Color - 34 ppm Mono - 33 ppm Color - 10 Second Photo - 4800 x 1200 dpi - Fax, Printer, Copier, Scanner - MPN: CC567A
Strengths: LCD screen, auto feed scan documents, prints excellent pictures. Great for Realtors & FAX mode
Weakness: Auto Sheet Feeder sometimes has problems pulling in pages.
Overall this is a wonderful printer. FAX ability allow you to use calling cards. For me that was huge as I don't have a long distance carrier on my home land line. This helps keep our costs down. Unit monitors the inbound calls for FAX tones when someone answers the phone and will auto pick up the FAX. The auto sheet feeder for scanning is also helpful, with a realtor in our home this allows a time saving when dealing with large amount of documents. Install the latest software from the HP website. I had no problems installing this printer onto our home LAN network. All 8 PC's on our LAN have access to the printer.
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TopStrengths: Document Feeder plus flatbed scanner. Ink comes in 6 different colors
Weakness: Ink is expensive Scanning is so-so
We bought this all in one printer to replace both our old printer and scanner. We really like having the 50 page document feeder and this is the only "Home" all in one printer that HP makes that has a feeder tray.
We tend to scan a lot of images and the All in one works, but the scanning is less than par.
The photo printer itself produces some very nice colors and we really like have each color ink in it's own cartridge. The only bad thing about the cartridges are that they are pretty expensive and you find yourself buying around 4 to 6 at a time.
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TopStrengths: Nice layout Attractive Good document feeder
Weakness: Ink costs me about $3.00 for each full size print. Customer service abysmal. Refused to pass me to manager. Less expensive to discard printer than to support it.
Very, very slow to 'prep' between prints. sometimes up to 3 or 4 minutes wait time.
Advertised speed is only under limited circumstances, not average usage. An expensive lesson.
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TopStrengths: Wireless capability, duplexing, ADF, Faxing, Photos, 6 ink cartridges, color lcd screen, card slots.
Weakness: 100 Sheet Paper tray
I love this printer. I got a great deal on it from Staples a few months ago when they substituted it for the C7180. I love the wireless feature and the duplexing. The only downfall IMO is the small paper tray, would have liked a bigger one.
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TopStrengths: Full featured.
Weakness: Loud, slow duplexer.
This printer has pretty much all the features you want. A copier, scanner, fax, and of course, printer. The addons are a nice duplexer which lets you automatically print on both sides of the page, but the disadvantage is that once it prints on one side, it has to wait for the ink to dry before printing on the back. The machine is also pretty loud compared to other printers. Excellent photo quality though, and cheap ink.
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TopStrengths: All in one feature, easy to use. Nice printing and copying qualities. ADF works fine without jams. In addition, the card reader feature is really helpful.
Weakness: Takes very long time to install the software. Some parts of the software are not helpful or user-friendly.
This is a very nice ALL in one printer (fax, copy, scan, and print). It is really easy to follow. The wireless and duplexing features are amazing. Printing and copying qualities are excellent. This printer also comes with a flash card reader feature. Some drawbacks I found out were that the installation process could take very long time, also software come in the package are not very user-friendly. Price of the printer is kind of high.
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TopStrengths: Duplexing, wireless networking (in theory), automatic document feeder
Weakness: cannot duplex photocopies, cannot duplex documents used through the automatic document feeder, wireless networking falls in and out, wired networking doesn't work as well as it should.
I bought this AIO because it has duplexing capabilities, and an automatic document feeder. Duplexing was important for obvious reasons, and the ADF was key because few things are more annoying than having to manually place a 40 page document on the scanner or copier screen. I was *very* excited that the ADF works well, especially when scanning.
However, the ADF does *not* work when you are trying to copy or scan two-sided pages. There also is no option that allows you to scan odd pages first and then even pages, so that you can eventually combine the scanned or copied pieces together into one printed or saved document. This means that both the ADF and the duplexer functions are rendered useless when your original document is two-sided. This is a huge minus for me. Even a software update could resolve intensely annoying issue.
The duplexer also doesn't work when you want to photocopy a one-sided document (but want it printed on two sides).
Secondly, there are a few networking issues with the printer. When networked wirelessly, the printer kept getting "lost" and then coming back into range. This led me to hook the printer up through a wired network.
But even on the wired network, when you are at the printer, in theory you should be able to "scan to" a computer. For whatever reason, the printer cannot always "find" my computer. Sometimes it can, sometimes it can't.
I've spent hours upon hours on the phone with HP installing and reinstalling the printer so that I can resolve its network issues. If the software weren't so bulky, maybe it would've taken less time, but the software is an absolute nightmare.
Once the printer is set up, it works fine (minus the features mentioned above). Just have the patience to set it up. Several times.
