HP Photosmart C7280 Reviews: HP All-in-one Colour Inkjet Printer

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Score: 8.6/10

185 Real Customer Reviews - In Summary

This printer is a good all rounder. “Its compact and doesn't take up so much desk space as the hp it replaced, and…” Anonymous verified purchaser View all 185 real customer reviews

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185 verified purchasers have reviewed this product.
89% of people recommend it.

Reevoo's summary of reviews:

Pros: Ease of use, double sided printing, separate ink cartridges, quality results
Cons: trouble connecting wireless, software, noisy

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Compatibility8.5
Print quality8.7
Speed8.1
Value for money (at time of purchase)8.9
Overall rating8.6
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Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Computer literate, nota geek”

+ Its compact and doesn't take up so much desk space as the HP it replaced, and being wireless can be put anywhere.
The features are good - the small screen, the card readers etc etc...
Its also fast!

- The software is poor - loading it onto my laptop caused it to hang, and when I reloaded it there's something in the start-up trying to connect which can't and doesn't. Consequently the CPU goes into overdrive and slows down and overheats the whole laptop. So far, I'm only able to resolve this by closing down one of the start-up programmes using Task Manager everytime I start-up, which is an aggravation everytime I turn on the laptop.
Also, even though I asked it NOT to instal auto-update, it still did so. I've now learned how to turn it off, but so many software programmes automatically load unnecessary auto updates that run on start-up that it just slows down your PC. I didn't expect this from HP.
Its noisy - don't think about putting this anywhere where you want quiet! It clunks and it swishes, and it has a lovely feature that sounds a chime whenever its finished something - great if you like background music, but if you're trying to get on with something else its simply distracting. I haven't yet found out how to turn it off.
The print quality is great on photos, but on standard text document printing the print quality is poor - I've now hooked my old HP G85 back up to the PC so that I can just print any old stuff without additional lines...

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purchased 05 Apr 2008

Score 9.0/10

Steve, Derby , “Grumpy old git”

+ Not the quickest to set up but none the less very straight forward. Very handy having the separate tray for the standard photo size. Separate ink cartridges give better prints and are straight forward to install. The wireless set up was a breeze and is now connected so to speak to all my pc's and laptops. The ADF makes document scanning easy and quicker. The built in media slots and little viewer are handy when your friends and relatives call.

- The ink cartridge are on the small side but this can be worked round. Not as fast as you would expect but for the home use fast enough. Quite large and a little noisy. Beware of the transit ink it makes the first few pictures poor but they do improve. A lot of icons generated requiring a folder on your desktop.

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purchased 03 Dec 2008

Score 8.0/10

Phil, Nantwich , “Small Business Owner”

+ The print quality is photo standard (unusual in an all in one), connecting to the wireless network was easy.

- This comes with an automatic two sided printing module already fitted which is great for saving paper by printing on both sides of the page without having to turn the paper over and put it back in again but there are DRIVER ISSUES which mean windows pops up a message saying the unit isn't fitted even though it is, but still prints on both sides if you click print rather than cancel (only relevant if you select two sided printing in the printer options page - single sided / photo printing is unaffected)

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purchased 05 Dec 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Small foot print, inexpensive, lots of features and v good print quality (photo sized prints are excellent).

- Scanner software element v poor as it produces massive files (ie a simple b&w invoice at over 0.5Mb which on other devices would be about 120kb). HP say it's a known issue. After being away and having to install another HP printer on my laptop, I returned to some major problems with the C7280 printer not working properly at all (very very slow printing to the point it was taking 10 mins to do one small job). Had to uninstall every HP printer on my system and clean registry then re-install newly downloaded HP C7280 software. It could have been an MS XP patch causing probs (which happened in the past on another HP printer) but there are, I was told, sometimes issues with conflicts with other HP printers being installed on the same pc. The software doesn't seem to know if has a duplex unit either which is irritating and it always questions you if you want double sided printing. Setting up the wireless element hasn't been easy either as it scans and cannot find the printer on the network in set up. That said, it's pretty good and my colleagues, who also have the same printer for their working at home haven't complained.

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purchased 27 Jun 2008

Score 1.0/10

Graham, Wokingham , “Expert user”

+ Print quality excellent (but see bad points). Multiple ways to connect to network. Easy but lengthy initial driver installation/configuration.

