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First of all, I must say this is a professional printer. If you are a regular home user, consider the 950c (Nearly the same print quality, Half the price)

This printer is quite large but is very well designed. It is also is looks good only adding to the beauty of your desktop space. The pinter has the normal hp feed (Feed from lower tray and print on upper tray) It also has a back feed which gives you a straight paper path allowing you to print on hard surfaces with bending the paper.

The cartridge is huge holding lots of ink allowing you alot more pages per cartridge. There are 2 different cartridges, black and colour.

The print quality is very fantastic. Images, when printed on normal paper looks very professional. You have to look very hard to notice that this is an inkjet printer. On glossy paper, the print quality doesn't look home made at all, the quality looks as good as some catalogue prints. Also, this printer can print huge 13 x 19 sheets.

The printer is very easy to use, with 3 buttons on the printer (Cancel, Power and Resume/Feed paper) It was also very easy to install, just pop in the USB cable and install the software. I also installed the same printer on Parallel port and it was just as easy. The HP Printer software is excellent. When you print a document, A preview screen comes up showing you all the pages so you can select to print some pages or all ( Very helpful when printing out web pages because you tend to waste paper when the last page as just one line or the ending of a webpage)

This is a great professional choice, recommended for businesses, art students and other graphic design people.

this printer is great! We have had it for about six months and it has performed flawlessly. The main selling point for us is the wide printing- up to 13 inches width (most printers only go to about nine). It prints out scanned images flawlessly up to extremely high resolutions. The print quality on "HP Premium photo paper glossy" is astounding- it looks better than printing press material. Even on cheap white paper the detail is amazing. It's a fairly quiet printer and looks very nice as well. At ..., it's probably not worth it for anyone but a serious artist (My mom is one). For those who need this level of quality, it can't be beat.

The unit is being shipped with defective (lids) covers. After going through the whole start-up. The cartridges will not activate. The lids are not putting enough pressure to activate the sensors.

You will find this out after spendinding your money & time call the (Non-toll Free Warranty Support). They are aware of the problem and shipped me another lid. The only problem is that this lid did not work either. You have to actually put pressure or step on the lid to make the Printer work. The minute you take the pressur off...The printer stops...

HP Acknowledged they are having problems with this issue. However they still make you go through the time & expense of re-shipping. Telephoning and wasting time on hold...Never again

I have been doing public relations work (my paying jobs) for the past fifteen years. For many of those years, I had to make tough choices -- I could have a printer that would permit me to print 11x17 (poster-size) paper, or I could have a colour printer, but never the two would mix (at least, not in a way that I, poor struggling self-employed student, could afford). When I discovered the HP 1120C, an affordable, good quality wide-format colour printer, I rejoiced, and bought two of them (one for home, one for office; the one at home on a Mac, the one at home on a PC).

So, when looking to upgrade after these printers had given good service, naturally I looked to HP again, and they (bless them) had an upgraded model, still within the realm of affordability. This is the 1220Cxi.

I produce a lot of posters. I did a series of 13 career posters for our local schools, and suddenly had 500 orders for sets (yes, that is 6500 posters to run). Nor are these simple posters, but rather colourful, graphic-full posters (which is required if one is to have the chance at catching the average school child's attention). I managed it on this printer. That is remarkable in anyone's book. Yes, I was running them night and day, but still, this is probably one of the harshest tests to give any printer. And it came through with flying colours.

This printer prints well on PC and the Mac (although I have had the experience that it always runs more slowly on the Mac, and the interface I've had to use for my Mac (a G3 233mhz) is somewhat clumsy in that it doesn't allow me to toggle easily between the HP, my laser printer, and the modem).

The HP DeskJet 1220C is one of the faster printers in the wide-format inkjet category. It prints at up to 11 pages per minute in black and 6 or so in color. It uses PhotoREt III Enhanced Color Layering Technology, an HP benchmark in print quality. The printer also has an alternative mode of 2400 x 1200 dpi printing on photo stock media.

I regularly use photo paper, transparencies, cardstock thickness as well as regular paper formats, and it always performs beautifully. In addition, it has features such as reverse printing/mirror image (I make decals to go on windows, which must be printed in reverse), and tiling, so that you can print things out much larger (up to five times larger); by the time you tile five 11x17 sheets together, you're getting pretty big printing there!

The documentation says also that it will handle a 5000 page per month workload, but there are some months we churn out more, and it keeps on going!

Print cartridges can be expensive (we use discounters and buy in bulk to reduce our costs) but, comparing that cost to the cost of professional printing (which isn't needed for the school audiences we're reaching) and adding in the flexibility of being able to change and print on demand, there is no contest--this printer is the tops!

I also greatly appreciate the HP website, which has downloadable templates, solutions, drivers, etc. It is well designed, and it is easy to find what you need on the site. Consider spending a little extra when getting a printer, even for home use, and get the wide-format--you'll be pleased with the flexibility of printing that it affords.

It did give up after about three years, but given the heavy level of printing I subject printers to, this is fairly typical (I've never had one last five years from any source).

I have a small graphics business and I bought the 1220c on speculation that it would do what I hoped it would do. It printed 11 x 17 menus like a charm. Tabloid sized photographs turn out better than I had hoped.

Just one small glitch. I work on pc and mac. On pc the printer does everything like a charm. On mac it prints in every area except quark express. When I try to print in Quark it gives me a fatal error sign and I have to reboot without extensions until I remove the offending file which is always a picture of my printer with a big x through it. Can anybody help me? I would be very grateful. Thanks a million Hewlett Packard for just one more excellent printer.

David