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HP Officejet 4215 inkjet printer offers professional photo quality printing plus fast and easy faxing,scanning and copying. Discount inkjet cartridges for this model listed here.

HP Officejet 4215 Review

Name a product an "all-in-one," and you most likely imagine something that does several tasks but does none properly. Yet HP's Officejet 4215 may improve your opinion. This particular combination printer, fax, copier, as well as scanner can't handle the needs associated with sizeable workplaces, however for home-based as well as other small offices, it's really a worthy item at an inexpensive price.

Being an inkjet printer, the 4215 outputs crisp black text and also excellent colour photographs. Its fax function provides the top features of a stand alone fax device along with permitting you to send faxes by way of a Personal computer. Its scanner and copier depend upon a sheet feeder which has constraints in comparison with flatbed versions, but regardless of this limitation, the device does both options with aplomb.

The initial thing you are going to discover concerning the 4215 is its small and lightweight style. At first glance, the Officejet seems no larger than a medium-size inkjet printer, although unfolding its various feeder and output trays comfortably doubles the footprint on a desk or ledge. HP recommends that customers may keep the trays folded whenever not in use, which safeguards the machine from dust yet leaves it unusable with regard to anything other than sending a fax with your Computer.

HP says that the Officejet generates laser-quality 600-dpi black text in addition to high-quality pictures, which is accurate (although, even using its recommended photo HP Officejet 4215 ink cartridge, we wouldn't select it over a distinct photo printer). Text is crisp and crystal clear with no apparent jagged edges, even at the middle or normal quality setting; various other modes allow you to print at faster draft speed or even at as much as 1,200 by 1,200 dpi.

In our testing, the 4215 cranked out black text at 6 ppm in normal mode; sheets of colour business cards required 44 seconds each, whilst normal-mode, full-colour pictures averaged just over a minute.

The paper input tray doubles as the exit tray for the purpose of printed documents as well as copies, thus you end up having a heap of printed sheets upon the input feeder. This is OK for low-volume work, however when you are printing big, multi-page documents, it can be cumbersome.

The 4215 is effective as a stand alone fax device, receiving documents and also managing incoming faxes in competent, instinctive manner. It is able to store and speed-dial fax numbers, scan documents into memory prior to dialling, send out a fax to as much as 50 distinct numbers, and arrange faxes so that they are delivered at later times. The device's fax functions additionally function nicely with a PC, because of the self-installing HP software. The afforementioned offers good choices for controlling fax recipients along with a good choice of cover pages.

As a 600 by 1,200-dpi, 36-bit colour scanner and copier, the 4215 is limited by the fax-machine-style sheet feeder, which unfortunately cannot deal with magazines, books, or even big maps or perhaps illustrations, yet effectively scans regular business documents as well as handles black-and-white or colour copying.

The Officejet has to be connected to your pc with the latter switched on to use the scan functions, however, you can begin scans from the unit. You may make copies by pushing buttons at the front panel or control the device through your computer; the usual copying alternatives contain reducing, enlarging, and lightening or darkening images.

You'll find multifunction peripheral devices with more practical flatbed scanner/copiers for the same or even lower than the Officejet 4215, yet those units don't have the office standby of fax-machine functionality. If your home office or small business does not require high-volume printing and you do not mind a sheet fed scanner, you could find the HP a powerful replacement unit for a number of office machines.