HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier (#Q8220A) | List Price: $246.00
Discount Price: $95.00
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Features: - 2400 x 4800 DPI Optical Resolution Scanning/4800-DPI Enhanced Resolution/48-bit Color 256 Grayscale Levels
- Print Speeds of up to 32 Pages-Per-Minute (ppm) Black and up to 31 ppm Color/Six Ink Printing with HP Vivera Inks
- Print Lab-Quality Photos in as Fast as 12 Seconds without a Computer/Effortlessly Print Landscapes or Other Panoramic
- Color and Black and White Copies, and Photo Reprints without a Computer/HP Real Life Technologies Let Users Automatically Enhance and Edit Photos
- 21.00 bs (WxLxH) 11.97" x 17.60" x 9.10"
Worst Printer Ever [Posted on 2008-09-08]
My family has been a huge HP printer fans, not so much on their computers (poor hardware esp. in the hard drives). Anyways, I received this printer as a college gift for starting in on engineering. I have had nothing but issues with this printer from the get go. I just assumed that it would get better and that I would get used to it's loud noises and it's slow thinking and spooling. There is something always going wrong, it can't connect to the pc or it thinks there is no ink in the cartridges but there is. When I replace the cartridges it says they are only half full. This was an expensive printer and for it to give me this many problems is frustrating. Apparently HP thinks they can get by with poor quality. It's pretty bad when engineers, multiple engineers can't figure out what is going wrong with it. On a final note, I looked up online help for these issues, and it's pretty common for these issues to arise. So keep that in mind before you purchase this printer.
Love it, but does use a lot of ink [Posted on 2008-09-09]
I have had this for about a year and a half now. It works flawlessly and takes up much less space on my desk than a printer and a scanner, as I had in the past. It prints beautifully, scans great (though the software isn't as intuitive as my old scanner was), and makes quick and easy copies directly from the machine. I really like it a lot -- meets all my needs as a home schooling mom and online entrepreneur. My only fault with it is that it uses a lot of ink. It seems like I'm always changing printer cartridges! One way to help that is by setting the default printer settings to "draft mode," but it is a consumer nonetheless. Still, I would recommend it because it does all things well, and every such machine has to have ink! The ink isn't that expensive.
Not real happy!!! [Posted on 2008-09-21]
I have had this item for a couple years now. I rarely used it because I had another printer in the home to use. I also never used it too much because it would always say I was low on ink. So, I decided maybe they were drying out and I decided to buy new cartridges and start using it. I put in 2 new color cartridges. After printing out 3-4 TEXT ONLY pages, my new ink was already down to 80% left. So, either it does not work well, or it is an INK HOG. Too much money on ink if this keeps up. I'm not so sure I like the individual inks!
Nice overall package for the price. [Posted on 2008-09-25]
I must add that I purchased mine for $25 closeout at staples as it was the last one in the store. After being a user of Canon, Epson,and HP I always seem to return to HP. This replaced an HP 6210 office jet. The office jet is now the second printer. After trying the Kodak 5100 and having a miserable experience, I purchased this printer. Out of the box yesterday it has completed every task I have asked of it. The printer is a bit slow and a little noisy but not any noisier than other printers. The scanner is ok and the print is fine. The pictures side by side with store pictures leads one to believe these are from a retailer not a home printer. It works as advertised meaning that I think it's an overall great printer. The drivers work without a glitch and all functions on the actual printer/scanner are adjustable. I'm not computer illiterate and I don't expect more than what the box says. Most people write a bad review bc they didn't read the box. If you want a $250 printer, you get what you pay for. As for me? This is a great printer even if I had paid the $169-199. I just got lucky and found a great printer at a great price. The future will tell more but in the past HP has always replaced any and all products that have broken. Software is useful and easy to use. Many reviews talk about the pricey ink and it doesn't last very long so I will have to see about that. I print mostly in draft anyway, so I use little ink. I use Win XP sp3 btw. Seems many printers under $200 are hit or miss. This was a hit and it appears a home run.
no scan ability for vista [Posted on 2008-10-08]
Printing works fine with Vista but if you need to scan then look elsewhere, not worth spending your time trying to figure it out, HP is unwilling/incompetent of offering troubeshooting help.
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