
Excellent all rounder - 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
Excellent printer! - 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.
great printer - just got this printer and the set up went like a dream no problems at all.didnt use the cd though just down loaded the basic one from hp.com (the one it comes with has too much crappy software on it and slows down your pc)the picture print qualty is excellant even on A 4 size photo paper.not used the fax yet but the scanner and copy er are fine for home use.all n all a good buy
Great For Draft Printing - I do a lot of printing and copying for my work, 500 sheets a week or more. So I keep two printers, one expensive and the other cheap, in case. I always use HP and have found they are very good in doing my job. This has been the way for the last ten years. This printer is used as the standby unit and use mainly for printing from the computer. I do not recomended this for making photo copies unless you do only very few copies a week as it is too slow. When you switch on the machine it takes a few long munites to warm up making you a litte annoying. If you run out of any one of the six cartridges it will stop printing. I think this machine waste ink and mine alwys in need of ink. Printing colour photos is OK but I have not yet found how to print four pictures onto one A4 photo paper. In normal printing if you use draft quality print time is very fast. Specially when I print question papers in duplex, two pages per one side, in draft quality, the machine is super fast. It will print 40 pages onto ten sheet in no time. This is the only time I enjoy the machine. I will never buy one of this grade printers.
Great for the home. - Does everything well. Had same low capacity issues with supplied cartridges but once changed got a large increase in amount of printed pages. Setup instructions are clear and very easy to follow. Overall very pleased.