 "OUTSTANDING!" | 2009-11-07 |
| - Reviewed By padre01 |
| I really like this printer. It does everything. Setup was not quite plug & play, but it wasn't difficult either. What I like best about this printer is; 4 large ink cartridges (very economical) and two replaceable print heads. The fax was easy to setup and use. Copying is a breeze. [ASIN:B000NIRB1U HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One - Multifunction ( fax / copier / printer / scanner ) - color - ink-jet - copying (up to): 35 ppm (mono) / 34 ppm (color) - printing (up to): 35 ppm (mono) / 34 ppm (color) - 250 sheets - 33.6 Kbps - Hi-Speed USB, 10/100 Base-TX]] |
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 "Bad printer" | 2009-10-23 |
| - Reviewed By wjdjad |
| It jams too often and you cannot get to the jammed paper easily, it tells you its out of ink when it isn't, it won't print in black & white when yellow ink is low, ink is very expensive, the document feeder is unreliable, but the print quality is good. Now if only the rest of it was, but I wonder if there are any good, reliable printers out there at all? |
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 "A good value - with known issues..." | 2009-10-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1UMWRRYAO4Y3Z |
Not sexy, but gets the job done!
At $150 is good price/performance. Would have looked around harder if still $300.
Not new hardware to the market, in fact I could not find a brick-mortor that stocked it any longer.
Print/Copy/FAX very reliable, with AutoDocFeeder critical to user efficiency/satisfaction. Light to medium duty for our <10 person office, an old HP LaserJet is our workhorse.
Network presence, helpful to scanning, does drop occasionally, same as blogged about everywhere, same as the last one we had.
Purchased to replace same model on which the AutoDocFeeder died 6-mo. beyond warranty. Suspicious "in office" circumstances, I'm just saying...
Was a practical choice for us: ADF repair cost, on-hand supplies, user training, office footprint.
The color LCD panel is a strong feature, as all in office agreed, was easier to navigate than lines of text. Who wouldn't pick Color over B/W? Kum By Ya all around!
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| "Large, but good." | 2009-09-22 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1WZH1WJG3OZIF |
| Bought on amazon april 08, $239. Cons; large and heavy, slow start up, a bit noisy. Pros; fast, cheap ink (esp. large sizes), quality prints on photo paper. A good all in 1 printer. |
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| "An ambitious but poorly executed printer" | 2009-08-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2XW0FXTNMKXX7 |
I have had this printer for about two years of moderate use. The advertised feature list hit every requirement I had, but the reality I quickly had to accept was that anything other than the most straightforward printing function was likely to end in frustration and wasted time. I'd recommend you assess this series of printers not in terms of price for feature/function, but price compared to other very basic printers.
Issues of HP bloatware aside - well documented in others' comments - I'll begin with a positive and say I found the network printing capabilities of the printer to work fine. Digital filing functionality, however, was extremely slow and cumbersome - rather than trying to scan to pre-configured network storage directories as I did, I should have just scanned to a USB thumb drive and then moved the file to the desired directory.
Scanning and faxing through the document feeder rarely went without a hitch. Jams, skewed copies, etc. were far more the rule than the exception. I normally wound up doing page by page manual scanning on any multi-page document. Most recently, the scan/fax function has ceased working altogether. It sounds as though the drive mechanism for the scanner is stripped out - when I hit "scan" there is a loud screeching noise and I have to shut down the printer and reboot it to resume regular printing.
The automated "replace ink cartridge" messaging seems to begin about halfway through a cartridge's actual life and is annoying. The HP 88 cartridges do seem very expensive and short lived.
Having owned nothing but HP printers before, I think this will be the one that officially did me in. HP should take the lesson that delivering half the features at the same price, but delivered them in a product that is stable and reliable, is a far better way to build customer loyalty. I come away believing this printer was largely a piece of junk and it would be tough to go with HP again.
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 "If you have problem with software, download updates." | 2009-07-25 |
| - Reviewed By sheng_liwei |
The hardware itself is not bad at all, color print on photo paper is very truthful. However the driver/software is Extremely Buggy. I first installed software on CD, it took long time but done without incidence. Later, I found it can not print more than 6 pages. I checked HP website and I could not believe my eyes. The solution is to download newer driver but this does not guarantee to solve the problem, the next solution Provided by HP is to LIMIT you pages printed each time to the maximum number it can print. Who will call that a solution?
Later I downloaded the new software and it can not install it due to some problems that HP had no solution yet. I downloaded their uninstall software and cleaned installation. And reinstalled software several times. And finally the printer seem to resume working. The HP solution center quit working and can not find the device. I googled the problem only to find some solutions involving cleaning up registry which I dread to do because it is risky and could take several hours easily in my past experience. So I tried newest update supposed to solve communication problem between computer and printer. It actually solved the problem. But those updates are available only in 2009, I can only imagine the frustration for those buyers who bought the printer early. One tip from other HP user is very useful as well, to install HP customarily. Updating software yourself and disable any software you can live without. Anything you can not understand in English you disable it if you can, this can give less change of catching a bug.
One thing, your default language for non-Unicode code seems need to be English for the upgrade to work. Hope this can save you from some future problems which should not be there. I used a Canon IP3000, never once had a software problem and never spent more than 5 minutes to install software/driver, not for L7680 though. |
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