HP Photosmart C1610 All-in-One User reviews

By Jeffrey Fuchs, CNET.com on 14/03/2005

More HP reviews , RRP: AU$199.00

The good:

  • Easy-to-use walk-up or computer-controlled printing, scanning, and copying
  • Slick look
  • Low price, digital memory cards and PictBridge port

The bad:

  • Slow
  • No photo preview LCD, automatic document feeder, or two-sided printing
  • Fair scans
  • Requires ink swapping

The bottomline:

The HP 1610 all-in-one is well suited for an individual or a family that will use colour scanning and copying only occasionally.

Buying choices:

Users' rating:

7/10

Tags:

1610 | all-in-one | copier | hewlett-packard | hp | multifunction | printer | psc | scanner

jjjjjjj
17/05/2008, 02:53 AM

rating
1/10

The reviews are TRUE. This product WON'T align the cartridge, reports a paper jam when there is no paper. Keeps telling me to turn paper over. When I did have paper in it it JAMMED on the very first print.

Pros: none.

Cons: A real lemon. It seems everyone is having problems right out of the box. STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRODUCT!

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Kargok9
01/04/2008, 10:59 AM

rating
2/10

My HP All In One has had problems from day one. It has never fed paper on its own without me helping… the colors are way off when printing photos. Generally...is sucks.

Pros: It is compact.

Cons: Customer support is nonexistent! I will not buy another HP product.

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jkane12
27/03/2008, 10:05 AM

rating
2/10

crap crap crap

Pros: never got it running

Cons: 1st one no paper but keeps showing paper jam. 2nd same thing getting my money back.

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oke
26/03/2008, 06:02 AM

rating
10/10

Very good printer, no problems with it , never had paper jams, printer been more than half of a year for sure

Pros: Cheap, well working.

Cons: Ink is going fast...

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coyote55
14/01/2008, 07:27 PM

rating
2/10

I have a 1610 All-in-One and have found that the colours you see on your computer are not very close to what prints out. ( I have tried to do CD jackets and Labels.) Also because the paper has to do a 'U' turn to get printed, photo paper always jams. It take about three tries to print a photo by pushing the paper when it tries to feed. I let the lid drop by accident and broke the scanner/copier glass so not it is just a printer that's to stressful to print photos. I would NEVER buy aother one.

Pros: Can't think of any off hand.

Cons: Every thing I have listed above plus I found when I renewed my computer that it is not compatable with 'Vista' so you can not use the CD Rom to load your program. When I went to HP web site and downloaded a program for 'Vista' the printer stopped working completely until I backed up my computer and got rid of the new program. I have tried to get help from HP and they're not interested.

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0002010114
14/11/2007, 04:53 AM

rating
2/10

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badteaparty
09/08/2007, 03:41 AM

rating
5/10

I don't expect too much for the cheap price tag, but on a mac many options weren't available to me.

Pros: Cheap, relatively good quality on simple jobs

Cons: Didn't interface well with any software other than MS Word, didn't work well on mac, wouldn't let me print in black only when color ink cartridge was low. I actually wonder if the last one is some kind of scam to make you buy color ink even when you only want to use it to print B/W.

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d12
21/07/2007, 07:55 AM

rating
2/10

won't align cartridge, paper jam when there is no paper, various errors

Pros: after buying this you'll spend your money on a real printer

Cons: won't align cartridge, paper jam when there is no paper, various errors

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wannaprint
24/05/2007, 11:48 AM

rating
3/10

worked fine for a few months, now it seems to be out of paper forever, software problem too hard to fix? i've tried everything, ran out of ideas. sick of it. no more HP for me

Pros: great scanning and printing for 3 months, after new cartridges it's 'out of paper'

Cons: now it's a useless piece of ****

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wannaprint
24/05/2007, 11:48 AM

rating
3/10

worked fine for a few months, now it seems to be out of paper forever, software problem too hard to fix? i've tried everything, ran out of ideas. sick of it. no more HP for me

Pros: great scanning and printing for 3 months, after new cartridges it's 'out of paper'

Cons: now it's a useless piece of ****

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