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HP PhotoSmart 1115 Inkjet Printer

HP PhotoSmart 1115 Inkjet Printer

List Price: $199.94
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: dont bother with XP
Review: I Have had trouble with HP and XP since upgrading. Although they say it is xp compatable with driver, it is not. Will cause system to lock up and when I called HP they blamed XP. Bought a Epson and first time install without a hitch. Hope this helps and God bless you!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Disappointed
Review: I have used this printer for the last two years, though it has not been heavily used. It has completely broken down, will not acknowledge that it has paper, and the "carriage" is broken. It will not feed anything through and constantly has paper jams. I have been told by repair specialists that it will cost several hundred dollars to fix it because the "carriage" is so expensive. Though it does print beautiful photos, I am very disappointed with this product's performance over time!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Love the printer-hate having to chase paper
Review: I love this printer - my only complaint is that it shoots the paper out - you would think they could have a decent paper tray
instead of shooting my still damp photos across the room.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Really Good Printer!
Review: I love this printer. The quality of the photos print are exceptional.
The set up/installation was a breeze except for a mistake (on my part) I had attached the USB and Parallel port at the same time to facilitate a scanner/printer function and this caused no ends of problems.
However apart from this the printer is very good, the card reader facility is excellent, I no longer have to hook up the camera and download my photos to my computor, just stick the card in the slot the computor reads this slot as another drive and then drag and drop files from the card reader driver to your drive on the computor.
The 4x6 photo paper slot is very convenient.
I have two concerns
1. This printer seems to use ink especially color very quickly, however this may be because the starter ink cartridge is smaller than the regular sized cartridge - 21ml vs 42ml. I will have to test with a larger size cartridge.
2. The printer is a bit noisier than I think it should be.
All in all a satisfactory product.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Really Good Printer!
Review: It is easy to install with Windows XP. No need to worry about using camera software or hook ups and wasting camera batteries. It saves pictures to your PC for you. It also prints beautiful photographs on any paper, and it is selling out like crazy. I grabbed the last one on the shelf at Walmart. Circuit City is sold out. Trust me, get it and sit back and relax.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I am extremely happy with this printer
Review: It is easy to install with Windows XP. No need to worry about using camera software or hook ups and wasting camera batteries. It saves pictures to your PC for you. It also prints beautiful photographs on any paper, and it is selling out like crazy. I grabbed the last one on the shelf at Walmart. Circuit City is sold out. Trust me, get it and sit back and relax.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best printer I've ever owned...
Review: Just brilliant color quality and great B&W.

When using photo paper you cannot see any pixelation! It's like having your own printing lab.

Unlike my many epson printers in the past, there is also no degradation in quality over time (8 mths.)

The one problem I had was that the printing unit inside was stuck when it arrived. It made an awful grinding sound when it tried to start up, so I had to call support (not toll free!!). They explained that I had to apply pressure to a certain area to free the unit. It was all a bit stressful and it eventually worked and I have had no problems since.

The ink cartridges seem to last way longer than my epson ones did in the past. Just recently changed both (8 mths) with fairly regular use. I probably printed 50+ 4x6 glossies.

I have not seen or tried any of the newer epsons, they may be be comparable in all respects. I have my doubts though.

...it worked flawlessly on my XP OS.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Epson is better and bad software driver
Review: My friend just brought a Epson c820 and it print better photos
than my HP 1115. I paid ~$[money] and he paid only ~$[money] from costco.
So, I brought one myself. Epson print better photo than HP 1115.
If you think of buying this printer, try Epson first.
Also, the driver of HP 1115 doesn't work with my Iomega CR-RW and
my new Epson printer together. Bad software driver!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Prints nice photos, but slow and jam-prone with plain paper
Review: My HP DeskJet 870cxi died last month, and I replaced it with the Photosmart 1115, which I wanted to use with a Dell desktop (XP Pro) and an Apple iBook (OS 10.2.1).

The only nice thing I can say about this printer is that it prints beautiful photos on photo paper. Printing anything else is a lesson in frustration.

Printing a color web page with this printer is SLOW...it seems much slower than my old DeskJet. Second, I get frequent paper jams when printing on plain paper, and especially when printing envelopes. The printer jams when printing photos on 6 x 4.5" photo paper that came with it. When I print documents on plain paper, I also occasionally get these cryptic error codes, and my document stops printing halfway through the job, leaving the paper stuck in the printer.

The printer also comes with a CompactFlash and SD readers built in. It's pretty cool to insert a Compact Flash or Secure Digital card from a digital camera and print an index sheet right from the printer. However, my XP desktop won't recognize the cards from the printer. It says that there is no card inserted. Frequent e-mails to HP tech support have not been helpful - they say the card is faulty (it works fine in my camera and my Lexar card reader, however).

Mac support is suprisingly lousy, because HP has been pretty good to the Mac in the past. I had to wait a month until HP released drivers for Mac OS 10.2.1 (Jaguar). The Mac drivers have the same problem the XP ones do: I can only print with the drivers; reading CF & SD cards with the printer doesn't work.

I have had many HP printers in the past and have had no problems with them. I think HP struck out with this dud.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hewlett Packard - PhotoSmart Model 1115 (Generic Cartridges)
Review: Print gets a A+. One problem guys- USE ONLY NAME BRAND CARTRIDGES (No Generic). The HP- Representative said if you use any thing other than HP- This VOIDS the Warranty. He told me a guy bought the 1115 model and the Generic Cartridge (BLEW UP). HP would not support fixing this printer. He told me these cartridges are HIGH PRESSURE. They are combustible. Pass this on guys.


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