Customer Reviews

HP Officejet 6310 All-in-One Printer

5 star:		(106)
4 star:		(67)
3 star:		(21)
2 star:		(32)
1 star:		(82)

 

 

I recently upgraded to the HP6310 from the HP7110 a machine I was more than happy with. The move has been excellent, all functions are faster particularly color printing, the unit is significantly more compact and the quality of images are also a serious upgrade. The unit has almost no shake and is extremely quiet in operation, particularly in comparison with my old 7110. In addition the price differential between this machine and the much inferior HP5610 is very small.

New features include the ability to take several formats of camera memory cards and read directly from them to print contact sheets, six ink color with inkjet photo ink and up to 24 x 8.5 prints. There are also wired and wireless network options etc but I have not used them.

Installation was a breeze, I was up and running in maybe 10 minutes, the controls are intuitive but if needed the instruction book is unusually easy to follow.

Why not five stars: it drinks ink and the cartridges are small -that gets expensive.

If you can live with the ink issue this is a great machine for the home office or small business.

I have a home office set up so that I can sometimes work from home. I was tired of having 3 different printers (laser, inkjet, inkjet with scanner and copier) and a fax machine. This nifty little guy replaced all four machines! It works wonderfully. The print quality is very good, better then I expected. For someone that uses it to print presentation materials, the occasional personal photos, send faxes, scan, and make copies, this machine is a great addition.

I did have some trouble initially installing it to my pc. But I've heard it takes a little trouble in the begining for Windows XP's. Eitherway once the installation is fully complete (which I did by myself without any HP assistence, by just working at the kinks) it is good to go and a great asset. I've even used it to print business presentations materials already and they came out better then at my local Staples copy center.

In my humble and not printer savvy opinion, I believe this is a great machine at a very good price for all the other machines it eliminates.

We got the 6310 because we needed a fax, our color inkjet had broken, we'd thought about needing a copier, and our scanner was very old.

This unit does a great job as a fax: it is easy to send multi-page paxes directly from your computer or from the unit itself. While it took a little bit of configuring to get it to output confirmation pages from sent faxes (you'd think it would do this by default, but it's a feature you have to enable), it's (so far) been a very reliable and hassle-free fax, which is more than I can say for some standalone faxes.

This does a pretty good job as a color (and photo) printer. It's not a dedicated color printer (like some of the Epson units that cost as much as this all-in-one), and that shows in its speed and overall fidelity. But it's pretty darned good, and will meet the average user's photo needs and almost all user's non-photo needs.

The copier works well. It takes a little while to get going, but once it starts, it's reasonably fast on low-quality mode. Multipage copies are easy with the sheet-feeder.

The scanner is fine. It's not the best or worst of scanners. I think it can be unbelievably slow sometimes, and the fact that it does not allow multi-page scanning with the built-in sheet feeder is dumb. I'm hoping that a 3rd-party vendor will release a driver allowing me to take advantage of the sheet-feeder for scanning.

One huge thing in this unit's favor is the network access. Scanning over our wireless network means that my wife and I can both use the scanner without dragging different wires into our notebooks (hers runs Windows 2000, mine runs OS X).

I'd give this unit 3/5, but the network connectivity really pushes it up to 4 stars.

Pros:
- Small and portable.
- Uses external transformer (110V-220V)
- Decent print and scan quality

Cons:
- Slow printing / copying speed
- Unlike network printer where you can just install the driver and start printing from the network, scanning over network requires you to install the monstrous 300mb hp software which runs some kind of window services in order for network scanning to work.

This AIO is fabulous. Here are some of the features that I have tried:

1. Network Connectivity: (Excellent)

I was very interested in the network connectivity aspect, both wired and wireless. It turns out that all you need to do is connect an ethernet cable from the printer to a wireless router and it works without any glitches. Any printer with the HP software installed will be able to see the machine thru a 802.11 wifi network and print to it. We print to this machine from anywhere in the house and even from our yard!!

2. Print quality: So the black and white and color prints have been quite good. I have not tried any super high quality color printing yet.

3. Print speed: More than acceptable to me.

4. Scanner: (excellent for everyday scanning)

Real easy to use. Works really well. You can control the scanner from your PC or from the AIO itself. If scanning from the AIO it will let you choose anyone of the PC's that is connected to the network and will also allow you to create jpeg or pdf files.

5. Fax: Excellent for everyday faxing.

Both scan and fax can done using a document feeder or by placing a single sheet on a scanner.

Again it is a no brainer to use the fax.

6. Installation: Only gripe (very small). It takes about 20-30 minutes to install the software drivers. But it might be worth it as it works flawlessly after you go thru the install.

7. Replacement of cartridges: Very easy and robust. I used to own a Canon AIO..was very hard to replace cartridges. Very delicate. During a cartridge replacement I broke a fastner and a spring and that was the end of the machine.

