 "Great printer, although I have not used the photo options." | 2009-09-29 |
| - Reviewed By User: A11UQVBQTZ6CBF |
I also got this printer free after rebate when buying my mac. Although some reviews state that the windows software functions poorly, I have found the opposite to be true with my mac. It also came with a very nice photo editing program that I use frequently since I don't have Photoshop.
It also functions as a copier without the computer attached, which I have found to be very handy since I own a laptop.
I have had two issues When printing high quality images, the printer functions extremely slowly. When printing a pamphlet I designed with a large color photo on the front, it took around twenty minutes for a single copy.
The other is that the printer has no clear system for testing the ink cartridges. Previous HP printers I have used from back in the nineties easily printed test pages and warned me when I was out of ink without the computer running. |
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 "Worth while" | 2009-08-14 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1V9IDQ7PYPIQE |
| I am very pleased with this product it was basically "NEW" so that was a good suprize. |
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 "Not recommended" | 2009-06-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2FRK5E9007DJE |
| I received this printer free with the purchase of an iMac desktop computer. I have found it to be buggy and difficult to use. |
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| "Don't buy this printer if you have a Mac (and think hard if you have a PC)" | 2009-04-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: A257R4XKV1NKR7 |
I'm writing this review about the Mac because it's what I have, but I've read people who had Windows computers complaining about similar bizarre problems.
This printer has stopped printing anything except blank pages. It'll cheerily send them through the printer, making lots of noise, only to spit them out unchanged.
For a while, it was working fine, but after a year or so (the exact time is vague because I'd been using free printing at my university), it stopped working. Nothing would print, or a quarter of the page would or just the color sections would print. I knew the problem wasn't a lack of ink, because it had never gone through the period where it'll print pale images, and when parts of pages would print, they didn't have that look that you get from an empty printer cartridge.
Since it was a software problem, I reinstalled the drivers from HP. Again, I only had intermittent success. Worse, my girlfriend's computer also ran into these problems with the printer, and Google confirmed that other people have had this printer have had the same problem. Of course HP support has no relevant information. At this point, the only thing that seems to work is uninstalling the drivers, repairing permissions, and then reinstalling the drivers (up to a 15 minute process). I have no idea why this works, and in any case, you might just get one page before the printer is on the fritz again. And let me emphasize: as crazy as this problem is, I've read other people asking for help about it.
2 stars because the printer worked for awhile before it went totally kaput. |
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| "I love my HP C3180 All- In-One Printer!" | 2009-04-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A5V2BOSJBBAZ2 |
| I am going to make this short and sweet seeing how many people before me covered a lot of the Pros & Cons already. "The only reason I am selling my HP C3180 is because I am an Interior Design Student that has taken on senior studio classes that has a bigger work format, I need to upgrade to an 11x17 scanner, which this doesn't have. Other than that I love my printer, scanner, copier and it has done everything I needed it to do plus!! I love how you can plug in your cameras SD Card right into it and download your pictures to the computer. I have done so much work and creative things with this printer its crazy! So, I am sad to see it go, but I need a bigger capacity printer, scanner, copier for my Senior Class Projects." |
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| "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!" | 2008-10-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: AC06Q8ERL9BWG |
| I recently bought this printer because I needed one that's compatible with Windows Vista. I got more than I bargained for. This printer has everything...it prints great docs pics fast...and copies and scans every detail. All in one small package. I wish I had 2!!! |
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