- Crucially it often does not print the last line or two of Excel or Word documents (maybe others too). Apparently a known problem that renders the printer virtually useless.Copy of photograph results in different colours from original. Photocopying much slower than I had expected. Frequent paper jams. Often feeds paper at an angle. The default installation set up the wireless configuration with a dynamic IP address which meant that when switched on again (and got a different IP address from the router's DHCP server) it could not be seen by PCs on the network resulting in a lengthy process of reinstalling the printer.

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purchased 27 Oct 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It is an all in one

- It will not work with Vista ...................My laptop is loaded with Vista!

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purchased 16 Oct 2007

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ excellent all around printer with bluetooth.

- Requires HP paper for optimal printing settings.

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purchased 02 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

Andy, Belfast

+ The product is an outstanding all-rounder! I was looking for a suitable replacement to my ageing Epson Rx600 and struggled to make the final choice, but the HP C7280 has ticked all the boxes. A definite 10 out of 10!!

- The wireless setup makes the printer a little slow, but the quality makes up for all of this lack of speed!!

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purchased 16 Oct 2007

Score 7.0/10

Catherine, London , “Home Office User”

+ The best feature of this printer is that it has wireless compatibility so you don't have the hassle of lots of annoying wires cluttering up your workspace. The printer is also quite big so it is a lot more practical to put it somewhere away from your computer and use the wireless capability. The downside to this, as with any wireless network, is that when the network is down then obviously yoru printer is down. However, you can still use the copier, the fax and the scan-to-device which is very handy even when the network is preventing you from printing directly from your computer. The photo print quality is very very good and is a very strong feature if you need to regularly print out your digital photos - it really encourages you to do your own digital photo prints.

- I'd say the biggest downside is that the machine overall can be quite slow. If you need a speedy machine for a home office I would not go for this machine, however if its something that you don't mind working at a leisurely pace then its a very good option. A little on the pricey side but I am hoping that it will last me longer as I've paid that little bit extra.

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purchased 16 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “after lot of research ”

+ Fantastic, what more can I say, great scans, great prints, cheap ink replacements for genuine hp catridges.
This has to be the best all in one printer around.
I did a lot of research into all in ones and this came out on top and Im glad of my choice. Wi Fi set up is really easy.

- I honestly cant think of any bad points

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purchased 24 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

Peter, Bracknell

+ Small and all controls at front.

- You have to watch that it does not select the wrong paper fron the trays when printing via the PC

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purchased 07 Dec 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Great wireless value”

+ Despite many suggestions it would not work it was very quickly set up by the wizard as a wireless connection to my BT Hub

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 04 Sep 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ All in one printer that can be connected through USB, ethernet or wireless - which is great for me
Quality and speed is good

- HP drivers are terrible. Windows always has problem shutting down because the HP software does not close properly. Since installing the drivers, Windows startup has been very slow. Its a shame the drivers are so bloated.

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purchased 19 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Ian, Glenrothes

+ Ease of wireless networking setup.
Quality of print

- A little slow - but ideal for the home office or home use

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purchased 10 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

David, Worksop, Nottinghamshire

+ Superb product at an amazing price - I cannot believe the quality of the photos, plus scanning, colour and b&w photocopying and colour and b&w faxing. I cannot recommend this product highly enough.

- It is a bit noisy and does take a while to set itself, but these are hardly major issues.

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purchased 14 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Fast and multifuntional. Good footprint

- Software package too 'heavy' for my laptop. Some compatability issues with Windows Vista.

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purchased 28 Jun 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good quality fast double sided printer with separate ink colours.

- Prints so fast the paper shoots out the tray onto the floor rather than resting gently in the output tray. Minor detail though.

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purchased 19 Jul 2008

Score 9.0/10

Neil, London

+ Easy to setup, great quality prints and the individual ink cartridges mean you don't have to replace every colour if only one of them has run out.

- Not particularly fast at higher quality settings, "Scan to computer" function doesn't seem to work and ink cartridges appear to include an electronic expirey date, which means they'll stop working in a few months even if they're not empty!

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purchased 29 Oct 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to use - bought mainly because I wanted good photo prints and it has not disappointed.

