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Affordable compact and fast HP’s Deskjet F lets you print scan and copy It produces laser-quality black and vibrant color Need to cancel a job at the last minute Just press the Print Cancel button What’s in the box DJ F AiO Printer AC Power cord HP black ink cartridge approx pages HP tri-color ink cartridge approx pages HP Photosmart Essential Software Set-up poster and Reference guide more info
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November 16th, 2009 at 3:36 am
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL PRINTER
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST PRINTER I’VE EVERY PURCHASED. I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW EASY THE SET UP WAS. THE INSTALLATION ONLY TOOK ABOUT 15 MINUTES TOTAL. I’VE TESTED THE PRINTING & IT’S PERFECT. THEN I TESTED THE SCANNING & ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIC. I’VE TESTED THE COPIER & IT WORKS WONDERFUL. THIS WILL BE THE BEST PURCHASE YOU’VE EVER MADE. I WILL ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND TO ANYONE TO BUY THIS ONE. I AM GOING TO BUY ANOTHER ONE FOR MY MOM’S COMPUTER.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Favorite printer I’ve ever owned!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I just bought this 1 month ago, and there are clearly more perks than I am currently taking advantage of. Here are the ones I’m already loving. It’s a color printer that allows pure black and white printing. (My old ones only did grayscale wasting lots of colored ink. I can print 6 slides per page, and all printing can be double sided, even multiple pages per side! Amazing paper saving options. Also, a very helpful automatic on-screen error guide. This is just the beginning of what this printer has to offer. To me, it is worth much more than its price!
November 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
GREAT PRINTER AT A GREAT PRICE
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I purchased this printer because I had heard some great things about it: very reasonable price, very good performance, etc. I like the fact that the entire machine is considerably smaller and doesn’t take up a lot of room. But of utmost importance, it does an efficient job of doing what its supposed to do – to print, to scan, and to copy. I find it to be quieter than my previous HP printer, considerably faster, and an all around improvement – though my previous HP printer served me very well. Hewlett Packard seems to lead the field in this area, and with good reason. I’m very happy with my purchase.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Exactly what I wanted
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After much research (thanks Amazon reviewers), I settled upon this printer. I am not disappointed. Following the enclosed instructions was easy and quickly I was printing out my documents (mostly light office use). I haven’t used the scanner but the copier is good. Once I figured out that the blue or black buttons designate whether your copying in color or black, it was a cinch! Yes, the printer does power down with no use, but I knew this from the reviews so I just hit the ‘on’ button again and away we go! I am very pleased with the printer. Oh, and since another reviewer mentioned the USB cable I purchased one of those when I bought the printer. HP products continue to surpass the competition.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Decent printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a nice printer comparing with the price. I do not know how much ink it will use since I got it three weeks ago. Easy to install.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:43 am
May be an all-in-one, but it doesn’t come with all the pieces
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I just received my new all-in-one HP printer. I was excited. But, I can’t use it just yet. I have to purchase a USB cord seperately? Man, I wish I would have known that…what, did I have to read fine print to find that out? My other printers came with their own cords. So, needless to say I have not been able to use it just yet. Set up was pretty simple though. Installation was just as easy. I just hope this thing actually works once I get the cord.
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Great all around printer
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I work for the government and was tasked to find a printer that was not only in the government catalogue but also met specific needs. I wanted a scanner printer that would scan a file directly to the desktop and was also a bottom sheet feeder.
While the option to scan documents directly to the desktop had to be set up within the software and even though it took some fiddling around to do, it is possible and works very well. Everything I scan goes from the scanner to a file on the desktop labeled by the month. So, once I go to the first of a new month, I move last month’s file with all the scanned documents to a storage drive and I’m ready for a new month.
The software is very flexible in this regard and each shortcut key on the printer can be tweaked. For example the scan button can be programed to default to either PDF or TIF. It will label each scan to whatever you like, etc.
The bottom feeder was important to me since who hasn’t struggled with loading a pile of paper into a rear feeding printer and having it not grab properly in the back? So that was my personal preference, not something specific to my work requirements.
Other than that, the print quality is as good as any and it is EXTREMELY quick to print on draft mode. The reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 is because it goes through ink pretty quikly. In shopping around I find that the XL cartridge for this printer lasts 3 times as long as the stock cartridge but lasts 3 times as long. I’ve ordered the XL for replacements but have yet to try it so I don’t know if that holds true.
