HP (Hewlett-Packard) Photosmart C6380 Multifunction Photo Printer

Great all around printer

Strengths: wireless, wow, easy step-uo

Weakness: noisy when inserting ink and after printing

Very pleased so far with the printer. I am replacing my older HP. You just cannot go wrong for the price! I have two laptops connected to it and can print to the office from the family room. WOW

By seandsimpson - Jan 17, 2009

Don't buy it...unless u like noise

Strengths: maybe the color is white...thats it

Weakness: expensive ink, have to buy HP because the cartage has a chip in them, very noisy and seems like it is always grinding..don't buy it. No auto feed for multi copies.

Very expensive ink, makes nosie before printing,while printing and after printing sounds like the gears are coming off. No auto feed. HP tells u are out of ink nd u aren't not a good sales idea, just makes folks angry.

By Tom R; - Dec 27, 2009

Great overall

I really like the printer, easy to set up and use wirelessly. ultimately very convenient, however i feel it goes through the ink for photos very quickly, unless its just drying up. I have had the printer for 3 months and only printed about a dozen photos and today already the ink levels ran out for photos. frustrating as they can be expensive.

By Mallyne on HPBazaarVoice - Oct 19, 2009

So-so

Our family has had this printer in operation now for three months. Although it has the ability to read four different types of camera cards, it's always a challenge to have it read our XD card. More often than not, I have to take it out of the printer and place the card into the reader in the CPU (also an HP). That seems to work fine. It's very noisy, and goes through a recalibration type routine...
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Our family has had this printer in operation now for three months. Although it has the ability to read four different types of camera cards, it's always a challenge to have it read our XD card. More often than not, I have to take it out of the printer and place the card into the reader in the CPU (also an HP). That seems to work fine. It's very noisy, and goes through a recalibration type routine after every print job. We've had several paper jams that are not simple to fix. The paper really gets jammed in there and comes out in multiple pieces. Be prepared to go through ink as if you own stock in it. With just simple, every day draft quality printing, we needed to purchase new ink cartridges within three weeks of setting this printer up. Yes, the wireless capability is nice. As for scanning, if you want to do anything 3-D, like I do with the greeting cards I make, forget it. There are other models that will allow you to scan objects with texture, and have the whole image be in focus. This model doesn't focus on anything you scan that has dimension to it. Our old non-HP scanner is wonderful for 3D imaging. Everything is in focus, and the lid even pops off if you have something (like a book page) that's bulky that you want to scan. For the money we spent, I think I would have made a different decision than this printer, if I had it to do over.

By Kathie on HPBazaarVoice - Oct 11, 2009

Offline

Printer continues to go offline. Will not print without rebooting and rebooting PC. Returned one. The new one did the same thing. Returned for refund. Cannot recommend printer that has these problems.

By canoe1954 on HPBazaarVoice - Oct 7, 2009