Reviewer: gabby, Santa Cruz, CA United States |
| Very good quality prints. Ink cartridges can be quite costly so best for low volume use. The fax function requires that you scan the pages one at a time which would be time consuming if you need to fax more than a few pages. My biggest complaint is that when I had a minor problem with the printer and I called customer service, I was told that since my warranty was expired, they would charge me $60-$80 JUST TALK TO TECH SUPPORT! Then they suggested that I might as well just buy a new printer from them for $99!!! I'm not sure how that was supposed to help me send the fax that I needed to transmit that day! Meanwhile, I managed to fix the problem just by turning it off and on again. Sheehhh! |
Best Printer I have ever Owned
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| Review Date: April 8, 2007 |
| Reviewer: P. Collins, |
| Too bad they don't make them like this anymore |
Not bad for light home use
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| Review Date: March 22, 2007 |
| Reviewer: T. Bux, Barnesville, PA United States |
HP classifies this as a home/small business all in one. It is decent at doing most light jobs. It scans nicely and the quality of the color/black and white output is commendable.
A great feature is the menory ports. Simply insert memory card, memory stick, or whatever and it works (at least with my Mac).
It also has a USB port on the front which is nice to hookup addition USB devices to it.
The problem I have is that for heavier jobs it doens't cut it. Faxing long documents is tedious. You have to manually put each single page on the flat bed, push a button, wait for it to scan, and so on. And if you have a small business like I do, that is out of the question.
Also, as someone previously said, paper handling is a major concern. It is not a printer you can set to print a 30 page document and then walk away from. It is prone to either grabbing 5 sheets at once, or jamming alltogether.
If you are going to use this for home use. Printing occasional documents or photos, scanning photos or documents, great.
But if you plan to use this for heavier business apps, I would go for a more rubust All In One. |
For an all in one this is a good machine
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| Review Date: February 24, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Alex Joseph Hundertmark, Alaska |
It gets the job done. For day to day use it's fast and out prints many others I know of and is one of the fastest ink jets I have seen especially for text. It has convenient feature too with the built in card readers and such.
The scan quality leaves a little to be desired sometimes but for most stuff it is more than good enough.
I recommend this to anyone looking for an in home bang for their buck all in one. |
Problems
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| Review Date: February 6, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Persephone, |
| I have no complaints about the print quality, speed or software. My main complaint is that the paper will not feed properly. I think it's problem may be in the inherent technological deficiency in "sniffer" paper feeders, which this one is. I have an old Epson Stylus which is a "feeder" type tray with the paper in the back rather than under the printer and it works like a charm. I have tried less paper, more paper in the tray. I have tried adjusting the guides and the paper in tiny steps a hundred different ways and the printer still will not feed the paper properly. I have to babysit every print job, feeding individual sheets into the printer. If it is allowed more than one page in the tray it will invariably pull in three sheets then give me a paper jam error message. Overall it's printing performance has been good and the ink cartridges last a long time. But I would not recommend this printer. |
! ! ! ! DO NOT BUY ! ! ! ! HP Photosmart 2575, 2610, 2710, 7210 ! ! ! !
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| Review Date: December 19, 2006 |
| Reviewer: H. Zusho, |
Don't buy this printer. I have Photosmart 2610. I can use printer, copy and fax, but I can not use scanner. It worked at the beginning, but its start having some problems. I made multiple call and all I heard was we have no record of this issue occurring before. HP knows this issues but HP support have not come up with a solution. This is not happening only to me, there are many others. You can Google and find at forum about HP printer problems. People are getting same response or suggestions from HP support.
Don't buy this printer. I am stuck with this printer/fax/copy machine. No Scanner. |
ZRODN
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| Review Date: December 6, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Zrodn, |
DO not purchase this printer after much use for six months the display
message lists carriage jam, i immediately took apart this printer wasted 3 hours found no paper jamb and was told by help menu it could be one of several issues one of which indicated grounding problems with outlet, i mean lets just blame someone else just say point to the person next to you they did it. i could have purchased the same printer for 40.00 more 3 months ago when it was in stock as the ink can cost 47.00 micrcenter + 40.00 = the cost of new printer 3 months ago. Now when i call help center im not able to reach anyone and treated like a criminal this is ridiculous just take this printer replace it no questions so i can continue using your expensive ink cartridges which by the way is how the company really makes its money but no they want to make me pay for a printer that actually shuts down after high user use, must be proprietary software embedded and encoded in printer to encourage more purchases my printer was never abused and kept in mint condition but used heavily for monster user |
STAY AWAY
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| Review Date: October 22, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Chris, New Hampshire |
DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!
