HP K5400 Officejet Pro Color Printer by Hewlett Packard
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Digital camera reviews of HP K5400 Officejet Pro Color Printer
Digital camera Review: Great, fast printer for the money
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased my K5400 as a replacement for a K550 which was approaching 100,000 pages and felt I was pushing my luck. The K5400 handles paper much better than the K550 and after 50,000 pages is still working perfectly. The K550 is still on the network and is approaching 125,000 pages without any problems.
Items I like in the 5400 are speed, print quality and paper handling. I print between 5,000 and 15,000 pages a month and the additional speed is a great advantage. I print 70% graphs and 30% text and have no complaint about print quality. The quality is more than adequate even if using cheaper paper. The paper handling is excellent. I learned by accident that it is better to put paper in the tray and use it all before adding additional paper. If you tuck additional paper into a partially full tray, you increase your chances of two pages pulling through where the old and new stacks combine.
Items that I don't like are printer shake and noise. This printer needs a sturdy print stand...period. The printer's paper handling makes a lot of noise. Not a major fault, but at 3:00 AM in your home office, it seems pretty loud.
Would I purchase another K5400? Absolutely, for a home owned business with moderate to heavy print needs, this is an excellent choice.
Digital camera Review: HP K5400
Summary: 2 Stars
I've had the HP K5400 for several months now. I am disappointed in two things, it seems to eat ink, I'm always running out of one color or another. I'm just a home uses so I don't do a lot of printing. Second when I've run out of one color and want to switch to just black, it won't let me do so unless I replace the empty cartridge.Digital camera Review: HP K5400 Officejet Pro Color Printer
Summary: 5 Stars
HP K5400 Officejet Pro Color Printer was easy to install and does a great job in my home office. It prints clearly and very fast. I recommend it for anyone needing quality documents under medium duty work load.
Digital camera Review: HP K5400 Printer, Beware of Printer Head Cartridge
Summary: 2 Stars
I just recently purchased this printer and I am skeptical about the so called "lowest ink cost". Yes, The actual ink cartridges are reasonable priced, but they don't really mention the two additional "printer head" cartridges that must be replaced along with the ink cartridges. The "printer head" cartridge cost around $69 dollars a pop. They don't mention the page yield for these "printer head" cartridges. I traded my Brother HL-2040 for the HP K400 which I now think was a mistake. If you can do without "color" then I would say the Brother HL-2040 Monochrome Laser Printer (retails for around $89) is your best bet in terms of long run affordability and print quality. You can get a Brother HL-2040 toner cartridge for around $30.00 (page yield: 2,400).
Digital camera Review: HP printer K5400 sucks not to mention does not work
Summary: 1 Stars
My tek guy took a total of 4 hours with HP teks inorder to determine why my brand new printer did not work. They would not send a new replacement until they had exhausted all options for failure, costing me $137.00 in labor. They finally agreed to send a rebuilt printer, which it too did not work, again keeping my tek on the phone for an additional 4 hours to determine the cause. They sent a second rebuilt printer and guess what - it too did not work. Again 4 hours on the phone with my tek. $500 in tek time later they agreed to take back the Amazon purchase and the 3rd bad printer and send me a check for the purchase amount. I spoke with a case mananger, who explained that HP teks have a procedure they have to go through before they can OK a replacement be sent. So what if it takes 4 hours of the customers time and money. I noticed while all this was going on that no stores sold this version of printer - it's a bust. Move on to something else or you'll end up paying 5 times more in set cost/time that the printer is worth. Amazon should dump this model ASAP. The only reason I gave it one star is because they stayed in touch and sent me my money back.