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NYAAAAARGH!!!!

I've had it with my new HP Photosmart all-in-one heap of junk!!! What a waste of money. Not only does it eat the ink up like it's going out of fashion, but it wastes my photopaper by incorrectly printing, despite me having set my artwork up perfectly.

It's obviously too much to ask the thing to print. Stupid pathetic box of junk. How do HP have the nerve to unleash this great dollop of tripe on to the market and then have the audacity to call it a printer/scanner!

- The scan quality isn't exactly great.
- The scanner interface is annoying. It forgets what you scanned, so if you need to re-scan something you have to do it all again.
- if I select best quality, it puts a white line through the middle of my print
- inks don't seem to automatically clean themselves
- the first print of the day is awful quality

The list goes on, and even as I type, it has RUINED another print out and therefore wasted yet another sheet of photo paper!

The consumables for HP cost a fortune which doesn't help.

This piece of hardwear has almost reduced me to tears. A broken man. A crushed, frustrated designer.

I wasted NINE sheets of 4x6 photo paper the other night in an attempt to print borderlessly. I set it up fine. It printed half the image or mis-spooled the paper and started it a good centimetre into the page.

I've lost count of the amount of A4 photo paper sheets it has cost me.

HP are going to get the most irate complaints e-mail they've ever known.

It's rubbish! It's rubbish! The whole thing is absolutely RUBBISH!!!!!!

I just knew I should have stuck with Epson.

Hi Alex
My HP is isn't that bad but it's far from good. My main problem is sometimes the PC and the printer don't talk to each other. That means I have to shut everything down and start again and then I get all the backed up printing in one go. Doesn't help by my daughter keep pressing the print button when she know's nothing is being printed.
Waiting for the day it goes out of the window and I'll buy an Epson.
So Alex you have my sentiments.
Peter

Oh no - you have my sympathy too.
But in my experience, if its a printer/scanner then its not brilliant at being a printer OR a scanner.
These days I tend to stick to getting one piece of kit for each job and then (I think) there's more chance it will do that properly.

This is a good example of Mac's Law: -
Never let you printer know that a piece of work is important

Good old HP strikes again i see!!!! I loaded the cd rom that comes with it two years ago and within minutes it created a 'loop programme' that caused the laptop to re-boot over and over. So we used it with a different PC that the software worked with, only to find that pages were ALWAYS printed twisted and even had scratch marks. I tried a few other printers over the months but it was never as simple as QVC. Needless to say i live in a near paperless world these days.....

Alex,you have my sympathy. I'm sorry to say this is quite normal for most Computer equipment in my experience,having worked in IT since 1982.

I cant think of any other industry where you buy something & it doesn't work first time or it needs constantly updating.If Microsoft & HP sold cars the way that they sell & make software,they would go out of business very quickly.They just seem to get away with it.

I'm seriously tempted to put it on Amazon marketplace or ebay and buy myself an Epson, a brand I know and trust. The reason I got that particular printer is that I was impressed by a friend's, and I needed to save some space.

But they obviously work better on PC than mac. Every time I print from inDesign some images pixelate. So I tried an experiment - booting Quark in classic, doing the same bit of artwork, and it printed fine.

I think the line that appears through the middle of the image when I select "best quality" is also an InDesign conflict.