Experiences with HP 4110 all-in-one

February 4th, 2004

Needing a fax, I picked up a fax/scanner/copier unit with no research at all, just banking on HP’s reputation. It works well as a send or receive fax, but the auto-feeding makes me nervous. I keep thinking it is going to grab two sheets at once. Also, as I find out, the cost per page is something like 9 cents due to the inkjet cartridge cost. Black and colors are separately replaceable, but ink does cost.

Also, the PC scanner software doesn’t seem to deal with the auto-feed correctly, or perhaps that is because I was using lighter weight sheets cut out of a magazine. The PC scanner software would also crash every so often.

Another person’s experiences with HP 4110

As a printer, the HP 4110 seems less reliable or durable than other models. The paper feeding mechanism sounds like the printer is eating itself alive. In addition, trying to print a one page document using inkjet weight paper, the paper misfed or fed slightly diagonally about 4 out of 5 times. I.e. I had to reprint about 5 times to get an acceptable output. I would not recommend this as a printer to anyone. Likely the fax aspect of the printer would suffer from similar paper misfeed, so I wouldn’t recommend as a fax for receiving faxes.