I have had this Printer/Scanner/Copier a little over 3 years. Eventually it started having problems starting up, making a crunching sound before failing to boot up. At first the problem would occur off and on, but now it never starts up. I did some searching online and as it turns out most other users have the same problem with no solution in sight (look it up yourself if you have any doubts).
This is obviously a defective product that HP needs to recall and replace for all its owners. Unfortunately they don't seem to recognize this problem.
Stay away from all HP all in one products, especially this one. There must be better models elsewhere. |
The worst printer I've ever owned.
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| Review Date: September 13, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Chad and Kristen, |
Do not purchase this printer! I have only owned this printer for a year, and here is a list of the problems I have had with it in this short time:
1. I never could get it to work right on a wireless network. Typically, I could eventually get my laptop to connect to it wirelessly, but it usually took multiple rebootings of my laptop and resettings of the printer before this would happen. I finally just connected it to our main computer by a USB cable and e-mailed anything on my laptop that I needed to print so that I could access it from the main computer. It turns out that this is faster than it taking 20 minutes or so just to connect to the printer.
2. Installing the software was a long and difficult process. I had to uninstall and reinstall several times, and had to download multiple updates before it would work properly. Furthermore, the software slows down the boot time of my computer significantly.
3. At first, the printer was very fast at printing pages. After about a month, however, it began to slow down occasionally. Often during a single print job it would print out a page or two VERY SLOWLY, but print out the rest of the pages at normal speed. And when I say very slowly, I mean at least two minutes for a single page of text only! Over time, this sporadic slowdown occurred more and more frequently, until now it is the rule, and a rapidly printed page is the exception.
4. Inexplicably, the last time we changed printer cartridges, it failed to recognize the black ink cartridge. These were the official HP cartridges, mind you. So we tried a different cartridge (still an official one), and this one wasn't recognized either. We contacted the company and they said power surges could cause the problem, though we had not had any recent storms. We were one month past the end of our one year warranty, so our only option now is to buy a new printer. They offered to sell us a later model at a discount, but I declined, as I'm not sure I'll ever buy another HP product again.
In short, the HP Photosmart 2610 All-in-One is the most unreliable and troublesome printer I've ever owned. Avoid it like the plague. |
SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH AN EPSON!
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| Review Date: July 13, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Diane Crombie Hogan, Leucadia, CA United States |
| Purchased from Apple store and wouldn't recommend. Can't get fax function to work automatically because of answering machine and therefore still have to switch on and off to receive faxes. Scanning ability is not user friendly as far as switching quality of scan and then editing image. Copy function is fine for 1 page. Sound's harsh I know and it prints fine, just so many better/more user friendly options out there. |
HP makes me SAD. Here is a Pro/Cons List.
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| Review Date: July 8, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Bear Bear, Los Angeles, CA |
I have had the 2610 for about a year now. To communicate my experience/opinion of the HP 2610, I will make a Pro/Cons list. I realize my review may be one-sided, but I am only speaking from experience.
Pro:
1. After one year, it can still perform its scanning function.
Cons:
1. Software installation *SHOULD* be quick and easy. It is only printer/scanner software and it is coming from a company with a history of making printers and scanners, BUT HP has lost its way!
2. If software installation doesn't crash, it may slow down the system when it does work. HP forces too many additional software programs with the simple print/scan function.
3. If one of the two ink cartridges fails or is missing, the working ink cartridge will not work until the other one is replaced. My color ink cartridge stopped working (I didn't even use it that much) and I was *unable* to make printouts that use only the black ink cartridge.
4. When the 2610 was able to print, it would very frequently print with missing strips of ink. This wasted a lot of ink and paper. I am uncertain if this is a defect in the cartridges or the print itself.
