Customer Reviews

HP OfficeJet 4110 Multifunction

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

I bought this unit primarily to use as a fax machine. Most of the faxes that I receive include customers' credit card details. This makes a thermal-transfer fax machine like the inexpensive Brother, Panasonic, and Sharp units unsuitable because they leave the customers' credit card details in negative form on the film. Inkjet faxes are the next-least-expensive option.

This HP Officejet 4110 surprised me with its combination of features and low price. It's only slightly more expensive than a dedicated black and white inkjet fax machine, and you get color printing, color faxing, color scanning, color copying, and the 33.6 kbps fax speed. If you absolutely have to have a telephone handset on your fax machine, then maybe one of the dedicated black and white units is for you, but otherwise, there's not much reason to buy cheaper.

So far I have been impressed with this unit. The installation was painless. It comes with a poster-sized installation flowchart, and everything worked as it should. You install the software first, then hook up the Officejet 4110 and power it on second. You install the ink cartridges through an access door on the right side of the unit. The software installer pauses while waiting for you to power up the unit and align the print head, then carries on once it detects that you've done so.

The Officejet 4110 knocks off printing chores quickly, and print quality on plain paper is quite high. In fact, the unit generates higher-quality output at a faster pace than my Canon S800 printer, which is a bit embarassing for the Canon because it cost twice as much. (I imagine than the 6-color Canon would outperform the 4-color HP when printing color photos, though.)

The included software is reasonably complete. You can access all of the Officejet 4110's functions from the "Director" program. Most of the features of the unit are also accessible from the front panel, but the Director provides a better user interface as well as better integration with your PC. A very convenient feature provided by the Director is the ability to generate a cover sheet for a set of pages that are loaded in the unit's automatic document feeder (ADF). The Director software will scan in all of the pages, add the cover sheet, and then fax them out. While faxing, the Director displays a thumbnail page that fills in as each page is being sent, an unnecessary but interesting and thoughtful feature. The Director can also store incoming faxes and forward them to another number.

While I bought the Officejet 4110 as a fax machine, I've found myself enjoying its other features, which are all well-executed and nicely integrated. For the price, I would have been satisfied with a lot less, so I have to say that Hewlett Packard has really hit this one over the fence.

Let's face it, this is a multifunction printer that costs under $150.

When you purchase one piece of equipment to do many things, you'll always be unhappy with at least one feature. For me, I needed a printer for my occasional printing at home (a few pages a week) that doubled as a fax. The copy feature and the scanner were pluses.

PROS:
- the HP software that allows one to send faxes straight from Word and create quick and easy cover sheets is pretty nice.
- the buttons on the machine are easy to use and not difficult at all to figure out. Want to copy? Press copy. Want to copy in color? Press copy, then color.

Photos print out alright, but I wouldn't recommend this as a photo printer. If you want high quality photos from your digital camera, use one of the online services or the machine at the store.

If you are truely considering some high level printing for a home office, don't buy this. If you do some printing, copying and faxing from home but use your office or some other location for the majority of your work, this is an excellent choice.

The install was no problem at all on my XP Home and Pro computers. Windows 2000 and Mac OS X worked fine as well.

We've had this multifunction fax in our office for about 6 months now, and I consider it a huge disappointment. At even the most basic level, it just doesn't do the job. Although it claims to handle 20 pages, it can't feed more than about 10 sheets without jamming. Even faxing only one page, I have misfeeds at least once a week. I expect to be able to put my fax in the machine, dial it, and walk away, but with this machine I have to babysit every page.

The fax includes software (HP Image Zone) that allows you to send faxes from your computer. Sounds great, but there are some drawbacks. First, the program is huge, over 400 MB, and most of it is extraneous junk. Second, if you send a fax from your computer and the line is busy, IT DOES NOT REDIAL!! Unbelievable, but it actually gives you a message that the line was busy and puts it in the log. If you want to redial, you have to open the log and resend it yourself.

Finally, the HP fax that we were using before was about five years old, and it had the capability of receiving faxes into the computer. This is a great function, and something that we really depended on. Why waste all of that paper on junk faxes, extraneous pages, or documents that could just be stored on the computer? Also, it made it possible to look up old faxes if the paper copy was lost. I assumed that a newer HP multifunction that advertised the ability to communicate with your PC would have the same ability to receive faxes, but I was wrong. Believe it or not, HP has abandoned this capability in all of their faxes! If you want to receive a fax into you PC, you have to buy a special modem separate from the one in the machine itself.

