HP C8180 Photosmart Photo Inkjet Printer Technical Guide
Features
All in One Printer/ Scanner/ and Copier
Up to 34 ppm Black and 33 ppm Color/ Print 4 x 6 Photos In As Fast As 10 sec
3.5 Inch Interactive Touchscreen Display
Easily Prints From Compatible Memory Cards/ Bluetooth Enabled Devices and CDs/DVDs
25.00 Lbs (WxLxH) 17.60" x 8.50" x 15.40"
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Price Range:
Amazon: $329.99
Superwarehouse: $369.99
Review 1
Header: Read Thise Before You Buy
Reviewed By: Ex Tech
Date Reviewed: December 12, 2007
I bought this for the high quality scanning options, the built in light scribe drive and network connectivity. Well as far as I'm concerned being able to use a major feature (disk burning and light scribe labeling) only in USB mode (and not mentioning it anywhere until you unpack the unit) is disingenuous at least and bordering on deceptive practices..."Oh yes my car has air conditioning, but it only works in the winter when I am in park". A networked printer that has a major feature crippled by using it in a network configuration is not a networked printer (at over $400 this really pisses me off). The WiFi connection is slow as well and taxes the sending machine. Apparently switching between network mode and USB mode is not trivial and you cannot be connected to both at the same time (this is murky tech support has not answered that question, but really wants to know how well they did...sigh).
The software driver is buggy, sometimes when I turn the printer on, after the printing computer has booted, the printer will print, sometimes it won't; reboot and power cycle time. When rebooting a computer with the driver installed you have to wait for an "I/O notification" window the shut down...repeatedly.
Using the WiFi option (I have very good signal strength everywhere in my home) the print driver blips in and out telling me I'm connected to the printer at random intervals (I view this as a marketing ploy to remind us of our lovely products (unless the wifi connection is absurdly weak). When I changed to legal size paper the other day the printer immediately loaded 2 sheets, and tried to print (and promptly jammed), when there was nothing in the print queue.
On the rare occasions I have printed the quality seems quite good. The hardware should work, good hardware is a hallmark of HP; and in the last 10 years, so is bad software. I'm sure the drivers will improve over time...check back in 9 months on this one. I will not be considering any more HP equipment for several years if ever again; this is from an old engineer who used to worship HP for its quality, now not so much.
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Supplies:
Compatible HP C8721WN (HP 02) Black Inkjet Cartridge - HIGH CAPACITY
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Compatible HP C8774WN (HP 02) Light Cyan Inkjet Cartridge - HIGH CAPACITY
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Review 2
Header: Good Machine so far,
Reviewed By: TwoCruzin
Date Reviewed: December 12, 2007
HP C8180 Photosmart All In One Printer/Scanner/Copier This appears to be a good All In One machine so far. The only issue we had is when we tried loading the software. It loaded okay, but then we repeatedly got a notice on our computer screen that "new hardware found" each time we turned on the printer and it would bring up the installation program on the computer screen. It didn't matter how many times I completed the installation process, it would still bring this up each time we turned on the printer plus some functions of the scanner wouldn't work. After repeated calls to HP's Customer Service center and trying different things with each tech, we finally latched on to a tech that new what he was doing. We have a new Dell computer and he said there has always been issues between HP and Dell. But at least he got things set right in our computer so that we no longer have any of our initial problems and everything is working well. HP needs to have their techs share information so that they all know the fix to certain problems. The printer is working great now both from our desktop computer and a wireless laptop.
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