Hewlett-Packard's 940C printer combines high-quality printing with a space-saving design that's ideally suited for small work areas. Weighing in at less than 20 pounds, it fits snugly into any 18-by-10-inch space and connects easily to your PC or Macintosh via either standard or USB connection.
Providing both outstanding detail and economic use of consumables, this thermal inkjet easily earns its keep in the home office. Color prints are churned out at up to 10 pages per minute, with a fully saturated 2,400 x 1,200 dpi resolution. Monochrome print jobs are processed at up to 12 pages per minute and receive a letter-perfect 600 dpi resolution. The 940C input tray handles 100 sheets of 20-pound paper in letter and legal sizes. Additional paper-handling options include all types of photo paper, stickers, index cards, and envelopes.
With simple one-touch operation and clear onscreen windows to navigate you through the printing process, everyone in the family can use this solidly built machine. Hewlett-Packard includes a 90-day warranty on parts and labor.
Make all sorts of fun things fast, with this versatile HP printer. The HP Deskjet 940 series delivers photo-quality images and sharp black text on a wide range of paper types - all with exceptional speed. HP ColorSmart III technology allows the printer to automatically deliver sharper, clearer, more vivid output. The Deskjet 940 series is great for printing class papers, graphics presentations, and digital images.
1 Great quality & consistency for the price
This printer came as part of a computer package I ordered from Dell back in 2001 so actually it was free. I hated to let go entirely as its followers haven't been as consistent and easy to use. To keep it within reach in case of emergency, my kids currently use it now that I've upgraded to a 4 in 1 AIO printer. The 940 was easy on the ink carts and printing was fast and of great quality. Sometimes I miss the simple, classic things of my past and this is one of them!I never had paper jams and the desktop printer assistant was easy to use. It came with PC and MAC installation disks and pretty much installed itself!
2 Good Printer
This printer lasted more then 2 years. Perfect prtints, and not a ink hog. But we bought cheaper ink and it caused the ink to drip or drag from the paper to the rollers of the printer. So if you do buy, make sure you only use HP ink. Dont listen to the sales guy at Frys like we did!!!!!
3 No Complaints Here! Love it!
I've had this printer for almost three years and it's still kicking butt. It's probably the 5th printer I've had and all of the others (Canon, Epson, Lexmark and HP) fell apart within a year.
I suspect the reason this printer has survived so long it that I bought an extended warranty on it with the expectation that it would soon find it's way to the dump with it's predecessors.
4 It worked fine until I bought a new computer
I owned this printer for more than a year. It worked fine until I bought a new computer, I unplugged it, moved to a new place, and replugged it. The power supply burnt out. The printer was dead. I wasted 2 packs of unused expensive ink cartridges.
5 Great perfomance printer
Excellent job for small office or home use. Good resolution and fine prints on paper and photo paper as well.
6 If you value your time and money then I'd something else...
I have owned an HP 940c now for about a year, and as it's now 4AM in the morning and I have a long project to work on, the printer has given me a hardware failure.
Having said that I've tried it on different computers, with different cartridges (thought maybe the OS X driver was to blame but evidently not), and it's dead. Now it's 4AM and I've spent 2 hours troubleshooting the printer only to have it dead.
To top it off this printer uses the HP #15 cartridge which is a #45 cartridge with half the ink at the same price.. you cannot use a #45 in this printer.
I highly reccomend against buying this printer. Not only is it subject to the expensive ink cartridges but it has been widely known for paper feeder problems (a school district recalled theirs), and they are all eventually prone to this sort of failure.
7 Loved it, then it left me...
This is the 3rd HP printer I have owned and it has broken the fastest. My first one was around for four years of college, then it died. The second, an 820 Cse lasted about 18 months. The 940c lasted me just over a year and died. Add to this the fact that the cartridges are expensive (I'm stuck with 6 of them) and don't last terribly long.
I'm thinking laser to replace this one, and a Canon inkjet for color printing.
