HP Photosmart 2710 All-in-One Printer

Manufacturer:	Hewlett Packard
List price:	~~$399.99~~
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HP Photosmart 2710 All-in-One Printer

Average rating: Stars

Good all in one printer

It's a great printer--prints fast and quality is pretty good. It's very convenient to have all the different media storage slots right on the machine itself for easy downloads of pictures. However, I was missing a USB cable when I received it and customer service at HP was not the easiest to navigate to have it replaced without getting charged.

HP Photosmart 2710 All-in-One Printer - Hewlett Packard

Overall, I like it.

I bought the 2710 to replace an aging Brother MFC model that printed too slowly. Indeed, the 2710 prints amazingly fast, both in B&W & in color. The other features of this HP were just extras, but tempting enough to lure me in to buying it.

The wireless connectivity appealed to me because I love to decrease the tangle whenever possible. My printer sits 2 feet from my PC & my wireless router, but that little area has more than its share of cables & wires. Unfortunately, the wireless connection proved unreliable, making it often impossible to access the HP from the desktop software (a "not connected" message would show up). In the end I trotted out a USB cable and plugged it in and all has been well since.

As other reviewers have noted, the software is the work of a diabolical fiend. Okay, maybe it's not that bad, but it is a really clunky, user-unfriendly and wholly unintuitive interface that takes an hour to install even on a really juiced PC! As if that weren't enough, it self-corrupts now and then and requires a full reinstall, while it is virtually impossible to fully remove the old install (trust me, it's still there). Therefore, when I wish to use the software now, I must select from its drop-down box "copy 3". Sheeesh.

Another gripe was that my original 2710 would reset itself every week or so, an event that meant that I'd walk into my home office and find the thing flashing every button on its panel like mad. Of course any faxes that had been sent in that unknown interval were lost. Only unplugging it for a minute would resolve that problem. After trying tricks like isolating its power supply and making sure it had its own UPS and even disabling its wireless output, I just returned it and installed the new one in its place. That problem has never recurred, so it was clearly just a defective machine.

The major disappointment for me is one that I should have realized when I bought it: a flatbed scanner means a flatbed fax, which means you can't load up a multi-page document and just dial and send. In this case, you have to scan each page and then send the whole thing afterwards. Fortunately I get a lot more faxes here than I send, but it's still annoying.

So what are the good points? Well it prints very fast and very, very well, including photos which when done with the photo ink cartridge and photo paper look pretty much like lab prints. It also scans and copies quickly and beautifully and the software does make archiving the scans quite simple. The fax speed is excellent and unlike the Brother, it prints faxes out without much noise. The design is pleasing and the incorporation of a large, bright, and easy to read LCD screen makes operation simpler. Also, the built in memory card reader is highly functional, allowing you to preview your photos on its LCD and to print directly from the card without the PC even being involved.

I gave it 4 stars because the poor software issue comes into play very little on a day to day basis and because the defective 1st machine doesn't necessarily mean QC is a problem. Others in my house are accessing it via their wireless connections, so that does indeed work and is of some value. Lastly, that there is no fax feeder is obviously not their fault, it's just a design feature of all flatbeds.

In the end then, this is an attractive and all around very competent printer that also handles scanning, copying and (at least incoming) faxing quite well. I would buy another if the need arose.

Hewlett Packard - HP Photosmart 2710 All-in-One Printer

Printer on steroids!

I have tried different printers over the years, but this printer puts them ALL to shame. It prints, faxes, scans and copies with little or no effort. The flatbed scan is so easy a five year old kid could figure it out. The colors are amazing. I printed an 8 x 10 on HP photo paper and it was truly amazing!
I am highly impressed with this printer, which does it all, and would highly recommend it to anyone. The setup was simple, I have the latest technology super computer and it set up in about 10 minutes. Other reviews I've read say it takes about 30 minutes, but I didn't see that at all. I love this machine and am very glad I chose it! you can also print pictures without turning on your computer. The screen is crystal clear and very easy to use. You can also edit your pictures right from the printer. I couldn't do that with my old printer!

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