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My son just bought an HP 6540 printer. Does anyone have any experience with
this model? What do you think of this model? I'm considering it.

Pat

 

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"PEmpson181" <pempson181@aol.com> wrote in message
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> My son just bought an HP 6540 printer. Does anyone have any experience with
> this model? What do you think of this model? I'm considering it.

I use it at work, it is a nice printer. I recommend the two-sided duplexer, it
is convenient to be able to print both front and back sides automatically. The
DeskJet 6840 is a similar printer with additional network connectivity, both
wired and wireless networking built in.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP

 

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PEmpson181 wrote:
> My son just bought an HP 6540 printer. Does anyone have any
> experience with this model? What do you think of this model? I'm
> considering it.
>
> Pat

I've heard that they're slow...and expensive carts...
i guess some Canon is out of the question for you?

 

[bill]

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SleeperMan wrote:

>> My son just bought an HP 6540 printer. Does anyone have any
>> experience with this model? What do you think of this model? I'm
>> considering it.
>
>I've heard that they're slow...

I don't know why you keep saying that about printers you don't have any
first-hand experience with. Please stop spreading FUD.

I have the HP 6540 printer on my desk here and I can tell you it is far
from slow, and I'm comparing it directly to the Canon i850 I had
previously.

I'm sure HP makes some slow printers, like the small mobile unit you
tried to compare to Canon. But the current line of comparable desktop
printers from HP are quite fast.

>and expensive carts...

More misinformation and FUD.

The HP cartridges SEEM expensive when incorrectly compared to a single
colour ink tank from Canon. But the cost per page and total page yield
is similar to the competition. Ink volume and individual costs are
irrelevant and do NOT truly represent ink costs.

 

[bill]

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PEmpson181 wrote:

>My son just bought an HP 6540 printer. Does anyone have any experience with
>this model? What do you think of this model? I'm considering it.

I bought the HP 6540 to replace a Canon i850 that died (printhead
failed). It's a very good printer, solidly built, fast, and has
excellent colour rendition in photo prints even with just four colours.
The optional photo cartridge (#99) produces photos with six inks and is
quite impressive.

Highly recommended.

 

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Bill wrote:
> SleeperMan wrote:
>
>>> My son just bought an HP 6540 printer. Does anyone have any
>>> experience with this model? What do you think of this model? I'm
>>> considering it.
>>
>> I've heard that they're slow...
>
> I don't know why you keep saying that about printers you don't have
> any first-hand experience with. Please stop spreading FUD.
>
> I have the HP 6540 printer on my desk here and I can tell you it is
> far from slow, and I'm comparing it directly to the Canon i850 I had
> previously.
>
> I'm sure HP makes some slow printers, like the small mobile unit you
> tried to compare to Canon. But the current line of comparable desktop
> printers from HP are quite fast.
>
>> and expensive carts...
>
> More misinformation and FUD.
>
> The HP cartridges SEEM expensive when incorrectly compared to a single
> colour ink tank from Canon. But the cost per page and total page yield
> is similar to the competition. Ink volume and individual costs are
> irrelevant and do NOT truly represent ink costs.

I worked with some HP's, some A4 and one A3 format and all of them were
printing only one way when full resolution - backwards the head is always
going without printing...
I don't say anything ybout quality, as it could be excellent...just before i
bought first canon, salesman told me that carts for HP are about
double-priced than Canon's - i know it's because HP's cart includes head,
too, but still.....

 

[bill]

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SleeperMan wrote:

>> The HP cartridges SEEM expensive when incorrectly compared to a single
>> colour ink tank from Canon. But the cost per page and total page yield
>> is similar to the competition. Ink volume and individual costs are
>> irrelevant and do NOT truly represent ink costs.
>
>I worked with some HP's, some A4 and one A3 format and all of them were
>printing only one way when full resolution - backwards the head is always
>going without printing...

I don't know what configuration you had, but it doesn't sound typical.

As I said before, I've compared print speeds of similar models, and the
difference is negligible.

>I don't say anything ybout quality, as it could be excellent...just before i
>bought first canon, salesman told me that carts for HP are about
>double-priced than Canon's - i know it's because HP's cart includes head,
>too, but still.....

The salesman is a brainless dolt. The printhead is irrelevant.

Like I said above, the HP cartridges do cost more, but you get the
equivalent of THREE ink tanks compared to the Canon. Do the math
yourself...