HP Photosmart C4780 All-in-One Printer (Q8380A#ABA)

• Easily view and print photos without a PC using the color display with HP TouchSmart frame.
• Use paper more efficiently by printing multiple pages onto each side of the paper using the Paper-saving Printing option.
• Get great results for Web prints with HP Smart Web Printing—simply clip and print only the content you want3
• Edit, store and print photos, and make cards, calendars and more with your PC and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

EDIT 27 AUG 2010 There is now a firmware update that addresses the lockup issue. Took them a while to get this out while so many were frustrated, so I won''t change my rating. (Delete the spaces)

HP is aware of an issue with the C47XX line of printers where the wireless may lock up the printer completely resulting in a bricked printer. The way this happens is during wireless setup. If the SSID which the printer is looking for is not 13 chars long, wireless setup will fail and there is a good chance that the printer will lock up and display HP logo and infinite progress bar on the LCD display. Nothing will function (some get USB fucntionality) and your printer is now bricked. When this happened to me, I immediately called CS. Their ''fix'' was to issue a $140 voucher to HP shopping site for a new printer, since they already know the C47XX line is flawed with no real fix. So I happily accepted the voucher (worth almost twice as much as the printer) and went shopping for anything BUT an HP printer.

But then I decided to tinker around with my new paperweight after I got two nice 8" digital photo frames and a premium webcam free compliments of HP. Using my noggin, I figured if the problem arose from the wireless, then unplugging the wireless module inside might reset the printer. Voila! It worked and, after a few more steps, I had a fully working wireless printer again. If you are having this same lockup issue, read this thread and my procedure for fixing the lockup and getting wireless to work:

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UPDATE (05/06/11):

By now this product is quite old considering all the products out there.

I still love it, it continues to function and uses the least amount of ink when compared to all the printers I have ever used.

I would buy a new one just because when this came out there was not AirPrint support.

The issue with restarting the printer has gone and the printer is always online.

UPDATE (01/23/10):

I have been using it with my wireless network, although after a couple of days I have to restart the printer in order to print from it, otherwise it does not show up in my active printers list.

ORIGINAL POST:

Have been using it for a week.

Scan, copy, printing all work perfect.

Have enjoyed using this printer.

It uses only two inks and they are cheap, a twin pack costs about $30 which is really cheap.

Love it.

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The install and connection to the network went flawlessly. The print quality is very good. Unfortunately, the HP scanner software does not work with Vista. I spent countless hours on the phone with HP tech support. The case was finally referred to the Engineering Department. They are aware of the problem but don''t have a fix yet.

By the way, you can use the scanner with the "Windows Photo Gallery" program. I really like the small footprint and the print quality of this all-in-one, and therefore I didn''t return it. I will just use the other program until HP can come up with a fix. Because the HP software doesn''t work for scanning, I cannot use the button on the printer to scan. I have to go through the PC. That''s why I only gave this printer three stars.

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After three hours on the phone with an HP rep we could not get the scanner to function. Three hours and they can''t help me get the product working! They should pay me to for having bought it.

''Similarly the wireless functionality was difficult to get working. After a connection was established, it was lost. After multiple connection losses, I plugged the printer directly into my router. This has solve the majority of the problems. Nonetheless, I occasionally lose connectivity to the printer. As the on/off switch doesn''t function, I have to unplug the printer at the wall outlet. How crazy is that?!!

I bought a similar product for my mother-in-law and had the same problems!

The HP engineers need to go back to the drawing board on the Photosmart All-in-one lineup.

This printer is a extremely hard to setup wirelessly for both PC''s running XP or Mac running snow leopard. It is hard to configure and depending on your network often needs to be rebooted. If you like to just logon and print things don''t buy this printer. Also, the tech support via chat is of no value. They kept me on for 3 hours, only to send me a link and tell me to follow what was on that page and then still not have it work. I am extremely disappointed with a product and I can''t believe it is from HP. Just look under hp support about this printer if you don''t believe me.