A Refurbished HP ProLiant System Offers Unparalleled Convenience
By James T. Rothery
The ProLiant line of servers was originally developed by Compaq, who later merged with Hewlett Packard (HP). When the two companies merged, HP liked the ProLiant line of servers so much that it discontinued its own Netserver brand to focus entirely on the ProLiant servers. Today HP ProLiant servers are tremendously popular, so much so that they are x86 server market leader in revenue generated and units sold. Additionally, the 8th generation ProLiant server was announced in early 2012, so this technology will be around for some time. To acquire this technology inexpensively, most companies opt to purchase refurbished HP ProLiant servers instead of new ones. Typically a refurbished server can be purchased for less than half the cost of a new server, even though it is still a high-quality, reliable device. Before evaluating refurbished servers for sale, it is important to understand how to differentiate between different refurbished HP ProLiant options and what makes them good purchases for companies.
There are a number of product options within the ProLiant product line and the first big choice that the company will have to make is the kind of architecture to use. The four choices are:
ML Line: This line contains tower-based servers, which are standard box-shaped servers.
DL Line: This line contains general purpose rack-mount servers, which save space.
BL Line: This line contains blade servers, which take up even less space than rack-mount servers, and consume less power.
SL Line: This line contains dense rack mount servers that are used in scale-out environments.
Once the company has chosen a product line that best matches their space needs, the company should make sure it understands what it is getting when it purchases a refurbished HP ProLiant server. Here are some of the benefits of purchasing this line of servers, regardless of whether the company chooses to buy refurbished HP ProLiant storage servers or standard servers:
Easy Deployment: These servers are preconfigured and have software preloaded onto them so that they can be quickly deployed into the company's information technology (IT) configuration.
Optimized Storage Performance: Storage servers come pre-loaded with the latest Windows storage server operating system (OS), which means that they have already been configured to work properly with the OS.
No Licensing Necessary: Since Windows OS covers an unlimited number of clients, there is no need to license out additional copies, which saves the company money
Multifunction Server Usage: The multifunction application platform workload provides a flexible solution for businesses.
These are just some of the benefits offered by the refurbished HP ProLiant line of servers. When evaluating companies that have HP ProLiant refurbished servers for sale, the buyer should determine whether the vendor completed the reconditioning process in-house. If so, the vendor will be able to provide a record of maintenance that was performed and might even back up the reconditioning job with a warranty. Each scenario will provide the buyer with an extra level of confidence as they will be getting a server that boasts exceptional quality and reliability.
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Excellent all-rounder for home office or intensive family use.
By E. Schilling
This story might sound familiar to you: I needed to replace our networked HP Photosmart family inkjet printer; it suddenly gave up despite our light and careful use for less than three years. Swearing not to buy another inkjet printer let alone another HP product any more I started browsing through the vast number of tempting colour laser printer options around. I tried hard to make the "colour laser printer option" work for me but I struggled, badly: I simply did not see myself in a few months time paying almost twice the cost of the printer for tonner cartridges' replacements. So I was soon back into the inkjet arena, and took me a short visit to the local shop to reconsider HP as a possible choice: when I came across this Officejet 8600 among the sea of all other inkjet printers it was clear to me that this was the choice that best suited our needs.
The ink cartridges are very economical: you will not even blink when the time comes that you need to replace ALL cartridges at 1/5th of the cost of the printer. The resulting cost per copy is similar to the cost of a laser colour print made with the cheaper Samsungs, for example. Ink cartridges have a very smart snap-in system, with no protective caps or venting seals to be removed before insertion. When opening the lid for changing cartridges, a white LED illuminates the internals of the printer for you to see what you are doing, I thought it was a nice and thoughtful touch.
Print quality is very good. Black prints are as good as laser prints, amazing. Colour prints are also very good for all general purpose prints including photos -when using glossy photo paper. Photo prints are obviously not as good as those obtained from dedicated photo printers, but I do not really mind as in my case I always use Photobox for getting serious photo prints done anyway.
Print speed is quite fast for inkjet technology, although double-sided prints are naturally slower than average. In my case speed is not a determining factor.
The appearance of this printer is very sleek: dark grey/bronze textured colour and curved edges; this printer will not look out of place in your study/office (as opposed to the Epson that look like 10 year older in comparison with their cheap black plastic brick design). You will have to make prevision for its location though: the overall body size is on the big side -certainly bigger than my old Photosmart it replaced- especially when you think you will have to access the machine opening hatches and lids around it. A good thing is that the power supply is internal to the printer: good move from HP dropping the chunky external power supplies that were a nightmare to manage.
Ethernet networking works like a dream. None of our 7 PCs sharing this printer have ever had problems seeing the printer and sending jobs to it; very solid and fast drivers. (We have a mixture of Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit, Vista and XP). HP have simplified their software, for better: it works! (this was one of my worries from my previous experience with a large number of drivers and applications updating all the time, taking over my computer and failing frequently). I have not tried WiFi nor USB connections and do not intend to for the time being.
The touchscreen panel is big and clear, although I feel that "hard" buttons for some functions would be nicer. The "touch" action sometimes lands on the wrong option on screen, possibly because of my chunky fingers.
