| If you're looking for a single device that prints, copies, and scans, the HP Photosmart C6280 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, and Copier is your answer. The printer has a built-in 2.4-inch display you can use to easily print photos without a PC: Simply put your memory card into the memory card slot (compatible with Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, xD-Picture Card), preview it on the display, and print. Enhancing your photos and removing red eye is as simple as pushing the HP Red-eye Removal button. The HP Photosmart C6280 produces lab-quality, fade-resistant photo prints by using a six-ink color system for accurate color reproduction. Photos will always print on the correct side of the paper with the right quality settings because of HP Auto Sense technology. And coupled with HP Advanced Photo Paper, the C6280 is sure to produce photos that are smudge and smear-resistant right from the printer. Print speed is outstanding as well, at up to 34 ppm black and 33 ppm color. For those looking to save paper, an included duplexer lets you print on both sides of the paper. With built-in Ethernet, everyone on your home network can share the printer. The scanner uses a Contact Image Scanner (CIS) for scans at up to 4800 dpi optical resolution with a scan size of up to 8.6 by 11.7 inches. The copier supports pages up to this size as well and you can make up to 50 copies in one pass. Color copies are supported and there are settings for enlarging and reducing from 50 to 400 percent. HP Photosmart C6280 supports Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP Home and Professional, and Windows Vista as well as Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.x. It is backed by a 1-year warranty. What's in the Box
Photosmart C6280 printer, 02 black ink cartridge, 02 cyan ink cartridge, 02 magenta ink cartridge, 02 yellow ink cartridge, 02 light cyan ink cartridge, 02 light magenta ink cartridge, software CD, setup guide, basics guide, power cord, and two-sided printing accessory. |
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| Review Date: November 28, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Happy at Home, Wadsworth, OH |
I have gone through several color printers in the past few years. This printer by far is the best quality color printer to date. In my opnion it should be rated as a number one printer for the money and quality it puts out.
It is one of the few out printers out there that use 6 color cartridges which makes a HUGE difference in the way your photos appear. With a higher spectrum of color, the blend of colors are much more natural.
I work in an industry in which I work hand in hand with a lot of print shops (I don't work for HP). The shops that use large format HP printers use the same 6 color configuration that the C6280 uses. What that means to you is that you are getting virtually the same quality out of the C6280 as the more expensive $30k to $40k large format printers that print shops use.
One of the greatest features of this printer is that you can get a photo that you had taken lets say 4x6 print, scan it, and print out a 8x10 copy of that photo with just as good resolution. You can do all this without using a computer. You do it all from the printer itself. It is really like your own portable photo lab.
The biggest recommendation that you need to follow is that you MUST use HP photo paper to achieve the best results. That is all I have used and I have not been disappointed yet. |
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| Review Date: January 5, 2008 |
| Reviewer: EvilPumpkin, Bay Area, CA, USA |
I purchased this printer to replace my older HP 7260 Photosmart printer that had run out of ink and an old $5 scanner that I picked up during a Black Friday sale several years back. I really wanted a printer that I could use with my all wireless laptop house - 1 XP, 1 Vista to do routine printing both photo and regular printing, and the fact that the all-in-one was only $20 more than the 7460 with a built-in duplexer and scanner, I thought why not?
Setup Vista: The Vista laptop setup was a real breeze. (I ignored their instructions to try and avoid the HP bloatware) When I went to the Add Printer setting of the Control Panel, Vista detected the printer on the network. I selected have disk to get the driver, and then had a functional printer without going through the HP install process. Yay!
Setup XP: The XP laptop setup was a bit more cumbersome as we had to use the HP install disk. Despite selecting all of the options to not install all of the optional HP software (such as buying your HP supplies online, checking automatically for updates, providing customer feedback, etc.), it detected that our previous installation had those features and updated them all. Argh! It really isn't that big a deal to then go and uninstall all of that junk, but it is annoying. I had 6 HP programs running in the background after the first install. HP should really be ashamed of themselves...Once I uninstalled all of the bloatware, I was up and running with zero problems.
Printing: Classic high quality printing from HP that I have always liked. Did some black and whites using only the black cartridge, a 4x6 photo, some web pages, all were reasonably fast...by the time I got up they were done...that's why I wanted wireless anyways.
