HP Psc 1510 All-in-one Printer

I bought this computer Dec 2015 for my kids. It has worked well for the price. Four students in the house using it low-moderate. We never print in color and I just now had to change the black ink cartridge which was only $14. The paper feed is a pain, will only accept under 10 pages at a time. Have had no other problems and think its a great deal for the price. Other printers have had ink cartridges dry up on me so I appreciate the small ink cartridges at a lower price.

I went shopping for a reasonably priced printer to get some basic prints out, and I ended up picking up the HP-PSC 1510. Ive owned this piece of garbage for a year now, and the only way to keep myself from wasting time trying to get it to work was to simply throw it in the trash. Today I needed to print a single page, with a simple color picture on it and some basic text. As usual the text smeared (even after following ALL of the Help and Suggestion tips from the manual AND the HP website) which is acceptable, but the picture had lines through it and the colors were insane. I followed the instructions on the HP website to try and calibrate the colors - to no avail. I then tried to print out a test page, and the feed mechanism wasnt working, again. I spent an hour reading from the HP website about how to diagnose and perhaps fix the paper feed mechanism since that has NEVER really worked right. I figured enough is enough, and I simply picked up the HP-PSC 1510 and dropped it into the trash can - the single satisfying experience Ive had to date with this printer. - Feed mechanism errors: you have to TRICK the printer into actually accepting paper, and it usually DRAGS paper in at a weird angle - producing very inconsistent prints. If you are trying to print a report, every page will appear to have different margins. - Smearing of ink on final prints: no matter what quality setting I use or what program I use to print (including the most up-to-date HP printing software), text smears - sometimes so bad that it hurts your eyes to read more than a page of anything printed by the HP-PSC 1510. - Build quality is worse than that of dollar store plastic toy: while tinkering with the HP-PSC 1510 (trying to get the feed mechanism to work) I had a good look at the printer, and over all Id be generous to call the build quality shabby. - Photos were decent: this is the only area where the printer wasnt HORRIBLE. The feed mechanism didnt seem to have a problem accepting glossy photo paper, and the prints werent bad, but werent good. Ink blotted and discoloration was present after an hour, but that was perhaps one out of five photographs printed by the HP-PSC 1510 using HP software. I own an HP laptop and havent had any issues with it so far, in fact its one of the best laptops Ive worked with so far (dollar for dollar) - which makes me wonder if they put together their laptops and printers in different manufacturing plants, or even different countries. I cant be bothered to waste my time finding out, but Im amazed at the vast difference in build quality between the two. Suffice to say Ill NEVER be buying an HP printer again, and I advise anyone who is looking for a new printer to buy anything except HP.

Ive owned this printer for about two years and have run it under both Win XP and Win Vista. The printer does a reasonable job of scanning and printing but it suffers from several defects, 1. Uses ink VERY quickly and the ink cartridges are rather expensive. 2. Somehow managed to use up the color ink even though we werent printing any color items (I suspect one of the grayscale printing features uses some color to generate just the right shade of gray). 3. Is VERY difficult to run with just a black and white ink cartridge in place (which Ive been doing in an effort to avoid constantly replacing the color cartridge while printing only grayscale!). The printer will send numerous warning messages that the cartridges are misaligned and each time the printer is turned on, it will print an alignment page. All in all I cannot recommend this product (and in fact am just now browsing Amazon in search of a replacement!).

i see almost every one else despises this product too. 1) it is completely unreliable, jamming all the time and picking up too many sheets of paper. 2) it prints out a test page every time you turn it on, unless (as hp told me), you follow a ridiculous procedure every time you turn it on or refill a cartridge. 3) when it does work it uses a lot of ink, and is expensive to replace. but, hp help desk is friendly, i am always chatting to them, almost on first name basis. Caveat emptor.

This a very good printer for girls, so i bought for my honey, she like it very much. Thanks Amazon give me a nice price.

This product does everything I want it to do. Initially, I had a problem setting it up but that was my fault. The technical team at Quality Printers walked me through the set up and I am very happy for their support. I would encourage anybody who is thinking of a printer or other computer related products to talk to Quality Printers first. You wont be disappointed. Sincerely, Dana Weishaar

We bought this awhile back, barely ever used it and its a nightmare every time we try to. Constant trouble shooting and strange error messages appear. Our cheaper and older printer does a much better job! Only buy this printer if you like troubleshooting.

I have had my printer for about 10 or 11 months. I have had very minor problems with the paper feeding through; it has never jammed, but sometimes it does feed through more than one sheet at a time. The only thing about this printer that does really frustrate me is that after I replaced my black ink cartridge with another (and it was genuine HP ink), my printer now prints a test page every time I turn it on, without fail. I havent been able to figure out why or how to stop it. But other than that, Im happy with my printer. The print quality is very good, and my issues with the printer feeding through more than one piece of paper at a time rarely happens.

I spent more than a week trying to get the HP PSC 1510 installed on my Win98SE system without success. My computer is a P3-866 with 128MB RAM, which does meet the system requirements. I made many attempts at installing the software and uninstalling, re-installing, etc. The install of the software always appeared to go OK and the All-in-One was detected by Windows and several drivers were loaded. However, after everything was done and Windows was restarted the 1510 was not listed as an available printer when either printing a document or under Settings / Control Pannel / Printers. HP email tech support tried to help and even wrote back once asking if earlier tips they had given had worked. But I eventually just got fed up and decided to return the PSC 1510 to Amazon. At least the return to Amazon was quick and without hassle. UPS even came direct to my door to pick up the package at no charge. I was pleased with the results of the test scans I made. The no-PC color copying was also quick and of good quality. However, since I could not print, I decided to give this printer one star. I will now be trying a Lexmark, probably a X6150. From the specs at least, the X6150 sounds to be more system friendly, requiring only a P200 and 64 MB RAM for Windows 98. ----- UPDATE: 12/10/05: After returning the HP and getting the Lexmark I found I still had the same installation problems. Only after doing a fresh install of Windows, rather than an upgrade, was I able to install the Lexmark printer. It is likely that doing the same fresh install would have allowed me to install this HP printer. It would be nice if the install programs for these printers told you exactly what was wrong or would even offer to fix the problem, instead of forcing you to reinstall your OS. I am happier with the Lexmark (X6150) though. The scans I was able to make on the HP (never could print) do not look as good as scans of same material made on the Lexmark at the same dpi setting. The HP-1510 was faster though at doing no-PC copying, even at the higher quality settings. Scan speed is about the same, the best I can reemember.

Ive had this printer for a few years simply because I dont print that much and dont want to spend much money on something I rarely use. This printer has never been able to print a decent picture. It has always needed frequent cartridge changes even though I print very few pages (I finally found an alternative to buying the hugely overpriced HP cartridges). The paper feeder has also always been a pain as many other raters mentioned. Bottom line is that this product is a piece of crap and as previous raters have mentioned I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER HEWLETT-PACKARD PRINTER!!!