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HP L7590 OfficeJet Pro All In One Printer | 
| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
List Price: $367.00
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Rating:  10 reviews
Color: HP
Media: Electronics
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Size: HP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 43.3
Dimensions (in): 23 x 28 x 16
MPN: L7590
Model: L7590
UPC: 883585629572
EAN: 0883585629572
ASIN: B0014VNVFK
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| Features:
| • | All In One Printer | | • | Print Max Speed 35 ppm Black/34 Color / Laser Quality 12 ppm black/10 ppm Color | | • | Scan Resolution Up to 2400 x 4800 dpi | | • | Copy Reduce/Enlarge 25 to 400 Percent | | • | Multifunction Printer/ Ink Cartridge/ Power Cord/ Warranty Card |
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Product Description
Looking for professional-looking printing that's also affordable? The HP Officejet Pro L7590 All-in-One offers impressive results at a cost per page of up to 50% less than with laser printers. You'll be able to print, copy, scan, and fax, plus cut your paper usage in half by printing on both sides of the page.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Nice high volume printer. May 16, 2008
DarthRad (CA United States)
54 out of 54 found this review helpful
This is my third HP All-In-One Officejet printer. The first was the r80xi, the second the 6110. I had not been particularly enthused about the HP 6110, which after 5 years broke down with constant jamming. Every other brand that I looked at, however, also seemed to have their own flaws and potential reliability problems, and so I decided to stick with the HP series, mainly because the cartridges are so readily available at Costco. I have not had good luck with remanufactured ink cartridges. I strongly considered the Canon Pixma printers since a lot of people seemed to like them, but the constant complaint that the Canon printers are designed to not print when a single ink color runs low stopped me. HP has not done this with their printers in the past, although I have not tested this yet on this printer.
The printer that I actually have is the HP L7555, which I purchased from Costco. From the specifications, the L7555 is the same printer as the L7590. HP has historically given large volume discounts to sell printers at Costco and then re-named the discounted printers sold at Costco (e.g. the r80 became the r80xi) so as to appease its other retailers. The L7555/L7590 come with the optional two-sided printing attachment, which is not included with the L7580. All three of these printers have wired network capability only (wireless is an optional accessory).
I would note that there are multiple separate listings on Amazon.com right now for the L7680 and L7780, and the photos and specs are quite confusing as to what the differences are, but it appears that these other models come with wireless networking, two sided printing, additional paper trays, and other features like Direct Digital Filing, etc. The L7600 and L7700 series come with legal size scanner glass instead of the letter/A4 size scanner glass for the L7500 series and so have a slightly larger upper body frame (legal size scanning/faxing on the L7500 series is done by feeding through the ADF). The L7780 has a color display instead of a black and white LCD display.
I use this printer as a common family/home office printer/scanner for four home computers. So some of the complaints of other people in the many printer reviews on Amazon.com don't apply to me. The computers all run Windows XP, and so Vista or Mac compatibility are not issues (drivers for Vista and Mac OS are included).
Initially, I set this printer up with my old USB 4-port switch (I have four computers at home on a home network). The L7590/7555 did not recognize the USB 1.0 switch that I had been using, so I got a new 4-port USB 2.0 switch (software switchable), which did work to switch printing and scanning between the computers. The only problem was that the computer that was "on" with the printer would freeze up during the boot process unless the USB port was unplugged or shut off.
So, I decided to put this Ethernet-capable printer on my home network. To do this, I had to expand beyond the four-port MN-100 router that I had. I got a D-Link DGL-4100 4-port gigabit router and DGS-2205 5-port switch. These hooked up easily with the Ethernet port on the L7590/7555. You have to put the HP setup CD back into every single computer on the network and re-install this printer for the network again even though the drivers have been loaded for the USB connection.
I am not using this printer to print high quality photos, although the three color cartridge system does look capable of doing decent photo color printing similar to previous Officejets.
Unlike the previous Officejets, this one comes with two replaceable inkjet heads. Previously, HP had built the inkjet heads into the disposable ink cartridges, which undoubtedly increased the cost of the cartridges. However, it is not entirely clear how long these replaceable printheads are designed to last. A search of the Internet suggested that the HP printheads are not designed to last for the life of the printer as the Canon printheads are, and possibly last only for every tenth ink cartridge or so. Stay tuned for an update on this issue.
