HP 3180 Fax Machine
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A HP 3180 is no longer in my possession. It worked well for the time I had it, but it eventually died. It was only set up for a landline phone, if my memory serves me correctly.
The front of the Fax Machine has a tray that folds down. The tray extension detaches from the rest of the tray. Fill the tray with paper. Since I bought the machine, I've had issues with the paper feeding. It seems to be affected by the type of paper used. I mostly use the machine to send and receive faxes and to make copies. If I'm sending a fax, I'll make a copy of something to ensure the paper feed is functioning properly. After that, fax the document. That way, I can be confident that the fax report will be printed.
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The fact that the 3180 is relatively compact is appealing, and the faxes are crisp and clear. I do use one black cartridge per week, though. That has turned out to be quite expensive. According to HP, a single cartridge should produce 120 faxes or copies. Believe it or not, this is not true. Incoming faxes have a volume control, but outgoing faxes do not. The machine's output volume is so loud that it's impossible to be in the same room with it; thus, while $78 is a good price for the unit, $780 per year for ink is not. br>br>An addendum from August 2010. In the last seven months, I've used 25 cartridges. Every day, we fax and receive about 15 pages. Never more than that, and almost always less. This fax machine is being retired, despite the fact that it is only a year old. RIP.
I bought the HP3180 Fax Machine to use in our home on occasion. Since then, the product has failed to perform for one simple reason: the paper feed tray has repeatedly failed to register that there is paper in the machine, resulting in the loss of numerous incoming faxes, some of which were critical. It will detect paper one out of every ten times, no matter how carefully I inspect it or what type of paper I use. I can test it by using it as a copier and sending a fax from another machine; nine times out of ten, the machine will not detect that paper is loaded and will not accept or store the incoming fax. We've limited the machine's use to incoming faxes and local copying.
This is an excellent option for use at home or in a small office. It folds up into a small, attractive package and allows you to make color or black-and-white copies, as well as send and receive color or black-and-white FAXs. It also includes a handset phone. The FAX quality is on par with what you'd expect from an ink jet printer. It operates quietly, and we have yet to experience a paper jam, which was our main gripe with the machine it replaces. br>br>I bought this for a 7-person office and must have been underestimating how many FAXs we get because we used to have to replace our Brother toner cartridge every two years. We only needed three days to replace the ink cartridge that came with the machine. In about a week, we swapped out the HP 21 cartridge we were using. We're on our 54th day, and it's still going strong. I believe we will spend far more on toner than we would on a more expensive FAX machine. br>br>This machine lacks a large paper drawer - Actually, it's just an open tray with incoming FAXes sliding out on top of the blank paper. It's a small system that, as I previously stated, would suffice for those who don't receive a lot of FAXs. We like it, but it's as if one of us brought in a home FAX machine to tide us over until the real FAX machine arrives.
Even though I hadn't put any paper in the input tray the first time I connected it, I kept getting paper jam error messages. I turned off the power and disconnected the phone line, wondering what kind of lemon I'd purchased for our department. I reconnected it a few days later, and it completed the startup process flawlessly. The input tray does not hold a lot of paper, but it works fine and is well worth the money I paid for it.
I contacted HP and spent a long time on the phone with a representative, who eventually informed me that the speed dialing feature is only for faxes. Is there anyone who knows how to get it to dial regular phone numbers? I suppose I'm satisfied, but I wish I could use speed dialing for phone calls. It works well as a fax machine, and the printing is much better than what I got from an older HP Fax machine.
I don't have this product, so I assume I gave it as a gift. As a result, I can't give an honest review of it. Please accept my sincere apologies for any inconvenience this has caused you.
While it was inexpensive, the cost of the toner cartridge and the frequency with which it needed to be replaced made it prohibitively expensive. Our old HP fax used fewer print cartridges than this machine, so I was tempted to return it, but that would have cost us more money. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this machine.
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