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1 good if it works, but beware of the ink cartridge scam
I bought it some time ago, for a small home business. The idea of being able to print large doublesided sheets automatically, with a separate tank for each colour made it the ideal machine for me.
Or at least so I thought. Printing doublesided is not so automatical as I expected. It sometimes needs some manual work (could be a software problem, not sure) to save many sheets going to waste. And the built in "safety" against using out of date cartridges, regardless of the quantity (sometimes 60%) of ink still available made me decide to dump it. There seems to be NO solution when the printer simply refuses to print any longer with one or more out of date cartridges. I have to go out and buy new HP ones. I think it is a scam and HP should be in a law suit over this. They should leave the decision to throw 60 % full ink cartridges away to me, the customer, not to them. Had they put a warning on the package or in their review of the machine about this I would not have bought it.
It is a shame. I have been a loyal customer to HP printers since the early 90's, but no more HP for me. There must be other companies that make good printers without this stinking ink policy.
2 Built to a price unfortunately
I bought this printer as a replacement for a 1220C non duplex printer as duplexing has become a must for our company. I have had this product for 2 years and probably run no more than 200 sheets of paper through it. The quality is superb when it works. It has now developed a fault which makes it as good as useless as it requires a replacement part which I understand would cost almost as much as the printer if I could actually get it. Looking on the HP web-site forums I note that this particular problem appears to be rather too common for this make of printer. I cannot recommend it and suggest you look elsewhere. Shame, as I really rate HP printers
I will be junking it