The printer uses the 88 series of color cartridges (4 total - yellow, magenta, cyan, and black cartridges), and the 88 printheads (black-yellow, and magenta-cyan).
Pros:
1. Much more economical ink usage than the 6110. HOWEVER, you have to manually reset the default Windows printer parameters on every computer attached to this printer to take full advantage of this feature. The "Normal" default print setting gulps color ink at a prodigious rate - the color prints come out with the same depth of color as the "Best" setting for the 6110. So I am not at all sure that if you intend to use this printer to print a lot of photo quality prints how economical it will turn out to be. The "Draft" mode uses less ink but the color prints are not photo quality.
2. The printer does have a full range of manually adjustable settings in the "Advanced" tab for Printer Preferences in Windows that allow you to really dial down the ink usage and also presumably allows you to tweak the color ink usage for photos to acceptable levels. Black and white documents come out looking very usable with the ink settings at the very lowest levels.
3. Much faster than the 6110 for printing, scanning, etc. ADF works pretty good for scanning multiple documents.
4. Wired network setup fairly easy on Windows XP.
Cons:
1. The very first time the L7555/L7590 powers up, it takes 20 minutes to fully initialize. Later, if you turn off or unplug this printer, it takes about two minutes to initialize. Don't ever turn this baby off!
2. Installation of the driver software is also really slow, with a lot of popups requiring user interaction to continue the installation. If you have to load this software into several computers, it takes a while.
3. It only recognizes USB 2.0. It will not recognize USB 1.0 plugs. A USB 2.0 4-port switch that I used initially created hangups during the boot process for the compute that was "on".
4. The ADF feeder tray is still attached by way of two flimsy tabs. This is similar to the HP 6110 - one of the tabs on the 6110 ADF tray broke off after somebody set a heavy pile of stuff on top of it.
5. Loud. Probably the loudest of the three Officejets that I have owned. But this is probably because it is also the fastest of the three.
6. Footprint is 65% larger than the 6110 in square inches. It still fits on the same desktop space, just a tighter squeeze.
7. The wired (and wireless) networking only work for up to five computers, according to the manual. I have not tested this.
All in all, the Cons are minor complaints. This is a good quality printer, priced cheaper than the 6110 had been five years ago, but MUCH BETTER. Printer prices have dropped dramatically, as manufacturers have discovered that the money is in the selling of printer cartridges, and so the best part of this printer is its much more economical use of ink. But you have to make sure to adjust the default settings for ink usage. And I am still waiting to see how long these replaceable printheads last, to see if they contribute to the cost of printing.
So far, so good...very nice printer. April 13, 2008
D. Sealy (Oregon)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
This is our 5th and 6th (we bought 2) HP printers. The printer was packaged very well, all items were included as advertised. Setup was very straight forward. We set the first one up as a network printer and had no problems at all. The software installed easily (we installed it on 2 XP and 2 Vista machines, and HP includes separate CD's for each, as well as a Mac OS CD), although it took about 20-30 minutes to get through the process. This is the only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5. I think HP needs to re-think the install of their software. It should only take a few minutes, not a half-an-hour! Other than this minor complaint, the software did install without problems.
The printer took nearly 20 minutes to initialize the first time, which seems a very long time. The good news is that since it isn't hooked to the network or to a computer, you can install the software at the same time. The printer automatically printed an instruction sheet about the initialization.
The printer output is very sharp and clean, and rivals a laser printer. It is also very fast for an inkjet printer.
Scanning works flawlessly, although we haven't set up the direct scan to file yet.
Copying is very simple, one-touch.
Faxing is easy, and is much faster than the HP d-series we had before.
Overall, a great value, and HP seems to have fixed a lot of the problems that they had with previous, similar models.
Based upon the short time we've had this printer, I would recommend it without reservation. Just be prepared to spend a half-hour or more going through the setup.
 Great printer, especially for the price. April 13, 2008
Brian Mullins (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have been buying printers since 96 and they have all been HP. This is the 6th HP, number 5 was not that good, but I thought I would give HP another chance. I am glad that I gave them another chance, this printer is better than any inkjet I have ever seen. It prints photos super quick and I can print a large document double sided very fast. The ADF is also great, it can scan double sided. The ADF is not that quick, but I do not scan or copy that much. I scanned a double sided 25 page document and it took about 5 min. The paper tray holds half of a ream of paper, so I do have to keep putting paper in the tray. The print heads are easy to change and they should last about 4k pages. The ink is suppost to have a large page count, but I will have to wait and see.
