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Review
Created: April, 2000
If you are setting up a home office or small business for the first time, a multifunction printer can provide great convenience. Getting printing, scanning, faxing and photocopying in one unit is both cost and space efficient.
Hewlett Packard's OfficeJet T65 scores well in all categories, with very competitive output, very good speeds and multiplicity of options.
This is a well-built, high-quality, durable unit and it has an interface brimming with buttons that scream versatility. It's easy to set up and has a good array of bundled software.
Right off the bat, you'll be impressed with fabulous output. Colors are strong and sharp, black and white is stark in quality. The manufacturer's claim for printing speed is too close to reality to dispute. At 11 pages per minute for black and white and 8.5 for color, output is competitive with single-purpose printers, a surprise for multifunction units. The OfficeJet T65 also prints with nary a whir, it a very quiet piece of machinery, another surprise, given that very few printers are.
Multifunction units don't tend to be impressive from a cutting-edge, quality standpoint. Whenever a manufacturer bundles plenty of utility into one piece of hardware, it is usually with the intent to unload old, out-dated, and often sub-par equipment. Soup up yesterday's printer with similarly out-dated fax and scanning capability, sell it at a discounted price and you get rid of old inventory. There is nothing wrong with the practice, but it leads you to expect to trade convenience and price for lower quality output when buying these products.
Not with the OfficeJet T65. Hewlett Packard clearly did not load the T65 with old internals. The hardware is quite strong in its own right. Also, the fax function is capable of transmitting color, a real boon. In addition, the photocopier can print up to 99 copies and can be configured to collate your reports, another impressive detail.
This fairly tale has to end somewhere -- and it does, with the scanner. The T65's scanner is not quite up to par, operating at 300 by 600 dpi (dots per inch) optical resolution and in 24-bit color. Also, it offers the option of only fed-in documents. Fans of flatbeds probably would not purchase a scanner that does not allow scanning of any surface.
The main drawback, however, is that the price is also top of the line. The T65 will set you back $600 US ($900 Canadian). That's quite a bit of dough when you consider some other multifunction units cost little more than half that. It is also expensive when you consider other multifunction units come with a flatbed scanner affixed to the unit. And finally, a decent fax modem, a top quality scanner and a top quality printer, bought separately, could be had for approximately the same price.
In other words, you are not saving money with Hewlett Packard's T65: only office space. If your small business inhabits cramped quarters, however, it might be worth a look.
Reviewer's rating: 3.5 / 5
Comments: The HP OfficeJet T65 is a good unit that offers quality printing, faxing, photocopying and scanning -- but at $600 US, it's not exactly priced to sell.
Platform: PC
Interface: Bi-directional IEEE 1284 parallel
Network capability?: Yes
Maximum optical resolution: 300 x 600
Maximum scanning area: 8.5 inches x 14 inches
Color?: Yes
Pages per minute (manufacturer's claim): Prints B&W 11 pages a minute, prints color 8.5 pages a minute.
Maximum paper size: 8.5 x 14 inches
Software included: OCR software, PhotoRecall TM Deluxe
Document feeder?: Yes
More info: http://www.hp.com/
Price: $600 US, $900 Canadian
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