Customer Reviews

Hewlett Packard 190 Digital Color Copier

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Purchased the HP190 1 wk ago basically on the strength of my strong previous experience with their printers. Found immediately that the machine doesn't copy any original larger than letter size...(my own fault), but then also found that it truncated my documents and left off the last line on a letter page and in my case, a crucial line. Shouldn't a copier that has a setting for 8 1/2" x 11" actually copy that size? I thought so too, and returned it for a Xerox XD100 which is a WIZ machine. I lose the color capability, but have about the best copy you can get anywhere!

...because it produces beautiful color copies, as well as crisp black & white copies. I don't own this copier (yet), but I had the chance to see it in operation at my friend's home office about a week ago. He was copying 8 x 10 color photos with this copier, and even on 20 pound bond paper, it was a very close copy. The two-on-one feature is great if you want to copy both sides of a hand-out onto one side. It works like a charm, as does the resizing feature. I gave it four stars instead of five only because I haven't used it over an extended period and don't honestly know how it will hold up in typical use. I've already recommended it to another friend.

The print quality is good but everything else stinks. It doesn't print legal nor does it print full letter (it crops the letter unless you scale it down to 91%). Everytime you go to copy it always has to "warm up" (for an inkjet??) which takes about 30 seconds. So if you want to just be able to make a quick copy...forget it. It also has a nasty tendenacy to paper jam, especially when doing multiple copies.