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HP Deskjet 6940 Color Printer (C8970A#B1H)
Hewlett Packard
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Affordable, high-performance InkJet printer for professional printing at home or office. Crisp and clear 4,800 dpi print quality. Built-in Ethernet network card. Prints up to 36 pages per minute. 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty.
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Customer Reviews
for HP Deskjet 6940 Color Printer (C8970A#B1H) --- Hewlett Packard
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A Caveat for the HP 6940 Printer
A caveat for inserting a print cartridge into the inkjet printer...make sure the printer is turned on before you lift the cover. This allows the little plate in front of the cartridge receptacles to descend...otherwise this plate interferes with the cartridge insertion. I learned the hard way...I tried to insert new cartridges with the printer turned off; hence, the plate did not descend...and I forced it. In the process, I damaged the folding, wire spring that contacts the cartridge to complete the electrical circut...rendering the printer useless in part or whole.
This is an excellent inkjet printer...the mea culpa aspects aside...I've just ordered another HP 6940 Inkjet Printer from Amazon. I recommend this printer to any one...but be careful.
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Good hardware + printing quality. Annoying software + bad network connectivity
Pros:
- Good printing quality, reasonable cost.
- Works from XP, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux.
Cons:
- Horrible bloatware.
Does HP really really think I need to put 250+ MB aside for a printer driver? I know software is getting bigger, but how many programs need to be loaded every time your computer starts up, just to run a dumb printer? News to you, HP - it's my PC, not yours.
- Network connectivity didn't work very long at all.
When I first set it up, it was recognized on the network, including by my Mac. Then, 2 or 3 weeks later, it wasn't anymore, probably because the printer defaults to some ungodly weird IP address, as shown by the diagnostic print page. And there is no indication anywhere on the manual on how you can set that IP address or get it to grab one from DHCP.
I guess I should now call up HP customer service, be put on hold for 30 minutes just in order to be told how to set the network address. Nope, they couldn't print that on their manual, it would make it look too technical! At a guess, I probably need to run 2 or 3 HP startup programs to allow for autodiscovery. Or maybe run Windows Universal Plug and Play, which is a known security risk.
So I ended up just using it with an extra long USB cable which I plug in from my various computers as I need to. Not quite what I had in mind when I bought this networked printer.
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Good hardware + printing quality. Annoying software + bad connectivity
Pros:
- Good printing quality, reasonable cost.
- Works from XP, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux.
Cons:
- Horrible bloatware.
Does HP really really think I need to put 250+ MB aside for a printer driver? I know software is getting bigger, but how many programs need to be loaded every time your computer starts up, just to run a dumb printer? News to you, HP - it's my PC, not yours.
- Network connectivity didn't work very long at all.
When I first set it up, it was recognized on the network, including by my Mac. Then, 2 or 3 weeks later, it wasn't anymore, probably because the printer defaults to some ungodly weird IP address, as shown by the diagnostic print page. And there is no indication anywhere on the manual on how you can set that IP address or get it to grab one from DHCP.
I guess I should now call up HP customer service, be put on hold for 30 minutes just in order to be told how to set the network address. Nope, they couldn't print that on their manual, it would make it look too technical! At a guess, I probably need to run 2 or 3 HP startup programs to allow for autodiscovery. Or maybe run Windows Universal Plug and Play, which is a known security risk.
So I ended up just using it with an extra long USB cable which I plug in from my various computers as I need to. Not quite what I had in mind when I bought this networked printer.
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The jury is still out on this one
I purchased this printer for black and white photo printing since it accepts the HP 100 Gray Photo cartridge, I also intended to use it for color printing using the HP 99 Photo cartridge. The results have been a mixed bag so far.
Starting with the software installation I was nervous (I used the recommended installation not the full), the software said it would take 8 minutes to install, on my first attempt after 45 minutes the program appeared to be locked up I rebooted had to uninstall what was installed reboot again and begin the installation. The second attempt installed but it took the better part of 30 minutes.
After printing a few pages of text everything seemed to be working fine. I installed the HP 100 gray cartridge and printed a few black and white photos that looked great.
I switcheed to the HP 99 color photo cartridge and loaded some 4x6 HP photo paper into the tray and printed a very nice looking color print. On the second print the printer stopped at about 25% of the photo, apparently a jam.
I removed the paper and tried again, same thing about 25% and stop. After 4 attempts I removed the 4X6 from the bottom tray and fed a single sheet through the top envelope feeder. The print worked but had blotches of color. I tried an 8.5 x 11 photo sheet and 90% of the photo looked great but again blotches of color in some areas.
I ran the printhead cleaning, alignment and calibration routines and now it is printing beautiful prints. Unfortunatly I had to waste several photo papers and a good amount of ink in order to get it working well. My fingers are crossed that I will not have similar problems in the future.
Regarding ink usage I have printed 8 - 8x10's and about 10 or so 4x6 photos and the estimate shows that approximately 70% remains in the cartridges. Ink for this printer is not cheap at about $25 per cartridge for the photo inks (14ml) which work in conjunction with the tri color cartridge (14ml), the black cartridge is higher capacity (21ml).
All in all I would have rated this printer higher if not for the software installation issues and the failure of the printer to work with 4x6 paper from the bottom tray (one sheet at a time from the top works but is tedious). The letter size photo paper feeds fine from the lower tray but the 8x10 images are sometimes not square with the page.
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Good hardware + printing. Annoying software + bad connectivity
Pros:
-Good printing quality, reasonable cost.
- Works from XP, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux.
Cons:
- Horrible bloatware.