8 Worked fine, broke quick
My HP Deskjet 500 worked for more than seven years before I finally traded up for a color printer - the 940c. I've had the 940c for just over 1 year and it has broken. I'm buying a Canon this time and keeping my fingers crossed for better quality.
9 Frustrating!!!
I have owned this printer for about a year ... purchased it for printing photos and was impressed with the quality. However, like one of the other reviewers, mine jams again & again. It feeds multiple pieces of paper and is just a pain in the ***. At $1/sheet for photo paper, jams are expensive and the ink just pools while it is jammed. It is a mess and a waste of ink and therefore $$$$. HP has been NO help as their warranty/technical support is for something ridiculous .. 3 months? Anyway, I've now purchased 2 printers in the last week, both are not as good in quality of photos .. they deliver a pinkish cast (Epson Stylus CX3200 & HP1200 (I think) ). I will try a Canon next I believe ...
10 HP 940C
After using this printer for one year (home use), a plastic bracket to which a spring attaches to maintain belt tension on the print cartridge carriage broke. Rather than try to get a new part, I'm going to throw this printer away and buy a new one.
11 I won't buy one again
I have had mine for about two years. I love the color it gives but it has also given me a lot of problems. Something has gone wrong with the memory inside making it impossible to print in "best" quality. An error message will pop up on my screen and then it will start printing out garbled junk. I've down loaded the latest driver--more than once--but with no success. It has been a waste of money to me--especially when ink cartridges are so high for it!!
12 Excellent workhorse
I am a high school student, and go through about 2 reems of printer paper each week with all the homework I get. Needless to say, I need a printer that won't let me down. Well, the HP Deskjet 940C is what I use. It offers both great print quality and timely execution of tasks. I can choose from 3 different print quality settings (Draft, Normal, and Best), depending on what I'm printing. This has benefits in of itself. Moreover, it offers an outstanding 1200 dpi when using premium paper.
Do yourself a favor if you're in the market for a new inkjet printer, and go with the HP Deskjet 940C.
13 Bad printer
Do not buy this printer. I have had nothing but trouble with it- it jams every other time I print, and most of the time, it grabs 3-4 papers at once, and prints on all of them. I certainly expected better quality from HP, and this did not deliver. The printing is decent when it works, which is not often. I will be looking for a different company next time.
14 Great printer for the price.
I bought this printer about 2 years ago. It's a great printer for what I paid, which was not bad at all.
One thing I don't like about it, it's that a lot of times it shakes a lot when it's printing and when it finishes a page.
Also, if by any chance you cancel a page that's printing, it may be a hassle to print again, as the printer may just print randomly any simbols it wants.
I just bought a digital camera and it works great. I bought the most expensive HP paper, but I was not quite impressed with the results. There were pixels in the paper, and the colors were a little unacurate, especially the red. It made my hair look like if I had tinted it red, when I really have light brown hair.
The speed is awesoime, as it prints fast on black and white.
It's a good printer, don't get me wrong, but if you're looking to print pictures & detail graphics, look elsewhere. For just b&w printing, it's perfect.
15 Decent Inkjet
I've had the HP940c for a year now with no problems. The printer installed via USB under Windows XP without a hitch. Photos and text are good quality. I have used multiple pages/page printing and manual duplexing without any hicups. No jams to date. Replacement of catridges is easy. Low cartrides are noted by a dialog box popping up and by lifting the lid to the catridges to see where the cartridges line up with the icons inside the printer. Replacement catridges are expensive, but this printer scored well vs other inkjets in cost/page on PC Magazine's review. I use a HP Laserjet 1200 for volume printing where color is not critical. Good bang for the buck. To get 5 stars, the printer would need to be faster, hold more paper and cost less for cartridge replacement. You just won't get that at this price range.
