HP Officejet J4580 All In One Printer

• High-performance all-in-one color inkjet printer that prints, copies, scans, and faxes
• Prints at speeds of up to 28 ppm
• Prints borderless photos up to 8.5x11 inches
• 20-page automatic document feeder and 100-sheet paper tray
• Measures 17.07 x 15.81 x 8.53inches (WxDxH); weighs 13.03 pounds; 1-year limited warranty
• Measures 17.07 x 15.81 x 8.53inches (WxDxH), weighs 13.03 pounds, 1-year limited warranty

I purchased this all-in-one last month and have been very happy with it. I have only purchased HP printers because I find them to be reliable and long lasting. I am computer literate but not a geek. I find the print to be extraordinary, even on the "quick/draft" mode. The scanner works much better than my last scanner and the conversion to editable text is, in my opinion, exceptional. I haven''t used the fax because I have disconnected my landline in favor of my cell phone. The help section of the software is clear and concise. The printer is enthusiastic (it really hammers out its assignments) so it is loud and tends to shoot the finished product to the floor if you don''t raise the paper catcher. The convenience of having all of these pieces of equipment in one unit with such a small footprint is the organized person''s dream.

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I bought this all in one yesterday for a friend and installed and set it up for her. It installed easily and we tested everything and it all worked perfectly. I did not buy it here but found it on sale for 49.99 which I feel is amazing for a printer with the text print quality this has. We did not buy it for photo printing.

From reading reviews on many HP printers here on amazon I learned one great trick. Do not install the complete software program. And for sure do not authorize automatic updating. It always runs in the background and is taking resources from your machine. What I have found and been doing for the last 3 HP printers I have had is going to the website and downloading the drivers, then still doing a custom install to make sure I don''t get the auto update which ends the annoying pops and slow loading.

Granted for sure the instructions could be much better for installation, but even just installing the basic drivers you still get the help function. But you do need to follow the instructions on HP printers and scanners to the LETTER to properly install. If not you can get a half install which is very very hard to over come.

I have had HP printers for 10 years and not one has broke or worn out, I always upgrade because of want and not need. Then give the old one to someone that needs a printer.

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I''m running Apple Mac OS X 10.5 on a Mac Pro and the HP Photosmart Studio application that comes bundled with this printer looks good, but kills the computer performance. After spending a week emailing HP tech support and getting nowhere, I finally called and the techs verified my suspicion that the application was scanning my iPhoto library (3.2Gb) in the background automatically at when it''s launched. I tried three time to let it run (over night), but it ended in an error all three times. If HP can fix this issue, or at least make it optional (there''s no way to control this behavior), they may have a winner, but until then I recommend saving yourself some frustration by doing a custom install and DE-selecting HP Photosmart Studio when you first set this device up. Otherwise the printer seems to work as advertised using the separate HP Device Manager application that allows you to use all the functions of the device.

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(COMMUNITY FORUM 04)This terrific little fax/printer/scanner, for less than $90(!), is compact and lightweight--about 8" tall, 16 ½" wide, and (without the paper tray) about 11" deep, taking up relatively little desktop space, an all-in-one machine.

So far it does absolutely everything I''ve wanted it to do. User friendly and largely self-explanatory, it requires no complicated instruction manual or ramp up time for those of us who are not especially computer savvy. Printing is fast and "enthusiastic"--it spits out copies quickly and with such force that they end up on the floor if you don''t have the tray extension pulled out.

For ordinary home use, this machine has been perfect. By setting the printer for "draft" mode, I get much longer use from the (very small) print cartridges, and the quality of the copies is adequate for what I need. For photographs, I would, of course, want higher resolution, but that is an option, too.

This is obviously not the equivalent of the big OfficeJet Pro machines that I''ve had in the past, but those are expensive, extremely heavy, and take a huge amount of space. I''m flabbergasted that this little machine is so good at one tenth the price of the OfficeJet Pro! Mary Whipple

Where to begin? I tested all functions since I don''t trust reviews that say, "Oh this is the greatest all-in-one product you can get for this price," and then turn around and tell you that they "haven''t tried to scan or fax anything yet, but the printing and copying is great!" Insert rolling eyes icon here, ha ha.

I''m no stranger to HP all-in-one products, but this is a dud. I followed the setup instructions to the letter and installed the software.

Ok, it prints and copies, big deal!

I wanted the machine for scanning and faxing. I tried to do some scanning into a PDF file. I put the originals in the feeder. I got 3 nice scans to the PDF file. The only problem was that there were 12 originals. What happened to the other 9 pages?

I tried several more times. During those times, I kept getting errors saying that the machine had become disconnected. The cables were not disconnected anywhere, but for the heck of it I kept unplugging and replugging them each time I got the error. A couple of times I had to restart my computer. Irritating as it was, I wanted to give the thing a fair evaluation. I scanned some things from the glass. The originals were the standard 8.5" by 11" papers and I aligned them on the glass as per the indicator.

The scans came out with yellow borders on at least one side as if you were seeing part of the machine itself. I tried to scan again from the feeder, this time with a single page. The scanner put a black line straight across the middle of the page. I tried again with multiple pages. The same thing happened with the black lines. And yes, the ink levels were fine. I also tried to scan to TIFF files. Same thing happened again. It was also putting a crinkle and a small tear in the center of some of the sheets. Ok, enough scanning torture. Let''s try to fax something.

The fax wizard kept telling me that it didn''t detect an active phone line. My previous all-in-one machine that I''ve had for several years was also HP and it was able to fax, so I definitely have active phone lines. I switched the connections just to make sure that I had not made a mistake. Still no active phone line was detected.

I called for support, but I guess they were just so tired of hearing everyone with the same complaints over and over again, that they actually suggested I return it instead of offering advice on fixing the problem. That means it''s probably a defective machine. I don''t care. Judging from the other 1 star reviews here, I think a defective machine is more the rule than the exception.

I have no intention of joining a merry-go-round of exchanging and returning these $70 all-in-ones in the hopes of getting a good one and not someone else''s return. This thing is going back for a full refund along with the expensive extra ink cartridges that I had purchased for it.

I hope this helps someone.

Edited to add that some random scans only showed the middle 3 inches of whatever was on the page in a 3 inch band going from one side of the page to the other leaving the rest of the page blank. No setting changes, just completely random. I''ve never seen anything like that before.