Hewlett Packard OfficeJet 6310 All-In-One Review

I purchased this combo unit at office max for about $170 US.  I was on a "get my home network totally solid" kick and was tired of USB connections to printers.  Now that I was using wireless all over the place, walking down to the printer and attaching a cable started to annoy me.  I went to office max and thought why not get a printer/fax/scanner combo deal? 

I'm happy with my decision.  I have used all of the features of the unit and have had to change ink once.  We mainly use the printer for documents as our photo printing has been outsourced to Yahoo! Photos but it does a good job with color and the speed is just fine.  Importing photos from the card reader is a snap.   There isn't anything really super sexy about the printer.. everything works like you'd expect it to.  The network capabilities are pretty good though.. definitely plug and play.

As with most HP printers the ink is pretty expensive.. If I remember correctly, it was like $50 for a color and b/w set.  The software is also a massive install (~600 MB) and runs in rosetta on my mac (power pc binary, not intel) but isn't noticeably slow or anything.  On our windows machines, there have been a couple of times that the printer disappears from the network (not on the mac though) and a reboot solved that issue.

 In its standby state it uses 3W of power.