For $150 from Staples ($199-$50 for old printer) this is an excellent buy. If you are thinking about buying a new printer this is the best deal right now.
 Dont buy it if you own a Mac May 30, 2008
Jorge Hinojosa (Los Angeles, Ca.)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
What what a disappointment. If you own a Mac good luck trying to figure out how to scan, don't call tech support because they don't offer live help for Mac users. When you go online to trouble shoot, the resources are a joke. I'm returning it.
 HP Tech Support is still inept. June 11, 2008
Anonymous (United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
First things first, HP Tech Support USA PH# 1-800-474-6836
Second, this device can be flushed back to factory default settings:
-REMOVE THE POWER CORD or flip the switch on A POWER STRIP OR UPS while holding # and 3 simultaneously. JUST CYCLING THE POWER BUTTON ON THE HP ISN'T SUFFICIENT TO RESET THE DEVICE.
-LCD awakens, roving square on LCD then device powers off
-Device powers back up... and you're back to factory default, all preferences and hopefully all errors are gone.
You chat online with HP Tech Support and all they do is paste the same instruction from the user manual we've already read and searched online and they tell you reset the device and flush all the settings.
Call HP Tech Support at 1-800-474-6836 and you have to scream at a voice recognition system that asks questions in English but only responds to your profanity in multiple languages before you're finally transferred to an operator that puts you hold for over 45 minutes in the middle of a business day just to get to the tech who is supposed to assist and they just read the the manual to you.
Aside from the obvious solutions to poor tech support such as fixing the issues that created our experience, HP has to begin improving their response rates and ditch the IVR or just improve it since by the time they answer the call the end user is irate from having to practically spell their responses to the Interactive Voice Response system.
We fixed that insidious "Clear Paper Jam" error from the rear duplex loader / read for solution.
This device consistently stretches the text on every duplexed scanned side.
In other words, if you set the scanner to scan both sides of the page, the underside / 2nd part always stretches the text at the top of the 2nd page.
(SEE SUBMITTED PHOTO)
Sometimes, it has just been a single sentence, other times an entire paragraph.
Contacting HP TechSupport is as painful as it is useless. Search their tech support and find out everything else about this thing except what you need to fix.
Searched Google to no avail either.
BUT - the scanning performance speed is superb for an MFD in this price range,,,, too bad it just skews the tops of the even numbered pages.
------ SOLVING THAT "PAPER JAM" ERROR ------
REFER TO THE USER SUBMITTED PHOTO FOR GRAPHICAL NOTES AT THE other HP Officejet Pro L7780 Color All-in-One Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier (C8192A#ABA)Amazon 7780 Product Page here:
Required Tools:
(2) Medium sized paper clips
Preferable Tools:
(1) Pair of pliers with rubber grips
(1) Edged tool such as wall paper knife, metal pick or toothpick to clean out gear teeth.
This fix applies to paper jams the device believes are in the rear duplexer and often occurs after a real jam that has shredded the paper inside the mechanism.
Despite the fact you've carefully cleaned out all the visible paper from inside with the cover open, paper can jam the gears used to drive the rear rollers and even the tiniest amount of shred prevents operation resulting in the impossible Paper Jam error.
HP Tech Support online and on the phone don't troubleshoot it past "clear the paper from the device than try again please" b.s.
After removing the duplexer, grip any of the four rubber rollers and attempt to rotate in either direction, if they don't move freely with little effort, then continue with these instructions.
Begin:
1. Take the first paper clip and contact the lower two brass rectangles, this fools the device into believing the duplexer is installed, keep the contacts bridged (don't remove your hand or the paper clip until Step 4.) THERE IS NO ELECTROCUTION RISK.
2. Press the "OK" button on the control panel to pretend the paper jam is cleared.
3. CAREFULLY OBSERVE THE pair of white gears on the left, if they seem to clutch, stall, skip or freeze then you have paper shards which are causing the jam.
4. Using a firmer grip or pliers, grip the furthest left rubber roller and rotate in either direction , the gears should rotate with your efforts and look for shards of paper in the gear teeth.
5. Use the paper clip, toothpick or any appropriate edged tool to clear the shards.
Bridge the lower contacts again and observe if the gears rotate freely, if so then you've cleared the insidious jam should be able to print until the next error from this piece of chit printer.
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