Other criticisms:
– Scan to email seems to ignore MAPI and *ONLY* uses Outlook clients? This stinks, but seems to be the case.
– Software is bloated, sucks, and takes ages to install. (WinXP at least)
– No option to manually add additional “Scan To” applications. Lame.

Open question:
Does Vista work any better with this printer, or at least, retain all the existing functionality?

If anyone else sees performance beyond the 4Mbit cap, I’m interested in what you’re seeing. Or also if you have information about Vista, my email is jeremyenosATyahoo.com if you care to discuss.
thx.

Already thanks.

This obviously means you need to statically assign your printer an IP, either on the printer itself or by setting up your DHCP server so it binds that MAC address to a specific IP when assigning — but chances are if you’re cluey enough to know not to run XP as a priviledged user, this won’t be too big a deal.

I’ll post this more prominently in a bit… right now I’m just enjoying printing from this (XP) computer!

There you go !

Now you can print logged in with any user account (not only administrators).

Yeah, mentioned that in the above review. No known fix at the minute, except not using the HP drivers (but that could mean you can’t get the network thing to happen) and running it with whatever Windows XP automatically supplies. You obviously then have to network scan via HTTP, and lose fax capabilities.

@Danilo, 9:27am:

I haven’t seen a way to, either. But then why do you need to? That “problem” just comes down to good network architecture… plus seeing as this is squarely targetted at SoHo users I don’t think further complicating things by introducing port settings as well is within the product’s scope.

I don’t found how to change the port of http printer server.
Maybe is impossible to chose other port than port 80

I’d also argue your “most users” is a gross generalisation, especially with the proliferation of digital camera devices. Incorporation of PictBridge and memory card support is in direct response to this, and people don’t want to print their photos in black and white. Most of the time.

We don’t pay for print consumables, but Officeworks sells replacement cartridges for roughly $40 each… fairly standard. For comparison purposes, our Officejet G85 had 42ml cartidges, and we probably replaced that once every two–three months. The standard sized cartridge for this printer is 28ml, which is nearly three quarters the capacity. The G85’s cartridges were $56 each, so cost wise it works out about the same.

You can fax over the network using HP’s software, but not via the web interface. I haven’t tested faxing, as we don’t use it normally (and hence don’t have a line available for it).

With cartridges the size they are these days, you could easily be replacing one or more per week, which ends up in excess of… let’s say $50 per month — pfft.

Does this unit allow faxing over the network/web interface?

P.S. you comments form stretches crazily on IE 1024x786… boooooooo…

I forgot to mention the ink thing: yes, they are tiny. Far smaller than the OfficeJet used. We’re just going to have to keep more in stock, but it’ll be annoying.

The features maybe nice, but I wouldn’t buy one. Two main reasons.

1) Build quality is sub-standard, the thing feels like a crappy piece of plastic.
2) Tiny ink cartridges, pretty useless really.

oh and as you’ve said, the drivers are bloated and buggy.

The cheaper models are even worse.