HP Photosmart Wireless Multifunction Printer/ Copier/ Scanner
Hewlett Packard
- C8180
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I've been a happy user of my HP 7280 all-in-one unit for a number of months. After I reluctantly returned the C7280 review unit, I put my money where my review mouth was, bought one, and have had no regrets.
HP asked me to review the C8180, and here's what I found after using on it for quite a while.
First off, the 8180 is not simply a 7280 with HP's revisions du jour; it has a higher resolution scanner and printer. According to HP, the additional sensors that make up the 96 bit scanner sensor produce better color accuracy as well as reduced noise and grain from negatives. It is more obvious when scanning certain colors, like saturated reds and greens, and scanning certain types of originals, like offset press or inkjet prints. As we'll see, actually producing a 96 bit scan is awkward.
However, the 8180 has no fax capability at all. It has the same abilities to read from various types of camera memory cards, and it also can print via USB, Ethernet, or 802.11b/g wireless. It has no 802.11n
HP asked me to review the C8180, and here's what I found after using on it for quite a while.
First off, the 8180 is not simply a 7280 with HP's revisions du jour; it has a higher resolution scanner and printer. According to HP, the additional sensors that make up the 96 bit scanner sensor produce better color accuracy as well as reduced noise and grain from negatives. It is more obvious when scanning certain colors, like saturated reds and greens, and scanning certain types of originals, like offset press or inkjet prints. As we'll see, actually producing a 96 bit scan is awkward.
However, the 8180 has no fax capability at all. It has the same abilities to read from various types of camera memory cards, and it also can print via USB, Ethernet, or 802.11b/g wireless. It has no 802.11n
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I was looking for a new photosmart printer. I looked at so many models and read all the reviews. It seemed that no matter which one I looked at, there were both positive and negative reviews.
I decided on the C 8180 for the features. I received the printer from Amazon which was considerably cheaper than Circuit City. The software installed smoothly. I tested the printer and it performed beautifully. I wonder about all those other negative reviews and what mistakes the people might have made to have a problem. All I know is that I have a truly all in one printer that does everything I ask it to do without a problem.
I decided on the C 8180 for the features. I received the printer from Amazon which was considerably cheaper than Circuit City. The software installed smoothly. I tested the printer and it performed beautifully. I wonder about all those other negative reviews and what mistakes the people might have made to have a problem. All I know is that I have a truly all in one printer that does everything I ask it to do without a problem.
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When I first got married, I had a slide camera, it took half slides so on a roll of 35 mm film, I got twice the amount of pictures at half the size each. They have been in a box for many years. I didn't know how I would ever get them unless I went to a professional. This all in one allows me to retrieve my pictures. I started with my beautiful young wife at the NY Worlds Fair in 1964. Scans are great and prints are great too.
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After having read some of the reviews on here, i've observed a few things. Apparently, one, i should've waited a couple of more months to buy mine and i could've saved around 200 dollars; secondly, it seems that some people need to fully read the instructions before they get upset over the printer working or not working.
First off, I want to say that download the software from the internet. I bought the printer in November 07, and in February, the printer stopped working over the network. So, I had to reinstall the software from the website on all of the laptops that use the printers, and it's worked flawlessly since. Also, if you want to take advantage of every option on this printer, especially the cd/dvd lightscribe drive, you will have to use the USB connection. Also, it will print in black only if one of your cartridges is out of ink. You will have to go the printer itself and hit ok on the touchscreen. You can also use the included software to print using the lightscribe,
First off, I want to say that download the software from the internet. I bought the printer in November 07, and in February, the printer stopped working over the network. So, I had to reinstall the software from the website on all of the laptops that use the printers, and it's worked flawlessly since. Also, if you want to take advantage of every option on this printer, especially the cd/dvd lightscribe drive, you will have to use the USB connection. Also, it will print in black only if one of your cartridges is out of ink. You will have to go the printer itself and hit ok on the touchscreen. You can also use the included software to print using the lightscribe,
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Why do you need a DVD burner built in to a printer anyway? Lightscribe is radical cool only issue is that it is slow.
It take me 25mins at best mode to make a good looking DVD/CD which make this not worth getting.
Ink hub disc is the best for mass producing of church services etc..
It is different I will say but not worth it. Get a HP c5250 or 5280 instead.
It take me 25mins at best mode to make a good looking DVD/CD which make this not worth getting.
Ink hub disc is the best for mass producing of church services etc..
It is different I will say but not worth it. Get a HP c5250 or 5280 instead.
