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HP Photosmart 3210 All-in-One Printer, Copier, and Scanner Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: HP has discontinued this product
Comment: When mine had an irretrievable paper jam and I took it in for repair, we found out that HP has discontinued both the printer and the pieces (gear replacement) needed for (a relatively simple) repair. Shame, shame, H.P. You just lost my business for good.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Worst Printer Ever
Comment: The most unfortunate experience of this printer has been the knowledge that I paid full price for such a large paper weight.
Despite one reviewer suggesting a helpful HP Support team, my experience has proved otherwise. After reading many reviews of this so-called printer, it seems that there is one common malfunction among them all. This printer does not detect paper and will not load paper.
Despite the well known manufacturer defect, HP does not offer to replace the non-functioning item and only after several days of exchanging emails, they will only offer a list of approved repair shops. Hardly the responsible action one would expect from a company that has already explained to one reviewer that this problem is the result of a bad part supplied by a manufacturer they no longer work with.
At full price, many other electronics can be bought at the same price and function much longer than a year (iPods, Cell phones, DVD Players, Xbox 360, digital cameras). Even with the concept that electronic items become outdated quickly, consumers still deserve quality for their money, especially in the midst of a possible recession. This is not a quality item and HP does not provide quality support for this item. Even with its now rightfully reduced price on Amazon.com, I still could not recommend this product even to my worst enemy.
Thanks to my experience with this printer, I am now joining the many individuals whom constantly advise against buying HP products. Previously I always had moderate success with HP products, but I cannot justify buying HP again, when I've lost hard earned money on a piece of junk.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Unreliable Drivers
Comment: I won't go into details on my specific experiences, but I'll chime in with those that have complained about the software. It's bloated, containing about 5 different programs that all pretty much get you to the same place. It's unhealthy in that I often find myself having to kill HP processes while I'm shutting down and they take entirely too long to start up. Worst of all it's unreliable. I want to print when I want to print. I don't want to have to reboot or futz around with configurations to get the printer to stop giving me errors.

The hardware is solid which is the only reason it gets more than one star when I'm going to throw it away while it still works just to get rid of my software problems. It's a real shame.

Oh yea, and the replacement will probably *not* be an HP.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: FRUSTRATING!
Comment: This product is a huge waste of money. I have owned numerous scanners and have been editing pictures for years. It is unusable for the simplist function without spending hours figuring out how to make it work.
- The "photo wizard"- which I have not been able to find a way to bypass- will only allow you to print the preset sizes it offers. If all you want to do is stick your camera disc in and print standard size photos its ok- if you want to crop, edit, or adjust the picture in anyway- be prepared to spend hours of research, and trial and error.---- Good luck- I have pretty much given up.

- Default sets to the slowest, most ink wasting speed setting every use. You have to negotioate numerous panels to select anything different- EACH print. Unbelievable waste of time and money- its over 100 dollars to replace ink cartridges- which have been wasted printing documents when you just need to print something quickly.

- Deceptive sales practice- HP was selling the ink cartridges individually or in a package with reduced price- Only when the employees at Office Max alerted me to it- did I realize that the packaged ink have less than one quarter the ink that the individual cartridges held. Office max had so many complaints that they were warning everyone who were buying this type ink.

I could go on- but you get the idea!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't buy this printer
Comment: This printer has proven to be one of the worst I've worked with. It constantly wastes paper by printing a document halfway several times until it decides to finally correct itself. Also, I was excited about having the separate ink choices. When I went to print something in blue - it said I needed to replace the pink cartridge before I could print in ANY color. That is so ridiculous. I am mad at myself for spending money on a printer that is such a piece of JUNK.

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