HP Laser Jet 3050 All in One Printer/Copy/Scanner reviews (White/Black)

Product Description
Box Contents: HP LaserJet 3050 All-In-One, 250-sheet media input tray, control panel overlay, power cords, ADF input/output support, phone cords, output bin support, Readiris PRO text recognition software, HP LaserJet Q2612A Black Print Cartridge, CDs containing device software and electronic User's Guide.

The HP LaserJet 3050 is an affordable and compact all-in-one that makes printing, faxing, color scanning, and copying easy and dependable. Space-saving simplicity and easy office integration combine in this black & white printer, copier, fax and scanner. Hi-Speed USB port and HP Jetdirect external print server connections

Fax Specs - Fax Resolution - Up to 300 x 300 dpi (halftone enabled) Transmission Speed - 3 sec/page Fax auto redial PC interface (software included) Up to 120 numbers; up to 120 speed dials & 119 group dials Broadcast faxing Fax forwarding Delayed sending Junk fax barrier Polling Distinctive ring detection

Copier Specs - Copy resolution (black) - Up to 600 x 600 dpi Copy settings - Contrast(lighter/darker), reduce/enlarge 25 to 400%, resolution copy (draft, text, mixed, film photo and picture), copy collation, number of copies, paper size Max. copies - Up to 99

Scanner Specs - Sheetfed scanner Scan resolution - Up to 600 x 600 dpi; (up to 19200 dpi enhanced) Bit depth - 24-bit 256 levels of grayscale

General Specs - Feeder Capacity - 30 sheets Max. Input Capacity - 260 sheets Max. Output Capacity - Up to 100 sheets; up to 10 envelopes Paper Trays - 1 tray plus 10-sheet priority slot Media Types - Paper (plain, preprinted, prepunched, bond, color, glossy, letterhead, light, heavy, recycled, rough), envelopes, vellum, transparencies, labels, cardstock Media Sizes - letter, legal, envelopes (No 5 1/2 Baronial through No 11), index cards, postcards; through ADF - 4.13 x 5.83 to 8.5 x 15 Window

Customer printers reviews

Nice printing, never jams, poor Mac support, expensive per copy (2008-02-15)
I've had this printer for nearly a year. Very good quality output, pretty speedy, scan and fax work fine. Super reliable, and out of tens of thousands of copies, I think I've had one jam. That's the good news.

The bad news comes in two types:

1. Mac support is essentially non-existent for Leopard users. Cannot scan without weird work-arounds that you don't want to try. Manual duplex causes every other page to print upside down. The drivers have not been updated for Leopard.

2. The cost of toner is high. You get 2,000 sheets from a cartridge, which costs about $60 (Costco) or more. To make this worse, the printer never gives you warning when toner is low. If you are, for example, printing 50 copies, the toner could run out after copy 2, giving you 48 misprinted sheets that are destined for the recycle bin. Since the sheets exit face down, you cannot see this happening until it is too late.

I've been trying to find a highly-rated equivalent printer (laser all in one) that works well on the Mac, and when I do, this 3050 will be gone.