16 Disappointed
I purchased this printer with high expectations. But was very disappointed. Right off, I had problems with paper jamming and printer errors. I even think it jammed so much that a small piece broke off. When it prints the quality is great but I have had a lot of trouble with it when trying to print on card stock. It doesn't appear to be very sturdy and makes me very nervous every time I try to print more than a few sheets at a time. Even regular bond paper has a tendency to jam if printing more than a couple sheets at a time. I've always thought HP printers were the way to go, but after this one, I don't know if I'll buy another HP.
17 One major draw back!!
The printer does deliver a nice quality picture and was easy to install. Its major disappointment is the cost of ink cartridges and the rate at which it uses ink. (Even when printing in gray scale). I now know to more thoroughly research the next printer I purchase for its long term efficiency and costs of ink. As far as usage goes the printer has worked well for over a year without any problems or crazy complications.
18 Extremely unhappy
I hate this printer! It is nothing but problems. Every single time I go to print even a single page, there is some sort of problem! The paper jams, I get timeout errors, the ink runs out too fast and I am unable to fill it with the refill kits. The thing has a mind of it's own and starts spewing out pages even when I'm not trying to print anything. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't put trash on each page wasting my paper. It's a piece of junk! 1 Star is highly overrating this product!
19 Non Computer Geek
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRINTER, I have had a Hp 1100 and had moderate success with it, after a few months the multiple paper pickup and jam problem kept occuring with no satisfactory fix, I just got this printer and it is even worse, it does not print correctly and multiple jams even after two hours out of the box, the copy was consistantly misaligned. I am sending it back.
20 worked great until it just STOPPED working at all!
I replaced an EPSON about 6 months ago that worked for about 9 months before the paperfeed went out. I thought I was "movin' up" by purchasing an HP, well, this one stopped working after 6 months: the printer carriage gets hung up on the right. I went to the website for troubleshooting options, none of which solved the problem....and the warranty is the biggest weakness...90-days! This alone speaks poorly of the expectations HP has of its own products. EPSON's warranty was 1 YEAR, but I had misplaced the receipt. SO, perhaps EPSON is a better deal, as long as you KEEP THE RECEIPT!
21 HP 940C - best printer for the money
I've had this printer for a year, printed hundreds of cards, photos, orindary pages, etc. It's really a top-notch printer. Not completely perfect, mind you (I had one jam), but as near as you could dream of. I've also owned two different Epson printers, and one low-end Lexmark and found the quality of this one significantly superior. We're talking superb output, solid construction, good paper management. And economical. I swear I must have printed over 100 pages while the color cartidge was on a low ink level. I like it so much I'm going to buy a 2nd one for my other computer.
22 Save your money--buy something else.
I bought this printer based on the reputation of HP--not again. I have had it for 5 months and it just stopped working. I went to the web site to get troubleshooting info about the error codes. I have spent an easy 6 hrs working on it and nothing worked. It suggests calling phone support "if you are still having trouble." I called phone support but, because I had bought the printer more than 90 days ago, they wanted [money]per phone call--forget that. I email for support and it sent me a computer generated response redirecting me to the same web page I first started with. I am taking the [money] I would have wasted on the phone call just to get someone to read me the same damn web page and then ask me to phone back later and going to try a new brand of printer. HP no longer means quality!!!
23 Best printer I have ever owned
This printer is awesome have had mine for over a year and i hate hp!! But this printer ROCKS!!!
For all those that say the ink runs out and is too expensive... BUY THE LARGE INK TANKS... if your cheap at the counter and buy economy size your getting ripped you can buy the large size and double the ink for minimal extra.
The tanks aren't refillable for very good reasons, like print quality. Speed is awesome try to print an 8X10 on a lexmark and you will find out that the lexmark is left behind and not as pretty.
I'm an IT pro so i get to deal with trouble printers all the time and this one i NEVER see. The next best printer to this would be an epson.
in the end the people who complain about this printer are probably trying to be cheap and save a buck by buying junk ink, or the economy taks and NON decent paper hence paper jams etc.
Throw some nice injet paper or even standard xerox paper in it and get nice text... throw in some HP photo paper and get BEAUTIFUL photos up to 8X10.
