I am thinking about buying this all in one. If you own one and have
experience with it I would appreciate any comments you might have
about it.

I have just purchased the all in one p.s.c and find the size and ease of use
are great, but the only drawback,
(as far as i am concerned anyway) is that to print text in greyscale(black)
you have to remove the colour cartridge,because the p.s.c default is
colour,and you are unable to change it, i have been in touch with hp tech
site and was informed that the hp1205 is mostly a photo machine,and i would
have to indeed get used to swapping cartridges for text/photos printing its
a pity because it seems a nice machine for the price of £99 complete with
inks

I had one for less than a month when it malfunctioned. Pages would start
printing too early, that is, there would be absolutely no margin at the top
of each page. Not a software problem. Returned it. Blacks were fine, nice
and dark. Colors were OK too. I would say just buy a regular printer if
you don't use the scanner very often. You can get one real cheap if you
look.

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> I am thinking about buying this all in one. If you own one and have
> experience with it I would appreciate any comments you might have
> about it.

I have a HP PSC 1210. The price is good at 99$+tax canadian (after 50$ mail-in rebate from CompuSmart).
The drawbacks:
- No networking (can't share the printer to print from another computer than the one it's connected to)
- No greyscale
- USB only
- No way to print double sided
- installation forces you to install a whole suite of software including a bunch of tray apps that
crash when the computer wakes up from power-saving mode
- when photocopying pictures, the skin colors are too red

Otherwise it's a nice little printer.

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> I would appreciate it if you would explain what you mean. I don't
> have the background and knowledge to understand what you mean about
> greyscale(black). I have printed letters and they come out
> black(not in color). Does this per chance mean that when you print
> black you are actually using the color ink in a mixture that produces
> black? If so, why do they even have black ink and when would it be
> printed? As you can see, I know very little about the technology.
> Do you have the 1210 or the 1205?
>
>
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:54:01 +0100, "Pat Ronise"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> >I have just purchased the all in one p.s.c and find the size and ease of use
> >are great, but the only drawback,
> >(as far as i am concerned anyway) is that to print text in greyscale(black)
> >you have to remove the colour cartridge,because the p.s.c default is
> >colour,and you are unable to change it, i have been in touch with hp tech
> >site and was informed that the hp1205 is mostly a photo machine,and i would
> >have to indeed get used to swapping cartridges for text/photos printing its
> >a pity because it seems a nice machine for the price of £99 complete with
> >inks
> >
> >
>