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HP Officejet 4215 Printer

The 4215 - known as an "all-in-one" - is one of the most popular of HP's home-use printers.

PC Magazine concluded:

We rated the 4215's output as somewhat better than good for text and photos and very good for graphics. For text, more than half of the fonts we test with were easily readable at 4 points, but two highly stylized fonts needed 12-point size to avoid filling in the holes in lowercase Es. Graphics and photos both suffered from several minor flaws; in each case, it was the number of flaws rather than their severity that lowered the rating.

Even so, the 4215 offers better output quality than most AIOs [All-In-Ones] in its price class, which makes it a reasonable choice.


CNET was positive:

The Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet 4215 All-in-One is an attractive, affordable, and reliable color inkjet multifunction printer for homes and small businesses. Vendor-rated to print 17 pages per minute in black ink and 12 pages per minute in color ink, it's fast, although not the speediest multifunction in its class. We're OK with that, though, because this machine favors quality over quantity, producing equally impressive print, copy, and scan output. HP's high-quality software and support, wide variety of copy options, and handy features--for example, the ability to create your own fax cover sheet--offset a few downsides, such as a small, awkward output tray and the lack of a built-in memory card reader. If you need an affordable, high-quality multifunction printer for your home or office, this is the best choice on the market.

Hardware Central also liked it:

You can find multifunction peripherals with more convenient flatbed scanner/copiers for the same or less than the Officejet 4215's thrifty $149, but those units lack the office standby of fax-machine functionality. If your home office or small business doesn't require high-volume printing and you don't mind a sheetfed scanner, you'll find the HP an effective replacement for several office machines.

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March 30th, 2006