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 Great all-in-one for home use December 18, 2006
Swim Good (CA United States)
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
I purchased this all-in-one from Amazon about three months ago to connect to my wireless network at home. So far, I have had no problem printing from my wireless laptop computers anywhere in my house. The quality of color printing is great with reasonable speed. The fax and copy functions are convenient and easy to use. I have only used the scan funtion occasionally, and it seems to work well. Most importantly, it has survived my pre-schooler's copying of socks, pens, stuffed animals, and such. So far, I am quite happy with this purchase. It looks like the price has come down some since when I purchased it. So if you need a device that does everything under the sun: print, scan, fax, and copy, AND is network ready so that you may share the device with all of your wireless and hard-wired computers, this is a good one to get.
Costco carries a HP ink pack with two black 98 and one color 95 that is reasonably priced.
 HP 6310 has awful software April 14, 2007
John L. Mauer
32 out of 35 found this review helpful
I installed this machine on a home office network via Ethernet. The install took awhile, and changed registry settings without asking. Uninstall did NOT restore the system to it's original state; only hours of manual resetting did that. How many users can restore the registry?
Further, the software/drivers do not like the printer turned off or missing. If you install this on a road laptop, you can expect a program, HPZinw12.exe, to search for the missing printer every 100 seconds or so using all available CPU time. If you are unlucky enough to be in the middle of a client presentation, the chances are good that you have just lost the job.
If you turn off the printer in the office, your office systems will also search for the printer and display an unclosable dialog asking you to switch to an unknown program while using most of their available CPU time. (Please note that 6 hidden dlls are also running at all times.) This software is totally equivalent to a virus except for duplication.
I returned this system and will never buy another HP product.
This is a Fabulous AIO November 19, 2006
K. Kalyanam
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
This AIO is fabulous. Here are some of the features that I have tried:
1. Network Connectivity: (Excellent)
I was very interested in the network connectivity aspect, both wired and wireless. It turns out that all you need to do is connect an ethernet cable from the printer to a wireless router and it works without any glitches. Any printer with the HP software installed will be able to see the machine thru a 802.11 wifi network and print to it. We print to this machine from anywhere in the house and even from our yard!!
2. Print quality: So the black and white and color prints have been quite good. I have not tried any super high quality color printing yet.
3. Print speed: More than acceptable to me.
4. Scanner: (excellent for everyday scanning)
Real easy to use. Works really well. You can control the scanner from your PC or from the AIO itself. If scanning from the AIO it will let you choose anyone of the PC's that is connected to the network and will also allow you to create jpeg or pdf files.
5. Fax: Excellent for everyday faxing.
Both scan and fax can done using a document feeder or by placing a single sheet on a scanner.
Again it is a no brainer to use the fax.
6. Installation: Only gripe (very small). It takes about 20-30 minutes to install the software drivers. But it might be worth it as it works flawlessly after you go thru the install.
7. Replacement of cartridges: Very easy and robust. I used to own a Canon AIO..was very hard to replace cartridges. Very delicate. During a cartridge replacement I broke a fastner and a spring and that was the end of the machine.
HP really knows how to build printers!!! They are the best!!
 A Boat Anchor August 4, 2006
smileysa (san antonio)
27 out of 32 found this review helpful
had a 6210 that worked great for 1 1/2 years and then died. luckily had extended warranty so exchanged for this 6310. i have been fighting this for 3 days now and swapped out the new unit for another new unit. installed over and over but can't get scan to work. print function works fine, even when computer says unit is disconnected but it is hooked up and turned on. scan just will not work and get error message that no connection to unit, even though print works and all usb drivers installed. hp trouble line no help, just uninstall and reinstall over and over and over, etc, etc. something missing, but who knows what.
Never buying an HP Printer again! April 5, 2007
J. Gargiulo (Chicago)
27 out of 33 found this review helpful
I've tried to install this Printer on several machines running Windows XP via Ethernet and every time on each machine there has been a problem with the installation (which btw takes about 25 minutes to complete).
This scanner's TWAIN driver does not work well at all with any version of Adobe Acrobat Writer (I've tried versions 5, 6.0, and 7.5). One cannot scan documents directly from Adobe Acrobat to create a file. HP Support does not recognize this as their issue. As I am someone who relies heavily on Acrobat Writer (which costs twice as much as this printer), I cannot tolerate this incompatibility.
I am sending this printer back and going with my father-in-laws advice. "HP is no longer a quality product, but another brand like Brother"
Overall, I am very disappointed in this product. It is sad to see that my old HP Bubble Jet Printer (which is 10 years old and still working fine), is built with a much higher standard of quality than this current 6310.
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