HP PSC 1410 All-in-One Printer (Q7290A#ABA)

• Up to 18 ppm black printing, up to 13 ppm color
• Up to 1,200-optimized dpi color copying from 600 x 1,200 dpi scans
• 8.5-by-11-inch flatbed scan/copy surface
• 100-sheet drop-down paper tray
• USB interface; PC and Mac compatible

For eighty bucks, this little 1410 is a deal. Print speed and quality are both good very for the price, and the scanner is surprisingly good. The unit is compact enough to fit on a shelf beside my desk, and it operates quietly, too.

Some here have complained about the 1410''s ink cartridges being small and short-lived. To that I say anyone who prints in volume will find an inkjet printer isn''t going to be the most economical choice. In my experience, I''ve found the 1410''s ink to last a reasonable time, and the cartridges are less expensive than those required by two other printers I have.

Yes, the software does take forever to install, but it''s very easy to do, and here''s a tip. On the HP support website, a "basic" version of the software is available (drivers and controls, without the image editing and other fluff). It still isn''t speedy to install, but is faster than the disk that comes with the printer. The downside of any multifunction machine from any manufacturer is that the software that comes with it tends to be quite bloated.

Pay more money, and you''ll get more speed, better print quality, and lower printing cost-per-page maybe, but the 1410 has been just about perfect for my purposes, and didn''t cost me much in the process. It has been reliable so far, I get good print and scan results with it, and I recommend it highly.

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I''ve had the printer for two weeks. I''m in the process of printing invitations and have gone through two ink cartriges of both color and black. I am priting only about 40 cards (on both sides) yet i used up the ink cartridges in one sitting. I didn''t even finish rinting them. At over twenty dollar each. It''s not a cheap printer to use. The low price of the printer does not make up for the high cost of running it.

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The psc 1410 is simple and easy to use, but ...

it has the smallest capacity ( 5 ml ) print cartridges I''ve ever seen. Be prepared to buy new ink cartridges every week!

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This is not a top of the line product, but for the 70-ish dollars it goes for, what do you expect? Most home users that I deal with typically print less than 20 sheets per month; for people like that, this is OK. If a ream (500) sheets of paper last you all year, ink cost generally isn''t a major concern.

The machine has decent everything, but is really good at nothing. The text is readable, the photos are serviceable, the scans are OK (espically at text) but not great. There''s really not too much to say about it; for the extremely light user, who does *not* need a fax, it''s acceptable, particularly at this price point.

If you actually use your printer a lot though, then don''t buy it; get a heavier duty model (the 6000 or 7000 lines, maybe).

Barring some truly bottom of the barrel printers, this is about as cheap as you can get a worthwhile multi-function. The tradeoffs are the lack of an auto-doc feeder and a fax, as well as a high ink cost. If you actually print more than 20-30 sheets a month, get a beefier printer; this is NOT for college students, small businesses, or what have you. It''s for people who occasionally want to scan something into thier machine, and print of the Christmas letters every year, and copy forms once in a while. If that''s what you need, this will suffice, but not excel--but if that''s all you do, that''s good enough. Don''t get tricked into buying a machine that cost more than you need if you use your printer once a month for a few sheets--but at the same time, if you print daily, don''t try to get by on this, the ink will eat you alive.

OK, I agree with some of the posters here. The install was very easy, but very long. I did the full install which was over 800 MB and it took quite a while. I wasn''t happy about that, but you only have to do it once so I guess it''s OK and you have the option to do a smaller install which would be quicker I suppose.

The cartridges are HP 21 and 22. They are hard to find and they are small. Only 5ml. The price at walmart where I bought the printer was 14.92 for the black and 17.92 for the tricolor. That''s half the price I paid for my other cartridges in my last HP printer, but also less than half the ink. I did a search though and you can find some remanufactured OEM cartridges for around 10 and 14 dollars respectively. That''s a little better.

But as a previous poster said, it seems as if the manufacturers haven''t caught up yet or something because they are hard to find.

That being said. This printer is actually a great little printer. I paid 49.88 for it. I needed a new printer and scanner because I recently moved and unfortunately left my HP photosmart and seperate scanner behind. If I had the money I would have replaced them with the same thing I had, but I couldn''t afford it so I thought I would give this all in one unit a try.

I do alot of photos and wanted a printer that would print them out nicely and a nice scanner to get my 35s on the PC. I didn''t expect this machine to be perfect. It''s not a photo printer, but it still does a nice job even on plain paper. If you use photo paper it''s pretty darn good. It''s certainly good enough for what I need at home and having used the photosmart printers almost exclusively for the last 6 years or so that''s pretty good coming from me.

As far as I''m concerned it printed pretty fast. The one I had before prints amazing photos, but it''s pretty slow and it''s even slow when printing out text. This printer printed very fast in comparison. I can never really understand the people who complain that something is slow. If it takes 15 seconds or 30 seconds, what''s the big deal? Unless you do a super amount of printing and in that case why would you be buying a 50 dollar printer? But anyhow, I thought it was fast.

The scanner scanned the few test items I tried better than the stand alone scanner I had before and I paid alot of money for that scanner, so I am happy with that.

As for making copies. It worked perfectly and fast. One button copying. Just like a real one.

I bought this printer with the expectation that I would be bringing it back for something else, but after using it all day today and testing it out on various things, photos, christmas cards, copies and various text documents, I''ve decided I''ll keep it.

For the price it works like a dream. I only give it four stars because of the ink cartridges. Everything else is wonderful and I recommend it to anyone who''s thinking about it.