HP OfficeJet D135 Multifunction

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• Shipping Weight: 38 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V3EF
• Item model number: D135
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 26, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Combining the fax machine, printer, copier, and scanner your business or home office needs into one powerful machine, the Officejet d135 saves space, money, and time. With a rated speed of 19 ppm black and 16 ppm color, the d135 produces crisp text and bright color at up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi (when using premium photo papers). PhotoREt III Color Layering Technology also makes color richer and skin tones more realistic.

As a fax machine, the d135 boasts a 33.6 Kbps modem, with color and black capabilities, 100-page memory for incoming faxes, one-touch keys, and speed dialing. Scanner features include resolutions up to 1,200 x 4,800 dpi optical, up to 9,600 dpi enhanced. The flatbed design lets you scan and copy bulky items like books, up to legal-size.

The d135 has a 50-sheet auto document feeder and comes with ink cartridges. Connecting via USB (optional parallel cable adapter available), the d135 is compatible with Windows 98, 98 SE, Me, 2000 with Service Pack 2 or higher, XP Home, and XP Professional and with Macintosh (USB-connect for Mac OS 9.1 and above). A one-year limited warranty is included, with the option to extend via an HP support pack.

Product Description

If speed and versatility are what you need, the HP Officejet D series is for you. You'll get fast all-in-one functionality with print speeds up to 19 pages per minute in black and a 400-sheet paper capacity mean faster printing and fewer paper refills. Plus it adds photo-quality color for professional-looking projects. With the purchase of an optional HP Jetdirect Print Server you can also use your HP Officejet over a network.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

139 of 146 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great multifunction but as usual it has a few quirks, March 10, 2002

By	Scott H. "scott11686" (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews

I was hoping for the best, but I guess there's no such thing as an all-in-one product that does everything perfectly....

Overall the D135 is a great multifunction. All the functions work very well and in many cases rival the quality of individual components. Uses HPs new print engine with separated ink cartridges and print heads. The print heads are user replacable and are rated at 3 years or 50000 pages (not bad!!). This should be an economical machine to use.

The scanner has been upgraded from the G85 and is better in every way. The document feeder is much better than the G series and the scans are now optically 600 x 1200 48 bit color (unless you have a Mac which is limited to 36 bit I believe).

The fax is also 33.6 color (assuming you find someone else with a color fax)....Plenty of memory for preprogrammed numbers and 10 one touch keys.

Overall The D135 is quite easy to use with good ergonomics and tons of usable features. Also watch for the forthcoming D145 and D155 which add CF, SM and Sony Memory stick slots for digital camera users, a duplexer to allow two sided printing and copying and, in the case of the d155, a second paper tray for power users.

Pitfalls, and there's always a few....

1) Typical for HP printers, prints are often skewed just a little bit on the page. About 1mm off when comparing left to right. This seems to be an HP trait. I tried 4 different D135 machines, all with a similar problem.... Many users won't notice the slight skewing, but I found it quite easily when printing borderless photos.

2) The WinXP software isn't ready yet so the functionality is limited a bit right now. PC faxing yet not enabled yet and sone scanning functions don't work yet (including OCR unless you buy an off the shelf Twain compliant OCR program).

3) The scanner head is a bit noisy. No biggie, just thought I'd bring it up. Don't expect to use it in the bedroom while the wife is sleeping!!!

Despite the quirks, overall HP has a winner!!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING! VERY POOR CARTRIDGE LIFE!, July 3, 2002

By	Paul Sill (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have burned through THREE black and 2.5 color cartridges in 6 weeks and only 1,100 pages total. I'm going to spend more on ink than I did on the printer by the end of the year. HP's response to this, "that's normal ink life". Seriously, I've been using HP printers for years and the ink life for this product is the worst I've ever seen...Unless you're very low usage, you should consider a differnt product. And for any small business, you're probably going through 1,000 a month easily between print, fax, and copy. HP really [messed] this one up.

31 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars UNAVAILABLE FUNCTIONALITY UNDER XP, March 21, 2002

By	"honirishjo" (USA) - See all my reviews

The Hewlitt Packard Officejet D135 multifunction printer is advertised as a two-sided printing/copying and scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). However, this is NOT the case.

1. Two-sided printing/copying requires a (C6437A) duplexer, which I have been unable to obtain. I Emailed HP about this and received the following replies:

"I understand that you are disappointed with the inability to use OCR and make two-sided prints and copies from the Officejet D135 installed on Windows XP. The duplexer required for making two-sided prints and copies is not currently available."

And, in another Email from HP: "Unfortunately, I [HP] am unable to provide a date on which the duplex module (C6437A) will be in stock. I apologize for the inconvenience."

2. If you have the Windows XP operating system, full functionality is NOT available. In yet another Email to me, HP states:

"The software solution provides basic printing and scanning functionality with Microsoft (R) Windows XP. Scanning is supported through the Scanner and Camera Wizard in Windows XP. Use the HP Officejet front panel to copy, fax, and use proof sheets.

The future HP Officejet D series software release for Windows XP, will provide the following functionality:

* Network capability
* Photo upload from the HP Officejet to the PC
* Access to copy and fax features from the PC
* Use of the Fax Setup Wizard
* Ability to set scan to destinations
* ReadIRIS optical character recognition (OCR) software.
* HP Director software, HP Photo View Center, onscreen Users Guide, and Product Tour."

Later on, in the SAME Email, HP states:

"Third-party software

The optical character recognition (OCR)program that is currently available on the HP product software CD-ROM cannot be loaded in Windows XP. The OCR software is provided by another company [IRIS] and will not be available in the download versions of the HP software release for Windows XP. HP does not hold the rights to this software and cannot include it with the HP product software available for download."

Thus, it appears that HP has no idea when the duplexer hardware will be available, so I paid hundreds of dollars for a printer that I have no idea when, if ever, I will be able to perform two-sided print/copy.

Also, I have a scanner with no OCR included (though it is with other Windows operating systems).

I find it hard to believe that HP could so brazenly claim this as a two-sided printer/copier and so stretch the meaning of XP compatibility.

I you want to have only basic print/scan/copy capabilities, buy the Lexmark X83 for only a few hundred dollars.