HP Photosmart C4280 All-in-One Printer/Scanner/Copier (CC210A#ABA)

This printer has been a great purchase for me. I wanted a quick printer with quality printing. Like many other HP printers, it is a bit of an ink hog, but unless you can find a 12 oz. ink bladder and rig it up to today's printers, you are not going to be happy about ink usage. Given that reality this is very good product.

I purchased two of these for our office, and deeply regret that decision. The printer spams the heck out of you with ink level pop-ups, trying to get you to buy more ink. The popups aren't even accurate. The memory card slots took over the F: drive position, which was already in use on both systems. On both systems, we've experiences enormous slowdowns with MS apps. There is a 15 second delay in Excel when printing or changing print settings, and Word sometimes won't print at all. We've taken to printing to a PDF file and then sending the document to the printer because it's faster. HP support was no help. Multiple e-mails resulted in solutions that either killed the ability to scan or that directed us to options in the "solutions center" that didn't exist. Stay away.

Since day one this printer has been a consistent disappointment. It does produce high-quality scans, but for basic word-processing printing needs, it is the worst printer I have ever owned.

The biggest problem is that it doesn't take paper from the feeder properly (and I do use the kind of paper specified by the manufacturer), and as a result often jams. It consumes ink voraciously (even though I have it at the lowest ink-use setting). And (at the risk of anthropomorphizing) it is finicky: it inexplicably always wants to print test sheets and alignment sheets instead of the pages of writing that I want it to print, and it takes a very long time (and uses a lot of ink) to do so.

Do not buy this printer. I got it for free from Apple when I bought my laptop, and now I fully understand why they were giving them away. I will probably buy a new one, because this one is so bad that it actually compromises my productivity as a writer.

When my wife recieved this item it was missing th USB cord. When she called about it she was told that she would have to pay for a new one. The printer/scanner/copier works fine but I'm not to happy that they didn't send the USB cord and than was told I would have to pay in order to get one.

I got the machine in a timely manner and it is great!! I have struggled with all manner of single use gadgets but this does it all. and a great price and good mechanics. Easy to use and makes good copies.