HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, and Copier | List Price: $123.00
Discount Price: $118.99
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Thermal Inkjet Printer/Scanner/Copier with 32MB Internal Memory
- Up to Up to 4800 x 1200-optimized Color Print Speed
- 22ppm Blk/20ppm Clr Copy Speed/ One-Touch Button Printing
- Auto Paper-Type Sensor/ Print Borderless and up to 8.5 x 24 Panaroma
- 11.20 lbs (WxLxH) 7.72" x 17.10" x 6.40"
3180 is a voracious ink consumer [Posted on 2008-11-30]
This printer is great looking. It prints photographs well, but they came out dark.
I received it free from Apple with purchase of an iBook.
I believe the reason HP 3180 is free is because it runs through ink at an alarming rate, one will end up paying for the 'free' printer in above average ink cartridge purchases.
When trying to set the print quality to 'Gray Tone' in the 'Color Sync' setting, the blacks print so dark that they are visibly wet when they come out of the printer. I was unable through many different tries to get this printer to slow down on the ink output.
I also had trouble with the printer 'communicating' forever with the computer. Finally, I had to unplug the printer to start over. This happened too many times.
Great scanner/copier/printer for the money [Posted on 2008-12-04]
I got this scanner/printer/copier last year for Christmas and it's been nothing but great. It's not intended for heavy use. Once in a while I make a few copies with it. You can select the copy quality, and that will determine how much ink the machine uses per page. The scanner is adequate for "light" use. It's a little on the slow side compared to our big machine at work, but I don't need anything more than this for scanning a few photos now and then.
I'm not sure if my printer driver got messed up somehow, but everytime I hook my laptop to the printer it starts printing a page that looks like a test page. I think that may be something easy to fix, but I don't bother. I usually just hit the cancel button right away after I hook up the laptop so that I don't waste the ink printing that page.
Overall, it's a very good machine. No fax machine on this one though.
Worst printer from the worst company [Posted on 2008-12-06]
I too got this printer for free when I bought my mac. And even still I think its a horrible waste. It worked well for a few months; i probably printed about 20 times and only a few weird paper jams, etc. But after a few prints the ink will run out! I've never seen ink run out so fast. Now I can't print anything. it will print a couple of lines on the first page, and then print gibberish and symbols on the next page, and then just keep printing a few symbols on a new page. Its so frustrating. I tried to re-download the drivers but to no avail. The customer service at HP is some of the worst I have ever used. And tried to charge me $65 to tell me that the printer is broken. I'd rather take that money and buy a new printer. Which I will. And never from HP (worst company ever).
Great MFP with one major flaw [Posted on 2008-12-21]
I've owned this printer for about a year and a half. It was a great performer for light to average home use but has one major flaw. The available ink cartridges only have 5ml of ink which barely last a month even with light use.
After going through my last two ink cartridges this fall, I decided it was a better investment to buy a new MFP. I paid $79 for a new Canon MP470 which included 16ml ink cartridges (and has high capacity cartridges available when it is time for a refill). It would have cost me almost $50 for two 5ml black and one 5ml color cartridge for the HP. For $30 more, I got the equivalent of 1 extra black cartridge, 2 extra color cartridges and a free printer to go with it.
I understand HPs motivation but 5ml cartridges is just an insult. If I was aware of this when I was buying the printer, I would not have done it. BEWARE!
INK USAGE IS INSANE! [Posted on 2008-12-22]
I've been using this printer for about 3 months and have gone through 3 ink cartridges. I don't print more than maybe 50-75 pages a month. At around $13 (at the cheapest) a cartridge this is insane. If I hadn't gotten the printer as a gift this would be a terrible investment. I could print for years (2500 pages) on a laser cartridge for $50. For the price, buy a laser printer and never look back! I'm warning you don't make the same mistake I did.
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