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Affordable, compact, and fast, HP’s Deskjet F4480 lets you print, scan, and copy. It produces laser-quality black and vibrant color. Need to cancel a job at the last minute? Just press the Print Cancel button. What’s in the box: DJ F4480 AiO Printer, AC Power cord, HP 60 black ink cartridge (approx. 200 pages), HP 60 tri-color ink cartridge (approx. 150 pages); HP Photosmart Essential Software, Set-up poster and Reference guide. more info
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Decent printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a nice printer comparing with the price. I do not know how much ink it will use since I got it three weeks ago. Easy to install.
Exactly what I wanted
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After much research (thanks Amazon reviewers), I settled upon this printer. I am not disappointed. Following the enclosed instructions was easy and quickly I was printing out my documents (mostly light office use). I haven’t used the scanner but the copier is good. Once I figured out that the blue or black buttons designate whether your copying in color or black, it was a cinch! Yes, the printer does power down with no use, but I knew this from the reviews so I just hit the ‘on’ button again and away we go! I am very pleased with the printer. Oh, and since another reviewer mentioned the USB cable I purchased one of those when I bought the printer. HP products continue to surpass the competition.
Great printer for a great price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This printer was up and running in 5 min from box to printing. With a great price to go along with the ease of setup, use, and quality prints it can’t be beat, extra large ink cartridges are a steal on Amazon. Great economical buy.
Solid bargain–very pleased!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
My Lexmark All-in-One died after six years of good service and Amazon had this HP ranked highly and on sale. Setup was quick and easy, particularly like how you scan the print test sheet to help the printer further tweak print accuracy. If it’s as durable as it is economical, I will be totally satisfied.
May be an all-in-one, but it doesn’t come with all the pieces
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I just received my new all-in-one HP printer. I was excited. But, I can’t use it just yet. I have to purchase a USB cord seperately? Man, I wish I would have known that…what, did I have to read fine print to find that out? My other printers came with their own cords. So, needless to say I have not been able to use it just yet. Set up was pretty simple though. Installation was just as easy. I just hope this thing actually works once I get the cord.
Kind of disappointing
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
We bought the HP Deskjet F4480 to replace our Lexmark printer/scanner/copier (which needed repairs due to user error). My husband said the installation was easy and directions were clear. But I have to confess, as the main user, I find that using the HP is not very intuitive. Scans go directly into a scanning folder, where I have to go find them and rename them to move them to a different folder — rather than presenting the scan up on the screen where I can simply name it on-the-spot and direct it to the preferred folder. Also, when I want to turn the power off, I have to press and hold the power button, rather than just touching it to turn it off. Not that big of a deal, but kind of annoying when you don’t hold the button down long enough. Additionally, it is a louder printer than our previous one. One nice feature we didn’t previously have: it shows the ink levels for each print cartridge on the control panel. (And the print cartridges are inexpensive.)
HP Deskject F4400
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I like this printer very much. It not only makes copies of what I have printed on the computer, but it makes copies of pages that I already have. This saves us miles of driving to make copies of copies.
I am not up to date on installation. My daughter helped me set this up.
Delivery was on time, the item arrived without damage, etc.
It’s my own fault, really. . .
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Silly me! I forgot to check to see if this was wireless-enabled. Well, it’s not. I have three computers and now have to use a USB cord to print from the laptop. As for the netbook, which doesn’t have a disk drive, when I tried to download the driver from HP, it said it would take 248 minutes (on cable). Even loading the CD on the PC took well over an hour. Old, clunky and noisy technology. Spend a little more for a better printer.
HP ink jet printers last around a year & a half
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Printers now have features no one would have dreamed of even a few years ago, & they’re cheap enough to be disposable. Which they are. At least, with Amazon, there’s no postage cost for the continual flow of printers to my house. Printers are kept cheap so the companies can sell expensive ink cartridges. Then, after about a year, something irreparable goes wrong with the cartridge holder. Every time. I had two HP printers in the house: one wouldn’t accept the color cartridge, the other simply broke & wouldn’t take either cartridge. Repair would have been too expensive: so I had to buy another printer, which left me with a small fortune in cartridges which were now unusable. There have been no paper jams on this printer yet. The instructions for the scanner are about useless for the printer’s owner, & the FAQ on the HP Printers site is no help. It scans, but there is no easy access to the image. The quality of the printing seems to have declined & it’s slower than the last printer. Color quality is not high.
While it lasts, it will do.
caveat emptor!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
A nice printer rendered nearly useless by 2 reasons (so far) to hate this thing, had it about 2 weeks. #1: snatches paper like a starving man grabbing bread. Has snarled EVERY sheet of glossy brochure paper I’ve fed it! #2: Who wrote the software, a pinhead? If you remove a paper jam (see #1), or even do something as simple as replacing a cartridge, it signals “no paper fed” and then you have to print whatever it wanted like it or not, or fight with it by unplugging, turning off & on, turning pc off & back on, etc. etc. and it still doesn’t always reset. I am just about to throw it through the wall!