Scanning: I wanted to scan a picture. So I went over to the unit, put the picture on the glass and hit Scan Menu. Saw 2-3 options, Scan to Card, Scan to computer. Hit scan to computer and it showed my computer's name. I hit OK, then it scanned and by the time I got back to my laptop I had a dialog box asking about resolution, file name options etc. Once I set up those options, it was done. I scanned a second picture and all of those options were saved, and it was just done before I even got back to my laptop. Excellent!
All in all, a great experience so far. I would definitely recommend this printer. |
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| Review Date: November 27, 2007 |
| Reviewer: F. Colby, Seattle, WA USA |
I recently bought this HP C6280 after searching for a printer that is compatible with VISTA. I had gone thru four other printers, 3 HP and 1 Canon to find one problem after another due to VISTA issues. This printer is fantastic. Set up was a breeze and with the ethernet I find the connection to be as speedy as with USB, not at all slow. I have it hooked up to both my PC and notebook. I like the paper tray and the dedicated photo paper tray is handy. The printer is larger than some and a bit noisey. The price will most likely come down, be careful when purchasing ink, they make two size ink cartridges. Overall I'm happy with this one.
6 MONTHS LATER: I have to admit my initial review was far too soon after buying this printer. It has been the worst choice I could have made. It is noisey. It sucks up ink like crazy, always needing one or the other of the six inks. It is slow, when I hit the print command it decides to do "ink maintenance" then shimmys and shakes when it prints. The on screen status is not necessary and no way to turn it off. Finally today I got tired and am now using a different make printer.
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| Review Date: March 22, 2008 |
| Reviewer: D. Vertz, Va Beach, Va USA |
I have had this printer for only a week now, so I have not played with all of the features. I started not to buy it with all of the negative reviews. But with being a fairly advanced user, I know most users are not that advanced and don't know some of the workarounds. So I decide to go into a retail store and have it demo'd for me. After the first print I knew that this printer was no worse than any others.
I had my PCS 1350 stop feeding paper, so I had to replace it. I was looking for one that had the 6 colors, duplexing, networking and wasn't overpriced. This was the only HP that fit all of my needs.
After seeing and hearing it print, I could tell that it was no louder and didn't shake the table any more than the 1350. But that was the demo. Once the purchased printer was setup, it did shake a bit more than the 1350. But it's not that bad. And if it becomes intolerable, I'll move it to a table of it's own.
It does make a bit more noise than I am used to. But still not as bad as the reviews had made it sound. The strangest thing is when it was done printing (which was fast), it continued to do things. Maybe resetting the heads. It took a while, again longer than I had expected. But that may have something to with having 6 print cartridges rather then the two cartridges in a printer that uses a tricolor cartridge.
Some complained about the HP software. This has always been a gripe I have had. The software is bloatware. It takes a very long time to load and takes over your computer. It will even cause your computer to become slower. But this is where being an advance user comes in handy. I already knew how to overcome the software problems people didn't like. And its simple. Take the disk that comes with the Printer and throw it in the trash. Goto HP.com and search for your printer. Download the DRIVERS only file. It is much smaller because it doesn't contain all that software you don't need. Use that to install the printer.
To setup the printer it took me about 5 minutes to unpack, 15 minutes to start it up (including the 4.5 minutes one time startup), less than 5 minutes to download the drivers file, and less than 10 minutes to have it printing. So between 30-40 minutes total.
In doing some test prints, I have discovered that for some reason It doesn't seem to like the Kodak Paper too much. And my bet is, it has something to do with the autosense that determines if the paper is right side up. But once printed, those image are Lab quality. The duplexing feature work perfectly. Just be sure it is tured on, it is off by default.
All-in-all, it is already the best printer I have owned. I am glad I did not let a few bad reviews deter me away from buying an HP printer.
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| Review Date: March 28, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Pastor Tom, California |
| I ordered this C6280 to replace an obsolete HP 2170 that no longer worked with my Mac OS 10.4.11. It did take a while to set up and connect to my Mac, but once done, it worked great. However, there is NO User Manual for Mac users, and it took a long time to figure out how to print photos from iPhoto (Export/Export to HP Photosmart Print). Beautiful prints! Then I could not get the duplex feature to work, and it took an hour on the phone with a patient and VERY CAPABLE tech support guy at HP. The problem was that I was using the C6280 as a Bonjour printer through my AirPort Extreme using a USB cable instead of an Ethernet cable. Now all is well, and the printer works perfectly. |
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