Auto Paper-Type Sensor/ Print Borderless and up to 8.5 x 24 Panaroma
11.20 lbs (WxLxH) 7.72" x 17.10" x 6.40"
Rating: - INK USAGE IS INSANE!
I've been using this printer for about 3 months and have gone through 3 ink cartridges. I don't print more than maybe 50-75 pages a month. At around $13 (at the cheapest) a cartridge this is insane. If I hadn't gotten the printer as a gift this would be a terrible investment. I could print for years (2500 pages) on a laser cartridge for $50. For the price, buy a laser printer and never look back! I'm warning you don't make the same mistake I did.
Rating: - Great MFP with one major flaw
I've owned this printer for about a year and a half. It was a great performer for light to average home use but has one major flaw. The available ink cartridges only have 5ml of ink which barely last a month even with light use.
After going through my last two ink cartridges this fall, I decided it was a better investment to buy a new MFP. I paid $79 for a new Canon MP470 which included 16ml ink cartridges (and has high capacity cartridges available when it is time for a refill). It would have cost me almost $50 for two 5ml black and one 5ml color cartridge for the HP. For $30 more, I got the equivalent of 1 extra black cartridge, 2 extra color cartridges and a free printer to go with it.
I understand HPs motivation but 5ml cartridges is just an insult. If I was aware of this when I was buying the printer, I would not have done it. BEWARE!
Rating: - Worst printer from the worst company
I too got this printer for free when I bought my mac. And even still I think its a horrible waste. It worked well for a few months; i probably printed about 20 times and only a few weird paper jams, etc. But after a few prints the ink will run out! I've never seen ink run out so fast. Now I can't print anything. it will print a couple of lines on the first page, and then print gibberish and symbols on the next page, and then just keep printing a few symbols on a new page. Its so frustrating. I tried to re-download the drivers but to no avail. The customer service at HP is some of the worst I have ever used. And tried to charge me $65 to tell me that the printer is broken. I'd rather take that money and buy a new printer. Which I will. And never from HP (worst company ever).
Rating: - Great scanner/copier/printer for the money
I got this scanner/printer/copier last year for Christmas and it's been nothing but great. It's not intended for heavy use. Once in a while I make a few copies with it. You can select the copy quality, and that will determine how much ink the machine uses per page. The scanner is adequate for "light" use. It's a little on the slow side compared to our big machine at work, but I don't need anything more than this for scanning a few photos now and then.
I'm not sure if my printer driver got messed up somehow, but everytime I hook my laptop to the printer it starts printing a page that looks like a test page. I think that may be something easy to fix, but I don't bother. I usually just hit the cancel button right away after I hook up the laptop so that I don't waste the ink printing that page.
Overall, it's a very good machine. No fax machine on this one though.
HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, and Copier Reviews
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