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HP Deskjet F All in One Printer The HP Deskjet F All in One Series is an affordable easy to use print copy and scan solution with a modern design and intuitive user interface Built for durability and performance this reliable energy efficient all in one series offers several helpful features that make it ideal for everyday document prints scans and photos including a convenient one touch print cancel button to prevent the printing of unwanted pages and a removable scan cover for scanning thicker media more info
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November 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Great Printer And Easy To Use
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I received this printer as a gift from my wishlist and I was very pleased because my old printer which was priced in the same range as this model was a total piece of crap. This printer on the other hand has worked wonderfully for over six months now with no problems. The scanner and copier options have worked well too on the few occasions I had a need to use them. If you are seeking a dependable printer/scanner/copier for home use I would highly suggest this model.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Great Printer – Terrible Ink Costs
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Installation of the HP 4280 is simple, even if you are installing it on a new computer and lost the installation CD. HP’s support website has all the downloads to insert the most up-to-date upgrades to the software. It is compatible with PC or Mac, but don’t forget to buy a USB cable too.
The printing is quiet and fast, and you can save on ink by simply making the default printing style at the “draft” mode which reduces resolution, but prints quick, and for non-business purposes, the low resolution is perfectly fine.
There are a ton of problems with the ink cartridges:
–NOT REFILLABLE BY ANY MEANS. Walgreens won’t do HP 60 or 60XLs.
–Not a common ink cartridge versus the refillable and popular HP 56 and 57.
–Difficult to find the XL cartridges at many retailers. The regular 60s are common.
–Office store chains do not carry their generic brand of refilled or re-manufactured cartridges, simply because only a few HP printer models even use this type.
–The regular (non XL) cartridges are low in cost, but have a very LOW page yield.
Your best bet is to purchase the XL cartridges as it lowers the cost per page. They cost double the price, but gives you three times the pages.
If you print a lot of documents, get a HP printer using HP 56 cartridges as they are refillable and even one cartridge can last a good while. Otherwise, get a laser printer.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Best deal around
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I just purchased this printer 2 days ago at a Target store for $34.98. Couldn’t beat the price anywhere. Much cheaper than the $50 I would have had to spent in ink for my previous Canon printer.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am
A few problems
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I bought the F4280 printer early this year because I wanted a 3-in-one and I liked the looks of the control panel on top. However, I’ve had trouble with the paper getting stuck in it, and sometimes, for no reason I can find, it will not print. My latest problem has been with the color print cartridge malfunctioning and preventing any printing from taking place. It’s light just blinks, even though I know that there is still ink in it, because suddenly the lights come on and it prints one clear copy, then malfunctions again. I wouldn’t buy this model again.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:22 am
good price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this for my homework such as project, it still good, but i’m not really use it , i guess it will work find.If this printer doesn’t work, I will change my review.Meanwhile, it is a good item,good price!!I hope it can work find !
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 am
No longer works with Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Upgraded to Snow Leopard. The All-In-One is no more. The scanner does not work. I’m sure this will get fixed eventually, but if you’re looking to scan out of the box…well you just can’t with 10.6.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
WISH I COULD GIVE NEGATIVE STARS!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This is hands down the worst printer I’ve ever had. First, it doesn’t come with a USB cable, (no biggie, have tons of spares but still…) second, every time I turned it on to use it, it would say it was out of paper. Every time! Even when it was full of paper. Or it will print half the job, stop in the middle of a page and tell me it’s out of paper!!!! WHAT?! It jams! It wants to run alinement pages every time the wind changes. Runs out of ink quickly and it’s expensive! I should have read the customer reviews! I finally got so frustrated I went to the store and bought a different printer all together. I also bought a baseball bat and beat the HP Deskjet F4280 to death because it was a demon that I didn’t want to inflict on anyone else!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Worth It
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
We checked out many all in one printers and found for the dollars spent, it was the right one for us. Good looking machine, good price, good quailty and we are quite pleased.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Not in the box
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I just purchased this product and was setting it up when I noticed that there was no USB cable included. Nowhere on the box did it say requires seprate USB cable. It wasnt untill after opening I found papers stating this. I am so thankfull that I purchaced a product that didnt have all the components in it to make it work.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Great printer for the price
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I wanted a simple, but high print quality printer. That’s exactly what this is. The 4280 is a little faster than I expected, but it is a little noisier than I expected. All things considered, I’m very satisfied with this printer.
December 5th, 2009 at 10:44 am
HP Printer
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one Printer (Q8418A#ABA)This is really strange. You asked me to review my recent purchase and then you had me choose the product? WTF? I like the printer but there is one real problem. My color cartridge ran out of ink and I could not use the printer (even to print in black and white) until I replaced the color print cartridge. Is this the usual thing? We have an older HP Printer in use with our desktop computer and that is not the case. For instance, when the color or black ink runs out we can still use the printer with the other cartridge. Please advise. I am very unhappy with this situation.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Great printer, copier, scanner, great price!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Ordering a new printer was easy and the extras made it a great buy! It came promptly, in excellent condition, and easy to use!
