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 Works great on Mac OS 10.4.11 March 24, 2008
Dennis M. Wierzbicki (Plainfield, IL United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Here's a quick review - I have Mac OS 10.4.11 running on a 3 year old PowerBook G4 (so it's not exactly state-of-the-art hardware), and this printer has worked great right from the start. Scanning, faxing, printing, WiFi, etc., all have worked perfectly from the first time. Print quality is excellent; speed is adequate; the ADF works well; double-sided printing works fine.....
I also have my son's Windows XP machine printing and scanning wirelessly to this machine, and again, installation and operation have been painless.
In all, I've had nothing but solid results from this excellent product. Well done, HP.
FWIW, I didn't even bother installing the software that came on the disk. As soon as I unpacked the printer, I went to HP's web site and downloaded the latest software.
 HP C7280 Photosmart Printer Review November 22, 2007
Charles Bennett III
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Hp printers are, in my experience, excellent products. This new Photosmart C7280 printer is no exception. The one poor mark is the software installation process. The HP install program is very long and lacks clarity at several places. I suppose that needing to be all things to all the various computers is a difficult task. But, the install process needs improvement.
 Will not print to letterhead!!! November 23, 2007
Jamie Kwiggs (Elk Grove, CA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you print any type of letterhead, ie christmas letterhead, childs birthday invites, block party invites, awards, checks etc. this is NOT the printer for you!!! It has these "sensors" and it is made to not print on things that have pictures on it! Which is NOT great when you have 70 holiday letters to send out! I was on the phone for an hour with tech support and he ended the call with, "Well we have tired everything I know to do - I am sorry that I can not help you with your problem."
I can't return it - it's been past the 15 days Apple allows - but if I could I would.
It works great wireless with my Mac though. But not with my husbands laptop. Has issues with dual wireless.
So far so good October 18, 2007
E. Hill (Waldorf, MD)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased this printer about 3 weeks ago to replace a 7 year old HP Officejet that died. Had no problems whatsoever with the Officejet the entire time it worked.
So far, this new printer seems to work okay. Biggest complaint though is that you can't use the two sided printing unless you install the fully bloated HP software--which of course I didn't. After reading other customer reviews about how bloated the full HP software was and the problems they encountered, I just went to the HP website and downloaded the basic drivers. No problems so far.
I also just attached it to my main Windows XP computer via USB and the used the Windows XP function to share it with other computers on my wired network. Works for me. I just use it for home use, not business so my needs are pretty basic.
Also, as always Amazon did a great job of delivering the merchandise fast. We'll see how things go, but so far I've been pleased.
 Good printer but awful software November 21, 2007
Michael Mccabe (Milford, MI USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
My printer is 4 weeks old and prints well. Everything else, though, is lacking. Software stinks, wireless networking feature works about half the time. There is no automatic on and off feature which would be nice so that you could print remotely without having to run over to the printer and switch it on and off.
AND THE SOFTWARE......
I loaded the accompanying software on three computers and the software brought all three computers to their knees. All three hang on shutdown with the same error message "DeviceIO [sic] Notification Window". Also, the speed of all three computers was cut dramatically. The IT guy at work who tried to rescue my work computer told me something about "svshost" files managing DLL files... all I know is that I have removed the awfull HP Photosmart Essential from all three computers and things have gotten a lot faster.
My advice - Try another brand of printer. The printing part of my HP printer works; every other feature is irritating and poorly executed.
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