- Size - but I realise there's nothing that can be done about that.
Noise - quite loud when starting up and printing

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purchased 05 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

pamela, lichfield , “Im just a beginner”

+ The printing quality is great, pictures and text
Setting the printer up is easy
All ain all I can recommend this printer for price and ease of use

- non at the moment

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purchased 20 Apr 2008

Score 9.0/10

Louise , Dudley

+ Prints clear photograph, seperate tray for 4 x 6 photo paper, can fax and copy numerous sheets from top of printer

- Cartridges don't last very long
Scanner only works when it wants to

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purchased 23 Jul 2008

Score 10.0/10

Terry, Omagh

+ great pictures, easy to replace ink, works with Vista

- expensive to run

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purchased 19 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Steve, London , “So far so good”

+ Fax set up and use is the easiest I have come across.
The auto feeder on the top is great for multi page jobs.

- Can take a long time to ready itself to print compared to my old printer.
The pop up windows appearing on my pc screen every time it does something. I like to be able to get on with other stuff while a printer does it's stuff, but it is annoying when a message blocks your page.

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purchased 28 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Simple wireless setup on 2 laptops, one running XP pro and one running Vista. Print quality is great with both text and photos looking great.

- If it's not been used for a while it takes a minute to warm up before it prints.

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purchased 17 Nov 2008

Score 8.0/10

A G, Egham

+ good print easy to use

- hassel connecting wireless was very disapointed to find that there was NO bluetooth dongal to go with the printer and i am having great difficulty trying to find one that is conpatible I have been told that it not avaliable in shops have to get direct from HP very bad really

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purchased 25 May 2008

Score 8.0/10

Ray, Hertford

+ The duplex printing is a really useful extra; the speed ot printing photo's is excellent.

- The print runs if a drop of water falls on it, a real problem for addressing envelopes.

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purchased 23 May 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “IT Professional”

+ Very fast in draft, duplex works very well, excelent photo printing, even works well with linux drivers.

- No driver for W2003 Server x64

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purchased 07 May 2008

Score 7.0/10

khan, st albans

+ the printer is brilliant it does everything, but there are better printers out there obviously with a higher price tag, therefore i have rated 7/10 but it is value for money and i would buy the same printer if needed in the future.

- n/a

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purchased 18 Dec 2007

Anthea, London

+ Easy installation; good wireless link; excellent copies and features

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 18 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

Tristan, Shropshire , “home/office user”

+ Paper storage is out of the way

- it`s quite big

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purchased 20 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

Paul, Luton

+ Excellent print quality. Fast and reliable.

- Difficult to set up wireless utility with AVG Firewall.

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purchased 03 Dec 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to set up. Easy to use. Great picture quality. A good buy.

- None found yet

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purchased 19 May 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Fast good quality prints, network ready

- Noisy, unable to get supplied software to work over network, have contacted HP support and tried all their fixes but still not working correctly

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purchased 10 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Paul, Derbyshire , “Amateur IT user”

+ easy to put on software, excellent quality printing and photocopying

- rocks the desk when printing

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purchased 28 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Chris, Newcastle upon Tyne , “Experienced home worker”

+ Versatile machine packed with many features.
Excellent photo prints
Looks very professional and "home office" orientated

- Slightly dated in design

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purchased 29 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Alan, Scunthorpe

+ Having read negative reviews i was in two minds whether to purchase this printer, but decided to. I am so pleased i did, the printer is fantastic, easy to set up on wireless and the print quality is suberb, even from the scanner/copier (if you buy this try copying a photo) The ease of printing on both sides of the paper is also a great advantage and paper saving. All in all a brilliant littler machine well worth the money, and the ink is cheap too!!

- if there is one bad point it would be the fact of it being a little noisey compared to my last printer, but nothing that would really both you too much.

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purchased 26 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Clare, Penzance

+ This printer is an all-round winner. The scanner and printer are superb, although have not had the chance to set up the fax yet. Colour photos are the best I've ever printed at home, probably because this machine takes six ink cartridges which were not expensive by any means.

- I found this printer quite noisy when it prepares to print.

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purchased 28 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Bal, Milton Keynes

+ best class in its price range to include a fax facility. it is really easy to use all functions via menus,
easy to change print tanks, and is fast in terms of setting up wireless print and using the fax.

- Print quality if x9600 instead of x4800dpi would have made this better against Canon product. i wont be using
it for photo printing.

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purchased 26 Jun 2008

Pam, Addlestone , “Experienced printer scanner user”

+ Clear print and controls

- Loading paper is difficult and the space is quite restricted. Scanning is much more time consuming than on my old printer/scanner and has to be accessed via teh screen control panel, rather than directly at teh scanner itself.