Does HP really really think I need to put 250+ MB aside for a printer driver? I know software is getting bigger, but how many programs need to be loaded every time your computer starts up to run a dumb printer?
- Network connectivity didn't work very long at all.
When I first got this thing, it was recognized on the network. However suddenly wasn't anymore, the printer defaults to some ungodly weird IP address, as shown by the diagnostic print page, and there is no indication anywhere on the manual on how you can set that IP address.
I guess I should now call up HP customer service, be put on hold for 30 minutes just in order to be told how to set the network address. Nope, they couldn't print that on their manual! At a guess, I probably need to run 2 or 3 HP startup programs to allow for autodiscovery. Or maybe run Windows Universal Plug and Play, which is a known security risk.
So I ended up just using it with an extra long USB cable which I plug in from my various computers as I need to. Not quite what I had in mind when I bought it :-(
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FAST
Ok, i've had a HP 760 for probably a good 10 years. and actually have had HPs ever since i've owned a computer, back around 1992. It got to the point where my printer took what seemed like forever to print a picture or 2-3 pages of print. and I went looking around for a new one, NOT an "all-in-one" or a "3-n-1", just a straight printer only printer that would do a decent job with photos. Based on the reviews of this printer on here and a couple other sites, I got one and OMG its fast! The paper just seems to ooze out of the printer taking hardly anytime at all! great colour, great printing, easy to set up with Vista. the only thing I dont like about it is that there is no tray to catch the papers when they come out. the little slide out isnt long enuf for regular paper. It has a port for a camera to hook up to to print out, i need a cable to connect the camera to it. USB hook up, software ok--nothing special but they never are. And I like the little popup that shows me just how much ink i have in the wells. I believe it will make it a lot easier than opening the lid every week going 'do i have enuf ink? gee i cant tell about the colour cartridge but the black has enuf" with my old printer. I hope it will last as long as my last one.
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HP Printers
Over the years I have purchased many printers by different manufacturers, and and am now locked in on HP. I have an Officejet Pro, a 3 in 1, and this new one for my wife. They are reliable, easy to maintain, and it's cool when you print out multiple page documents they are printed in order starting with page one when you pull them out.
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Good cheap printer.
Set this up on my network with ease. It works fine, I got it from the new and used section for about 65 bucks, not bad. Also, to save money I suggest the refurbished or refilled ink cartridges.. much cheaper.
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HP printer
Was looking for a light duty printer to work with Vista and would fit in a small space. This HP does both. Came with disk for Vista drivers although HP rep said they would have to be downloaded. Set up easily and ready to print. I don't plan to use network capability but this one does it easily. Some confusion when printing envelopes as you get an error message but ignore and it prints fine. Quiet and efficient for limited jobs. Have not changed ink yet the lower the price the faster the ink goes!
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No complaints
I don't use it often but it works every time I turn it on. Prints fast. Easy to load. I use it to print out text but wanted the ability to print color images if I need to.
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Dependable Printer With One Minor Flaw
Yes, the paper will spill over the paper tray, so you have to be there to catch them as they emerge if you are doing a lot of copies. But it's a good buy for the money: faster than my last HP printer, and the print quality is great.
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Great printer but....
This is a great printer, it is sleek, quick and does a good job. The problem is, is that HP insists on bogging down its units with useless software no one even wants. For instance the "digital image monitor" things like that. All I want to do is print!
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Serious Design Flaw
When replacing print cartridges there is a folding, wire spring that contacts the cartridge. The spring easily comes out of place. If so, it will damage a printed circuit when the cartridge is installed. The printer is now worthless. I had no luck with support or repair parts. Searching for help, discovered multiple postings of this issue.
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Good printer
Researched all over for what I wanted, lower profile, fast print with color, to replace my worn out HP 870Cse. This is it! Faster, with great color.
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Wireless connections
Hesitated taking this HP Deskjet 6940 out of the box, because I dredded hooking up to my two desktops and one wireless laptop. Well, once I got started, the printer was able to install itself fairly easily - yea, there were a couple glitches and it took me a couple days to get all three on-line - but it all works very well. I would recommend this printer for small home networks.
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Printer very good, Driver very bad.
The physical DJ6940 printer is great. Good clear printing, no misfeeds, no hassles.
The 6940 driver package is terrible. It has bugs, has a ton of useless add-ons, and, if you can get it to work, causes the printer to run painfully slow.
The best fix for us, was to just install the drivers for the Deskjet 990c. With the 990c driver, the printer prints perfectly and is very fast to get the first page out. We don't do anything exotic, so this was the best solution.
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Works well
This printer is pretty easy to set up, and it works as promised. Pictures are of high quality as is type face. Printer seems reliable so far, it looks good, doesn't take up much space, and was reasonable priced. It was the best deal I was able to find and I'm very satisfied with it.
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great inexpensive printer for printing multi-page reports
For an ink jet printer this is a fast machine. It is inexpensive, compact, and it collates and it interfaces easily with Mac. The only negative: no basket to catch the printed pages... I use a cardboard box.
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Returning this after the weekend
It all sounded great -- an affordable color inkjet that would work on my network without a separate print server and support both my Windows and Linux machines.
But three hours later, after installing 250 Meg of bloatware and mucking around in firewalls and other Windows internals, testing multiple routers and cables, and setting up a Linux network printer, I finally figured out that the printer's Ethernet port was defective.
Maybe it's a good printer if you get one that works, but I don't have the patience to put up with the new HP's lousy quality control. I'm sending this back after the weekend.
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HP6940 Deskjet
This is an excellent printer for office workstation use. I just hope this model is available in the future when we need to replace other obsolete printers. The HP5600 is a wonderful printer too, it's just that you cannot get them anymore.
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