Hewlett Packard Officejet 6310 All-In-One InkJet Printer
- Black Print Speed: 30 ppm
- Color Print Speed: 24 ppm
- Output Type: Color Printer
- Technology (Detailed): Inkjet
- Printer Type: All-In-One Printer
- All-in-One Functions: Copier Fax Machine Scanner
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Simple to use, reasonable price, good feature set
Pros
Simple operation. Can scan direct to any computer on the LAN! Sheet feeder. OSX compatible.
Cons
Can't sheet-feed double-sided originals. Can't select scan options from the front panel. Small paper capacity.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
If you don't need laser quality or speed, the OJ6310 is a great choice for Mac or Windows.
Background: I run a mixed Mac/Windows network with two MacBooks, one PC laptop, and eight desktops. I was previously sharing a laser and an inkjet through a spare PC. I wanted to retire the PC and replace it with printers that have built-in Ethernet, for power saving reasons. At the same time I wanted to retire several old flatbed scanners (no MacOS X drivers). So an inkjet all-in-one was a good choice. I have no use at all for the fax feature since I haven't had a telephone line in years.
My intended use pattern for this device is 75% scanning, 20% printing color photos, mostly on glossy card stock, and 5% full-page color prints, mostly for pictures and/or graphs that will go into larger collated documents.
Before writing this review I read through the other reviews for this product, and I'm quite surprised to read so much negative information. I chose the OJ6310 because the device itself was inexpensive ($199) and the cartridges were cheaper, dollar per millilitre, than the other brands on offer (I looked at Canon and Kodak. Best Buy did not have a networkable Brother all-in-one in my price bracket; the cheapest I saw was $399). The regular capacity black cartridge is just under $15, the color cartridge is $18. Photo and grayscale cartridges are also available but were not in stock when I bought the unit.
The scanning feature works very well. You can put an original in the sheet feeder or on the glass and press the Scan To button - the printer uses Bonjour to scan the network and present a menu of available computers, and then you can select how you want the document to be transferred (JPG, PDF, TIFF, etc) and to which application (Adobe Acrobat, Preview, etc). OCR is also available in the standard software bundle, and it has very good recognition statistics.
Unfortunately the scan options (resolution, color depth, etc) are set by preferences on the target computer, so if you want something special you need to set it up on the computer first, then walk over to the OJ6310 to scan your document. Apart from this niggle, the networked scanning is really excellent; it's great to be able to scan direct to any computer on the network from one central location.
Making a copy is also very easy; load original then press black or color. There are some simple scaling and quality options, also. Handy for making one or two quick copies but not fast enough for big runs. HP claims up to 30ppm copy speed, but this is utter nonsense. 30ppm is two seconds per page, and it takes much longer than two seconds just for the scan head to calibrate its position, let alone to feed, scan and print a document!
Print output is really very good, even on regular cheapo copy paper. HP seems to be using a very opaque ink dispensed sparingly, or perhaps a fast-drying solvent, because saturated color areas don't cause the usual wrinkling you generally see on color inkjet output with uncoated papers.
The sheet feeder, while obviously intended for multipage faxes, is handy for scanning bills and such. When I get a bill in the mail, I unfold it and drop it in the sheet feeder, hit scan, and walk away - I have yet to see a misfeed. The only niggle I have about the feeder is that it has no duplexer, so there's no easy way to scan two-sided documents.
Printing direct from camera memory cards or USB sticks is equally simple. One nifty feature is that you can access the attached storage media over the LAN, so you can effectively use the OJ6310 as a mini networked hard drive.
Overall this device provides exactly the functionality I expected and the price - both up front and ongoing - was right. Setup was simple, operation is trouble-free.
My intended use pattern for this device is 75% scanning, 20% printing color photos, mostly on glossy card stock, and 5% full-page color prints, mostly for pictures and/or graphs that will go into larger collated documents.
Before writing this review I read through the other reviews for this product, and I'm quite surprised to read so much negative information. I chose the OJ6310 because the device itself was inexpensive ($199) and the cartridges were cheaper, dollar per millilitre, than the other brands on offer (I looked at Canon and Kodak. Best Buy did not have a networkable Brother all-in-one in my price bracket; the cheapest I saw was $399). The regular capacity black cartridge is just under $15, the color cartridge is $18. Photo and grayscale cartridges are also available but were not in stock when I bought the unit.
The scanning feature works very well. You can put an original in the sheet feeder or on the glass and press the Scan To button - the printer uses Bonjour to scan the network and present a menu of available computers, and then you can select how you want the document to be transferred (JPG, PDF, TIFF, etc) and to which application (Adobe Acrobat, Preview, etc). OCR is also available in the standard software bundle, and it has very good recognition statistics.
Unfortunately the scan options (resolution, color depth, etc) are set by preferences on the target computer, so if you want something special you need to set it up on the computer first, then walk over to the OJ6310 to scan your document. Apart from this niggle, the networked scanning is really excellent; it's great to be able to scan direct to any computer on the network from one central location.
Making a copy is also very easy; load original then press black or color. There are some simple scaling and quality options, also. Handy for making one or two quick copies but not fast enough for big runs. HP claims up to 30ppm copy speed, but this is utter nonsense. 30ppm is two seconds per page, and it takes much longer than two seconds just for the scan head to calibrate its position, let alone to feed, scan and print a document!
Print output is really very good, even on regular cheapo copy paper. HP seems to be using a very opaque ink dispensed sparingly, or perhaps a fast-drying solvent, because saturated color areas don't cause the usual wrinkling you generally see on color inkjet output with uncoated papers.
The sheet feeder, while obviously intended for multipage faxes, is handy for scanning bills and such. When I get a bill in the mail, I unfold it and drop it in the sheet feeder, hit scan, and walk away - I have yet to see a misfeed. The only niggle I have about the feeder is that it has no duplexer, so there's no easy way to scan two-sided documents.
Printing direct from camera memory cards or USB sticks is equally simple. One nifty feature is that you can access the attached storage media over the LAN, so you can effectively use the OJ6310 as a mini networked hard drive.
Overall this device provides exactly the functionality I expected and the price - both up front and ongoing - was right. Setup was simple, operation is trouble-free.