Please, do yourself a favor and buy a better machine. This one just isn't worth the money.

I bought this all-in-one b/c it was inexpensive. I really just wanted something for occasional faxing and printing.
And for this purpose, this machine works fine. I don't have any complaints.

However, when i had my phone plugged into the machine, i could hear the radio on all the phones in my house. I thought it was my phone company or the wiring in my house, until I decided to unplug it from this all-in-one. Needless to say, it was not the phone company or the inside wiring.

so i returned it to Costco and bought another one at Best Buy (to try to give HP another chance).
Same problem.
When i returned it to Best Buy, the salesman told me that he's heard that this particular model occasionally does pick up the radio. He's had several returns already on it b/c of the same problem.

My recommendation: If u do not plan on plugging a phone into the unit, you should be fine. i had no problems at all.
But after looking at some of the other amazon feedback on this unit, you might want to think twice.

This is a number one entry-level all-in-one machine. The set up time took less than twenty minutes..Each and every function is great. For the light user it's great. It is not a high-speed production unit. If that's what your looking for try
try spending at least $3,000. more. I make 10-15 copies , fax 2-3 items, scan numerous items every day. Once again,
it is a great value

After setting up the HP 4110 unit to my computer, phone line and answering machine I sat and waited for the faxes to arrive. To my sadness I heard fax after fax attempting to engage the unit, but the HP 4110 remained deaf to the fax tones. After a 1 hour call to HP customer support the person on the other end stated: this unit will only work in tandem with an analogue answering machine and if there is any static on the phone line, the unit will not engage into the fax mode. It's been a long time since I've seen an analogue answering machine (remember the type with two tapes?) on the market and even longer since I've encountered a phone line that is 100% static-free. I returned the unit to Office Depot and received a full refund. Beware of All-in-One machines, they are too good to be true.

Obviously this unit is a powerful and slim piece that you will keep it for a while. Unfortunately, the accompanying sw is a bit fussy and extreme slow in my PIII 933 machine with 512MB ram. Even you call up the change settings dialogue take you almost 10 seconds. The printer driver does not offer much for you to choose from, for example, you can;t simply tell the printer to print a doc in black and white when it contains some color in it.

You don't even expect to save your fax in the PC where HP does not offer this option.

Epson prints photo much better than HP, you find your photo is much darker comparing to what you actually see in your PC screen. To honor good quality, you have to make your image brighter by trial and error before you got what you actually expect.

While the price is low relative to what HP offer in this unit ... Don't expect too much.

The HP 4110 is an ok for small jobs. If you will use the device on a daily basis I would certainly not suggest this unit. The paper feeder seems to jam often. After looking at the feeder device, which is only on one side, you can understand why there is a paper jam problem. I upgraded to the HP 6110X1 and it is working without issue.

I bought the 4110 primiarly for a fax machine. I pulled it out of the box and set it up per instruction. I received my first fax and the carriage jamed. I followed HP instructions to correct the problem to no avail. The carriage continued to jam with every fax. I called HP and received the run around. They finally said they would send me a refurbished unit. I told them I paid for a new unit and not a used one. I returned the unit back to the store I purchased it from and received a new one in return. Time will tell if this one works.

At first I bought a big expensive HP machine up around $300. I had it only about 3 days and was very dissatisfied and took it back to the store. It was too big with too many functions and seemed quite akward to use. I did call HP tech support and they were helpful even though they were some place in India. I was choosing HP for my fax/printer because I had learned they did, in fact, have reachable and helpful tech support people.

I went back to the store hoping to find a simpler but quality machine. I chose the 4110 Multifunction at a little over $100. I found the 4110 to be a smaller and more modern looking unit. Learning how to use its functions was easier and took less time than on the larger HP units. The unit is ideal for a student or a small home business. The ink lasts longer than some competitor's units. The quality of the color print-outs is outstanding.

The biggest problem with the 4110 is that it stacks the pages in reverse order. One through Five comes out as Five through One.