5. It became too difficult to connect the printer to the home network, so I just use its USB connection.
In conclusion, the HP 2610 was a waste of money and time. I find more reliability and speed from my Canon 2110, which is old and outdated. The Canon 2110 may print VERY slow, but it makes up for it from its working software and consistency in being able to produce a successful printout, which is more than what I can say for the HP 2610. HP was a leader in printing and scanning devices--I suspect their research team spent more time making foolproof ink cartridges than they did on improving functional printers. |
Great printer - great support -
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| Review Date: July 4, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Mark Seiler, |
My 4th HP printer (Almost cheaper to buy a new printer than to replace cartidges - ha ha.)I had an initial issue with the network port not working, called HP - troubleshot for 5 minutes and they shipped another out right away. This one has been going for 8 months - VERY FAST printing ! I have 5 PC's in the house and everyone loves being able to send a doc to the printer and have it done almost before they get to the printer. Printing Photos works very well - and the 'intelligent' FAX capability is nice, since my answering machine will grab a call after 4 rings, and if there is another FAX machine out there, this machine will step in and connect. (A lot better than connecting the phone line for every out-going or in-coming fax.)
Agree with others over 'bloated' software.
Highly recommended. (Ink is $20 for Black, $35 for color)
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printer that thinks it is the center of the universe
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| Review Date: May 16, 2006 |
| Reviewer: John Sadler, ca, usa |
HP has long made great printer hardware. Until recently I would have said the same for the software, but they seem to have lost their senses completely. The software for my All in One was nearly 1/2 Gig installed, and took more than a half hour, and my computer has never been as reliable since it was installed.
I must say that their support is great though - one email and they immediately sent me instructions for a defeatured install that would let my other computers use the All-In-One as a printer. Too bad that information wasn't included in the box!
HP - please make small and simple software. Your printer is not the center of my world.
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Great Easy to use!
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| Review Date: April 17, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Michael Fryer, Kennewick, Washington United States |
This has been a great printer. I have had it now for over a year. No major problems at all it did disconnect from the network once which kept the laptop from printing but I reinstalled software on laptop works just fine. Those that have had problem with it not working on the network may just have cheap router and/or too strong of a firewall Far faster response on the network connection then on USB. Photos come out like film, if you have a good digital like myself.
Recommend Highly for those who need a simple All-in-one! |
Poor interface with Powerbook G4
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| Review Date: April 15, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Ash, abroad |
| I give it 5 stars for performance and only 2 stars for interface capability with my Powerbook G4, particularly Word for Mac. If you are a Mac user look elsewhere. |
HELP!
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| Review Date: March 18, 2006 |
| Reviewer: HP user, |
| I have had nothing but problems with this printer, particularly with the networking feature. When it works, it's great to be able to print from the laptop. I'll emphasize 'when it works.' Most of the time, the printer indicates it's connected but the networked features, such as downloading photos, don't actually work. |
My Mom's HP Photosmart psc 2610 printer By: Nicholas Ouimet
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| Review Date: March 6, 2006 |
| Reviewer: , |
Hi,
My name Nick. I love computers + hp. This review is for my mom's printer. It is very fast. the software that came with it is tarrable. The computer it is on is a dell with microsoft windows
xp service pack 1.The printer's qualaty is fantastick. I am also getting an hp psc 1610 all-in-one. don't worry I will get an exstended service plan.
I highly reccomend this HP PHOTOSMART PSC 2610 PRINTER!!!!!
Make WISE choise!!!!
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Initial problems overcome - My best printer ever
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| Review Date: February 12, 2006 |
| Reviewer: Guy Jeffries, Texas |
I read the reviews and thought i could work through them at worst I would have to use the USB connection rather than the ethernet. When it arrived it setup fairly easily. I grumbled at the size of the software installation on every machine I wanted to have independent network control. I installed on the house main computer and my laptop any other computer can connect through the main. Everything functioned fine at the house. I was pretty happy.
The next day my laptop would not function at work. I pretty quickly found it was trying to establish a connection to the printer and would hang the computer until it would time out. Less than a minute later it would do it all over again. I had to uninstall all of the software to be able to work. I called them after work and was told to get an update online. I wonder why it did not do an update after installation. Now it gets regular updates. At one point my laptop lost the ability to communicate with the printer for over a week. I set up print sharing through the desktop and was almost going to do a full un/install cycle. But tried to do a scan before doing that and not only did the scan work but printing worked after. Now for the last 6 months everything has been stable.
On a whole the software is bloated and does not have a very intuitive interface. With all the software they provide I still have not found a very good picture/photo editor and have found a good freeware one to do this. Scanning software is pretty average and like every other photo organizer tries to force you into a photo album organization that does not work well with other software.
Where this unit shines for me is the printer interface itself. Being able to copy, fax and yes scan from the printer is very handy. If you have the HP software running on a PC you can select which PC to scan from. Faxing and copying is a snap, select color or b |
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