Review HP Deskjet 1050

The story started with the needs of buying a cheap printer for my store. I saw the HP D1000’s advertisement that was on sale for Ro. 260,000 and I would like to retire my old printer HP 3740. When I was in the computer store, I was disappointed since HP D1000 has been sold out. I was being offered the clerk CANON for Rp. 390,000 and I thought of buying it. When I was about pulling out my cash, I say this all-in-one HP Deskjet 1050 and I asked the price to the clerk. He said it is Rp. 470,000. I was shocked since a printer that has capability of scanning and making copies is sold quite cheap. So I bought this HP Deskjet 1050 instead of CANON. After getting home, I was impatient to try it on.

Comparing the size with my old HP Deskjet 3740, the HP Deskjet 1050 is bigger. But it is ok since there’s a scanner inside the unit.

After opened the box, these are the contents (see the top picture): the printer itself, cable adaptor, Printer cable, Cartridge 802 black, cartridge 802 color, CD driver, bag, quickstart guide, manual, and warranty card.

Not bad to have a case bag! Who knows that one day we need to carry this light and carryable printer for special occasion.

After removing some tapes, this is how it looks. Very nice isn’t it?

This is how the scanner looks.

The back part. Very simple but crystal clear function.

You don’t need to open the manual book to put on these two cables.

 The pair of 802 cartridge Black and Color.

After setting all up, it is set and ready to go!

Easy to install, you just need to put the Driver CD in and put AUTORUN. Just follow the step by step installation process and turn on the printer when asked. Wait for a few moment, and ready to use.

Because of my “want-to-try” I go with the photocopy feature, I put the A4 paper in the slot and copied the printer brochure in color by pressing the three button color. The process was quite quick but kinda noisy just like the usual copied-machine. It took 15 seconds more or less to finish copying. And then I tried to pull out the USB cable that connected to my computer, then I print the other side using black color, and the printing process was quicker. The Deskjet 1050 was amazed me since it can print out even though I pulled out the cable. it is really handy and portable when we want to use it as small-copying-machine. The copy result was just look like the picture above. Please have it zoom.

Then, I got more curious to try to scan something. I ran the launcher and it is quite easy and obvious.

Wow, even HP prepared every format available for printing and the interface is really easy.

This is the result of 200 dpi color scanner. Zoom more to see the result.

Because of the result was not satisfied me, I tried using the 1200 dpi and the result was amazing.

HP also gives me a free software to make a photo album. You just need to download the available link, and easy to use too.

Come across my mind that this cheap print would kill me when I am going to buy the cartridge. It felt like a horror movie crossing my mind couple of times about how much should I spend to replace the cartridge, will the price the same as the printer price? Then, I opened www.bhineka.com to find information about cartridge 802. Another shocking things that I found that the 802 black cartridge cost me only Rp. 61.000 and the color one only Rp. 93.000. it relieved me since it is much more lesser than what I’ve been imagining before. But, I also making sure with other website and the result is quite the same.

I felt worry-free and satisfied because the printing quality is good, and cartridge is cheap. I felt like cheap price and worth to buy.

Eventhough the printing photo and colorful quality are not superior, but it is very worth to buy this; because you not only have printer and scanner but also portable photocopy machine. I really recommended this product who would like to have all-in-one printer for your house.

I hope this review will help you –evoers.

-translated by Otoboke