Customer Reviews

Hewlett Packard PSC 750XI Multifunction

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I did a LOT of research before settling in on this product by HP. Some of the crucial things I looked at were macintosh OS X support, support reliability, color print quality, black text quality, scan speed, size, and how obvious the controls are. The HP came out great in almost all of these catagories-- but I have to admit, the things that really got me was the color print quality. I stuck a piece of photo paper in the store demo and slapped down a vivid color print I took in Wales, and I was blown away-- I thought it looked great, and was very true to the original image. And that was the COLOR COPY option-- in other words, no software interface or scanning.

Since I've had it a couple months now, I have to say the thing I use it for the most and that has been consistantly the most valuable is the black copy option. I took 5 minutes to get used to the top control panel and now I regularly run off 5-10 copies of important things for my business, lectures, etc.. Any *major* copy job I still take to Kinkos, but it's so convenient to get a couple more copies when you just need one or two-- which for me, is a lot.

The scanning software works very well, generally. It's not as great as I would like, but it does do scans quickly and efficiently to Photoshop, Mail in OS X, or Preview. Just the fact that HP put some real EFFORT into OS X support makes me on their side. I'd like to be able to do better work with the images and cropping before scanning, though.

The OCR only seems to work using OS 9 software.[...]

The creative copying option-- right there on the top of the machine-- is a brilliant design. With a few selections I can have a color copy of a photo automatically fit to the page I'm printing to. That's pretty cool.

All in all, I'm really pretty happy with my purchase. The software went buggy once and did some weird things, but I uninstalled and reinstalled it and it seems to be fine. If you can find a good price on the black refills it seems to really work as a cost-efficient option as well. I've seen reviews that seem to dog the PSC series as not being up to the OfficeJet standards-- maybe, but they work great as a home business/cost-efficient option and really pack in a lot of the whallop of the OfficeJet. I wish there was a direct FAX option-- surely that's only another $15 at this point? But still, I haven't needed to use the FAX option yet, and I use everything else every day.

I love it. Good Job, HP.

Although the price was a bit high, you get a great all-in-one scanner/printer/copier! The programs are simple to use and the quality is excellent. You can even send scanned items directly into certain programs, like an e-mail service. The speed is incredible, it takes very little time to print in either black and white or color. Pretty much, this all-in-one is great if you want quality, speed, reliability, and ease.

My wife has a Macintosh that that we hooked this printer up too. She is very satisfied with the color quality, and speed, and she even boasts about the speed it scans documents with.
I had to contact HP support once because I messed up the all-in-one software (I should have read the documentation better).
HP's support set me on the right path, and sent me an updated CD with the latest drivers on it.
I think this printer was a wise purchase for us, and I would recommend it to a friend.

I am very impressed with the negative reviews!....this printer is awesome, it does everything, and does it well...even the hp image editor is simple for day by day use. I own it for more than a year and and a half and it works 100%, without a single flaw. Here in Venezuela the cartridges are VERY expensive, and now under currency exchange control it gets even worse, so i have always used it with "refilled" (maybe so-so quality ink) cartridges, and it still performs beatifully.
You can buy this multifunction with your eyes closed.

This unit is easy to set up. The instructions are straight forward. The scanning and image editing software that is included is OK for most tasks and easy to use. The printed output is very good. However, HP really should have included a USB cable.

I have had this all-in-one for about two years. it was tricky to install at first b/c I use OS X, but its been very reliable since. Sometimes it seems like the printer has suddenly been uninstalled butall you have to do is run the set-up wizard again. its not hard. I think its a wonderful little machine. i like to make personalized cards and special wrapping paper with all of its functions, as well as printing out reports.

We really liked this printer/scanner/copier, but at one point the power cable got stripped & had to be discarded. We have been unable to use any other printer's power cable on this model, because HP built it such that you have to use the one that came with the printer (and that one only). Other cables won't even be able to get into where the opening is.

We use our printer for customers who occasionally come by to print. Everytime we turned it on, it kept on giving some error about replacing the ink. We bought brand new ink and it would still give us the error. We tried restarting it and we used its self-clean feature, and every once in a while it would work and then it would pop back up with the error message. I am so tired of trying to figure out what is wrong with it.

What surprised me was that this product was easy to use. The software took a while to install and to make it work. When I got it working, it prints real smoothly and the quality is great! It is definitely worth the money.

Great for home, light-weight, not all that big. Prints fast, scans fast, copies are good too. THe only thing I hate about it is the lack of the USB cable!!! But mostly it's a great little thing for a small amount of money