HP Photosmart C5280 All-In-One Printer - 32 ppm, USB, 4800dpi, LCD Display |
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hewlett Packard
EAN: 0883585113651
Label: hp
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Manufacturer: hp
Model: Q8330B#BEV
Publisher: hp
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: hp |
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Product Description
The HP Photosmart C5280 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier is designed for people who need the flexibility to be able to print photos, documents and even directly onto CD/DVD, while also making photo reprints, colour copies and high quality scans. Print lab-quality photos and laser-quality documents quickly, easily and affordably. Create personalised CD/DVDs with direct on-disc printing add photos, graphics and text.
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HP good but, 2008-12-28
i think HP is excellent but it is more for an office or someone with a larger desk than mine and I need to sell it so if anyone in n. ireland near donaghadee, newtownards or bangor co. down wants one they can buy it
jacqui,
VISTA USERS BEWARE, 2008-12-29
After 3 days I've finally given up. The drivers can only be installed via the HP website and not the disk provided. Whilst the printer is technically installed and good to go, installing the software is a different story altogether due to it all being supplied on the same cd. It just will not install on Vista. Sadly the software on the HP website is actually the same as the disc so you end up with the same ongoing problem. 3 days of my life have been wasted on this attractive piece of junk. I'm off to buy an Epson as I've never had a problem with their software or printers before. So if restarting your computer over and over again is your idea of fun go for it. If not then avoid!
Photosmart C2580, 2008-12-01
An excellent printer, great quality photo prints from an SD card, fast photocopies and VERY easy to install on my XP computer. I read the negative reveiws with some care, all I can think is, those who had difficulty installing the printer software, did NOT read the instructions. I am an experienced PC engineer with Microsoft certification, but still always read instructions. Any problems can usually be avoided that way.
Superb, 2008-12-25
I bought this on the recommendation of the internet and I am so pleased that I bought it. The set up was very easy and very good. The only problem is the availability of cheap ink. Come on HP please cheapen your inks.
Good printer, shame about the software?, 2008-12-03
On the plus side, I'm very impressed with the colour match when printing images. This is my third HP printer and it doesn't disappoint in this department. As a keen amateur photographer this is understandably very important when printing off the odd photograph. I've had no problems so far this printer communicating with Photoshop CS3 for printing and scanning. The photocopy facility works fine, menus easy to follow; everything I've come to expect from HP. It's not broken down on me and continues to work even when the colour cartridge is empty, something that Epsom printers don't do, or didn't used to do.
As for the negatives, it does go through ink very quickly. Not sure if this is down to the printer or HP making the cartridges smaller; after all, it's the ink where these companies make their money with printers.
It's interesting reading the reviews of the difficulties some people have had with this printer, and it seems to relate to the software. I have this printer running on my Mac (running OS X 10.5.5) and HP PC (running Vista). My printer did come with Mac software but I downloaded the latest version from HP; so far, no problems. However, come to my PC and I'm screaming. I'm not sure whether this is a HP or Vista problem but whenever I run my PC without the printer connected, the next time I come to run my PC with the printer connected my PC wants to re-install the HP printer driver and software. The HP printer software boots up, I decline all options (because it's already installed on my PC) and yet I still goes on to re-install the software. This leaves me with multiple copies of the driver in my printer manager.
Should you buy this? Well I think the printer itself is good, if a bit thirsty. But there does seem to be a software issue. I've not had the same problems others have had and I tend to point the finger more at Vista, as it's a dreadful piece of software, but I've still had problems nonetheless. I will still stick with HP in the future.
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