HP PSC 1350 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier

by HP

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• Item Weight: 13.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C9ZJV
• Item model number: Q3501A#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (80 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Hewlett Packard's OfficeJet 1350 is an all-in-one color printer, color copier, and color scanner that comes with plenty of features and a very reasonable price tag. With HP's thermal inkjet print technology, resolutions for both black and color prints are as high as 1,200 x 1,200 dpi, with 4,800 x 1,200 optimized color dpi printing. Print speeds clock in at up to 17 ppm for black and 12 ppm for color in draft mode and 0.9 ppm for black and 1 ppm color in best quality mode. It directly supports CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Sticks, SecureDigital/MultiMedia, and xD-Picture memory cards, so you can print directly from your digital camera without a PC.

The flatbed scanner provides up to 600 x 2,400 dpi optical resolution and 36-bit color, with an enhanced resolution up to 19,200 dpi. The 1350's copier provides up to 600 x 1,200 dpi resolution for black prints and up to 1,200 x 1,200 dpi resolution for color. Copy speeds are as fast as 17 cpm for black and 12 cpm for color, while up to 50 copies can be made at once, freeing up your time for other tasks.

Perfect for the home office or small business where space is at a premium, the 1359 has a small 16.76-by-10.2-inch footprint and weighs just 11.8 pounds. It has a standard input capacity of 100 sheets and up to 10 envelopes, with an output capacity of 50 sheets. It connects via a USB port and accepts a wide variety of originals, including paper (plain, inkjet, photo), envelopes, transparencies, labels, cards, HP premium media, iron-on transfers, and sizes from 3 by 5 to 8.5 by 14 inches. Compatible with both Mac and PC, the 1350 also comes backed by a one-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
HP PSC 1350, HP 56 black inkjet print cartridge, HP 57 tri-color inkjet print cartridge, HP photo and imaging software, HP memories disc creator software, setup poster, reference guide, power cord, HP photo paper sampler, HP photo paper storage bag

Product Description

The HP PSC 1350 prints true to life photos with up to 4800 optimized dpi, and even prints in glorious 6-ink color with a special optional cartridge. Prints & copies up to 17 ppm laser quality black, and 12 ppm color Low ink indicator Email photos easily with included HP Instant Share for Windows Maximum Document Scan Size - 8.5 x 11.7 100 sheet paper input tray 8MB buffer Dimensions - 6.7H x 16.8W x 10.2D; weighs 10.9 pounds One year limited warranty Actual print speed will vary according to use

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

143 of 144 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good machine for the price, some drawbacks, December 5, 2003

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M. Smith "cenmad" (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP PSC 1350 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier (Office Product)

I bought this little fax/copy/scanner about a month ago for light-to-medium home/office use. I've been pretty happy with it, overall, with some reservations.

Pros:
1. Very good copy and print quality. (Haven't used the scanner)
2. Moderately fast print/copy speed.
3. Variety of print settings to allow you to print fast/draft, fast/normal, normal, best, and maximum dpi. You can also choose greyscale and "black cartridge only." Given the price of color cartridges, I use the latter setting most often.
4. Easy to learn. The manual is good, and use is pretty intuitive (mostly).
5. The size is great -- it fits on top of a small bookshelf, with all the features of much bigger units.

Cons:
1. While mostly intuitive, use is not COMPLETELY intuitive. To print some custom-size invitations, for example, I learned by trial and error that you need to change the settings in TWO places: in the document's printer properties settings (through Word, in my case) and through the printer's own settings, through the print manager. Very strange way to do it, I thought.
2. The in/out paper slot on the printer is the same. That is, it takes paper up, prints on it, and spits it out on top of the "in" tray. It doesn't re-use printed pages, but this isn't the most convenient arrangement for monitoring paper level or even grabbing finished documents.
3. The paper ejection is often too powerful, especially in Fast/Draft. This results in the finished document's being scattered all over the floor -- very annoying.
4. Cancelling print jobs often requires restarting the computer to clear the memory -- although this could be a Windows bug. I mean, an "undocumented feature."
5. Cartridges are pricey. The HP site (only place I looked) listed black cartridges for over $20 and color for more than $30.

