HP C8180 Photosmart AIO Printer
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(5 out of 5)Amazing all in 1 device
What can I say - my previous device died and I had to hunt for the best replacement. Well I didnt want to spend quite this much, however I do not regret it for 1 second.
The quality is amazing, the speed is good and all the extras (such as lightscribe on CDs, printing graph paper or music paper or all sorts of inbuilt examples) just make it a joy to use.
It is nice and quiet. So far it is proving to be very economical. Photocopying is fast, efficient and quiet. The photographs it can print are as good as the old photographs I used to get when I used good old 35mm film and sent them away to be printed.
Setup was a doddle - i use a mixture of systems here at home from wireless to networks and all talk to this printer no problems.
Pluggin in my camera cards I can quickly whiz through the pictures on the card and choose which I want to print.
Impressed - yes.
Worth buying - yes.
(5 out of 5)I'm Very HP!
This printer is the bizzo! Has the feel of a quality item the moment you open the box, everything about it spells QUALITY.
Easy to set up following the delightful touch screen instructions offering connection by ethernet cable, USB or wireless the choice is yours. Initial printing results are superb.
The item was delivered within a couple of days (FREE!) to me in the Scottish Highlands. As Frank Bruno used to say on the sauce adverts....I am very HP! (happy).
(4 out of 5)Great but watch the paper handling
I work in a store where I get to set up and use printers daily. The 8180 is on constant power so customers can use it themselves and see how easy it is to use. All the HP's are easier to use than the other manufacturers.
The Ink systen is good but has small capacity. The inks you can buy seperately or in triple packs hold more ink than the 6-pack with paper. You can buy a ink supply system from CISS but this should be done with great caution as it will denegrade the printer head and not produce as good pictures.
The burner works well. The lightscribe technology works very well but is slow and if you own a Mac this part will not work as you have to run the Roxio software on your machine, and it doesn't run on a Mac (maybe updates available?)
Wireless easy to set up but some minor problems on older XP PC's where the PC has to be rebooted, but not an extensive problem. Touchscreen works well. Scanner works well but the Negatives are not high quality.
Why not 5 stars? The small niggles I have mentioned would not stop me giving this a 5 star rating, but the paper handling does! HP have recurrent problem with paper handling, that affects some printers in the 363 inks range. Basically it stops picking up the paper if you treat them too rough, and so far HP have failed to cure this problem.
(1 out of 5)HP C8180 All-in-One
BEWARE!! - Whilst I have no doubt that this product produces good quality pictures (the test print was really good), after I installed the printer and rebooted my PC I discovered that my Norton Internet Security (2007) had been disabled! Trying to launch Norton manually just produced an error message that it could not be started. So, somehow, installing the HP C8180 had disabled my internet security software. I had to to rebuild my PC and recover to an earlier backup, which took a long time and much inconvenience. The printer has now been returned and Amazon gave me a full refund within 3 days.
(5 out of 5)A real gadget feast
I have a desktop and two seperate laptops all connected to an Orange Livebox. I had an old but excellent Epson R300 printer. What I wanted was a printer that I could use from all my devices which also printed high quality photos as my R300 did.
I was not dissapointed. The printer does what it says. I paired it with my Livebox and then installed the software on all 3 pc's. It connects every time like a dream and prints out from all. The quality for photos is also as good as I wanted (as long as you use the recommended paper). What I also like is the ability to bluetooth straight to the device from your phone and as I have a decent 5 mega pixel camera phone this is very handy.