New HP Fax Machines: Which Are Best?

HP fax machines have always been a mixed bag. HP has a way of coming out with flawless products and following them up with lackluster offerings, so that you never really know what you’re going to get. And for whatever reason, even their best products always seem to get mixed reviews, with some people falling over themselves to sing the products praises, and others saying they wish they’d never bought the thing.

The good news is that HP seems to be getting more consistent these days, and it’s actually been a few years since they’ve released an all-out clunker. In fact, some of their less impressive offerings from the last decade have all but disappeared from computer store shelves, and some can’t even be bought through the HP website anymore. The company is pushing its successes, which means that if you get your HP fax machines through the usual purchasing channels, you probably can’t go wrong.

Simple HP fax machines

One of the best recent HP fax machines is the HP 2140 Professional Quality Plain-Paper Fax and Copier. It’s one of those simple, no-frill fax machines that doesn’t try to do too much. Its greatest virtue is its sleek and attractive design, which includes a built-in phone handset for anyone who doesn’t have enough space for both a fax machine and a phone. It also benefits from not being too feature-heavy; a quick glance at the interface is all you need to acquaint yourself with the machine.

In the same vein is the perfectly simple HP 640 Inkjet Fax Machine. For anyone who may have bad memories of HP’s Inkjet line of printers, you have nothing to worry about with this HP fax machine. The name is similar, but the machine itself is completely different—much simpler, more reliable, and with none of the clunkiness or inconsistency that characterized the Inkjet printers.

All-in-one HP fax machines

Of course, HP also has more advanced offerings such as the impressive HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer, which, in a sign of the times, relegates its fax capability to mere feature status. For anyone who has a small office in need of print, fax, scan, and copy functionality, this is a dream machine, not to mention a big space saver. The compact size of this machine shows just how far HP and other office machine manufacturers have come in the last few years.

Finally, HP is not to be outdone in the heavy-duty, all-in-one office machine category. The HP Officejet Pro 8500 Premier WirelessAll-in-One printer is just one of HP’s several all-in-one machines for medium-sized offices. The machine has all the features you could possibly need in the areas of printing, faxing, copying, and scanning, including two-sided printing, wireless networking, photo printing, and a high-capacity paper tray. It’s also incredibly fast, capable of churning out 35 pages per minute. It may be hard to believe, but all of this comes for under $300 from certain outlets.

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