HP PSC 1215 Printer - Abysmal

Can I heartily dis-recommend this printer? It's never managed to print an entire document without fouling, simply not doing anything, printing askew, chewing paper, feeding far too much paper... it's also pathetically counterintuitive. If it runs out of paper, you have to choose between options - stop the job, cancel the job, or stop all jobs. There's no "continue", and it doesn't do it automatically. When you do discover you have to switch the on/ off switch to make it continue, it doesn't, it just stops doing anything. It really is awful. There. Now I feel better.

I think user error may be the problem here.
I've had this printer for about 6 months now, and use it from printing documents of greatly varying lengths, photos, and some copying. Whilst not the greatest printer in the world, and HP's Mac drivers are nothing short of rubbish, it has stood me fairly well.
In regards, to when the printer runs out of paper and options that appear onscreen, don't press any of them, just put paper in the printer and press 'resume' on the printer. Then the printer will pick up where it left off and the options on screen will go away. It does therefore continue automatically when you load paper.
As for your other problems, I don't remember ever having a am with this printer, so maybe you have a lemon. If it's still under guarantee, take it back where you got it.
So whilst you heartily 'dis-recommend' this machine, I'll balance things out by giving it a 'highly recommended'. The worst things about the HP PSC 1215 is HP's lack of support for Mac users.
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