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HP Color LaserJet 1600 Printer (CB373A#ABA) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: FALSE ADVERTISEMENT
Comment: I brought this printer thinking it was complete with printer cartridges. I called the seller directly and she stated that Amazon put the wrong ad on this product. I could have brought this "COMPLETE" printer from Tiger Direct for $75 more then what I paid Amazon, but the printer is no longer on sale at Tiger Direct. The company gave me an 800 # to buy the printer cartridges for $160 (rebuilt) and I found out I would have to pay $346.00 for new hp Cartridges. I was promised other solutions and the company never followed through. I have filed a complaint w/my credit card company.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Toner life is short
Comment: The printouts are beautiful but the supplied toner goes away pretty quick. Nowhere near 1000 pages. Price wasn't bad.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor support--especially for Vista.
Comment: Go to their website and try to download a Vista driver. Good luck. Go to their installation troubleshooting webpage and look for Vista help. You won't find it.

This printer worked fine with XP, but it won't work with Vista. Online support is terrible. Buy it at your own risk.

I'm rapidly souring on Hewlett-Packard. Their one-time reputation for quality is eroding fast.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth $40
Comment: [...]

Printing envelopes is a challenge. Just figuring out the proper settings to print envelopes was a headache. Moisture sealing envelopes cannot be used because they seal themselves as they pass through the printer. Only pull and seal envelopes can be used. Often the addresses come out splotchy with part of the address barley visible.

After about 6 months of using the printer, everything I print has a vertical yellow streak and the left side of each page.

Included cartridges are half filled and replacements are very expensive.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Piece of junk - DO NOT BUY AT ANY PRICE
Comment: I bought this printer in August of 2007 at the local Staples. I had compared the print quality to a Samsung of similar price range and concluded the HP had better print quality, so I bought the HP. BIG MISTAKE. First off, we ran out of black ink within about 30 days - the package said it was a 1,000 page ink cartridge that came with the printer, but I'd guess we got less than 700.

So then I pay almost $100 for a new black ink cartridge (the "high capacity" 2500 page cartridge). A few weeks after replacing that ink cartridge, I notice that I was getting red streaks on every page I printed. I followed the manual's troubleshooting suggestions, but nothing solved it. I figure maybe the magenta cartridge is running out or something (even though the meter on the printer said I had 1/4 of a cartridge left), so I spend almost $100 on another magenta cartridge. As soon as I replace the cartridge, not only did the red streaks not go away, but they got worse.

So I call HP, and I'm told that although the printer was still in warranty, I'd have to pay a $75 "restocking fee" plus shipping to send it back to them, and I'd have to pay their shipping costs to get a return one sent. All told it would have cost about $200 to replace the printer (under warranty!!!) when I only paid $300 for the thing in the first place!

Needless to say, I didn't do it. By May (only 9 months after I bought the thing), I could no longer print anything of importance because the thing is just dumping red toner onto the paper - everything I print comes out looking like I printed it on pink paper. And now I'm out $300 for the original printer plus $200 for cartridges I bought. And, a year later, I see I can buy the damned thing for $69 on Amazon. That shows you the quality of it, for it to drop from $300 to $70 in only a year.

Do not buy this printer. It is not worth the cost of styrofoam packing peanuts it comes in!

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