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55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent all rounder, 17 Nov 2008
We have had this printer to supplement an Epson A3 Printer for the last 6 months. Best thing we ever did. We use MAC and PC at home. MAC installation and day to day operation - excellent. So simple and user friendly. PC install long winded and needed a few downloads from HP. General Day to day - ok. Duplexing is a must and very good - saved loads of paper. Just used it for actual photo reproduction and scale ups - amazing - quality as good as original up to A4 from 10*15. Really useful to have separate photo paper tray. Fax - simple operation. Wireless operation is simple to set up and works superbly. Only complaints are cost of ink cartridges and the ability to set specific defaults on the device like draft printing mode.
Overall - best printer we have used - either at home or work. Have recommended it to friends and family
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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent printer!, 12 Nov 2008
I'm always dubious when purchasing a new printer, but when this printer arrived and was set up I was very impressed. I've had various other brands before and I've always returned to HP. The past few printers I had are all-in-one printers, but this time I want to have a fax machine as well and rather having a seperate machine taking up desk space I found the HP C7280. I choose it for 3 reasons, i's an all-in-one with Fax, it's photo quality and has a Pict Bridge port. The other features such as card reader, wifi/ethernet and built in screen were just nice extras.
Once out of the box it's only very slightly taller then my old printer so fit the space nicely. Setting up the printer was so surprisingly simple, switch it on put the cartridges in (of which it has 6) and away it went. Setting up the feature was simple and intuative even the Fax I've have a seperate answer machine on the same line and even that has been no hassel.(I've not got mine connected to the network used good old USB not included) All in all had the machine up and running in about 10 min. It took longer for the software to install! lol All the features/settings are accessable from both the control panel and via the desktop software.
The built in photosmart software does an excellent job with the pics straight from memory card or camera with the ability to use all common features easily such as crop, red eye reduce, resize, multiple copies, paper/print quality adjustment and even best pic processing. Even has a one touch photo reprint for making reprints of a photo via scanner.
The scanner is very quick with excellent quality and the auto loader is superb quick and simple to use when need to scan/fax multiple pages. The fax machine again has all the functions you need, speed dial, quality adjust, colour/B&W, fax log, fax delay, auto answer which even with my answer machine was not a prob to set up.
The printing of both docs and photos is nice a quick and I'm really very impressed with the quality of the photos it has printed. The printer holds both plain and photo paper in 2 seperate draws so no fiddly swapping, also no need to swap one of the cartridges for photo ink like on my old HP and the printer conatins all the colours required.
My only concern is the cartriges look kinda small and bit worried about how long they'll last, it says that there is enough ink to do 150 quality photos using the HP advanced photo paper (a small pack is included w/ the printer). An extra large cartridge size is available but only for the black ink. But by having the colours in 6 cartriges means you only need to replace the colours as needed with out wasting any unused ink.
Over all this has definately been the best all-in-one printer I've had I really can't express how simple it is to set up and use! and get good results from. I would highly recommend it.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This makes me HP, 3 Jan 2009
I have just purchase this item, it is replacing an older HP printer and HP scanner, unfortunetly they didn't work with Windows Vista. Now I have read alot of reviews about other Epson and HP printers and found most have slight problems. Well I bit the bullet and went for this one, I have had mainly HP printers before and I wanted one that had everything. I am pleased I did, this was easy to install (approx 10-15min) all I did was follow the instructions which came with it, and yes it is wireless networked as well, I couldn't of wished for a good, NO infact excellent photo quality and easy to use. I would recommend this to anyone!
It does everything and then some, maybe some of the features I might not use as much as others, but all in all it is worth its weight in gold.
Be-aware, I have to admit there is only one complaint, and it isn't really the printer as such, the ink cartridges are a little on the small side, only time will tell on how they go. I think you will find though mostly everyone has commented on this issue (Espom and HP), and this is all down to the companies, as they make more money on inks than the machines themselves. So there isn't anything you can do, all I can offer is that you try and pick a printer that does the job you want it to do.
But apart from that, I am plesed with my purchase. If you do decide to buy this item, I hope you have a hassle free and enjoyable experience.
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