HP Photosmart C4780 All-in-One Printer (Q8380A#ABA)

Product Description

HP Photosmart C4780 All-in-OneHP Photosmart C4780All-in-One Printer (Q8380A) Wireless all-in-one for photo or everyday printing. ENERGY STAR qualified Print Speed1: Up to 29 ppm black and up to 23ppm color, color photos as fast as 29 sec Scan: Upto 1200 x 2400 dpi; Scan Type: Flatbed scanner Copy Resolution: Up to 1200 x 1200 dpi; Maximum Number of Copies: Up to 30 copies Paper Handling: 80-sheet input tray, 15-sheet photo tray Connectivity:1 USB 2.0, Wireless 802.11g Monthly Volume (dutycycle): Up to 1,000 pages Features: 1.45" LCD (color graphics) with HP TouchSmart frame, borderlessprinting up to 8.5 x 11 in

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Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: HP
• Model: Q8380A#ABA
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.69" h x 17.39" w x 16.59" l, 10.48 pounds
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.1 GHz
• Memory: 64MB SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 320GB
• Processors: 1

Features

• Easily view and print photos without a PC using the color display with HP TouchSmart frame.
• Use paper more efficiently by printing multiple pages onto each side of the paper using the Paper-saving Printing option.
• Get great results for Web prints with HP Smart Web Printing—simply clip and print only the content you want3
• Edit, store and print photos, and make cards, calendars and more with your PC and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Known Issue - Prone to locking up completely!
By usaf_drew
EDIT 27 AUG 2010 - There is now a firmware update that addresses the lockup issue. Took them a while to get this out while so many were frustrated, so I won't change my rating. (Delete the spaces) [...]

HP is aware of an issue with the C47XX line of printers where the wireless may lock up the printer completely resulting in a bricked printer. The way this happens is during wireless setup. If the SSID which the printer is looking for is not 13 chars long, wireless setup will fail and there is a good chance that the printer will lock up and display HP logo and infinite progress bar on the LCD display. Nothing will function (some get USB fucntionality) and your printer is now bricked. When this happened to me, I immediately called CS. Their 'fix' was to issue a $140 voucher to HP shopping site for a new printer, since they already know the C47XX line is flawed with no real fix. So I happily accepted the voucher (worth almost twice as much as the printer) and went shopping for anything BUT an HP printer.

But then I decided to tinker around with my new paperweight after I got two nice 8" digital photo frames and a premium webcam free compliments of HP. Using my noggin, I figured if the problem arose from the wireless, then unplugging the wireless module inside might reset the printer. Voila! It worked and, after a few more steps, I had a fully working wireless printer again. If you are having this same lockup issue, read this thread and my procedure for fixing the lockup and getting wireless to work: [...]

63 of 72 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome Product
By surrey405
UPDATE (05/06/11):
By now this product is quite old considering all the products out there.
I still love it, it continues to function and uses the least amount of ink when compared to all the printers I have ever used.
I would buy a new one just because when this came out there was not AirPrint support.
The issue with restarting the printer has gone and the printer is always online.

UPDATE (01/23/10):
I have been using it with my wireless network, although after a couple of days I have to restart the printer in order to print from it, otherwise it does not show up in my active printers list.

ORIGINAL POST:
Have been using it for a week.
Scan, copy, printing all work perfect.
Have enjoyed using this printer.
It uses only two inks and they are cheap, a twin pack costs about $30 which is really cheap.
Love it.

41 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
Buyer Beware! Problems with Vista
By Mother of Two
The install and connection to the network went flawlessly. The print quality is very good. Unfortunately, the HP scanner software does not work with Vista. I spent countless hours on the phone with HP tech support. The case was finally referred to the Engineering Department. They are aware of the problem but don't have a fix yet.

By the way, you can use the scanner with the "Windows Photo Gallery" program. I really like the small footprint and the print quality of this all-in-one, and therefore I didn't return it. I will just use the other program until HP can come up with a fix. Because the HP software doesn't work for scanning, I cannot use the button on the printer to scan. I have to go through the PC. That's why I only gave this printer three stars.

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