HP DeskJet 2138 All-in-One Ink Advantage Colour Printer 680 Ink Advantage Cartridge (Black)

HP Deskjet 2138 is a good printer for home use. I received the printer in good condition. Installed in few steps with the CD which was given along with printer. Received a colour and a black cartridge along with the printer and its easy to fix the cartridges.Print quality is not super good but good enough for home use.Print speed is actually better than i expect. ( i have used canon printer before and Hp is better than that).Scan quality and speed is average. When you increase the quality(dpi), the scanning is even slower. ( canon was faster). Still not bad.printer is compact light weight and its easy to use.For those who wanna decide between inktank printer and cartridge printer like this one.... If you are looking for a printer for home use such as, ticket printing, school projects printing, occational document printing ..go for cartridge printer. If you are looking for printer for printing few hundreds of pages every month , all year, then go for ink tank printers. Note that, most common problem in a inkjet printer is print head stuck with dried ink. this happens when printer is not used for a while. When you change the cartridge, you are actually changing the print head. But with ink tank printer, print head is fixed and it requires service when its not used for a long time.Warranty issue.... when I checked for the warranty in HP website, it says only three months remaining. I called up the customer care and after sharing the invoice copy they assured me that warranty info will be reset.Edit/update :. After 10 days the warranty was updated correctly. So changing my 4 star rating to 5 star.

The printer is great. The print quality is excellent. The scanning function also works like a dream. And the ink is widely available. But the main problem lies with the ink. The ink just costs way too much, nothing like the number of pages mentioned in the promotional materials. Also, if you plan on printing just black and white text, make sure to find and turn on monochrome option. If you just use greyscale, it will use the colour ink along with the black ink for unnecessary reasons.

The ink is good for at least 200 copies in black and white. I don't use colour prints much but it lasted for a year and the black and white for 6 months. The scan function is really useful and I scanned all my old photos many of them more than 30 years old. The copy function is useful too.i refilled the black and white one locally but it lasted for about 50 copies only. Maybe only the original cartridges are good for more copies. Definitely worth owning for the scan function and occasional printing.Also it can print only with the black and white cartridge. The HP 680 black and white cartridge costs about 600 only

Printer looks good , easy to use , all functionality available , xerox ,scan , print.But it is not value for money as cartridge cost is more and print per page cost is more.It print 260 black pages and 20-25 colour for me . ON complaining to HP customer care they said as per standard it say it print 480 black and 150 color page but quality/quantity should be 5% of A4 size with draft quality. SO it means it should print 5% of 480 pages.so ideally we can say not value for money by spending 1100 rupees ( 2 cartridge cost) for 280 page total . So cost for page is - Rs 4/- approx avergae in totaland cost for black page print - Rs 2.88 /-and cost for color page print - Rs 28/-

It seems defective products are sold through Amazon and becomes useless. The printer gave me trouble within 2 months of purchase and the service department of hp was not ready to send a technician. But after much hassle and arguing they sent one technician who made a fool of me and it worked well only when he was there. I took it to the local repair shop and they told me that the problem is with logicard and it’s not available. Even after buying a new printer I was unable to use it after 3 months. Please don’t cheat people with great discounts and sell defective products.

I was worried since there were so many complaints for this printer. But this was easy to install and worked easily and quickly. The ink cartridges that came with the printer has already printed about 10 4x6 colour prints on HP photo paper, and about 25 sheets.I did a lot of research on what kind of printer to buy, based on what I expect my usage to be. I expect my usage to be minimal... maybe 5-6 pages every week on an average. But I may not print anything for many weeks also. It's mostly to be used for my kid's school assignment work etc. And I can take some prints from my workplace too. So this is more for emergencies, and when colour printing is required.Every type of printer has a hidden cost associated with it. It seems the ink in the Ink tank printers do not dry easily. So that is good. but the Ink tank printers can have their printer heads clogged, due to no usage. That can be a substantial cost.The MFP printers is not value for money if you have very little usage, and it's no help if suddenly you need to take a colour print for a school project the next day!After evaluatign all types of printers, I decided that the inkjet ones were the most appropriate for me:- Was okay will low usage.- Had a colour option too.- The printer nozzle heads are in-built with the ink cartridge. So if one goes bad, I can quickly/easily fix it, instead of having to take it to a service centre.Of the inkjet printers, I analyzed the whole range and decided that I should buy the cheapest one. The savings can be used to buy the expensive ink cartridges. While there were printers (only) available for sub-2000 rupees, i bought this, since this was the cheapest with the Ink Advantage technology, which I hope uses ink more efficiently.I initially had wanted to spend on the wireless versions, but I realized that I don't have a desktop anymore. I just have laptops, so it's not too much effort to take my laptop where the printer is! I just need to plug in the USB cable, and switch on the printer. And voila, I'm ready to print.