Update: two weeks later, after two printers and over 2 hours on the phone just now with amazon & hp, I can guarantee you I will never buy another HP product. Never. Ever.
Works well enough for me
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
SHIPMENT: typical for free shipping (few days,,not too bad for free), retail box was the packaging (arrived safely though)
SETUP: no usb cable included but I used my old hp usb (usb head at one end and the other is more square with rounded corners on the top, 1/4″ x 1/4″ or so, if u need to go get one brfore your printer arrives), follow the quick setup sheet (it’s easy/short, I’m not much for instructions but glad ?I read them), I have an older pc but the disk setup took some 20 minutes or so with a restart too.
PRINT QUALITY/SPEED: moderare speed, good quality text printing, will post follow-up when I print pics, also will post when I find out how long the inks last (I am skeptical about them, little and light cartridges)
RECOMMEND: at this point, yes…you won’t find it cheaper retail
Not a Fan of the HP (my second HP)
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I ditched my HP printer and bought a Canon instead and I couldn’t be happier with my choice.
I’m giving the HP two stars, not one, because it is in many ways a good machine. It is quiet and the copies look good. I was somewhat happy with it. BUT THESE HP PRINTERS USE INK LIKE CRAZY. They are a ripoff.
The Canon system is MUCH better. The cartridges come full and are translucent so you can see the ink in them and watch it run out. They last about 1.5 – 2 months each at my rate of printing (fairly heavy home office usage, as I run a consulting business).
The HP cartridges keep getting weaker and weaker. They hardly put any ink in them, so I have to buy them in bulk at Costco and replace them every 3-4 weeks. And you can’t see inside them, so HP seems to reduce the ink that each cartridge holds but won’t tell you this. Even more amusing — every time you change a cartridge, the printer goes through an elaborate routine of printing “test pages,” using up YET MORE INK. You cannot stop these test pages or they print again as soon as you turn the machine back on.
What we *do* know is that HP is charging more for their ink per ounce than you would pay for gasoline, Dom Perignon champagne, or virtually any other fluid on earth.
This is their business decision to make. Every company seems to want a subscription model now and I guess HP has decided to sell cheap printers and then make a living off of high-margin ink. But I will pay off the cost of my new Canon in less than a year just by buying less ink. After that it is all profit to me.
And the Canon PIXMA is better for the environment and for my sanity. Plus it works great and the copies and photos look just as good as the HP.
Ben
Disappointing
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
It’s difficult to describe how much I’ve grown to hate this printer in the short amount of time we’ve owned it. We had an old HP printer, and never had any problems with it, but this thing . . .
. . . basically, it goes through ink cartridges at a rate that can only be described as PLANNED. It seems obvious that HP — and maybe it’s an industry-wide thing now — is willing to sell their printers at a fairly modest price, with the idea that they’ll make their money on ink cartridges. So I’ve been changing them left and right, and now go out of my way to try avoiding having to use the printer altogether.
I did notice that they’re selling versions of their printer cartridges called “XL”. They cost about twice as much as a normal cartridge and they, presumably, at least have some ink in them.
Arrived DOA. MAC users beware of included printer install documentation
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this printer with all the good reviews on Amazon in mind. The printer arrived and I followed the setup the printer directions carefully for my quad core MAC desktop running Snow Leopard OS 10.6.1. I got the printer to print the setup alignment page fine but when I tried to print a document after the install nothing happened. I uninstalled and reinstalled the CD printer software three times. No luck. I switched usb cables no luck. After three hours of setup, in desperation, I called HP support and was put on hold for 45 minutes. I finally got a real live person on the line and spent we spent another 2 hours trying to get it up and running. Conclusion DOA. BTW, the instructions are outdated. Although HP set up instructions for MAC called for the installation CD to be used, I was told by customer support it was simply plug and play under MAC OS 10.6! I think I was less angry about it not working at all than time I wasted installing and uninstalling from the CD. BTW, the uninstall function does not completely uninstall all the software. So now I have manually trash the remaining printer software.
Legit printer. Recommended.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After perusing through bunch of printers on amazon, I found this affordable printer.
Its capabilities are good enough for a college student for sure although it doesn’t have fax.
I got it a few days after I ordered it. It’s pretty awesome.
Note that it does not come with a cable that you need for the printer.
The cable doesn’t cost that much so not much of a problem.
Also, the CD was cracked when I opened it, but I downloaded the driver from HP site so no problem there.
Overall, very good printer!