The 250-page feed tray is a bliss (a feature I was looking for); it gives you plenty of time to check it and replenish before running out of paper; also the automatic double sided print and scan are a bonus. NOTE: you need to check when buying as not all models include these features. When printing your job you can configure your layout format, e.g.: booklet, multi-pages per page, etc.
The scanner is very impressive: you can trigger a scanning session from the printer's touchscreen or from any of your networked computers. You can save your scanned document in different formats (jpg, pdf, doc with OCR, etc) and store it in different locations: memory card or memory stick on the printer, or the Documents folder in any of your networked computers, or in a pre-saved network folder, e.g.: in your NAS file server. Oh! There is a whole FAX function and all which I did not even looked into; I find it hard to beleve that Faxes are still among us these days!
There is no limit for Web/Cloud connectivity and applications, but I must admit I lost interest and stopped exploring them fairly shortly; however, I managed to enable a web service that allows you to remotely printing jobs by email and monitoring progress from the web (how much use one can make out of such feature is still to be seen!)
In all, I am greatly delighted with this product. For being more reliable and cost-effective than our previous printer, family are using it quite regularly, with no compains raised to the "IT department" so far.
I am very pleased that I gave HP and its inkjet technology a second chance!
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HP DeskJet 1050 Printer Review
HP Deskjet 1050A All-in-One Printer (Print, Scan, Copy)
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By Theodore D Beach
The HP DeskJet 1050 all-in-one will set you back �29.99. Is it possible to acquire a practical printer/scanner combo for this kind of money?
As you may be expecting, this particular model possesses a very traditional style and design. It's simple, however functions extremely effectively. HP has confined controls to simply three buttons for black and colour copies and also to terminate a print job. A fourth button turns the printer off and on. There are three orange indicators, one just for paper out and the other couple for low ink. At the rear is a low voltage socket to attach to the small, black block power supply and a USB socket, the sole data connection.
Putting in both of them ink and head cartridges, one black and the other tri-colour, is a little cumbersome, because they're fixed quite a way into the device. The cartridges slip in and click up-wards in to position and shutting the cover sets the device going. You have to print an alignment page, which you then scan on the machine's flatbed to finish the alignment. The scanner is a basic Contact Image Sensor (CIS) device yet, just like the rest of the device, is actually significantly more than sufficient for simple applications.
The supplied CD includes drivers for Windows and OS X as well as a copy of HP Scan, which can handle scanning to JPG, PDF or TIF. The unit will scan at as much as 1,200ppi.
Our 5-page black text print concluded in 52s, giving a speed of 5.8ppm furthermore on the lengthier, 20-page print, this extended to 6.3ppm. In draft mode, the five-page document clocked up 7.9ppm. These speeds are fairly good. Printing our black text and colour graphics evaluation created a speed of 2.4ppm, quite a bit slower compared to the rated speed. A 15 x 10cm photograph print needed a second more than one minute plus a single page colour copy needed 42s, very fair end results for this type of product.
You might anticipate the print quality coming from the DeskJet 1050 to end up being acceptable at best, however it is a great deal far better than that. Black text is actually flawlessly understandable, although displaying a little bit of fuzz as a result of ink run. Colour graphics are clear and also vibrant, while having negligible dither patterns. A colour copy revealed certain degradation of the image, however the colours themselves were very close to the original. The photograph print was in addition fair, although a The two HP DeskJet 1050 printer cartridges can be purchased in standard and high-yield variations.
It is fairly exceptional to find an all-in-one model for30 and furthermore just as uncommon to end up with one which creates extremely satisfactory print quality at a reasonable speed not to mention without emptying your bank account by means of excessive ink costs. There is not much in the marketplace that will touch the DeskJet 1050 at the price.
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Theodore Beach is a member of the Cartridge Concept team which specialises in printer cartridges.
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Super fast setup HP 5510 OfficeJet Review
By Cody Weban
The HP OfficeJet 5510 is unique all-in-one printer, copier, scanner and fax machine. It is great for both home and office and uses HP's special thermal inkjet technology for high resolution printing. It can reach print speeds of 17 ppm for black and 12 ppm for color prints.
The HP 5510 has an input capacity of around 100 sheets of paper. Its output capacity is around 25 sheets and besides regular paper it also accepts envelopes, labels, cards and more.
Thanks to the HP Director software you can easily access common tasks and features. With this easy to use program you can easily control the machine and initiate all of its functions including scanning, faxing copying and printing. The HP Director can also be used to view and edit the images you have stored on your computer.
The HP 5510 has some great features and is one of the best all-around printers available. The print quality is very good and it is very fast as well, especially for text-only pages. While fast printing often means lower quality, this is not he case with the HP 5510. Even when printing photos you can expect great print quality.
Because the paper is loaded from the bottom front of the machine it is very easy to see how much paper you have left.
One minor downside to the HP 5510 is the fact that it does not have a cover to protect its paper tray. This means that after a while dust may collect there.
Overall, the HP is an excellent unit that offers a great combination of quality and value for money.
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