Customer Reviews
Ink RipOff Indeed 
2008-01-14
It recognizes expired ink carts and pretty much disables the machine. I can't believe it. We loaded up on ink at one time when we had money, and now we're forced to throw away all this "expired" ink, which would most likely work just fine. This is an obvious ploy to keep you buying more ink, and I'm offended by it. I will be checking for this feature (flaw) when I shop for my next printer.
Expensive and highly unreliable 2006-01-21
We purchased this machine several years ago, new, for ~$350. Considering how sparingly we used this boat anchor, it had a voracious appetite for ink. Since the ink came in a tri-color cartridge, when one color ran out you had to pitch them all.
Once we didn't use it for 2 weeks (on vacation) and when we returned we found that the cyan print head had completely clogged and the blue had partially clogged. Heavy amounts of cleaning would help, but the heads would just clog up again in another couple of days. So; in less than 1 year our color printer became a monochrome printer. That was until a few weeks later when the internal power supply fried and this thing would only emit a high pitched squeal. For the money we paid I'd expect better quality. My next multi-function will be a Canon PIXMA. My father in-law has had one for a year now and absolutely loves it. Separate cartridges for each color too.
HP laser jets are OK, except for their tendency of developing a multi-page feed problem after a year or so, but their ink jet printers are pretty bad. Stay away from this one.
Wonderful WHEN IT WORKED! 
2005-04-21
I purchased the d145 in January 2003; approximately two months after the one year anniversary of the purchase (and the end of the warranty period), it ceased to function. Having owned at one time or another : a Lexmark X73, a Compaq bubble jet BJC-600 and a Brother laser MFC 4550, and NEVER having had a problem with any of them more serious than a paper jam, I suppose I was defying the odds when I elected not to purchase the warranty upgrade. I thought HP was just a reliable as some of the others; now other wiser individuals tell me they have faced similar problems with HP, namely breakdown of one part or another just after warranty expires.
Specifically, whether from a computer copy or from the copy function itself, it became impossible to complete anything without the message "Scanner System Failure" appearing as the machine shut down. For a time I was able to trick it in to making a single copy by shutting it down, then turning it back on fast. However, soon even that "trick" no longer worked. Of course, all the troubleshooting hints failed as well. At one point I even thought perhaps the room was too cool for the printer and went so far as to swaddle it in blankets! That generated two copies!!
I finally got around to calling about printer repairs, having pressed the Brother back into action, but the answer is almost universal, that for an ink jet it is usually cheaper to buy a new one than to repair an old one. A laser printer is far easier to repair, I am told, as the parts are easier to access.
My advice, if you want to buy the hp d145 do so ( it WAS wonderful when it worked), but protect your investment, buy the extended warranty.
danger will robinson!!!! 2005-02-11
this is a terrible machine. it is the noisiest piece of equipment we have ever purchased. it eats toner. it feeds paper 2, 3, 4 or more pieces at a time, especially if copying on reverse side. it goes thru so many motions to print one copy that you almost forget what you were there for. when working from computer it reduces copy to one tiny corner of paper for no reason, in the middle of a run. it is a piece of junk and we will replace it as soon as we can get over the 500 bucks we were ripped off. the only guarantee we can give is that we will NEVER buy an hp item again!
Worst product to work on macintosh 2004-06-08
I bought D145 a year ago and despite rares drivers update it's still using 25-50% off CPU even when not printing, i can't scan and it's so slow to print. Don't buy HP product for mac !
Ink RipOff 2004-02-05
Small businesses and home offices are looking for photo-quality printing combined with high-performance faxing, scanning and copying and excellent productivity. The HP Officejet d145 delivers remarkable color printing, faxing, scanning and copying to the office user.
Too many features, no function 2003-11-05
I have struggled with this machine from the beggining. It is a case of a machine trying to do too much and not getting anything right. If you need very basic limited quantities printing, scanning and faxing then it is ok. Trying to create photo projects and printing graphics is a nightmare- for every one print, there are 3 that go wrong. Also does not handle well for irregular sizes- cards etc., must hand feed, no batch printing. Not worth the money or the space savings, and HP does not stand behind the product.
Fair multifunction performance 
2003-09-30
Performance from this multifunction Officejet is inconsistent. Maybe its just me but it tends to mangle envelopes when attempting to print, is a temperamental fax machine and it requires rebooting (shut down the unit, wait 10 seconds and boot back up)once or twice a month. Unit is also extremely noisy. On the upside, Unit prints and copies consistently well and the plug-in flash card feature for printing photos is quite handy. I suggest demoing competitive models before deciding on this Officejet model.
A true workhorse inkjet multifunction ... finally. 
2003-07-01
The d135, d145 and d155 share a common printing engine with Hewlett-Packard's high volume business inkjet series of printers, and yet this multifunction machine comes in at similar cost.
The built-in card reader is only so-so, lacking the features to transfer any data but photos that a full-blown CF/SM/MS reader would carry, but it is convienient. What this does offer, and the reason this was purchased over the less pricy d135, is both full duplex printing and scanning and copying. For printing out documents several hundred pages in length, it's a great money saver to be able to do double sided.
In addition, this printer is unique among all other standard sized inkjets available in that it uses the thermal self-cleaning inkjet technology, not utilized by Epson or Cannon, who use vacuum inkjet which is prone to clogging, that uses seperate ink cartridges and print heads. This lowers the overall cost of running the machine, as well as reducing or eleminating the color ink wastage usually assocated with multi-color cartriges.
I've had this machine for six months, have already run over 5,000 pages in sharp inkjet with color graphics, and by now this machine has already paid for itself over doing a similar volume with any other inkjet printing engine available. While it's not a laser, in a small volume situation this could easily eleminate the need for a laser printer.
Great multifunction device 
2003-04-16
My husband & I really, really wanted a copier & scanner - this product does the trick. I bought it based on CNet's rating & amazon customer reviews. We were a little worried that the ink would bleed when touched & that the output wouldn't be great. However, to date, we have been very satisfied with this product's performance - printing & copying. Its well worth the price & i'm glad i didn't fork out the extra dollars for a laser multifunction.
The set-up was just a little bit weird. I needed to cold boot before the product starting working. This product will be useful if:
- you copy stuff once every week or so
- don't insist on laser quality printing
- you intend to print photos
- upto 5 people need to use it
- you don't want a superfast printer.
