MFP’s, still great at nothing?
Posted: December 27, 2011 Filed under: Technology & Hardware Leave a comment »I’d like to read a realistic review about home and small office MultiFunction Printers. They are the best thing since sliced bread, but only if we are discussing 2 day old, cheap white bread. I want an MFP that does it all, and does it all well, and doesn’t drink ink by the gallon.
I use an HP OfficeJet 6500A Plus. This does many things well. Scan is reasonably fast, and gives me plentiful options to come up with good scans, regardless of the document’s quality. Unfortunately, even after more than a year of use, it still takes several tries with the settings to come up with a good scan of troublesome documents. But alas, at least I can make it happen!
Printing is reasonably fast, if you can wait on it to come out of a very deep sleep. In fact, I’m sure that the printer goes right back to a deep slumber within seconds or minutes. Must be a winter-time hibernation thing.
Today, I tried to cancel a simple copy operation. After several seconds, I realized I would need to change the default darkness & intensity settings. I pressed Cancel, and voilà, but device continued its noisy machinations for some time. “Copy cancelled”. Then it spit out a blank sheet of paper. Why spit out a blank sheet? After another long wait, I decided to fix it the Windows way. Yep, reboot.
Well, at least a reboot always works.
