Domain Name Com's Electronics HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier

Electronics HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier

Domain Name Com's - Electronics : HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier

- Good Printer - Disapearing Ink
We bought this printer about a year ago. Its been working fine for us; although we don't use it a lot. There is one major problem I have with this printer: It eats ink like crazy. We have never printed a full color picture, nor do we print color documents often, but I have replaced a few of the color cartridges three times. It seems that I can print in only black and white pages but in 2 months the printer will tell me a color cartridge is low...

Another annoying problem I have is that when any one of the color ink cartridges are low I cant print out anything at all, not even black and white prints. I've owned dozens of printers in my life and this one feels like it holds me hostage the most.

Rating:

- All Sizzle, No Steak
Great features, but HP ruins what could have been a great printer via horrible software and moronic "features" that are supposed to "protect your printer", such as:

Printing in color all the time, regardless of settings
The machine prevents you from using any other ink type other than HP
The machine will not allow you to print, fax, scan, copy if you just one single ink pot is close to empty.

This was actually confirmed:

Confirmed by a HP Representative, the HP 6180 Uses Yellow Ink to Print in "Black Only", regardless how you set up you printer. This means that even if you print in gray scale, it still uses all the colors to "enhance" the black.

Rating:

- Super easy to hook up to Mac network
I've been looking for an all in one printer that I can easily hookup to my network and this is it. I have an IMac an Ibook and both hooked up easily.However, I had to use the newer installation software from the HP website instead of the discs that came with the printer. For some reason the software on the CD didn't work on my mac. The installation probably took 2 hours and now I am able to print and scan wirelessly from both computers. Because it works wirelessly I was able to store the printer in a closet to declutter my work area. The only thing I found that isn't perfect is the scanner. Seems a bit blurry if I scan larger than 100% even though it's set at 300dpi and above. Other than that, I LOVE this printer!

Rating:

- Horrible software and drivers
Although this printer offers a nice feature set, the execution is very poor, especially as it affects the operation of my computer (dual core Vista PC).

The drivers and other background software crashes constantly. Every day I see windows dialogs informing me that some part of the HP com drivers has crashed.

Forget the WiFi and Network printing features, they dont work half the time. The printer is always getting "lost". I finally just plugged the printer in via USB.

There are dozens of other odd and annoying behaviors that would take too long to describe. Clearly, HP outsourced the software development to an incompetent team and then shipped it anyway.

In addition, the ink cartridges are very small and cost alot. You can easily spend $50 every few weeks. I would recommend buying 3rd party ink which will give you much more ink for your money.

Rating:

- This Printer Stinks
If you want a printer that will print 1 page per minute, constant lose its wireless connection and scan like a glacier going uphill, then this is the printer for you.

I thought HP software was bad using a PC. It might even be worse on a Mac. I have absolutely no troubles with my Mac when it comes to doing anything, however, when I use this AIO or its software, Watch Out! I have no idea what will fail next. It constantly loses its connection DURING a scan and if by chance that succeeds, the software just grinds the Mac to a halt. This is a brand new 24 inch IMac with processing speed galore and when it uses this "software" it is like hitting a brick wall. And, please, don't ask me about HP Support on this issue as I cannot think of a single positive thing to say about a support group that doesn't even have the error messages in its knowledge base.

I am unfortunately unable to rate it below 1 star as I would to prevent anyone else from making the mistake I did in buying this product that in a previous life could have only been fake doggie doo.

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