Closing words... VERY NICE!!
24 This is progress?
Apparently a replacement for the terrific 932c printer, this "upgraded" model is a bomb. Jams, can't print straight, picks up multiple sheets, and horrible service all add up to a misfire. I went through the hassle of getting two replacement units shipped to me, and both replacements had more problems than the original! I've written off my 940c. I don't think anyone should waste their time (and certainly not their money) on this one.
25 Disappointed BIG TIME!
This is our 2nd HP printer. Only to say, we regret buying it. The 1st HP printer, was purchased over 3 yrs ago. It's an 1100c series color printer that is on a "higher" end of the printer line.
Buying a G3 PowerBook had us looking for a USB compatible printer. At first, we purchased the LexMark Z55, which worked GREAT for almost year, before a faulty part went out. *(we do a LOT of printing).
So, thinking about how a former HP product was great, we got this one at the store when we were in a rush. We didn't even look at the demo. BIG MISTAKE!
1. SPEED, was the first disappointment - way too slow. LexMark speed is way better, even for photo quality pics. The ole 1100c is faster than this one too.
2nd disappointment was HP changed the printer cartridges. These are NO LONGER refillable. They have metal clips on the sides, and there is no way to refill them.
3. There aren't enough printing options available. Sometimes I wanted to makes changes that I could do easily with the older 1100c series printer. I found that the options change depending what program I am on, therefore making it more confusing. (to go into detail on this subject, I'd have to write a long long explanation). Basically, it was a LET -down, I don't even want to keep this thing. I'm better off buying a different printer, with refillable inks. Ink is just too EXPENSIVE to be purchasing and not refilling.
4. When the Black ink starts running low. It Basically makes you change the cartridge. It doesn't allow you to run the printer on low black ink. The machine stops functioning, and the big ink light blinks, and sends a message to your computer, saying STOP! Color inks run low, and the computer allows you to function with low color, but different story on the black ink.
26 Great But?
This is a great printer for any use up to 8X10 photo production. The "But" in the review is the cost of ink and the fact that it uses a single cartridge. I run out of one color ink even with it set to a lighter setting in the printing menu and I am out of luck. The rest is wasted. The two sided printing is great ...particuclary with all these programs now having the 'manual' on the CD to print.
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27 Mixed Feelings
I bought this printer about a month ago and was slightly disappointed by its performance. The print quality is great, the photos I printed looked 99% like the 35mm prints that came from the lab, but I made the mistake of using 4x6 photo paper instead of the standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. Approximately every-other print came out crooked on the paper, and the printer has an annoying habit of cutting off the last inch of the image because of margin restrictions. I couldn't find an option to use the maximum paper margins, and so had to end up making a white border around the image so that the printout didn't look strange.
I bought this printer as a replacement for a 5-year-old Epson brand, and am considering going back to it because of my frustrations with this HP. Summary: Great print quality and speed, but not good with custom paper sizes.
28 Simple and efficient to use!
The HP 940C gets the job done. Its horizontal paper feed means few if any paper jams. The two cartridges it comes with will work for many, many copies especially if you chose
an economy setting for your printing jobs.
This baby works flawlessly with my Power Mac G3.
29 Best Buy for a Photo Quality Printer
The Hewlett Packard 940C is one of the best PHOTO QUALITY Printers on the market. It uses the exact same color and black and white cartridges as the more expensive photo quality printers, therefore a higher model is only for luxury not quality. The speed of pages per minute is excellent, as is the color quality. In price it has over time completely held its value.
30 Pleased with the HP 940C
I have owned this printer since Christmas ('01) and have had nothing but success with it. The print speed is great for text documents. I was also able to print great looking glossy slides for a poster presentation. The print cartridges seem to have a pretty good lifetime, as well. I haven't had any problems with paper jams. It has handled some documents with pretty hefty memory neeeds without locking-up too. Definitely, well worth the cost!