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I bought this printer to replace an officejet 5500 series for the higher picture quality and the high quality scans. However, there are a few concerns I have with the printer.
1. Most important, the black ink the printer uses is terrible. I bought the printer to make higher quality photos but the majority of my printings are documents. The black ink smudges considerably even if your fingers or anything else are the slightest bit wet even after significant drying time. My 5500 series never had this problem (it used #56 black cartridges I believe).
2. The software is HUGE. It took about an hour to install even if you install just the drivers and skip all the other features.
3. The quality of scanned negatives is not that great. You are better off scanning a hard copy of your photo if available. Don't buy it for this purpose.
4. The drivers worked on all my machines except my wife's which is running XP even after uninstalls and reinstalls. Tech support was eventually able to
1. Most important, the black ink the printer uses is terrible. I bought the printer to make higher quality photos but the majority of my printings are documents. The black ink smudges considerably even if your fingers or anything else are the slightest bit wet even after significant drying time. My 5500 series never had this problem (it used #56 black cartridges I believe).
2. The software is HUGE. It took about an hour to install even if you install just the drivers and skip all the other features.
3. The quality of scanned negatives is not that great. You are better off scanning a hard copy of your photo if available. Don't buy it for this purpose.
4. The drivers worked on all my machines except my wife's which is running XP even after uninstalls and reinstalls. Tech support was eventually able to
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I picked this printer up for $215 (shipping included) off pricegrabber.
For the price, I don't think I could have bought separate pieces of hardware that can do everything this printer can do.
I was concerned that the light scribe would only do text after reading these reviews, but I just labeled my first disc with a photograph and text, using the included roxio software, and it looks great.
The scans are of good quality for an all in one. Of course you could buy just a scanner that would be way better... but you would have to spend a lot of money. For the average user like myself... the scanner is more than adequate.
It is noisy, but that's a sacrifice you sometimes have to make when buying the newest products.
I love the touchscreen, it makes it easy for anyone to use the printer... as it guides you through whatever you want to do step by step, with pictures and everything.
I also like the fact that it takes six separate ink cartridges... that way if one is low, you only need
For the price, I don't think I could have bought separate pieces of hardware that can do everything this printer can do.
I was concerned that the light scribe would only do text after reading these reviews, but I just labeled my first disc with a photograph and text, using the included roxio software, and it looks great.
The scans are of good quality for an all in one. Of course you could buy just a scanner that would be way better... but you would have to spend a lot of money. For the average user like myself... the scanner is more than adequate.
It is noisy, but that's a sacrifice you sometimes have to make when buying the newest products.
I love the touchscreen, it makes it easy for anyone to use the printer... as it guides you through whatever you want to do step by step, with pictures and everything.
I also like the fact that it takes six separate ink cartridges... that way if one is low, you only need
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Just purchased the HP C8180 which jamned 50% of the time while attemping to print 4 by 6 photo prints. First I tried Kodak photo paper, the C8180 stated it was jamned, but it was not. After finally reaching a live service person at HP, he said it was Kodak paper's fault, that the HP machine could not read the thickness. I purchased HP paper, it made 6 photos then it really did jam. Could not resolve. Returned for refund. Also this All in One makes a lot of noise, is slow to start and shut down, quite a cumbersome product. HP service people wasted a lot of my time, apparently reading solutions from their manual which took forever. I would not recommend this purchase.
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The Hewlett-Packard c8180 all-in-one is the worst printer I have ever seen in my almost 50 years of computing. I'm giving it one star because I cannot create a review with zero stars. I'll just have to try to list all the bad features.
* Aggressive marketing of ink cartridge via Internet even when you turn this "feature" off
* Dishonest HP practice of selling cartridges sometimes only partly filled -- you can spot this by weighing the cartridges
* Noisy, often makes loud mechanical sounds when no job is running
* Cannot scan any negative or transparency format other than 35mm film and slides
* Scanning settings won't stay set. Switches from negative to transparency mode without warning
* Won't print, even in black only, when one color cartridge is low
* Color balance in negative scans is terrible -- take your negatives to the drug store and scan them there
* Can't comment on light scribe drive, never got it to create a disk.
Other people have found other problems, these are just some
* Aggressive marketing of ink cartridge via Internet even when you turn this "feature" off
* Dishonest HP practice of selling cartridges sometimes only partly filled -- you can spot this by weighing the cartridges
* Noisy, often makes loud mechanical sounds when no job is running
* Cannot scan any negative or transparency format other than 35mm film and slides
* Scanning settings won't stay set. Switches from negative to transparency mode without warning
* Won't print, even in black only, when one color cartridge is low
* Color balance in negative scans is terrible -- take your negatives to the drug store and scan them there
* Can't comment on light scribe drive, never got it to create a disk.