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TopI read with interest the review about the duplex function. I have been going round and round with HP on this. I cannot find a way to print two sided copy from a two sided document fed into the document feeder. I can only use the duplex function when using FILE> PRINT from software applications and that works fine but many times I want to save paper and print AUTOMATICALLY on both sides from two sided original. In order to do that I have to print one side, turn the original doc over and load back into doc feeder, feed the one side already printed back into the paper tray and what a pain that is. I was disappointed as I thought this wonderful printer would turn it over for me like it does from FILE> PRINT
I read with interest the review about the duplex function. I have been going round and round with HP on this. I cannot find a way to print two sided copy from a two sided document fed into the document feeder. I can only use the duplex function when using FILE> PRINT from software applications and that works fine but many times I want to save paper and print AUTOMATICALLY on both sides from two sided original. In order to do that I have to print one side, turn the original doc over and load back into doc feeder, feed the one side already printed back into the paper tray and what a pain that is. I was disappointed as I thought this wonderful printer would turn it over for me like it does from FILE> PRINT
Strengths: Has all the features I wanted
Weakness: The software is a nightmare. It eats up 90% or more of your cpu while doing nothing. It takes days to install.
I was sold on all the features but did not listen to others saying stay away from this printer. HP tech's taking control of my computer took over 8 hours to get this printer installed on my laptop. ExPro SP2 up to date. The software on both my laptop and pc takes better than 90% of my cpu. HP could not fix this and said they would call me back in a day. Thanks HP, I have spent more than three days of my own time on this installation and I can work my day around you calling my back in a 24 hour window. If you check your task manager and see svchost.exe running at 90% it is the HP software sucking up your cpu.
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TopI installed the software on my 2 laptops and 1 wireless desktop in minutes. It was a breeze, and scans to my software and prints for my laptops from anywhere in the house.
This sure sounds more like you picked up a spyware trojan somewhere. Some of them use SVCHOST to spawn themselves and drive their outbound content. Some can be pretty nasty and are hard to detect.
Might consider running a good and current spyware scanner on your system, especially in light of all the other positive comments about how easy the install was for them.
Strengths: Once you FINALLY get it to install, it's great--WHEN IT WORKS.
Weakness: I simply CANNOT COUNT ON IT to work. And it It always seems to fail me at the worst possible time.
It took forever to install. (A problem I have had more recdently with new HP printers.) I simply cannot count on it to be ready to scan when I need it to be ready the most. I would never bet my life on it being ready to scan. Most of the time, I have to restart the computer. And even then it gives me stupid and bogus server errors. Then it locks up. Prints nice pictures and the fax works ok, but DO NOT COUNT ON IT TO SCAN WHEN YOU NEED IT TO.
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TopI must agree, this is one of the worst machines I have dealth with in an office setting. I feel it isn't capable to handle a volumne of printing. It constantly leaks black ink, I go through a cartridge every week. I also find that when I really need it to work it seems to sleep. I have to unplug it to get it to work. This happens probably on a daily basis.
It won't print on a half sheet of paper, it doesn't recognize the size. I can't print envelopes, they jam. I always have a paper jam. Just very unhappy with this HP.
Totally disgusted.
Strengths: Great features, if only you could install/use them.
Weakness: Software is abyssmal and unusable
I've had this for six months and no HP rep can tell me yet how to install it correctly. The installation package on the CD as well as the update from the website generate random FATAL ERRORS.
I've never been able to install anything but printing on a network printer...no scan to computer, no nothing.
I've never even been able to install PRINTING from the USB connection.
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TopStrengths: Easy to set up...Love the wireless and photo printing from the copier.
Weakness: A bit larger than I wanted. But the sacrifice was worth it!
I just used it today , but I love it already! It has many features, fax, copy, and its Wireless!. You can edit photos from copier, no computer needed. Glad I purchased this one. I love HP Printers
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TopStrengths: - Top-Notch Software package - Wireless & Network Features - Rich Photo Quality - USB Card Reader to get rid of clutters
Weakness: - Small Print Cartridge
This one printer completed my office including multiple pages faxing, with others I have to insert one by one to fax, rich color photo printing, super fine scanning. My 10 year old HP Scanner still works perfectly till this day, but I was so impressed with HP product, esp this new one. A little trouble with wireless setup, but it works rather than a promise. Features-rich software, multi-function hardware & nice glossy appearance are all we want to go for. Highly recommended.
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TopStrengths: Good printing quality WiFi works
Weakness: Jams about every third use. Requires constant paper jam clearing followed by cleaning. Will not print in black and white. Spends most of its time making noise and "preparing". Slow.
This is the worst printer I've ever owned. It's been a disaster since the day I got it. It jams every third print job. When it jams, you have to take it apart, and clean it or it will jam again. This is not very practical unless you enjoy cleaning printers instead of doing work. It's very slow and spends most of its time whirring and clunking and sending messages saying it's "preparing" or "calibrating". It won't print in black and white. If one of the color cartridges is empty, it refuses to print even black and white documents.
