HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One

by HP

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• Shipping Weight: 24 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C9ZJX
• Item model number: Q3094A#ABA
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,628 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 11, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Hewlett Packard's OfficeJet 2510 is an all-in-one color printer, color copier, color scanner, and color fax machine. This versatile machine is perfect for the home office or small business where space is at a premium. With HP's thermal inkjet print technology, resolutions for black 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 21 ppm for black and 15 ppm for color. CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Secure Digital/MultiMedia, and xD-Picture memory cards are supported, so you can create color copies and prints from your digital camera without a PC.

The 2510 has a standard input capacity of 150 sheets and up to 20 envelopes, with an output capacity of 50 sheets. The 2510 connects via a USB port, and accepts a wide variety of originals, including paper (plain, inkjet, photo, brochure, banner), envelopes, transparencies, labels, cards (index, greeting), iron-on transfers, borderless media, and sizes ranging from 3 by 5 to 8.5 by 14 inches.

The flatbed scanner provides up to 1,200 x 2,400 dpi optical resolution and 48-bit color, with an enhanced resolution up to 19,200 dpi. The 33.6 Kbps modem fax machine has a 3-second per page transmission speed and is capable of color faxing. A 50-page fax memory ensures that your don't miss important faxes when you run out of paper, while the 60 entry speed dial, fax auto-redial, and auto-reduction provide added convenience. The 2510's copier provides up to 300 x 1,200 dpi resolution for black and up to 600 x 600 dpi resolution for color. Copy speeds are as fast as 21 cpm for black and 14 cpm for color, while up to 50 copies can be made at once, freeing up your time for other tasks.

The included software bundle helps you get the most out of your scans, with HP's photo and imaging software, including HP memories disc creator. Compatible with both Mac and PC, the 2510 also comes backed by a one-year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
HP OfficeJet 5510, HP 56 black inkjet print cartridge, HP 57 tri-color inkjet print cartridge, photo and imaging software, HP memories disc creator on CD-ROM, setup poster, reference guide, power supply and power cord, phone cord, HP photo paper sampler, HP photo paper storage bag

Product Description

MODEL- HPPSC2510 VENDOR- HEWLETT-PACKARD CO FEATURES- PSC 2510 PhotoSmart All-in-One Color printing Color scanning Color copying and Color faxing. The hp psc 2510 photosmart all-in-one printer flatbed fax scanner copier delivers home network convenience with professional-quality performance. Print in true-to-life photo-quality and laser-quality black text--with up to 4800-optimized dpi or optional 6-ink color. Share your all-in-one with up to 5 computers using built-in networking and wireless capabilities. You will also enjoy wireless printing and scanning plus access to built-in memory card slots. Just insert digital camera memory card to view and print photos using color LCD or hp photo proof sheet-all without a PC! Use optional hp-exlucsive inks and photo papers so your photos will resisit fading for generations. Includes All-in-One unit Media pack with bag Black ink cartridge (19ml) Tri-color ink cartridge (17 ml) Setup poster Reference guide Power cord Phone cord Ethernet cable and Software. * Long-lasting photos - Enjoy the flexibility of printing and copying photos the way you want. Print any size photo with borders. Or print and copy without borders on standard-size photo paper up to 8.5 x 11 inches. - Fast convenient faxing that uses the 33.6 kbps modem. Get color faxing--no computer required--one-touch keys make faxing convenient. All from a flatbed design thats easy to use. For added convenience you can also fax from your PC. * Print photos without a PC - Print photos that resist fading twice as long as most traditionally processed photos with optional six-ink color printing and HP Premium Plus Photo paper for bright beautiful prints that preserve your memories for generations. - Networking feature enables e-mailing photos direct from any camera memory card without using a PC. Add scans to e-mail as well. Use HP Instant Share from the PC to send photos via e-mail without large attachments of slow downloads. - No need to wait--spend your time creating y...

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Customer Reviews

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63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hardware good, software bad, January 17, 2004

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woodpost (Santa Cruz, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One (Office Product)

This should be called the HP Photosmart POS 2510 instead, cause it's a serious POS. When looking at the reviews before i purchased, i read one fellow who said that it seems like 2 different companies made the software and hardware. I thought at the time "he's probably just not as PC savvy as i am, since i am afterall in the software industry." So i gave it a go. Boy was he right.