Other people have found other problems, these are just some
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I LOVE THIS PRINTER! I have been using HP printers since 1994 have had almost no problems with any of them. In fact, I am still using the one I bought in 1994 but it isn't a multi-function printer. I wanted to get a new printer that had copy, scan and photo capabilities. I bought a Canon MP970 because it had such high ratings. I hated it so I returned it and got the HP C8180 instead.
I don't understand what the negative reviewers are talking about since I have not encountered any of the problems they metion. In fact, my experiece with this printer has been the opposite of what they say.
Set up was fairly easy. I have it set up to work on my wireless network and encountered no problems during set-up. I installed the software on all the computers on my home network (three desktops and one laptop) and again had no problems. The whole set-up from start to finish took less than 1 hour (that's for the printer and all computers).
Apparently, some peple ecountered a problem with their printer
I don't understand what the negative reviewers are talking about since I have not encountered any of the problems they metion. In fact, my experiece with this printer has been the opposite of what they say.
Set up was fairly easy. I have it set up to work on my wireless network and encountered no problems during set-up. I installed the software on all the computers on my home network (three desktops and one laptop) and again had no problems. The whole set-up from start to finish took less than 1 hour (that's for the printer and all computers).
Apparently, some peple ecountered a problem with their printer
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I'm a somewhat tech-savvy person, but after 10 uninstall/reinstalls of the drivers on two of our PCs, along with manual updates from the web, we are returning this printer today. We will never buy another HP again.
Today, I was able to print a single page from my laptop. But it won't print the second page -- unknown error from my side, the printer is just sitting there with no status.
Its drivers have uninstalled themselves from The Wife's computer twice. She was asking me to try to install them again today because she needs something to print. Cost/benefit-wise, it's going to be simpler to get a different printer.
The drivers also cause my Dell to run at 100% CPU utilization unless I disable one suite (the "imaging" utilities, or as they appear in my task list, "svchost"). Before the drivers removed themselves from The Wife's Toshiba laptop, they would cause an error dialog nearly every time on startup.
Googling for "HP 8180 problems" pointed me to lots of people with the same
Today, I was able to print a single page from my laptop. But it won't print the second page -- unknown error from my side, the printer is just sitting there with no status.
Its drivers have uninstalled themselves from The Wife's computer twice. She was asking me to try to install them again today because she needs something to print. Cost/benefit-wise, it's going to be simpler to get a different printer.
The drivers also cause my Dell to run at 100% CPU utilization unless I disable one suite (the "imaging" utilities, or as they appear in my task list, "svchost"). Before the drivers removed themselves from The Wife's Toshiba laptop, they would cause an error dialog nearly every time on startup.
Googling for "HP 8180 problems" pointed me to lots of people with the same
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If you buy this item you are asking for trouble. MANY of the features that are mentioned in pre-sale information do NOT exist on this printer or do not work as advertised.
First, is the DVD burning. Not until you unpack the printer and read the installation manual does it mention that you can't burn a DVD through a network connection. It is USB or nothing.
Second, and worse yet, is that the scanner, from the specs, appears to be a top of the line with 4800 dpi optical resolution. Good luck using it at this resolution.
Scanning at ANYTHING higher than the default resolutions usually won't work. The defaults are 200 dpi for film and 300 dpi for prints. For negatives 200 dpi is useless if you plan to blow it up past the size of a postage stamp.
Using Twain to transfer to Photoshop only works 10% of the time even at the default settings. Most times it will either report the file is too big (32 MB, who knew?) or just sit there and do nothing. The other scanning methods do not give
First, is the DVD burning. Not until you unpack the printer and read the installation manual does it mention that you can't burn a DVD through a network connection. It is USB or nothing.
Second, and worse yet, is that the scanner, from the specs, appears to be a top of the line with 4800 dpi optical resolution. Good luck using it at this resolution.
Scanning at ANYTHING higher than the default resolutions usually won't work. The defaults are 200 dpi for film and 300 dpi for prints. For negatives 200 dpi is useless if you plan to blow it up past the size of a postage stamp.
Using Twain to transfer to Photoshop only works 10% of the time even at the default settings. Most times it will either report the file is too big (32 MB, who knew?) or just sit there and do nothing. The other scanning methods do not give
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If you buy this item you are asking for trouble. MANY of the features that are mentioned in pre-sale information do NOT exist on this printer or do not work as advertised.
