HP DeskJet 6127 Color Printer

by HP

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000071W0N
• Item model number: C8959B#A2L
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 25, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Shared networking is so easy with the HP DeskJet 6127 color inkjet printer. The built-in Ethernet requires no installation or upgrading. Plus, you'll get professional photo-quality print at up to 4,800 x 1,200 optimized dpi color printing on premium photo papers and 1,200 x 1,200 input dpi.

Smart features like paper-saving, automatic two-sided printing (included); an optional 250-sheet second paper tray (not included); and the automatic paper sensor improve efficiency. Printing is fast and efficient with speeds up to 20 pages per minute in black, and up to 13 ppm in color. The unit is backed by a one-year warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth every penny, February 22, 2003

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J. Hays "Writer Of Horror" (Cascade, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP DeskJet 6127 Color Printer (Office Product)

I thought long and hard about whether to give 4 stars or 5. I decided on 4 only because I'm not thrilled with the print area of this machine; always a half inch at the bottom no matter what. All other aspects are terrific. It is fast, quiet, and the duplexer is so very neat that you find yourself looking for things to print. And when I say fast, I do mean fast; in draft mode, the 6127 prints good quality at a remarkable rate. At "fast normal", the speed and quality are better than my old Epson Stylus 740. "Normal and Best" modes are slower, but still impressive. The addition of the 250 sheet paper tray would allow loading 2 different paper types, but it is quite expensive. Overall, I am very happy with this printer and would recommend it to anyone interested in a good buy.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got a network? Get this printer!, August 6, 2003

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Gregory Glockner (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP DeskJet 6127 Color Printer (Office Product)

If you have a home network, you NEED this printer! Images are fast and clean, and ink is widely available. Even photos look surprisingly good for this standard printer. (Only problem with photo printing is that it is not borderless). But where this printer really shines is that it connects directly to your Ethernet network. Any computer on your network can print to it. No extra hardware to buy, no flaky print-servers, no printer sharing headaches, and no special cables -- just plug the Cat-5 wire directly into the printer and GO! (The confusing information about an "optional print server" is for a wireless network, which is totally unnecessary).

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some problems with MacOS X compatibility, August 18, 2003

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This review is from: HP DeskJet 6127 Color Printer (Office Product)

This is great hardware! From Windows I can print on this printer from my office, with the printer at home behind NAT. The output looks great, and everything works as promised. However, MacOS X support (driver version 2.3) is flawed by the following problems:

1. On Jaguar, MacOS 10.2, the duplex implementation is ridiculous. If you print six copies of a four page document, you get side one on BOTH sides of three sheets of paper, side two on both sides of the next three, etc. This problem is fixed with MacOS 10.3 (Panther).

2. Problems in the design of the SNMP MIB it uses prevent MacOS connections when behind NAT, so to print remotely you need to disable the SNMP queries. This option is available on Windows, but is tantalizingly greyed out on the Mac.

3. Manual IP configuration is by address instead of name, so use in environments that use dynamic IP address assignment is unnecessarily limited. Again, not a problem on Windows.

4. Version 2.1 cannot get top margin correct. Be sure to upgrade to version 2.3 of the MacOS X drivers. Be sure to remove older installers from your system first, because the installer includes aliases that can accidently resolve to compoments in the old installer and really cause problems!

5. It complains about needing more ink LONG before the cartridges are empty. I did 250 pages of newsletters (mixed photos and black text) after it reported my ink was running low, before I saw any signs of running low in the printoutl. I can ignore the warning on MacOS X, but on MacOS 9 the warning is enforced by a making it stop printing in the middle of a page (wasting the page), spit out the paper, and put up a complaint about an "empty" cartridge. On Windows XP, I told it to ignore SNMP and it never complains about ink, ever.

Because it took so long after the printer was introduced to fix the MacOS X problems, I question HP's commitment to MacOS X, and advise against purchasing this printer for Macintosh users. However, it's great for Windows, and nice enough for a multi-platform networked house or small business.