Overall, it's a decent machine that could use some retooling to improve functionality. If you're just going for quality and price (and size!), and you have low to moderate volume print/copy requirements, you'll probably be very pleased. I'll probably live with the annoyances of this unit, given my light print/copy needs. If I printed/copied more often, I'd return this machine for something better engineered.

One special note: I purchased this printer through Amazon's partner program from Circuit City. When I went to pick it up, the store had lost the order, even though I had an order number. The staff was incredibly rude and unhelpful. I finally bought it off the floor and had to call to cancel the original order (for which I'd already been charged!). Given Amazon's own excellent customer service, free shipping, and fair return policy, I wish I'd just waited the week it would have taken for Amazon to ship it to me directly. I won't make that mistake again.

Update October 2008: This machine is still working fine, and I remain pleased with it (with the above caveats). I still haven't figured out how to stop it from spitting paper all over the floor, and I'd prefer a double-sided option -- but I'm happy it's still going five years later!

71 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Small footprint, fine printing, right price, November 3, 2003

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Maine Writer "David" (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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After getting sick and tired of all the streaked printing from a series of Epson printers--okay, it could have been me doing something wrong, but when I mentioned it at several stores, the clerks smiled and said, "What else is new?"--I decided to get my first HP. I wanted a multifunction unit because I have two kids in middle school and a bit of copying and scanning always comes in handy. I am more than pleased with the PSC 1350. It is remarkably small and attractive, and the black and white text printing is plenty fast, and color printing is terrific. I'm not using it to scan photographs, so you may not be happy with 36 bit scanning if that's your bag, but it is a wonderful sidekick at a very reasonable price.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Laptop Printer/Scanner/Copier, July 29, 2004

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C. Wagner "just one more gadget" (USA) - See all my reviews
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I got what I wanted -- Something to use with my laptop when on car trips. Plus, it's a good copier! It's small and lightweight and folds up into a tight little box, ready for travel. (But don't forget the power adapter and USB cable.) It accepts camera cards, including the Xd picture card, which I use.

The 1350 has an amazingly clever way of printing from camera cards without a computer. It prints a sheet of thumbnails. Then you blacken a little circle next to each picture you want printed. Then you put that form face-down on the glass, and it prints just the photos you selected. I have not tried this yet; I read about it in the user's guide.

During installation, there was a paper jam, which stopped the install. But you have to complete installation before you can search the online user's guide and read how to clear a paper jam! Clearing paper jams is not covered in the dinky little printed manual. I finally pulled the paper out with brute force. Later, I found out that I was supposed to open a door in the back.

The getting-started instructions warn that the software install will take a long time, and it does, and it takes up lots of hard disk space. This psc is not for older, slower, smaller systems. For a newer computer, the install speed and storage requirements are acceptable. I installed under Windows XP on a 2.8-gigahertz system with a 100-GB hard disk.

PRINTING: So far I've printed only a few web pages, and they came out fine. The output falls right on top of the input paper tray -- crude, but if you're just printing something small on the fly, no problem. I prefer it to my old Canon super-small portable because the HP uses full-size print cartridges, so I won't need to frequently change cartridges.

SCANNING: Mixed results. It is faster than my (very) old scanner, and where the paper is right up against the glass, it produces a beautifully clear image. However, if the paper is a little bit off the glass, as where a book's page curves up into the binding, it does not focus. I guess the technical words are, it has very little depth of field. My ancient scanner beats it in this department.

COPYING: A snap. Put the input on the tray, push a button, it makes a nice color copy. However, the depth-of-field limitation described under SCANNING applies here too.

FOUR MONTHS LATER: The 1350 is still performing well. The three-star rating may be a tad unfair. HP deserves another half star for combining so much functionality into such a compact box.