Several weeks ago both Hewlett Packard and Office Depot were running Mail-In Rebate offers for $50 on the Hewlett Packard 6110. Id been looking for an all-in-one and the 6110 seemed to fit my needs. Retailing around $300, the $100 in rebates cut the cost down quite a bit, so I went ahead and bought it.
Cnet gave this printer a luke warm review, calling it a reasonable choice and rating it below the cheaper (and uglier) Dell A940. I can tell you right now, it doesnt matter how well Cnet rates a Dell.. Im not buying one for my desktop. So righty-o, back to my review
Installation:
A little more than I expected in OS 10.3, I had to install the HP software to get Photoshop to access the scanner it took about a half hour and it was even a bit frustrating. (I was saying things like: this is a Mac damnit, why doesnt it just work!?)
Post installation:
For some reason the OSX printer utility shows two 6110s at all times. My guess being the driver the OS assigned and the driver I installed from HP... but it doesnt really affect me that much. I just choose either and they both work fine.
Problems:
Sometimes when I print a large image, the printer just kinda bails at the end. Itll stop, for no apparent reason.. I hit cancel and it ejects the paper. I dont know why it happens, but it does
Positives:
Great scanning, photo paper printing, and duplication of images is quite easy
The printer has two ink cartridges, a black and a rgb, if you intend on doing photo printing though you can replace the black with a photo cartridge and it does quite well the colors are amazing and the print detail surprised me for an Office Jet machine. The color cartridges seem reasonably priced (~$30) and Ive been doing a lot of printing, so they have decent life in them.
I havent used the fax yet, so dont know much about it.
Overall:
Could be better, I mean there are some problems.. but an All-in-one Office Jet for $200, you can't go wrong and the image printing is great. Im happy with it, I dont think you can get a much better deal on one.
Links:
http://reviews.cnet.com/HP_OfficeJet_6110/4505-3181_7-20789536.html?tag=more
Cnet gave this printer a luke warm review, calling it a reasonable choice and rating it below the cheaper (and uglier) Dell A940. I can tell you right now, it doesnt matter how well Cnet rates a Dell.. Im not buying one for my desktop. So righty-o, back to my review
Installation:
A little more than I expected in OS 10.3, I had to install the HP software to get Photoshop to access the scanner it took about a half hour and it was even a bit frustrating. (I was saying things like: this is a Mac damnit, why doesnt it just work!?)
Post installation:
For some reason the OSX printer utility shows two 6110s at all times. My guess being the driver the OS assigned and the driver I installed from HP... but it doesnt really affect me that much. I just choose either and they both work fine.
Problems:
Sometimes when I print a large image, the printer just kinda bails at the end. Itll stop, for no apparent reason.. I hit cancel and it ejects the paper. I dont know why it happens, but it does
Positives:
Great scanning, photo paper printing, and duplication of images is quite easy
The printer has two ink cartridges, a black and a rgb, if you intend on doing photo printing though you can replace the black with a photo cartridge and it does quite well the colors are amazing and the print detail surprised me for an Office Jet machine. The color cartridges seem reasonably priced (~$30) and Ive been doing a lot of printing, so they have decent life in them.
I havent used the fax yet, so dont know much about it.
Overall:
Could be better, I mean there are some problems.. but an All-in-one Office Jet for $200, you can't go wrong and the image printing is great. Im happy with it, I dont think you can get a much better deal on one.
Links:
http://reviews.cnet.com/HP_OfficeJet_6110/4505-3181_7-20789536.html?tag=more
