HP Deskjet 6940 Color Printer (C8970A#B1H) by Hewlett Packard
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Digital camera reviews of HP Deskjet 6940 Color Printer (C8970A#B1H)
Digital camera Review: Disappointed
Summary: 1 Stars
We bought this printer several months ago and have found it to be wanting in several areas. It runs through the black ink cartridge very quickly, it must be replaced weekly, very costly. And now it is pulling multiple sheets through at a time, a waste of paper and precious ink. I will not buy another HP printer.Digital camera Review: Exactly what I ordered
Summary: 5 Stars
This printer was the exact one that I wanted. It was new and in original box that had never been opened. This is what I expect when ordering a product.Digital camera Review: Excellent Printer
Summary: 5 Stars
I would highly recommend this printer. Pages are printed quick with great clarity. The price is definitely right as well.Digital camera Review: Excellent Quality
Summary: 5 Stars
I have had a number of HP deskjets over the years...this one lives up to the excellent quality HP is known for. Black text prints super-fast, and colors are vibrant. I printed a black and white photo using HP Premium Plus Photo paper, and a photographer friend upon seeing it, asked when I had gotten a darkroom. Highly recommend this product.Digital camera Review: Excellent quality prints .... but a complete ripoff nevertheless.
Summary: 1 Stars
This printer is, in many ways, a true success. It is sturdily made, so far as an outside inspection can determine, quite compact, and has some excellent features, such as the covered paper tray. It's one of the first printers I've had which actually pulls in one sheet of paper at a time if you put more than one sheet in, rather than pulling in a clump and printing the document partially onto three or four sheets. The printer settings on the computer are easy to use, and although only an ethernet attachment is provided, the USB port works perfectly well with a standard USB cable (although it was fortunate that I keep several spare USB cables handy, since it's all to easy to forget to buy the cable in addition to the computer).
That said, there is one glaring flaw in this printer -- one which, in my opinion, cancels out many of its other excellent features. The ink cartridge is tiny -- I measured it against my old Deskjet 920C's cartridge, and it's only 1/6 the size. There's no room inside to fit a bigger generic cartridge. There is so little ink in this acorn-sized cartridge that I ran out of ink printing 50 pages. These weren't full page pictures, either -- it was text with several small color pics in there. Since the new cartridge costs about $50, that works out to $1 per PAGE -- which is a lot of money for a small business owner like myself, and could be enormously expensive for those who do more printing.
In short -- it's a wonderful printer if you're the kind of person who prints maybe 3 or 4 pages a month. If you do any more than that (for business, college, etc.), then you're going to find yourself cursing as a $50 cartridge disappears in an hour of printing. Really, would they have lost so much money if they'd built it to accept a cartridge larger than a grape?