December 7th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
HP F4280 all-in-one
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Just bought this and set it up yesterday. Easy to set up on a MAC – just download the drivers from HP. Com first. Then, connect the printer and double-click on the driver dmg file. The one issue I am having is when it scans a simple 300dpi black and white text document to jpeg or any other format, the file is huge. If I scan the same document on an HP 5700 family flatbed, the file is only about 128k. On the F4280 it is 3mb!
December 9th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Slow. Painfully slow.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
EDIT:
I have discovered that the scanner portion of this device fails to scan to the edge of the bed. I have spent a great deal of time scanning a bed loaded with 10 business cards only to discover that the left 1/2″ of one row of cards is cut off. If Amazon allowed reviewers to lower their ratings once a review is published I would do so. This is unacceptable, considering how HP’s engineers seemed to design the scanning software to make the process as time consuming as possible.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
This is a painfully slow device. I don’t know if it’s the hardware or if it’s just the software that’s to fault, but honestly the fault is irrelevant since both are part of the package and required for getting it to work.
Scanning: Awful. Every step of the way is sluggish and there are several nag screens you must complete in order to make a scan. As far as I can tell there’s no way to automatically detect multiple documents which is a major flaw. It took at least 20 minutes for me to scan 8 business cards because of this. Allow me to explain: you tell the scanner to scan. Then it asks you to specify some settings, it scans the entire bed, you crop out the business card, you finish the document, and then the UI returns to the main menu. In order words, you can’t continue to crop portions out of 1 scanned image into multiple documents. You can continue to scan multiple documents if you want them to be placed into the same final output PDF, but if you want individual output files you must perform this tedious process for each item. I think the scanner I bought in 1997 was faster than this one.
Printing: I have never used a printer that spends so much time spinning its wheels before it decides to print the document you’ve sent to it. It waits so long before printing that one of the first times I used it I actually popped up the Print Manager to see what the problem was. There was no problem! Once it starts printing it’s fast, so don’t be misled by HP’s claims on how many prints you get in a minute because I doubt those take into account the large amount of prep time the printer requires.
Fortunately this is just a cheap disposable printer that will break down within a year so I won’t have to deal with it very long.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Pretty Good
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I needed a printer as I work from home regularly and occasionally need some printer, copying and scanning. My office is a long trip to just print, copy or scan a document, but I did not want to spend a lot since money is tight. The printer works excellently, except there is a state site that I print forms from for work. I have not figured out why the documents are cut off at the top – so the help functions/troubleshooting is not great. I am not terribly computer savvy, so I am chalking at least 1/2 of that to my unskilled handling. Also, sometimes it takes me a few scanning tries to get the document straight, even though I’m lining it up with the arrows. I eventually get it right by playing with it, but I’m not sure why from one page to the next, it readjusts on its own. I have had no trouble copying. The quality is better than I thought it would be and I’m happy – for the price, I can’t complain too much. If I get in a real jam, my work can help, so I have alternatives. However, far more often than not, this is a life-saver. It does not have a fax, which I didn’t need, but if you need that function, keep looking.
December 11th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Perfect!!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Perfect!!! it could be super perfect if it eats less inks. Still it’s worth the price.
December 12th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
No USB
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
Product came without a USB cord. I know they are trying to save money but I am of the opinion this is ridiculous. Cannot rate the actual product because I now have to go to the store…
December 13th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Best Value Yet!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Seriously needed a new printer and a new scanner and did not own a copy machine. For my money, this was the best option available and I could not be happier with the results. Fast shipping and great product.
December 15th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Great Printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I really like my printer, it works wonderfully and I have really no complaints about it. I print a lot due to being an online college student. So I print a lot of the articles since I don’t like being stuck in one area. It’s a little noisy comparted to my parents hp printer (one or two models up from this one) but it’s still quite efficient and i paid less! I would recommend this printer since I have moved a couple of times and it survived moves and i’ve had printers that have not hence the purchase of the one I have now. Ink is reasonable especially with stores offering a incentive to bring old cartridges into the store and so forth. Overall I am quite pleased with this, I had a USB cable from previous printers and in my experience printers whether stated on a box or not generally don’t have the USB cable so if you don’t have one better get one while purchasing the printer, it doesn’t add much to the cost anyways so if you for some chance get a new printer then save your usb cable and don’t throw it out.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:30 am
For the money this is a great printer/copier.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
So far this has been a very good printer for the money. Clear-vivid print.
December 16th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
A Great Printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have been able to easily use this computer on a Network running MAC OS X, Linux, UNIX & Windows. The scanner works very well for it’s price and the print quality is very good.
