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 Electronics : HP C7280 Photosmart All-in-One Printer (CC567A#ABA) |
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Rating:  - This HP is disappointing.
Photosmart C7280 All-in-One
This is the nicest looking, worst performing HP printer I've ever owned (out of 6). Initially, it didn't even support the font I was using in Quickbooks. I had to download the drivers for another HP printer. The envelopes now had to be placed backwards for it to print correctly. HP did eventually solve this problem. The inks have to be constantly replaced; even the colored ones drain when I'm printing in black! How's that possible? The thing frequently just stops responding; the only solution is to unplug it then plug it back in. Every time I do anything simple, directly at the printer; like fax; scan or copy; the software on the computer opens that annoying window that I have to then close. It's hard to feed paper or especially envelopes because there's not enough space when I pull that paper tray out (it doesn't hold much paper at all). This printer might be ok if you don't use it very often but if you use it daily like I do, you'll have to fight the urge to throw it out the window. This is the first time I've been really disappointed in an HP printer. I've been using it for over a year in a small business. I have a 10 year old HP laser printer for bulk printing and that HP is just awesome. This one I use to receive faxes and to print a few pages or photos now and then. When this one breaks, and I'm sure that'll be soon (it has a really cheap, flimsy feel); I'm switching to a different brand. And yes I looked at the more industrial, business HP's before selecting this one but they were too big for the space.
Rating:  - Let's cut to the chase...
I'm going to make this short and sweet. I read a few of the reviews available before buying this printer, and despite all the negative ones, I still bought it. I had absolutely NONE of the problems I read about, and I simply LOVE this printer. My old printer was an HP PSC2175 and I never had a problem with it, but it didn't have wireless capabilities, and it was 5 years old, so it had to go. The C7280 works flawlessly, and I had no problems with the installation. My PC is an HP Pavillion d4790y, so maybe that helped a little, being the same manufacturer and all. The only thing I had to do during the install was to disable my firewall and auto-protect (Norton 360), and I went right through the install without a problem. All you have to do is follow the instructions. I've printed pictures, text, spreadsheets and just about any file I could think of (all wirelessly), and still have had no problems, and the pictures are amazing. I definitely recommend this printer to anyone looking fo a great all-in-one.
Rating:  - HP 7250 Photosmart
Purchased the Photosmart 7250 (supposedly the 7250 is the same as the 7280 with lesser paper capacity) from COSTCO yesterday 20 Nov 2008 and had no problems installing it on my HP 9933CL laptop wireless with my D - Link router under windows home vista premium. Then installed it on my desktop thru the router under windows xp service pack 2. Works just fine on both computers except for double sided printing and finds the connection as long as the printer is on when you attempt to configure (when it wouldn't find the router I remembered that I had turned the printer off; turn it on and it drivers install just fine) on the network......
Duplex doesn't work even thought the box says it will. An hour long conversation with an HP rep failed to find a solution. Had me remove the back duplexer and check for paper jams, printer settings, etc. Way too many times as this was not the problem. When I originally called HP, they said that this printer under windows vista, help was not still provided, even though this printer was shown in sticker tags as made, May 2008). Stayed on line and got a tech rep who as I said after an hour couldn't solve problem.
BUT for the price at [...], well I'm gonna see, as they have a 90 day return policy. Printing from a CF card or SD card inserted in the printer was as good as any prints from outside merchants. Match the paper with the printer driver and it's fantastic.
My issue is with the stated duplex printing on the box and inability of the printer to do it. The duplexer is included in the box BUT it didn't work.
One last note - When I attempted to adjust the driver when the wireless connection was on to the router, the computer (HP laptop) gave me the blue screen of death. So if you enter the control panel and attempt to make changes, shut down the printer radio or turn Printer off.
Rating: - Great Printer, Great Scanner, Great!
We have a couple of computers (laptops) in the house and did not want to get several printers. I saw this at a local wholesale club (for more money) and it looked like it did everything I needed so......I bought this and it sat for about 2 weeks because I wasn't sure how to set it up, and was afraid I would not have the time to do everything. Finally, we needed to print out something an dI had to bite the bullet and give it a try. Set-up was a piece of cake....except my better half then asked me why had I waited so long to set it up. (That wasn't bad, it was quite reasonable, the bad part was I didn't have an equally reasonable answer). LOL. So, my wireless router is upstairs on the other side of the house, and I have no problems. Printing is fast and very good! The only problem that I had was when I wanted to print a photo and did not use HP software, it would print to regular paper (which didn't look terrible, but still not what I wanted). Once I printed the picture on photo paper it looked great. No difference between commercial printing. The only thing the would send this down a half a notch would be the lack of space for paper. The fax is a fax, it would have to be something crazy to not work and work well. No problems there....for what I need. I have sent two faxes and have received one. I'm not a fax person.......Scanning is great. I scanned several documents with no problems. I scanned photos, again, no problems. In fact, it was much easier than using by HP scanner. Scanning was relatively fast, and very easy.....I bet my 5 year old could do it. All in all, I am very happy with this printer and I highly recommend it....however, I would point out that if you have a lot of printing or are going to use this in a home office that prints even moderately, I would look for something with more paper capacity. For $200, this is really a no brainer. Buy it, use it, enjoy it, brag about it!
Rating: - XP Incompatible
I have spent hours installing and uninstalling the software. I tried it on my home computer, also Windows XP, and it would not install there either. HP support gave me several suggestions--none of these time consuming suggestions helped. I was ready to return it and exchange it. I had bought a Canon MX850 for home, which installed easily! I tried downloading the HP driver for my husband's Mac (OS-X 10.5), also not a problem. Since my husband is buying me a Mac for my birthday, I'm saving the HP for my office, where I will use the Mac, and keeping the Canon for home. Unless you enjoy spending hours installing and uninstalling software, don't buy this printer to go with an XP operating system.
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