This is the worst printer I've ever owned. I hate it more than I can say. It is going to the dump as soon as I get my new one.
DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER!!
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TopStrengths: photo quality
Weakness: short life
I have always purchased HP printers and liked them. This one was no exception. This printer had excellent photo print quality, high speed printing and easy to use. BUT after only 3 months things started not working. First I couldn't print photos then I couldn't use the scanner. After owning this printer for only 4 months it became completely unusable.
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TopStrengths: Printer works great
Weakness: Software is a horror with Vista and WORD added.
After using word, it crashes and word reboots its self. HP has a work around that is useless and they say a new driver is in the works. It takes over a year! Very frustrating.
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TopStrengths: Good print quality, user friendly software, nice button layout and flexibility on control panel, all in one capability
Weakness: None so far
I bought this refurbished, thinking that the process of re-doing the device would make sure that it would work out of the box. It did. I took the chance that I could work around any software issues by downloading the drivers from the HP website. So, I had it waiting on my desktop when I installed the HP software on the included CD. I have a LAN with two PC's and one wireless laptop. I decided to hard wire this AIO and not go wireless. I was successful in loading the HP software from the CD, with only one difficulty on a PC which immediately self corrected merely by opening the downloaded drivers, after which it completed the install. Everything seems to be working. Document feeder, fax, printer and scan have all been used and the performance is great. I like the idea of separate ink cartridges. I have to be able to save money on ink with this arrangement. I'd recommend this for purchase if you have a fair amount of tech savvy. And, be sure to download the drivers from the HP website and have them ready to go when you install. I have an older HP 7550 directly connected to one of my PC's and I'm very much tempted to buy another of these (refurb of course), and connect it in wireless so my wife can print all her church bulletins and not wear this one out.
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TopStrengths: Does everything I want easy.
Weakness: Would be nice if it had bigger paper storage.
When I received this printer I was worried about the problems that have been stated in reviews getting it to work with the computer. In less that 2 hours I had it unpacked, installed the software in t
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TopStrengths: Has all the necessary features
Weakness: Software Nightmare
Has all the necessary features.
The software takes a long time to load ,after loading ,it did not work properly.It took all day to get this printer software to work.Called tech support three times.The software that came with the printer did not load all the software correct.Finally one of the techs had me to load the software from the internet,now its working find.Basic instruction need improving.
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TopStrengths: This is a great all-in-one device that works perfect for home and small business needs. It faxes, scans, copies and prints good photos. You can't beat HP for printers. It's a great buy!
Weakness: Software installation was time-consuming, but eventually successful. Photo printing requires six cartridges which has the potential to be very expensive.
If you have a wireless network, this printer can provide you with the ease and convenience of wireless printing. It's great to forego the USB cable, especially when you have a laptop. The photo quality is very good. Faxing capabilities are more than adequate for home or small-business uses. The software installation was a little tricky, but ultimately successful with Windows XP. I would highly recommend this HP all-in-one. It is fast, hard-working and does everything you want.
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TopStrengths: Very nice features. HP support is very good.
Weakness: Has taken a lot of my time to figure out why I am having certain problems with it. There is a need to work out some of the kinks in this printer.
This is my third printer; however, I am not giving up on HP. I had the 6180 version of this printer and it stopped functioning after a year. Luckily, HP stands behind its products and because I had an extended warranty, I got this one which is pretty much the same. The first one purchased could not read the new cartridges. I took it back and now I am having the same problems. I learned that you must use the new cartridges immediately and not try to use the ones that were from the former printer. I went through three service agents before I found this out. I still love the printer; however, it has been costly in terms of time. It keeps wanting to reinstall the software. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. If you have time on your hands to figure this all out, purchase it. If you don't, research a different printer and buy it.
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TopSOFTWARE does not seem very functional... first you are almost initially forced to load many different added hp marketing programs. Then I have had multiple problems with inability to remove unwanted individual programs. I keep getting a message of HP UNINSTALLER FAILED, on not one, but two new HP computers, desktop and laptop. IN ADDITION, I have not been able to get the wireless setup to SCAN WIRELESS
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Testseek.com has collected 17 expert reviews for HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-One and the average expert rating is 76 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Testseek.com to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.
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Good Printer
Strengths: It has every feature available and it's easy to use!
Weakness: CD installation took over an hour, I'm running Vista Ultimate, 3Gig CPU with 3Gig RAM. I would also like it if this printer was a laser printer instead of ink jet.
I purchased this printer to replace another ink jet printer and fax machine. I installed this printer and fell in love with it, it has all the feature you would ever want in an all-in-one printer (Print, Fax, Scan, Bluetooth, Wired and Wireless Networking, just to name a few). HP also did a nice job ensuring that all these features were easy to use and at a push of a button.
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