Casio HR-100TM 2-Color Printing Calculator by Casio
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Digital camera reviews of Casio HR-100TM 2-Color Printing Calculator
Digital camera Review: A godawful clump of organic matter
Summary: 1 Stars
Although not prone to talking in phrases utilized by Bush the First, I have to say, in language permitted by Amazon, that this calculator is a flaming piece of doo-doo, a clump of fecal matter, a deposit of a primeval nature, an abhorrent and truncated cluster of malodorous ghastliness. The actual machine itself may work well enough (if one is practiced at idiosyncratic internal processes which would require multiple anti-psychotic meds, or if one intuitively grasps that Casio has undone centuries of mathematical rules without bothering to notify anyone), but there is a useless, one-sheet (and it's not really even worth a sheet, as it were) "manual" which would bring Nick the Greek to his knees, weeping. We are not talking here about wanting to perform complicated functions; oh, no...we're talking about wanting to add a number of items (check amounts) to print out a list with a total so it can accompany a bank deposit. One would think that one might not need a manual to add up a bunch of items and do this. One would be profoundly and tragically mistaken.
To begin with, the "+" and the "=" signs are on the same large black key on this calculator. As the ancients used to say when confronted with puzzling astronomical phenomena, WTF?! If one enters 9 + 5 and hits =, one gets 9+ 5+ ...and that's ALL one gets. It does not sum. No surprise; how could it sum? It wouldn't know the difference between + and = given that they're on the same key and it has an empty brain pan.
If one turns off the print function, it sums just fine (most calculators do...they just keep providing a total as one adds items up). However, if one wants to have a printed tape of this one is left S.O.L., which, as is widely known from the writings of Heidegger, is an acronym for Sucking Odd Lumps. Therefore, one cannot print out a summary total to take to the bank with the deposit. Not only that, but the clock is ticking ever faster, as the bank's minions, smiling inwardly as if at a secret joke laced with Schadenfreude, are inching toward the door to snap the lock, pull the shade, and put the GTFO sign on the door so that NO deposit will occur on this day.
After trying various key combinations hoping to unravel it's dangerously twisted little brain, to no avail, one then opened the one-page -- it's actually a tri-fold, but given that 2/3 of it is devoted to Spanish (mine is non-existent, beyond "hola") and French (I can ask for directions to the nearest electro-convulsive therapy ward but can't really speak calculator in French) -- "manual." This is also known as the "User's Guide." And, believe me, if you weren't using before you opened this document, you will be soon. A full discussion of what is actually included in this sheet constructed by someone with a day-pass from the Whipsnade Laughing Academy is beyond the scope of anybody except perhaps Da Vinci after a second peyote enema. Whatever. It provides no information on anything even loosely related to getting a simple, printed account summary.
Next, after vibing the cat out of the room due to a muttered expletive salad, a search of the web produced nothing. Casio's site has a link to their product manuals, but nothing at all about this calculator or anything even close. One then calls Casio's Tech Support....ahahah. Please recall, the minions at the bank are now tying ship's hawser ropes around the door handle and connecting them to the time-lock vault....there will be no deposits today. One can almost hear them cackling, "...or any OTHER day, monkey boy!"
One might be surprised to discover that among Casio's phone-tree options, "calculators" is not listed. "Hand-held computers" as an option produces a recording saying they're closed (in the middle of the afternoon, even allowing for time-zone shift). Re-dialing (the cat is now creeping up onto the roof, looking for her flak jacket which she purchased during the last outburst), one goes for "all other products" as an option and gets a person who suggests a number of different things, none of them producing the desired effect, before putting one on hold and consulting the head Rosicrucian who has been in an isolated cell on Malta for decades. This unimpeachable source suggests hitting the asterisk key to print out a total. One was surprised, having gotten one's Ph.D. degree, and having endured two years of graduate statistics as well as any number of scientific calculators along the way, to note that a new mathematical signifier/operand has been introduced by the NASA-esque minds at Casio, notwithstanding that on some calculators this same key is used to signify multiplication. But, hey...why quibble with genius?
So, with no documentation about the simplest of functions, and after ignoring hundreds of years of symbolic mathematical conventions from the Arabs forward, Casio has redesigned this handy little calculator such that one cannot print a simple quantitative list, with total, using any of the key conventions that have been in existence since shortly after the wheel and the fish. One can, however, chew up, if not the cat, at least a better part of the afternoon. And that loud slam followed by a hissing noise that was heard in the above paragraph was the bank door being closed, bolted, and welded shut.
Otherwise, a dandy little machine.
Digital camera Review: Agreed all around
Summary: 3 Stars
Many other reviewers have already made the point, I can only affirm it. For the price, it's a great calculator but the instructions are awful and very difficult to follow. I ended up spending $12 after the fact for replacement ink cartridges because not only are the directions/illustrations unclear about how to install the ink cartridge, but if one is not careful, the cartridge slips out of your fingers and easily becomes irretrievably lost inside the guts of the calculator. (I can hear it rattling around in there, but cannot get it out.) Be warned, local supply stores' listing of replacement cartridges will not have this model listed in their stores, so be sure to ask and make sure that you get the proper replacement cartridge (the HR 100 is NOT the same as the HR 100TM; I learned the hard way.)Digital camera Review: CASIO CALCUATOR
Summary: 4 Stars
GOOD CALCULATOR FOR THE MONEY. LARGE, EASY TO READ DISPLAY. DOWNSIDE- HARD TO READ PRINTED FIGURES WITHOUT FEEDING PAPER ABOVE PLASTIC TEAR OFF PIECE.Digital camera Review: CASIO HR-100TM
Summary: 5 Stars
I needed a replacement for a CASIO printing Caculator that I had used for over 30 years. I chose this new model based on my prior experience with this product. I have been very pleased with my new calculator. The print is easy to read and the numbers show up fine on the screenDigital camera Review: CASIO HR-100TM 2-COLOR PRINTING CALCULATOR
Summary: 5 Stars
EXCEPTIONAL PRODUCT!!!! EASY TO USE, LARGE BUTTONS, FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE, LOOK'S & PERFORMS LIKE A VERY EXPENSIVE PRODUCT... IF U NEED A PROFESSIONAL PRINTING CALCULATOR, BUY THIS ONE.. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!