HP really knows how to build printers!!! They are the best!!

I purchased this all-in-one from Amazon about three months ago to connect to my wireless network at home. So far, I have had no problem printing from my wireless laptop computers anywhere in my house. The quality of color printing is great with reasonable speed. The fax and copy functions are convenient and easy to use. I have only used the scan funtion occasionally, and it seems to work well. Most importantly, it has survived my pre-schooler's copying of socks, pens, stuffed animals, and such. So far, I am quite happy with this purchase. It looks like the price has come down some since when I purchased it. So if you need a device that does everything under the sun: print, scan, fax, and copy, AND is network ready so that you may share the device with all of your wireless and hard-wired computers, this is a good one to get.

Costco carries a HP ink pack with two black 98 and one color 95 that is reasonably priced.

I read the many good reviews for the 6310. I had a very bad experience. Could not hook to through the network. Hooked with a USB cable but could not scan. Tried for company help. On line chat took forever and just sent web pages I could have opened and read. Hard to even break through to techncian on the phone and then no help. Just told me to reinstall. Installed several times to no avail. Too many variables. Some people have a good experience but mine was unfortunately no so.

I have owned 3 all-in-one HP printers over the years and intended to replace the G85 with the 6310. While checking out the features of the 6310 we noticed that the multipage document feeder did not pull the documents into the printer. The unit seemed to be copying ok when a single sheet was placed on the glass and printing and fax were ok. When I opened the unit to look for anything unusual I noticed the ink docking trays had accumulated a small pile of ink and this was unacceptable. We had the same problem with the G85 which is why we replaced it. However, the G85(a very good unit by the way)was a few years old, not just a few days like the 6310. The 6310 was returned and we bought the Canon Pixma MP810 and are we glad because the quality of construction surpasses the 6310 even thought the unit cost a little more.

I didn't purchase this one...it was a gift. I was hoping for a laser printer like one of the Brother All-In-Ones.

I opted to install the Lite version of the software from hp.com. I would suggest that everyone do this. The Lite version only has the drivers, none of the HP bull software that is included usually.

The thing that bothered me the most was the Automatic Document Feeder. I would start a scan job and everything is going fine, and then on the 5th or 6th page the whole process would just hang. I had over 500 pages of documents to scan, and this machine really let me down.

Amazing how Hewlett-Packard can't even write reliable drivers.

I gave the item 2 stars because I got it to print sometimes. No buy.

When I got married, my wife and I had seperate inkjet printers left over from college that were getting on in years, relatively slow, and required one of our laptops to be up and running to use. We do a decent amount of printing for grad school, and I have an older scanner that also requires a computer to be on to use. So we started looking for an all-in-one printer in a good price range with network capapbility and faster printing and copy times. Any laser printer is out of our price range, and so the HP Officejet 6310 has nicely fit our needs. The only thing it lacks is automatic duplex printing, but I have yet to see a network ready and duplex all-in-one inkjet machine. You can manually duplex print, so it is not a big deal for us, and it can also be hooked to to a single computer by USB if needed.

The biggest surprise for me was the quality on the draft print setting is very good, especially color printing. I can print color figures related to my school work and not have to refer back to the pdf file to understand what it means. I also like the scan features. If I want to do a basic scanning job, I can do it all from the printer itself. Once the software is installed, you choose a computer on your local network and a list of compatible programs will show up that can accept the scan. Another great feature is that you can scan and copy from the document feeder, which is a must for large multi-page jobs.

The card reader on the front of the machine is very nice for digital picture printing. It will print a master sheet(s) of all the photos on the card, and then you can select by number which photos to print. HP also makes photo quality inks for the 6310, and while we have not used them, it is nice to know that better ink is available if we want to print pictures.

If I could, I would've given this printer a 4.5, but I am giving a 4 instead of a 5 for two reasons. The ink cartridges are small (about 10 mls of black and 5 mls for each color in one color cartridge) and HP ink is expensive. However, we get around this by almost always printing in draft mode and using third-party ink refill kits. [...]

The second reason is that to be able to scan directly from the printer to a computer, you must have HP's software installed. It is bulky (450-700MB!), takes a long time to install, and had issues with antivirus and firewall software during the install itself. I had to manually go into the task manager and figure out which files were for the virus scanner (symantec 10) and shut them down. Also, if you want to play around with the scanning resolution and color settings, it must be done from the computer. When it is finally up and running, several printer related programs will run in the background with a total usage of 20 MB of RAM, which is not insignificant if you have an older machine or are running memory-intensive software. To To HP's credit, the software is pretty easy to use though.

Overall, I would highly recommend this printer to anyone looking to consolidate and expand their printing needs into one machine.