December 19th, 2009 at 10:21 am
HP F4280
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
It is very easy to install. Just follow the instructions and you will be done in about 30 minutes. Primarily it takes a long time to install all the latest drivers, software etc. But you wont be doing that everyday so it doesnt really matter. What I like most about this is that it saves space. I disposed of my printer, scanner and copier so I have freed up my office desk. You can buy the ink for this anywhere as well. So, if you want to de-clutter your office, this would be an excellent option.
December 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Nice fast budget printer
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Going to my local Target, it was either purchase ink for my old PSC-1350 or purchase this new F4280 for a few bucks less. Since the PSC was pushing about 5 years old, I figured an upgrade was overdue. Aside from the color, I have very little to complain about with this new printer.
The scanner is about what I’d expect from an all-in-one. Colors are good, but some fine details are lost. For the average user, I’m sure this wouldn’t even be noticed. Speed is pretty good too. 15 seconds to scan the entire bed at 200dpi. Nothing astounding, but plenty fast for most of us.
The printer portion is about what is to be expected from HP. Quick and high quality. There are other better printers out there, but this will produce a very sharp looking photo print onto glossy paper. Speed’s quite good too. A 4×6 on the high setting takes around a minute. Now use fast-draft with caution…this thing spits the pages out at you!
Built-in scanning functions are pretty fair. Like my old PSC-1350, you have the option of scanning 1-9 copies of a document without a computer. Nothing too spectacular here, but great if you need a quick copy of a document. Also like my PSC, it has an option to stretch to fit or 100% print. UNLIKE my PSC, it has the option for glossy paper or a 4×6 print. While I doubt I’d scan a photo without editing it first, this is a nice feature.
Now then, why did I only give it 4/5 stars? Well a couple reasons. First off, the inconsistent build quality. Call me picky, but some panels feel very high quality and some seem as if they’ll break off. I find the paper catcher particularly difficult to extend and lock back. Plus some panels have uneven gaps, are loose, and such. I also don’t think the included cartridges last nearly as long as my old 5x carts would. According to the nifty little ink level lights on here, it’s already down a mark. While I have printed quite a few pages, most have been in fast draft. In comparison, my old PSC-1350 would last over a year on a set of cartridges.
So all in all, I guess the primary drawback would be these carts. Hopefully I’m wrong and they will hold up longer than the printer’s letting on…
–edit–
Been using it for a few weeks now and my opinions haven’t changed thus far. However, I did run into a minor problem. For some reason, it doesn’t like to pick up certain kinds of glossy paper. Some that we have with more of a slick back simply won’t work in this printer without lots of coxing. However, some “HP” paper we have with a rough back will work just fine. This paper worked fine in my old printer and our Photosmart, so who knows why it refuses it in this printer.
December 19th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Worst printer I have tried!!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Once I received the printer, I followed the directions for installing it. I was dissatisfied when it would not print, but would start to feed paper and a jam indication appeared. I could not clear a the jam since there was non, but it continually gave me the same jam condition.
I have used H.P. printers for over ten years and this is the first time I got one that would not work. I have also used H.P. computers, calculators, and note books and this is the only product I
am truly unhappy with I have re-boxed it and stored it until I can calm down enough to attempt to send it back.
Respectfully,
Aerolobo
December 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Lasted 9 Months
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The very cheap price was the reason for the purchase. It worked great for 9 months. The black ink stopped printing. HP solutions gave some tips, but it did not fix the problem.
December 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Free with my Mac – but NOT worth the price!
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The 4280 comes free with Macs (if you didn’t get one with yours, a) you got ripped off; and b) don’t worry — read on…). And, apparently, this is supposed to be the HP all-in-one that is compatible with Macs. However, even the most basic print features, like choosing print quality, paper type, grayscale or color, etc etc are not available with the Mac drivers. The basic options are print… or not. I was also very disappointed with the physical quality of the printer — it makes loud ratcheting noises when feeding a sheet of paper. When my power cord broke (and it is the flimsiest power cord I’ve encountered on any device), it cost $42 to replace! Oh, and did I mention that the actual print quality is shockingly poor — the top of some lines of type is unreadable. Truly an unacceptable product, and I have never rated any product lower than a 4 at amazon.com. My recommendation — refuse to accept this free printer when you buy your Mac, and get an Epson or Canon or some all-in-one that works. In the long run, financially, and psychologically, you’ll be better off.
December 20th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
All I need is in there
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I like this All in One printer, it’s compact, easy to install and easy to use. The only problem, just like other printer.. it’s so noisy.
December 23rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Cheap Printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a great product. It is little slow in printing but doesn’t make hard noise while printing. Doesn’t come with USB cable but you can buy that from any electronic store. One last note..The Ink only cost about 15$ in Target and it is the only Cheapest Ink you will ever find in Target.
December 23rd, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Failed after 3 months!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
It was hard to set it up! Cartridges are super expensive and this printer does NOT allow you to use any generic HP compatible cartridges!
You must buy them from HP. The printer fail after 3 months of light use.
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:52 pm
cheap
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
You get what you paid for: a cheap and slow printer.
What is cheaper is HP, not including the usb cable to connect to PC.