Best HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One Printer

HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier (#Q8220A)
The HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, and Copier can help increase the productivity of your business. This stylish multi-function unit works incredibly fast and prints, scans and copies with true-to-life color that gives your documents an edge.

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Extremely versatile and convenient, the C5180 gives you the option of printing laser-quality documents and lab-quality photos without a computer using memory cards, USB flash memory drive, and a large, easy-to-read 2.4-inch color image display. It's a worthwhile investment for any growing business or individual who wants the option to print photos at home.

The C5180 can handle most memory card formats, as well as PictBridge-capable devices.

Fast Speeds and High-Quality Results
The stylish C5180 combines fast speeds with high-quality results. For instance, it prints a 4 x 6-inch photo in as fast as 12 seconds from the automated 4 x 6-inch tray, while six-ink printing with HP Vivera Inks produces rich and realistic photos that resist fading for generations. The C5180 also offers print speeds of up to 32 pages per minute (ppm) in black and white and up to 31 ppm in color.

The efficiently designed individual ink cartridges allow you to replace only the ink colors used-- a money-saving function that's ideal for high-volume workgroups. In addition, the HP Photosmart Express button makes completing the digital photography experience fast and easy by letting you view, print, share and save in seconds. At the same time, HP Photosmart Premier software makes it easy to edit, organize, print, share, archive and create photo projects, giving you all kinds of creative options to enhance your business.

High Resolution For Vivid Documents and Photos
Designed to give you numerous options, the C5180 lets you make color and black and white copies, or print landscapes and other panoramic images in any size up to 8.5 x 24 inches, with or without borders. Troubleshoot any problems by using the 2.4-inch QVGA color image display that adjusts for optimal viewing from any angle so you can select, rotate, crop, zoom and remove red-eye directly from the display without using a computer. When it's time to print, enjoy vivid, eye-catching images, photos, and copies thanks to high resolutions of 4,800 optimized dots per inch (dpi) for photos, 2,400 x 2,400 dpi optical resolution for scans, and up to 4,800 x 1,200 dpi for color copying.

Not so good with Vista

I had high hopes for this. Good build quality. Seemed like all I'd need for fun and for my home office.

The thing never played all that well with Vista. It would often disappear from our network, which made it hard to print from our other computers.

The photo tray was crap. I had to give it english every time to get it to work correctly. The last time, unfortunately, I gave it too much and smashed the glass in the scanner.

The photo printed, finally, but now I'm shopping for a new printer.

If you're impatient like me, and you expect a fairly expensive printer to work well out of the box, skip this one.

I will say, however, that contrary to others' experiences, the scanner was the one thing that worked consistently well for me. That software was easy to use, and I got a lot of compliments on the scans I made with it.

If only the rest of the functions had been as good!

Great Printer at cheap price

bought this printer a few weeks ago and it works great.set up was a little long but worth it.Works fine on my windows vista,i have it set up to use the network.i can still use the scanner while im on wifi,took me a little while to learn how to do this.the printer is a little loud but hey every single piece of technology is not perfect.it gets the job done.would recommend this printer.