9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.
You get what you pay for
Date of Review: Dec 31, 2007
The Bottom Line: I would not recommend this because it is cheap and not so easy to use.
I bought this print/scanner because I was in desperate need of a printer and it was cheap. That should have been a red flag. You definitely get what you pay for.
While the print quality was okay, I had to fiddle around with it regularly just to get it to print or scan. I became an expert at a routine of restarting my computer, pushing the right button with my right hand and holding cables with my left, all the while completing a complex rain dance in hopes that it would work. Alright, alright, I exaggerrate--slightly.
In addition to the trouble I had in getting it to print, it ran out of ink very quickly. So much for saving money. I also had to do some serious manipulation of the scanned images in order to get them to work for me. I'm a teacher, I need a scanner with which I can copy my reproducible books and torment, I mean educate, my students with supplementary work in a reliable manner. This one ain't it.
To top everything off, my cats like to sit on my printers. With this one, they managed to set off the printer or scanner on a regular basis. They found this very amusing but, it was quite irritating to me. Now some may suggest I keep my cats off my computer hardware, but I prefer to have hardware that isn't easy to operate from a cat's standard. Also, with them sitting up there, I had more paper jams than you can imagine. That may be a fault of the printer or my cats, but it was a problem that I have not experienced with other printers either before or after that one.
