First Take
If the inclusion of an optical drive and the lack of an automatic document feeder in the HP Photosmart C8180 don't quite suit your ideal home office setup, the C7280 might prove to be a better fit. ...
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Average User Rating
from 2 users
5.5
out of 10User Reviews
Excellent Quality and Performance All-In-One
Feb 3, 2009Rating: 10 out of 10 (Perfect)
Pros: Color quality, speed/performance, wi-fi, fast setup, color LCD, easy-to-read buttons/navigation, 4"x6" tray, duplex printing, borderless printing, faxing and many more...
Cons: None that I can think of.
Opinion:
I've only used this all-in-one for about two days (I bought it two days ago) and couldn't be happier. Coming from two HP printers in the past, I always expect better quality in later models and that's what I received with the C7280. This is my first AIO printer and I wouldn't have chosen it without detailed research first.
In response to the reviewee above me, I haven't gotten any paper jams even when turning on FastDraft and printing several pages at once. I'm not sure, maybe mine's a newer revision.
Starting from the beginning -
- The packaging was well thought out and easy to find everything out of the box
- The manual is well laid out and easy to comprehend
- Setting up the Wi-Fi was a no-brainer (I use WPA-PSK and all I did was type my SSID key in on the printer (Network Setup) and presto - detected by ... Read more
Do not buy this HP C7280 printer
Jan 17, 2008Rating: 1 out of 10 (Abysmal)
Pros: fax
Cons: paper jams and software slow
Opinion:
I do not recommend buying the Hewlett-Packard C7280. This has been the most frustrating printer I have ever owned. It performs some functions well but the reason I purchased it was to generate reports for clients and it cannot print fast. It does not matter what the specifications say, the paper feed tray is unable to feed paper as fast as the machine wants and jams several times during every report.
As a rule, do not try in print in fast draft because it will jam paper. The software has bugs in it and this too does not allow it to print fast. Our previous HP printer could actually do 30 pages per minute. This printer in the “draft” mode stops every page and waits three or four seconds between printing. This machine can only create 10 pages a minute in draft mode. After several phone calls and e-mails to Hewlett-Packard, the technicians in Pakistan have no idea what ... Read more
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