First off, the hardware and featureset is great. it had everything i wanted, and when i pulled it out of the box i was very impressed with how it looked and felt. getting it up on the wireless network was a breeze, which contradicted what some people said, so i'm starting to feel pretty pleased with my purchasing decision at this point. but then i installed the software .. it's 1.5 GB of pure crap. want to pick and choose which features to install? too bad! it's all (fax, scan, print) or nothing! so if you have another PC on the network that you only want to print from (which is likely if you're considering buying this unit) you can't just install a print driver. you have to install the whole 1.5 GB enchilada, which includes an application that's always running in the background (HP Director), which really bugs me because that sort of stuff always screws up your system. which brings me to ..

the software screwed up my system. now whenever i boot my PC, my system pretty much is locked up for 15 seconds as HP Director tries to figure something out. and whenever i shut my system down, HP Director never terminates itself properly so i have to kill the process myself. really annoying.

so then im playing with the features. i scan a picture at 2400 dpi .. and it takes a HALF HOUR. it takes 15 minutes to scan and then 15 minutes for the HP Photo application to open it. in the meantime my system is completely unusable. and i have a decent system! 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM. lower resolution scans are fine, but i suggest you go watch tv if you want to scan 2400 or above (i cant even imagine what it would do at 4800, 9600, or 19200 dpi.)

so i tell HP all this, and they arrange for a tech to call me, which is actually pretty cool. the tech guy tells me the 2510 must be on to avoid the system sluggishness at bootup/shutdown, and he says it was scanning slow because i'm on a wireless network (11Mb/s) and 2400dpi makes some pretty big files. well, i've been keeping the 2510 on 24/7 and i still have the boot/shutdown problems, and i've since moved it over to a wired 100Mb/s network and it's still just as slow.

i wish Canon had network interface options, because i would return this in a second if they did. unfortunately even with all its problems, this is still the best solution for my home network. curse you, HP.

** EDIT **
Couple more problems with this unit since i wrote this review ..
1. when I had it using my 802.11b network, i noticed that my other wireless devices would drop connection ocassionally. I didn't think a wireless client could possibly interfere with my wireless access point so I didnt think too much about it. But as soon as i moved the HP over to a wired connection, my wireless network magically stopped having problems.

2. when i set the network link speed on the HP to 100Mb/s Full Duplex, it only does half duplex. No matter what i try .. half duplex.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product with useless installation procedure, December 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One (Office Product)

If you went to the trouble to have a secure wireless network as I have (multiple WEP keys, MAC filtering) then you'll find the installation procedure impossible. Also, the call back HP help appears to be overwhelmed, since I bought it over a week ago and they never returned my help request despite promises of a response within 3 days. Luckily, I was able to get it to work by 1) uninstalling everything and rebooting, 2) turning on the wireless radio through the LCD panel, 3) loading the embedded printer webserver (get http address from the network preferences printout you can obtain via the LCD panel -- see manual), 4) configuring everything correctly through the embedded webserver, with an ethernet connection between the access port and the printer, 5) install software -- it will find the printer through the access point, 6) disconnect the ethernet cable.

With that done, I was able to scan and print wirelessly without
any problems at all, from multiple machines.

Props to the hardware people at HP for a good piece of hardware, but the software/install/support side of this product is so bad that I would not recommend this for people who don't have experience with wireless networks.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, April 5, 2004

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Gordon "ocfasolt" (Lake Forest, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP PhotoSmart PSC 2510 All-in-One (Office Product)

I couldn't wait for this printer to come out. I had my wireless network running for a while and had been using an HP printer on a Linksys wireless print server. No problems.

I bought this printer and slowly worked through the problems. The software has been a nightmare. HP Director seems to lock-up at least once per session, given enough time. I've seen it lock-up even when I wasn't using the computer.

When I first turned my computer on you would have this frozen area on the screen. I'm assuming it was trying to access the card reader which I rarely used.

My biggest complaint was with the support. I can appreciate that this is a complicated piece of hardware. Given that you would think that HP would have taken the time to train its people.

I called HP the night I bought the printer and was told that a technician would call me back. Weeks went by and I kind of learned to live with its problems. Then, one night, I get a call from a Tech. He tried a couple of things that didn't help, then gave up and said he would call back. That was last December it is now April, no call.

I have downloaded the updated software from the site. It took over 30 minutes to download with my broadband connection. Things are better but still buggy.

I would wait.