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purchased 18 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Maria, Brighton

+ It does everything you would want from a printer, the picture quality is great providing you use HP photo paper, easy to use.

- none

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purchased 05 Jun 2008

Score 1.0/10

Horace, London

+ because it is multi-functional

- I have had 3 different HP all-in-one printers and had the same problems with them including the C7280
Unable to communicate wireless with my laptop/s

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purchased 11 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good machine that has everything that you require.

- The fact that the fax still requires a seperate line, how bonk is that!

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purchased 19 May 2008

Score 3.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Very hard to connect the printer wirellesly and always disconects from the network

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purchased 14 Jul 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ great prints, easy to use, good features.

- trouble with an error message to do with wireless use, contacted hp help line but was given very confusing info to deal with problem, so still have error message popping up very regulary.

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purchased 14 Jul 2008

Andrew, Royston

+ Reviewer left no comment

- It will not print on premium quality printer paper

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purchased 06 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good value printer cum fax and scanner.

- Scanned documents are very large documents

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purchased 23 Nov 2007

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to set up
Good photo reproduction

- A bit slow to print

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purchased 27 Dec 2007

Score 10.0/10

ilhan, London , “I like good gadgets”

+ Very good quality pictures easy to understand menu

- Not fast is i thought

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purchased 04 Sep 2008

Matthew, Sheffield

+ great features, easy to use, photos good

- photocopying not get exactly the same

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purchased 15 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ easy to set up. print quality very good

- uses quite a lot of ink

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purchased 14 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

paolo, london

+ very easy to use

- a little noisy

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purchased 10 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Very easy to use,nice design.

- difficult to wire fax with a cordless digital answer machine

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purchased 23 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Not a lot, thankou”

+ A lot of gizmos

- A lot of gizmos

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purchased 21 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Krrish, London, UK

+ Should I say its just a easy setup and that all sit anywhere in your house and use it with the built in wireless ........ good price ...believe i did a gr8 research n bought it frm here.....even it was expensive frm hp can u believe it..... its more faster than a laser printer if printed in fast /economical mode which gives almost better resolution n less consumption of ink ..... i had already printed 200 pages color ones in draft mode n still the ink levels are fine not to worry buy it......

- i would give it a 10/10 ...

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purchased 25 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ wifi, ethernet, copier and duplex printer. Even fax for those occasions every third year. Does everything you would probably want in a home office.

- drivers take forever to install. Sticking in a memory card & using the built in screen to scale & print photos is far easier than trying it from a PC application.

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purchased 27 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Rob, Coventry , “Musician, Technophobe and tired”

+ Incredibly straightforward to set up which is good for a tchnophobe like me!

- Doesn't hold a lot of paper in the load tray and seems to jam easily if there's to much in there.

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purchased 04 Aug 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Fast, nice quality

- Very expensive to run - uses up ink cartridges quickly

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purchased 01 Aug 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It's a good value all round printer.

- HPProductAssistant insists on loading up whenever I start up the HP Solution Center.
It is a little noisy.

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purchased 20 Jul 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ good quality

- took 3 times to install correctly. Sometimes disapears from network.

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purchased 06 Dec 2008

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- TOO EXPENSIVE

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purchased 11 Mar 2008

Score 9.0/10

Iman, London

+ The printer is really easy to install through USB. Installing through WLAN took a bit longer, but had no problems. Printing with the C7280 is a real joy, the quality is excellent and it's super fast using concept. I haven't tried the fax yet. The Scan quality is really good due to the high resolution. Besides the wireless printing you can even scan wireless. If you want to print photo's I recommend using this printer, because of the excellent quality.

- None

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purchased 05 Aug 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “small business and home”

+ Brilliant photo quality and easy to use - even my husband can work it. For somebody who is not very IT conversant it is so simple to use. I would highly recommend it. Have found no problems with this machine and it really does do all that it says on the box!

- Cartridges run down quickly and could get a little expenseive

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purchased 04 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Home and Office”

+ Good Printer easy to install, wireless connection for 4 PC's simple and quick. Fast, double sided printing

- None

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purchased 04 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Eric, Mintlaw

+ Very good all round printer.Easy to set up and use.
Prints Lab quality photos.One of the best printers i have used for prints.
Not to bulky a printer unlike some.

- Can be a bit noisy when powered up.

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purchased 04 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Simple to install and use.

- None.

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purchased 28 Sep 2008

Score 9.0/10

David, Dunfermline , “Home/small business user”

+ Easy setup, produces very a good photo but not not to photolab quality, a good all round home or small office printer.

