HP Deskjet 6988

usability, performance, price, reliability, design

durability, paper handling

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It's very fast and easy to setup through Vista. I was reading through the manual and started to setup the printer. By the third or fourth step that it required me to plug it in to the computer, Vista just took it over and installed drivers and...

Network setup is a bit more tedious, but it's not impossible ; There are 2 sets of inks to use. One for documents and another for photos. I tried printing with the "regular" ink to print an image on a photopaper. Oh boy, the picture was smudgy by ink...

Wireless printer setup and connection, using HP's installation disk went fast and easy, print speed and quality for both pictures and text is fast and very good

If you do not have some knowledge of networking and/or know how your network is configured, I could see this installation become messy and frustrating ; The print cartridges are really small. While too early to tell, with kids using the printer, often...

This is a very good printer and very easy to install. It only took me just a few minutes of time to get it up and running. I realize also that I'm probably a lot more advanced than most when it comes to computer hardware , installation and knowledge....

None right now

Fast, great precision, flexibility of configuration - both in hardware and software. Network printing and 2-sided printing is supported. 250 sheet tray is supported. Thermal inkjet ink is used - far less smearing and less moisture vulnerability of...

Anticipating higher ink costs ; my old printer used bigger 45 and 78 cartridges. Noisy operation in draft (the fastest) mode (300dpi) causes anxiety about to hardware longevity. Installed as a wired network printer. Difficult software installation ;...

I've had the printer for about a half a year and have printed about 5000 pages from it. I goes though a black cartridge about every 950 pages and a color one every 850 pages. Although printing full page color photos will use the color ink much faster...

Although I think this has more to do with the paper, every once in about 300-500 pages it will draw in two pages instead of one. But like I said I think this has to do more with the paper. I'm using HP paper and sometimes it does not have a clean edge...

FAST draft/grayscale printing: Great for printing receipts/etc

Setup on Windows is a severely lengthy process with this printer. Keep in mind I decided to just keep the printer by itself as a network printer only(I hate leaving computers on just to print) I am not sure if this added time to the installation or...

Wirless network convenience, easy installation

Reports variable MAC addresses (there's a new one), print quality is average. Print time through the network considerabley slower than my previous network printer which ran through the gateway's print server

Looks very nice. Quality is there

Doesn't ship with the usb connection. If you don't have a wireless source you will need to buy it separately. ANNOYING STICKER at the top with tons of gunk underneath to keep it sticky... I'll put some rubbing alcohol to it on a rag and... you know

Print Quality is good for an inkjet

Does not have auto on/off feature. My old canon pixima wireless printe had this and it's nice because you can print from anothe room withought have in to make sure the printer is on. It's a bretty basic technology that I assumed would have been there....