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Amazon.com Product Description The HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier is a multi-function unit that can help increase the productivity of your business. Designed for high-volume home use, this system features leading printing innovations for versatility and productivity.
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Print and copy with ease thanks to built-in wireless networking, USB flash drive, and the HP Photosmart Express software. Convenient and flexible, the C6180 also provides multiple ways to print without a computer using memory cards, camera phones, or PictBridge enabled cameras.
User-Friendly Operation and Professional Results Ideal for high-volume printing, the C6180 is loaded with features that deliver professional quality results in minutes. First, this system comes equipped with an efficiently designed six-ink color system with Vivera Inks that produces rich and fade-resistant photos while allowing you to replace only the ink colors used, so you'll never waste an ink cartridge again.
To help save you time, the HP Photosmart Express button makes completing your digital photography experience fast and easy-- view, print, share and save your photos and documents in seconds.
 The C6180 can handle most memory card formats, as well as PictBridge-capable devices. |
At the same time, HP Photosmart Premier software allows you to edit, organize, print, share, archive and create digital photo projects so you can organize and maintain important images and data. To help troubleshoot and fix problems like red-eye, you can choose the option of editing photos directly on the machine. Or if you want to enhance the quality of your photos, experiment with adaptive lighting. You can do all this, plus make color and black and white copies, and photo reprints, without a computer!
Simply walk up and print or copy using the 2.4-inch QVGA color image display with control panel adjustments for optimal viewing from any angle. Finally, the C6180 also offers convenient memory card slots that are compatible with CompactFlash, MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital, Media Stick, Memory Stick Duo and XD-Picture Cards.
Intuitive Design For Easy Use The C6180 is not only chock full of special features and options, it helps save you time and money by working quickly to accommodate different jobs and paper types. First, the intuitive control panel and convenient one-touch buttons are easy to use, so you'll never struggle to program a job. And thanks to the automated 4 x 6-inch tray for dedicated photo printing, you can effortlessly print landscapes or other panoramic images with HP panorama photo printing in any size up to 8.5 x 24 inches, with or without borders. At the same time, you can make the most of your new prints by taking advantage of the HP Document Viewer to easily view, manage, and annotate photos and documents. When it comes to copying, the HP auto paper-type sensor optimizes print and copy quality by adjusting to various papers, which means you won't have to worry about wasted paper and poor-quality copies costing you money.
Fast, Reliable Printing, Coping, Faxing, and Scanning the C6180 also features a copy options button that allows you to reduce and enlarge, changing copy quality and size so your documents fit your exact needs. The C6180 also works fast, offering print speeds of up to 32 pages per minute (ppm) and up to 31 ppm in color; 4 x 6 inch photos as fast as 12 seconds; and up to 32 copies-per-minute (cpm) in black and up to 31 cpm in color. You can also trust that your documents will always be sharp and clear, thanks to high resolutions of up to 4800 x 1200 dpi black copying, 1200 dpi scanning, and up to 4800 optimized dpi color copying.
The fax machine offers an automated, 50-page document feeder, so it efficiently handles even long faxes with speeds of up to seven ppm. It also gives you the option of faxing either with or without a PC. For added convenience, the junk fax barrier helps to eliminate future unwanted junk faxes.
What's in the box HP Photosmart C6180 Printer, HP 02 Black Ink Cartridge (16 ml), HP 02 Cyan Ink Cartridge (4.5 ml), HP 02 Magenta Ink Cartridge (4.5 ml), HP 02 Yellow Ink Cartridge (4.5 ml), HP 02 Light Cyan Ink Cartridge (4.5 ml), HP 02 Light Magenta Ink Cartridge (4.5 ml), HP Photosmart Premier software on CD-ROM, setup guide, basics guide, power supply, power cord
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(234 customer reviews) 173 of 182 people found the following review helpful
Excellent inexpensive,
September 30, 2006 Slawomir M. Popiel "smp" (nj) - See all my reviews
This review is from: HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier (Office Product)
I needed to replace a number of my single-use devices with AiO and unclutter my desk real estate. I decided on HP because a single quality of HP cartridges: the printer may be off line for quite long time, and when one needs it, just turn it on and voila. It prints without hesitation. My first color printer from Epson, every time upon turning on, used to start long process of heads cleaning, using up half of the cartridges capacity just for cleaning. Still quality of prints was far below expectation. HP cartridges are ready to print this very moment when you need them.
I run selection wizard at Staples site and it indicated to me that my choice shall be HP 6130, although, the 6130 cartridge capacity and yield was scary. Another option having better ink yield was $1000 9000-series machine, with over 50 lb weight. While 6130 would ruin my pocket with the cost of ink, the 9000-series one would definitely ruin my desk. I decided to call HP and review with a technician HP modern...Read more
125 of 132 people found the following review helpful
Better than my old officejet G95, but...,
September 26, 2006 Daniel Druker "- Dan" (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier (Office Product)
We have had the new unit for about three weeks now. Setup was easy on two laptops and a desktop. Print quality is excellent on regular paper and fabulous on photo paper. Scanning is slow, and faxing and copying work as advertised.
I am very concerned about the cost of ink vs. the older HP all-in-one that this is replacing. HP appears to be doing everything it can to get you to consume more and more of their expensive ink - and what really surprised me is that HP clearly controls the cost of ink cartridges across all retailers, and keeps them very high. On my old printer I just refilled the cartridges at about $2 per refill - appears to be no way to do that with this new unit and a full set of cartridges runs about $70. Ouch.
There are many network features of the printer that seem both hard to use and designed to consume ink. For instance you can scan a photo from the printer and send it to yourself in email - but only via the printer talking to HP's...Read more
45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Good printer with very bad software,
December 10, 2006 MikeInOhio (Lorain, OH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, and Copier (Office Product)
This printer seems well built and solid but the software package that comes with it is terrible!
The software wouldn't SCAN properly and reported memory errors at resolutions over 600dpi. The HP software loads each time you boot the computer and runs in the background and causes other unrelated computer functions to S-L-O-W down (2.6 Ghz Celeron machine with 768 Meg RAM). When shutting the computer down for the night, the HP software would cause it to hang with a message that the HP software was not responding - even during sessions when the HP software wasn't used at all.
I called HP tech support 3 times and worked with them for hours and hours. HP's solution is to uninstall and reinstall the software over and over and over again on each machine on the network.
I returned the machine after 1 week.