- None found as yet.

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purchased 29 Oct 2008

Score 9.0/10

Tristian, Telford , “Mac Lover”

+ Duplex printing, WiFi, Cabled LAN, USB, Quality operating system, easy to use fax, scanner, printer. Excellent drivers, very well supported on Mac, works well with Airport Base-Stations (of all ages - except exclusive draft-n). Ink's and paper not too expensive, though HP's very top spec paper recommended (the "Advanced" ((free sample)) is fine but detail is improved with the top-spec, obviously most costly paper).

- When the printer is off, it's off. With a WiFi printer, I would have expected it to have a had a stand-by mode, all being off except for a low power consuming WiFi monitor however, it does enter a power-save-like mode when switched on and left for some time, I would liked to have seen a dedicated mode for Wireless printing with the printer, screen it's lights & LED's all off with just the WiFi card monitoring for print jobs, activating the rest of the printer on demand.

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purchased 30 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Margaret, Southampton

+ All in one functionality. Quality of printing especially photographs. Different paper trays. Duplex printing.

- A bit slow when duplex printing - annoying messages about print drying.

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purchased 26 Jun 2008

Score 8.0/10

Alan, Coulsdon, Surrey , “Oldest copy shop ”

+ It is a Wi-Fi printer which makes for ease of use from any computer located in the building

- Not as easy to set up, but after fiddling it now is all working

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purchased 27 Jun 2008

Score 8.0/10

Sampath, Birmingham

+ Good wireless connectivity. Breeze to set up. Value for money for a wireless HP multifunction printer. Fairly good scan/copier. Output much better than cheaper multifunctions. Replacement ink seems to be affordable as well.

- Average document print quality with black ink. Loads of smudging. I will not use this to print any letter. Any cheap 600 dpi laser is better. Draft printing for home is okay. If printer is not switched on when windows is shut down, there is an IO device error notification & a HP driver error. Just an inconvenience.

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purchased 04 Jul 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Fully functional with all network pc's

- Print cartridge life span. More robust small business version needed

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purchased 16 May 2008

Score 9.0/10

Lee, Rayleigh

+ Flexible, does a pretty good job at scanning, printing, faxing and copying in the one package.

- Scanning is a bit noisy.

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purchased 13 Jul 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ It works very well as a wireless printer, with decent quality.

- Tricky to set up on for wireless scanning.

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purchased 20 Jul 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Live from Bournville”

+ Easy to set up and get working. Good interactive software. Wireless works well

- None, all good

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purchased 18 Aug 2008

Score 10.0/10

sharon, middlesbrough

+ very easy to set up and get started

- printing off the computor

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purchased 25 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ simple to use. Excellent quality

- noisy on starting up

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purchased 23 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

vidana, London , “Experienced Accountant.”

+ Competively priced.Quality is very good for that price.Easy to operate.Compact,tidy and stylish Well displayed control panel.
Instructions easy to understand and follow when insalling the printer.

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 24 Nov 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Wireless connectivity excellent.
Setup straightforward - printed, copied and faxed without a hitch. No issues with compatibility with my MacBook.

- None yet - but hasn't had much use yet. Will need to wait and see how well the inks last.

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purchased 23 Nov 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to use, so many functions! As expected for a HP, can't fault for quality and value for money.

- We have the computer downstairs and the printer upstairs using a wireless connection. This can be a little tempremental and makes the starting of printing a little slow. However, this is obviously due to the wireless connection as well as the printer. Overall though it's still great!

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purchased 24 May 2008

Score 8.0/10

Win, Rotherham

+ Download & printing photos excellent, scan doc's to pdf to save or print great, settings menu easy to negotiate. Overall a machine I am very pleased with.

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 19 May 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to install and use. Very pleased with my purchase.

- None

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purchased 04 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Andy, Manchester

+ Does everything I need in one, reasonably, compact unit.

- Occasionally seems to lose connection with the network.

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purchased 09 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Easy to set up and use.
Multi purpose Printer, Scanner and Fax saves desk top space.
Net working easy to set up and use including downloading of files from multi disk system.
On printer display unit adds to eas of use

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 09 Jun 2008

Score 7.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good all in one with a full range but duplex is slow and mostly useless

- Really bad wifi Bandwith hogger, All other wireless devices seem to lose connection to router when the printer is active, I have to keep the printer off to succesfully connect my laptops to the internet.

