HP LaserJet 2840

Pros: An all in one color laser at a reasonable cost

Cons: Printing costs are outrageous and HP?s idea of customer service is a complete joke.

The Bottom Line: If you must, only purchase from a HP rep. It may help with service. If you intend to print much, this printer will eat you out of house and home.

Review: Our recent experience with HP has been shockingly bad. For those not familiar with us, we are a small print shop in Downtown McKinney. We purchased the HP 2810 about 5 months prior to this incident to print stationary as part of our business. My...

Pros: Is an all in 1 Printer and works well while it works.

Cons: Scanner Software stops after a while requiring reinstall, fax doesn't work overseas, expensive toner.

The Bottom Line: If you don't need a scanner, this is a robust printer and fax, but the toner is expensive.

Review: This printer is like most HP equipment, well built and solid.

All functions work pretty well, but color printing is slower than quoted and it is noisy. Having a machine that does printing, copying, faxing and scanning is great, in theory,...

Pros: aesthetics

Cons: critical bugs, poor quality color printing

The Bottom Line: Not recommended: critical bugs and poor color-printing quality.

Review: I do not recommend this product. I encountered too many critical bugs. Many forums suggest this is a Vista OS compatibility issue.

My system: Dell XPS laptop, Windows Vista (32-bit) OS, wireless network. No problems with my previous laser...

Pros: Print quality, Scan feed & simple networking setup

Cons: Extremely expensive ink and imaging drum. Bloated software package... Multiple All-In-One Problem

The Bottom Line: Great print quality, but expensive ink & imaging drum. Good for single printer use, but software fails with multiple models.

Review: We purchased this model for one of our branch offices a year ago. I set it up as a network install, and the physical installation of the machine was easy. If you have read any of my other reviews, I try not to get into every function, like a manual...

Pros: print quality

Cons: ink too expensive, somewhat noisy, doesn't scan so easily

The Bottom Line: Good but there are better choices

Review: I bought this all-in-one for my home office as I have large volume of printing for several types of businesses I run. Not that it's slow, but it doesn't print as fast I thought it would. It also often "callibrates" out of the blue which is somewhat...

Pros: prints reallly nice quality, scans well, faxes well

Cons: doesnt have just a few issues, has the whole subscription. unreliable.

Review: it looks good and does print wonderfully. HOWEVER, it calibrates for no good reason all the time, prints , then pauses for oh 3 or 4 minutes, it basically just sucks.

We are on our 3rd printer (they had to send us two replacements) because...

Pros: Easy set up. Networked via ethernet to wireless router with no problem.

Cons: Color printing is horrible. Saturation askew; contrast off; midtones/highlight/shadows are way whacked!

The Bottom Line: Avoid It Unless You're Color Blind!!!

Review: I bought this to try to consolidate and update all of my office equipment (color laser / fax / B&W laser / scanner). After owning a Konica Minolta 2300W and being pleased with its color printing, if not totally pleased with the machine overall, I...

Pros: usb connection? Not much on the pro side

Cons: loud, functions don't work properly

The Bottom Line: look elsewhere.

Review: One of the big reasons I bought this printer was because it allowed me to copy a document into an email or folder as a pdf right from the printer. This function occassionally, doesn't work at random times, and wastes more time than it was supposed...

Pros: Great colour and software

Cons: Horrendous consumable costs, Just printing black still uses a lot of drum and toner life.

The Bottom Line: Consumables will bankrupt you.

Review: I'm a HP fan. I currently have two HP 3380 All In One's Black Print. I decided to go to colour and chose the 2840 to print out certain insurance brochures and documents. The print outs were great. Re-calibration was irritating. One review mentions...

Pros: Good quality of copies and printing.

Cons: Calibration process constantly interrupts printing and copying. Not suitable for large volumes.

The Bottom Line: I would look at other machines which are made by companies with better quality products.

Review: We bought the HP 2840 all-in-one color laser about a year and half ago for a small office, and while the quality of copies and printing has remained good, it eventually succumbed to the Hewlett-Packard curse of an unsolvable problem.
It...