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HP 290 Digital Color Copier Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good copier at a very good price.
Comment: I bought the HP-290 about 3 months ago and since then have used just about all its features. This is a very good copier, expecially considering the price. The copy quality is top drawer. On more than one occasion, after making a copy and returning to my desk, I have been perplexed as to which was the original and which the copy. Even multi-color, multi-shade originals are copied with impressive fidelity. The machine is small and compact and the footprint does not demand much space. Setting it up is a breeze and the controls are all on the front panel, ready to hand and quite intuitive. Bear in mind though that this is a SOHO machine: if you regularly need to run large copy sets, as in a regular large office, the speed will frustrate you. As long as your copy needs are not too heavy, the HP-290 is terrific. I have only one quibble really and that is the document feeder. Somehow the engineering design at HP goofed this one. The unbalanced way that the original is positioned in the document feeder means that you frequently need to tap the edge of the sheet so the rollers can grab it. This can get annoying and that is why I deducted one star. I also think Amazon needs to tie up with HP to offer a servicing package at point of sale. I had to buy the machine of the Amazon site and then go to HP for a servicing package - since it is off the HP website, surely Amazon can offer it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Copier
Comment: I first purchased the HP 190 which is the same as the 290 except the 290 has a document feeder. I got it home and found that for some reason the copies from the 190 were not even. Meaning that for some reason the copy was not centered it was skewed from left to right. I went to the HP website and found some probable causes but nothing worked. I went to the store where I purchased it from and then to another and all of the display copiers did the exact same thing. Why? no one knows. I then tried the 290 and besides being impressed with the document feeder, everything was centered correctly. All of the features work great, the photo mode makes the copies look almost as good as the original, the best that I have seen. Black text is very sharp and quick. The clone mode allows you to put one picture on the copier and it will clone that picture and make as many copies that can fit on the paper, very cool. This copier is outstanding, colors are crisp, photo's are great and the document feeder works great. If I were to rate the 190 I would say that the quality is great but who wants skewed copies (I am not positive that all of them do this) I would rate it 1 star. However the 290 does everything great and deserves 5 stars. (quick note, if the 190 did not skew the picture it would recieve 4 1/2 stars.

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