Title: Solid printer, horrible scanning/software and LOUD!
Product review: Beware - this printer is noisy! And it likes to do self-tests every once in awhile for no apparent reason - that is, if you place it in your bedroom like I did it WILL wake you up at 1:30 in the morning to do its little 30-second cartridge exercises. Very annoying.The included software is amazingly hardware-intensive. It slowed down my 2.4Ghz Dell like you wouldn't believe. And you can't just install the driver - to use the printer you have to install everything from the included ads to the ocr software no one uses.The scanning is really bad quality in Windows XP - I don't know if my scanner was messed up or something, but the scans were really light and grainy, and the software didn't help in my trying to fix them (and I'm good with computers).I recommend going with a Canon or one of those new Epson multifunctions.
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