First, is the DVD burning. Not until you unpack the printer and read the installation manual does it mention that you can't burn a DVD through a network connection. It is USB or nothing.
Second, and worse yet, is that the scanner, from the specs, appears to be a top of the line with 4800 dpi optical resolution. Good luck using it at this resolution.
Scanning at ANYTHING higher than the default resolutions usually won't work. The defaults are 200 dpi for film and 300 dpi for prints. For negatives 200 dpi is useless if you plan to blow it up past the size of a postage stamp.
Using Twain to transfer to Photoshop only works 10% of the time even at the default settings. Most times it will either report the file is too big (32 MB, who knew?) or just sit there and do nothing. The other scanning methods do not give
First, is the DVD burning. Not until you unpack the printer and read the installation manual does it mention that you can't burn a DVD through a network connection. It is USB or nothing.
Second, and worse yet, is that the scanner, from the specs, appears to be a top of the line with 4800 dpi optical resolution. Good luck using it at this resolution.
Scanning at ANYTHING higher than the default resolutions usually won't work. The defaults are 200 dpi for film and 300 dpi for prints. For negatives 200 dpi is useless if you plan to blow it up past the size of a postage stamp.
Using Twain to transfer to Photoshop only works 10% of the time even at the default settings. Most times it will either report the file is too big (32 MB, who knew?) or just sit there and do nothing. The other scanning methods do not give
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This printer is FANTASTIC! I can print from virtually any format without a computer to any size output. From slides, negatives, videos, scans, CD/DVD's and four different memory card sizes, images are input into the printer, you do a little editing and then VOILA ---print out 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10, passport, video still-capture image, or any combination of photos sizes. You can even download your pictures from a memory card onto a cd and burn your own backup. This printer is totally awesome!
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I really dont have a lot to say thats bad about this machine. It scans negatives very well and the negative holder is actually a joy to use compared to others.
As a stand alone machine you can scan directly to a memory card or a dvd/cd. You can also copy a memory card directly to a dvd/cd. You can browse a memory card and/or dvd and print photos..etc.
Scan quality is excellent and the printing is excellent. Printing speed is a little faster than my 2 year old hp photo printer.
The wireless connection is really not that hot, its slow sometimes, and it does drop out occasionally.
usb connectivity is fine, network connection is untested as of yet.
Drivers and bundled software are what you have come to expect from hp (you can take that a number of ways)..but all in all im not dissapointed.
As a stand alone machine you can scan directly to a memory card or a dvd/cd. You can also copy a memory card directly to a dvd/cd. You can browse a memory card and/or dvd and print photos..etc.
Scan quality is excellent and the printing is excellent. Printing speed is a little faster than my 2 year old hp photo printer.
The wireless connection is really not that hot, its slow sometimes, and it does drop out occasionally.
usb connectivity is fine, network connection is untested as of yet.
Drivers and bundled software are what you have come to expect from hp (you can take that a number of ways)..but all in all im not dissapointed.
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HP C8180 Photosmart All In One Printer/Scanner/Copier This appears to be a good All In One machine so far. The only issue we had is when we tried loading the software. It loaded okay, but then we repeatedly got a notice on our computer screen that "new hardware found" each time we turned on the printer and it would bring up the installation program on the computer screen. It didn't matter how many times I completed the installation process, it would still bring this up each time we turned on the printer plus some functions of the scanner wouldn't work. After repeated calls to HP's Customer Service center and trying different things with each tech, we finally latched on to a tech that new what he was doing. We have a new Dell computer and he said there has always been issues between HP and Dell. But at least he got things set right in our computer so that we no longer have any of our initial problems and everything is working well. HP needs to have their techs share information so
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I bought this for the high quality scanning options, the built in light scribe drive and network connectivity. Well as far as I'm concerned being able to use a major feature (disk burning and light scribe labeling) only in USB mode (and not mentioning it anywhere until you unpack the unit) is disingenuous at least and bordering on deceptive practices..."Oh yes my car has air conditioning, but it only works in the winter when I am in park". A networked printer that has a major feature crippled by using it in a network configuration is not a networked printer (at over $400 this really pisses me off). The WiFi connection is slow as well and taxes the sending machine. Apparently switching between network mode and USB mode is not trivial and you cannot be connected to both at the same time (this is murky tech support has not answered that question, but really wants to know how well they did...sigh).
The software driver is buggy, sometimes when I turn the printer on, after the printing computer
The software driver is buggy, sometimes when I turn the printer on, after the printing computer
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