Customer Reviews

HP 3180 Fax Machine

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Very happy with this machine, works great. But you should get the high capacity black ink cartridge (54) because the small one does not last very long.

This fax machine works as expected. My only complaint is that it won't work without the color ink cartridge which is useless unless you send or receive a fax with a similar machine. I have never sent or received a color fax and know of no one who has.

This is a great choice for home or very small office use. It folds up into a compact and visually pleasing package, and gives you the option of making color or black/white copies as well as sending and receiving color or b/w FAXs, plus offers a handset phone. The quality of the FAXs are consistent with what you'd expect from ink jet printers. It offers relatively quiet operation and we have yet to have a paper jam, which was our main complaint with the machine this replaces.

I bought this for use in a 7 person office, and must have been in denial about how many FAXs we receive. We used to replace our Brother toner cartridge twice a year. We replaced the ink cartridge that came with this machine in three days. We replaced the HP 21 cartridge we used next in about a week. We're currently on our first 54 and counting. I think we'll end up spending a lot more for toner than we would with a more expensive FAX machine.

This machine does not have a large paper drawer - in fact, it's just an open tray and the incoming FAX's slide out on top of the blank paper. It's a really compact system, and like I said, would be fine for those who don't receive a lot of FAXs. We like it, but it's as if we're using a home FAX machine one of us brought in to get us through until the real FAX machine arrives.

This machine works beautifully. It creates clear faxes and copies. N problems using the machine

Like the fact that the 3180 is relatively compact. The faxes come through very crisp and clean. However, I am using one black cartridge a week...that has become very costly. HP touts that you should be able to get 120 faxes/copies per cartridge. Don't believe it! You can adjust the volume for incoming faxes but not outgoing. The outgoing volume is so loud, one cannot be in the same room as the machine. So, $78 is a good price for the unit, but the $780 per year for ink is not acceptable.

An August 2010 addendum...have used 25 cartridges in seven (7) months. We fax/receive approximately 15 pages daily. Never more but most often less. Needless to say, this fax machine, even though only a year old, is being retired. RIP

A very affordable and easy to use fax. Programming is simple and intuitive. Good print quality and many features only found on more expensive machines.

This is a good fax machine for the price. We are using it for our office.

This is great. Easy to hook up and works wonderfully. Saves me a lot of time being able to fax from home.

Got this as a replacement for a much older fax. First time I hooked it up, I kept getting paper jam error messages even though I hadn't yet put any paper in the input tray. I disconnected it from the power source and phone line and wondered what kind of lemon I'd bought for our department. A couple of days later, I hooked it back up and it went through all the start-up without a hitch. It works fine and is well worth the price I paid. The only drawback is the input tray doesn't hold much paper.

We were unable to find this particular model fax machine in the stores. The product arrived quickly, was easy to set up and works great.