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Summary: Pleased for the most part
Review: I am very pleased with the quality this printer does with photos and other printing projects. However, It does not print well with thicker photo paper. The paper gets jammed even when using the feed in the back of the printer like your supposed to. It is very frustrating and wastes a lot of paper doing this. Other than that its a great printer.
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Summary: Good Quality But Expensive Ink Packs
Review: I bought one of these for a real good price and was impressed with the color copites and the black and white ones also. You can use all types of paper, from photo quality to cheap recycled stuff. The only problem I have is that the ink cartridges are expensive and they are so small and only last for a few large print jobs. The cost ads up ...
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Summary: Good Photo Printer
Review: I bought this printer mainly to print larger scale photos for personal use. I originally considered at the Canon S9000 and Epson 2200 but was mortified when I learned the cost of operating them. Even though the in tanks are small, I've printed about 25 full color 8x10 photos and 5 11x17s and the ink tanks are still about 45 percent full. That makes it a lot more economical than photo services and the other printers. I was skeptical about it only having three colors, but it has provided good results thus far. I'm certain that if you did a side-by-side comparison with a magnifying glass, you could see a difference, but at a normal viewing distance, the photos turn out beautifully.On the downside, I spent the best part of the first weekend I owned this printer trying to get their XP driver to work, only to find out on Monday when their tech support is in that they are aware that their XP drivers are deficient, and as a work-around, I should use the XP mini driver. The XP mini driver works ok, but doesn't give you full functionality and with the graphics program I use, doesn't print precisely the size that the print dialog box says it is going to print. The unit sells off the shelf as being able to print 13x19 format, and its carriage is certainly capable, but whoever did HP's WEB page says it is an 11x17 printer and only list up 11x17 paper in the supplies section for this printer. After a bunch of searching, I was able to find 3 types of 13x17 photo paper in their business pages, but these do not specify compatibility with the 1220cse. Fortunately, I will not be using card stock, or I'd probably have another thing to gripe about. Bottom line, if you are looking for an economical large format printer for pictures on your wall at home, this one is less expensive up front, ...
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Summary: hp1220c deskjet
Review: I find that it will not allow me to print 11 x 17 heavy photo stock paper. I do alot of arial photos and can not print unless I buy plan photo paper.Just not fair.
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Summary: Best Printer I Have Ever Owned
Review: I have owned quite a few printers, including Epsons, Ravens, Lexmark, and two Canons, but none of them come even close to the HP DeskJet 1220 C (Cse). Even my last Canon, a BJC-5100, which cost me quite a bit, couldn't compare to the solid performance that the 1220 delivers, and I suspect the HP will be around longer than the 10 months the 5100 lasted. After ten months the 5100 began ruining paper, leaving large bands of ink all over print jobs and even after a meticulous cleaning, it never returned to proper working status. My first experience with a 1220 Cse was at a restaurant that I worked at used it to redo their menus. Without complaint the 1220 Cse churned out 60 copies of the 8 page menu- with no flaws such as streaking. The only mistakes were ours and we had to print out another 480 pages with corrections-using the same ink cartridges. It can be hooked to your PC (or Mac) via either a serial or USB cable, (neither of which are included). After a quick software install and an alignment is done, the 1220 Cse is ready to go. The 1220 Cse exceeded all of our expectations- both in the shear quality of print jobs, even in things like our menus which used a great deal of color in the images and text, but also with its flawless performance. Now that I have one of my own, I am delighted that it continues this trend in the home environment. It is a big printer, and it takes up a fair amount of desk space, but that is small price to pay for a gem of machine like this. It can do 2,400 x 1,200 dpi images with the right paper, and having seen that in action, I am even more convinced that this is perhaps the best small office/home printer ever made. It does everything my wife and I want- beautiful black and white text and stunning color. Plus, it is exceptionally well made- worth the extra money if you were perhaps thinking of getting a less expensive machine. That quality will go a long way to the machine's longevity. This, coupled with the fact that ink cartridges seem to last forever make it an excellent value.
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Summary: Best printer purchase I ever made
Review: I have used this printer for four years and it still works perfectly. I prints photos on photo paper beautifully. I love being able to print 11x17, and friends and family ask me to print for them. I use this printer heavily but have only bought new cartridges once in four years. I often print using the print quality of 'Fast'. The 'Fast' option looks like 'Normal' for most printing except photos. This printer was worth the expense. I also have an HP LaserJet 4L that is still working after more years than I can remember, and it's still fast compared to many newer printers on the market.
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Summary: 18 Months Product - and then its bye, bye
Review: I love this printer. Finally, a printer that can handle large format. I can do an 11 x 17 poster or you can even go larger if you have the paper. I'm also able to print pages to my 11 x 17 leave behind piece that I leave with clients. The visuals are crisp and clear and it's faster than any printer I've ever had in the laserjet category. But I couldn't afford a color laserjet that handled 11 x 17. So for the price, this one is awesome. I used to have my leave behinds done at Kinkos but now I do them myself. Even with the ink costs, I save a bundle. And with the double ink cartridge, I don't have to change it all that often.
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Summary: LOVE IT!
Review: I love this printer. Finally, a printer that can handle large format. I can do an 11 x 17 poster or you can even go larger if you have the paper. I'm also able to print pages to my 11 x 17 leave behind piece that I leave with clients. The visuals are crisp and clear and it's faster than any printer I've ever had in the laserjet category. But I couldn't afford a color laserjet that handled 11 x 17. So for the price, this one is awesome. I used to have my leave behinds done at Kinkos but now I do them myself. Even with the ink costs, I save a bundle. And with the double ink cartridge, I don't have to change it all that often.
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Summary: Quit working after 15 months
Review: I was in love with this printer, not a great photo printer, but was good enough for my needs. Bought it in late december 2000 and just stopped working in march of 2002. Being that it was a brand new model paid $[money]. Fixing it now will cost about 2/3 of current price. Maybe I was unlucky, dont want anyone to have the same problem I did.
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Summary: Massively impressive machine
Review: I'm an unabashedly big fan of HP inkjet printers. I have found their color management drivers, not to mention their ease of connectivity, to be completely conducive to excellent output. The quality is obviously superior to HP's chief injet rival, Epson. This printer is no exception. Aside from the somewhat obscure color cartridges (my local suppliers don't stock a lot of them because they're only used in three other printers), I've found nothing to complain about in the two months I've been using it. The printer is truly whisper silent, and it's massively faster than my old HP 890. I print on odd sizes of paper, so I love the fact that I can now do special jobs without having to go to a service bureau to make tabloid and larger sizes. The onboard memory is sufficiently large to allow me to dump really complicated graphical files without tying up my CPU. As an example, a full-color, legal-sized flyer with multiple graphical layers used to take something on the order of 12 minutes to send to the printer and print. Now it's a matter of 3-5 minutes. True, some the speed increase is that this printer connects through a USB port, but I suspect that even if I hooked it up with the parallel connection, there'd be a massive improvement in speed. At any rate, I used to sometimes crash my computer if I tried to do smething else while a complicated project was printing. Now, nothing I do outside of starting a 3-D game will shake my system. I cannot recommend this machine enough. However, you should take a look at the 1220Cxi version, just in case you need the added PostScript flexibility.
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