Not up to the standards of a college newspaper
Written: Nov 22 '02
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Pros: Simple to use
Cons: Expensive cartridges, frequent paper jams, tiny paper feed tray and tinier tray for received faxes.
The Bottom Line: Not up to really heavy use.
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| aaronthemad's Full Review: Hewlett Packard OfficeJet t45 All-In-One InkJet Pr... |
This machine was purchased about two years ago for my office. We're a college newspaper, and we use this primarily to receive incoming faxes (about 20-40 pages a day), and to send outgoing faxes 2 or 3 times a week.
It's decent at receiving faxes. The print quality is easily readable, and if it runs out of paper with no one in the office to refill it (which happens often, because our employees have to go to class), it will store incoming faxes in memory until it can print them. The downside, though, is that it doesn't have a very large paper loading tray, which means it runs out of paper quite frequently. What's worse is that it doesn't really have a tray to catch incoming faxes once printed. They land on a liftable platform above the paper loading area, but the platform is not as long as an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, and consequently the papers tend to fall out, requiring you to either place a box underneath to haphazardly catch them, or attach some sort of extension to the catching platform to support the ends of the sheets of paper so they don't slip out.
The most annoying problem with our machine, though, is that the outgoing fax feed is prone to jamming. Perhaps it's just the thin, low quality paper that we get from the university, but about 50% of our outgoing faxes jam or crumple at least a little going through the feed mechanism, with the result that the receiving party either gets a distorted, stretched-out fax, or it doesn't go through at all. We don't make many photocopies, but the photocopying is done through the same feeder mechanism, and has the same jamming problem.
Another problem for us, as a college newspaper, is the price of ink cartridges. One black ink cartridge only lasts us about 2 months, and they cost around $35 each, which is difficult for our constantly strapped budget.
One upside is that it is relatively easy to program. At least, easier than a VCR. Despite the fact that the manual and software have long since disappeared, I was still able to figure out how to configure all its settings using the built-in 2-line text LCD screen.
Recommended:
No
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