Dear Guido,
Its now morning here and I have slept since I posted my first reply. But I did do some research on the specifications of the HP PSC1215. While I am not an expert on HP's, I would guess that that particular model is based on an existing HP printer and HP simply adding on a fax and a flat bed scanner. So I would assume you would get equal printing and durability on the printing part of this multifunctional by researching the HP printer engine this model is based on. Also, from what I have read, the newer cheaper HP models are not lasting very long. Crapping out in a year or so. The older HP models were built like tanks and last. I still have a working HP officejet 520 seven years old I use as a backup fax.
If your antisipated printing volume will be fairly high I would warn you away from this PSC 1215 model because the cartridges are on the smallish side. 10ml for the low capacity and 19 ml for the high capacity black cartridge. In tri-color its 8 ml for low and 17 ML for the high capacity. And you can bet your butt when you buy the printer you will get the low capacity cartridges. By way of comparison, the better and more expensive HP models have ink jet cartridges in the 30 to 40 ML volume range. And those more expensive models will have OEM replacement cartridge costs about equal to what you pay for the low capacity cartridge. Bottom line, if you stick to OEM cartridges in the HP models, you pay about four times as much per printed page ( or ML of ink ) with a cheap printer like the PSc 1215 as you would with a slightly better HP model with higher capacity cartridges. The same is true of all printer manufacturers, they all have such cheap models where the money to be made is in the ink.----you can sell the printer at a loss. But by the time the consumer replaces the cartridges once on a cheap printer, they would have been better off to pay more for a better printer to start with. Replace the cartridges twice and the consumer can really repent at their leisure. After all, you can kick your self in the butt so much harder when your wallet is empty.
I also did not address the various options you have. You stated you needed a printer and a scanner. Once you have those two items, you then have the copy option by implication. Adding a fax to the above combination is an extra expense (15-20 Euro's) worth paying if you can use it but worthless if you don't need it. All printer manufacturers have all in ones with or without the fax.
In terms of a scanner there are two broad options. Either a sheetfeed scanner able to only accept thin items no thicker
than a piece of paper or a more expensive flatbed that can
scan a wider variety of items. More versatile and more expensive. You have to decide what you need.
Another flatbed scanner consideration is does the scanner lamp come on when the computer boots up automatically. This lamp auto on has a plus side in that when something needs scanned the user does not have to wait as long for the lamp to really go to high power scanning mode. The downside is that being on when not needed can eventually burn out the lamp.
If you are like me, desktop space is at a premium. There is simply no room for a seperate flatbed scanner. So having the flatbed scanner sit on top of a printer with a slighly bigger footprint printer is an attractive option. The downside is that if any function on an all in one needs repair or replacement, you lose the lot while repairing or may lose a perfectly good printer simply because your scanner goes bad and its too expensive to repair. If you have the desktop real estate, you may be better off getting a seperate better quality printer and one of the very inexpensive flatbed scanners. Such an inexpensive flatbed scanners will do a very adequate job scanning most things. Its only when you need superquality to do things like scanning small film negatives or need super high quality that a better flatbed scanner is needed. Normally when just copying something like a piece of paper, you will see no difference scanning with a scanner only capable of 1200 dti vs a scanner capable of 4800dti and costing eight times as much. Its always nice to have the super high quality but is it worth the much much higher purchase price? Only your needs and the state of your pocketbook can make that decision.
Hope this helps you---I had to answer the same basic set of questions in deciding what to buy. I hope I choose wisely.
Osage
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