HP Photosmart 2575 - Well worth it (HP Photosmart 2575)

Member Name: dougcam1

Product:	HP Photosmart 2575
Date:	08/12/06 (807 review reads)
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Advantages: Good quality, good price, easy to use/install

Disadvantages: Thirsty for ink

This is an excellent all in one printer/scanner /copier package. I bought this just over a year ago, and was a little unsure of what quality I could expect from such a utility device. I was pleasantly surprised! All the aspects are better than I’ll ever need form anything I do at home. For office use, some of the features may be a little slow for high volume use. The printing is the normal standard you’d expect from HP, and when used with decent photo sheets, the photograph prints are superb!

The scanner is good quality and fairly easy to use, though I find the HP software provided slow, complicated and annoying and just use Windows own free stuff. The copier is also good, and the stand-alone function allows it to operate independently of a computer.

It has slots for most common memory card standards, as well as a USB port, so getting the photos from phone or camera to PC is a dawdle. You can also view and print photos straight from the printer menu, without involving a computer, which again can be a big time saver.

The downsides are that it’s quite thirsty for ink, and the cartridges, as you’d expect, don’t come cheap. Also the software provided, while good, is very resource greedy, and some of it is overly complicated when Windows provides simpler basic software to perform the same task. The OCR software works well, and integration and output to with MS Word/ Adobe Acrobat couldn’t be easier.

Installation is simple, the actual device connect to your USB port and should plug and play, and the software autoruns from the provided CD (both PC and Mac are catered for). Simple onscreen instructions allow quck and easy setup.

Summary: Excellent overall product I would thoroughly recommend for any home user.

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