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purchased 09 Jun 2008

Score 8.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Fast good quality prints, easy set up and use

- A bit noisy

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purchased 11 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ I connected this wirelessly to my iMac. It was a doddle and i was printing within minutes. The document feeder is excellent for scanning multiple documents and the quality of scanned images and print is very good indeed.

- Like all printers the price of the consumables is high, although the C7280 does have 6 separate cartidges that can be replaced independently if a colour runs out

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purchased 30 Jun 2008

Score 10.0/10

Alf, Harrow Stanmore , “retired aircon engineer”

+ Smart and as it says on the box All In One Stand Alone

- none at the moment

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purchased 04 Sep 2008

Score 10.0/10

Barbara, Leeds

+ Easy to install. Very good quality photo prints

- Not found any yet

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purchased 02 Oct 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ look great and performs well

- nothing bad to say

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purchased 03 Oct 2008

Score 8.0/10

David, Leicester , “I.T Professional”

+ Duplex printing, scan to PDF file. Picture print quality very good.

- Ink carts look small

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purchased 24 Feb 2009

Score 10.0/10

Stewart, Chesterfield , “Small business/personal user”

+ A fantastic quality printer for a small price, does everything i need and more!

- A bit slow to start after being stood but not too much of a problem

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purchased 01 Mar 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Good size and great amount of features

- Non found so far

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purchased 01 Jun 2008

Score 8.0/10

John, Kent

+ Compact size, cost & features

- very, very slow for photocopying.

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purchased 03 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Colour prints

- Wirefree network will not work ,as yet still trying (laptop to printer direct)

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purchased 04 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Excellent copies. I like the facility to print school paper - eg lined, graph, or even manuscript.

- A bit clunky sounding, but range of features far outweigh the noise.

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purchased 03 Jun 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ very easy to use and live with

- might be to big for some

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purchased 27 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

BHUPINDER, DATCHET

+ EASY SET-UP,SIMPLE LANGUAGE NO FUSS.BRILLIANT.

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 27 Jun 2008

Score 10.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser , “Business user”

+ easy to use
easy to set up
great quality printing

- Reviewer left no comment

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purchased 10 May 2009

Score 9.0/10

Anonymous verified purchaser

+ Reviewer left no comment

- Printing from the computer seems to be more difficult than from a memory card directly placed in the printer. The latter gives more printing options.

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purchased 12 Jun 2008

Score 9.0/10

Laura, erbys

+ Very easy to set up. The lcd display tells you everthing. Top printer

- None unless it could slightly smaller

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purchased 07 Jul 2008

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Expert reviews for HP Photosmart C7280

PC Advisor expert review - by Rick LePage, Macworld.com"

The HP Photosmart C7280 includes print, scan, copy, and fax capabilities, with just about every connectivity option you could want.

This HP Photosmart C7280 review continued on PC Advisor

reviewed 21 Apr 2008

Product Features

Print Technology Inkjet
Photo Printer Yes
WiFi Yes
LCD Display Yes
Ethernet Yes
PictBridge Yes
Memory Card Slot Yes
Built-in Scanner Yes
Built-In Fax Yes
Built-in Copier Yes
Maximum Paper Size A4
Print Colour Colour
Bluetooth Yes
Portable No
Film or Slide Scanner No
Number of Colours (incl. Black) 6
Height in mm 443
Width in mm 450
Depth in mm 241
Colour White
Print Resolution (dpi) 4800x1200
Number of Prints per Minute in Colour 33
Number of Prints per Minute in Black & White 34
Sheet Capacity 100
Release Date 2 Oct 2007
Dimensions (mm) 450x443x241
Dimensions (mm) 450x248x444

Also known as: HP PHOTOS C7280

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Manufacturer's Description

The HP Photosmart C7200 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, Copier series is designed for busy home users looking for a wireless all-in-one that will help them achieve more in less time – be it for work, for managing everyday life or for creative fun.

• Get blazing print and copy speeds – up to 34 ppm black, 33 ppm colour and photos as fast as 10 seconds. Enjoy affordable printing with six individual ink cartridges. Maximise your efficiency with a 50-sheet ADF and two-sided printing.

• Print photos without a PC using memory card slots, 6.1 cm colour display and automated photo tray. Enhance your photos using the HP Red-eye Removal button. Get smudge-resistant photos straight from the printer using HP Advanced Photo Paper.


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