 "Great photos, but a pain for overall as a printer" | 2009-09-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A22L25I6IM5MXA |
| The photos are nice, but I am not able to print black only text if one color cartridge is out. We blow through the color cartridges very quickly and to replace them isn't horrible if it's one at a time, but to do a few at a time is pricey. This would be great as a dedicated photo printer, but has too many limitations for me. The LCD is really a dumb idea, as well as the built in card reader. I never use either. The thing that annoys me the most is it does "maintenance" all the time and holds up printing. |
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| "NOT COMPATIBLE!" | 2009-08-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A17PR7FMHHGTYE |
| I purchased this printer a few years ago at Staples after being convinced by the sales person. The printer worked great. My family, friends and I were amazed of the quality. I was working with windows ME. Once my computer crashed, I purchased a new computer with windows "Vista." This is when I began to experience difficulty. It appears that this printer is not compatible with "Vista." The program appears to have conflicts with "Vista." I am considering purchasing a new printer but afraid to encounter the same problem. I will continue doing my research. |
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 "Near impossible to load paper and print the photos! " | 2009-01-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1NX2O8XW1PHHY |
After owning this printer for 3+ years, I have to cite my absolute and total frustration with the printer. It is almost impossible to get the paper feed to work.
Is it just me, or did HP forget to design the paperfeed until the last minute?
I should have returned this product IMMEDIATELY and now I pay for that decision everytime I need to print something.
Whenever I want to print a photo, I have to give myself 1+ hours to get the paper feed to work. Seriously.
DO NOT BUY THIS HORRIBLE PRINTER!!! |
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| "I Hate This Printer" | 2008-12-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A138UMLSR9IJPK |
I've had this printer for about three years now. When I first got it, I have to admit, I was enamored by the quality of it's photo print outs. I was printing out pictures of my girlfriend, my dogs, my neighborhood... pretty much everything I could find.
But as time went on, I found that I was using it more and more to print out documents, and this is where my relationship with the printer went right in the crapper.
I understand that HP has to make money off of the printer cartridges. But I have never had a product that has literally made me so angry that I wanted to throw it out the window, and it's all because of the printer cartridges.
First of all, there are six cartridges required for the printer to work. You would think that's not that big of a problem, but if you want to print out a 34-page document (like I do, right now) and you're out of "blue", you don't have the option to print in black and white. The printer can only print if it has all of the proper cartridges. Apparently this is to preserve the "integrity" of the system. This boggles my mind. If I want to "trash" my printer by constantly putting a strain on the black-ink cartridge, I would like to reserve the right to tell my printer what to do.
I was hoping to remedy this problem this evening. I had bought new cartridges for all of the colors (except black). It had been a while since I had printed anything, because I knew I was out of "blue" and there was no hope of the printer working without all of the necessary cartridges (especially blue).
Once I install the blue, I'm alerted that I need to replace the "pink" because the cartridge is past its expiration date...
WTF?
Once the pink was replaced, I was alerted that the "black" cartridge had also "expired"?...
I can understand perishables like milk, and juice have expiration dates. Even beer now comes with a "best by" date. But I don't expect that of my printer ink.
I consider myself fairly technically capable, and nothing infuriates me more than when my technological goods work against me, make my life harder, and make me have to adjust my habits to meet their buggy behaviors. What I want in a printer is this:
1. Print out pictures in color and black-and-white
2. Print out documents quickly and efficiently.
3. Don't fight me. If I'm low on a color, cut me some slack and print in black and white - or tones of grey, or all blue, or pink or whatever I have on hand.
The disappointment I have suffered at the hands of this printer have totally made the "ooh-aaah" reaction to the initial photo-quality absolutely moot. I hate this printer. I feel like it mocks me, with it's constant whirring and click-clacking after printing every third page; and it's warning messages that essentially tell me it can't print a black-and-white page without the "magenta" cartridge.
I hate you HP 8250. I hate you so much.
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| "Ink System Failures" | 2008-09-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: AH2Z6NZPDE83Z |
| This product was great when I first had it, but after 2 years it had a paper jam and since then problem after problem has occurred. Now it only prints green, yellow and blue. which is worthless to me. Do not buy it, it is a wasted of money. |
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