Overall I’m pleased with my choice of this printer for my needs and circumstances.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:40 am
Not a Fan of the HP (my second HP)
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I ditched my HP printer and bought a Canon instead and I couldn’t be happier with my choice.
I’m giving the HP two stars, not one, because it is in many ways a good machine. It is quiet and the copies look good. I was somewhat happy with it. BUT THESE HP PRINTERS USE INK LIKE CRAZY. They are a ripoff.
The Canon system is MUCH better. The cartridges come full and are translucent so you can see the ink in them and watch it run out. They last about 1.5 – 2 months each at my rate of printing (fairly heavy home office usage, as I run a consulting business).
The HP cartridges keep getting weaker and weaker. They hardly put any ink in them, so I have to buy them in bulk at Costco and replace them every 3-4 weeks. And you can’t see inside them, so HP seems to reduce the ink that each cartridge holds but won’t tell you this. Even more amusing — every time you change a cartridge, the printer goes through an elaborate routine of printing “test pages,” using up YET MORE INK. You cannot stop these test pages or they print again as soon as you turn the machine back on.
What we *do* know is that HP is charging more for their ink per ounce than you would pay for gasoline, Dom Perignon champagne, or virtually any other fluid on earth.
This is their business decision to make. Every company seems to want a subscription model now and I guess HP has decided to sell cheap printers and then make a living off of high-margin ink. But I will pay off the cost of my new Canon in less than a year just by buying less ink. After that it is all profit to me.
And the Canon PIXMA is better for the environment and for my sanity. Plus it works great and the copies and photos look just as good as the HP.
Ben
November 25th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Disappointing
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
It’s difficult to describe how much I’ve grown to hate this printer in the short amount of time we’ve owned it. We had an old HP printer, and never had any problems with it, but this thing . . .
. . . basically, it goes through ink cartridges at a rate that can only be described as PLANNED. It seems obvious that HP — and maybe it’s an industry-wide thing now — is willing to sell their printers at a fairly modest price, with the idea that they’ll make their money on ink cartridges. So I’ve been changing them left and right, and now go out of my way to try avoiding having to use the printer altogether.
I did notice that they’re selling versions of their printer cartridges called “XL”. They cost about twice as much as a normal cartridge and they, presumably, at least have some ink in them.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
hp Does it again!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We do use our home printer quite a bit and have “gone through” several hp printers. The black print speed on this one is awesome! No more sitting and waiting for a single page to grind out. This one “spits” it out fast! So far the print quality is up to par for us. I would recommend this printer to anyone for home use.
November 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Solid bargain–very pleased!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
My Lexmark All-in-One died after six years of good service and Amazon had this HP ranked highly and on sale. Setup was quick and easy, particularly like how you scan the print test sheet to help the printer further tweak print accuracy. If it’s as durable as it is economical, I will be totally satisfied.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pm
cheaper than new cartridges
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought a nice Epson printer for $15 at a garage sale. It wouldn’t work at all because the magenta cartridge was empty. In the Epson, all the cartridges had to have some ink in order for it to work at all (even though the black seemed full). So, I was going to buy all four cartridges as a set for $60 plus dollars, but in the store I spied the HP printer with both black and color cartridges for only $62 on sale (plus tax of course) which seemed a better buy than dealing with the Epson problem again, and the HP will print only in black, so if the color runs out – not a problem. I did already have the USB cable, so that wasn’t a problem either. HP also has longer lasting XL cartridges for this which will save replacing the cartridge so often. The XL cartridge is about $30, but worth it, I think.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 am
It’s my own fault, really. . .
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Silly me! I forgot to check to see if this was wireless-enabled. Well, it’s not. I have three computers and now have to use a USB cord to print from the laptop. As for the netbook, which doesn’t have a disk drive, when I tried to download the driver from HP, it said it would take 248 minutes (on cable). Even loading the CD on the PC took well over an hour. Old, clunky and noisy technology. Spend a little more for a better printer.
December 4th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Kind of disappointing
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
We bought the HP Deskjet F4480 to replace our Lexmark printer/scanner/copier (which needed repairs due to user error). My husband said the installation was easy and directions were clear. But I have to confess, as the main user, I find that using the HP is not very intuitive. Scans go directly into a scanning folder, where I have to go find them and rename them to move them to a different folder — rather than presenting the scan up on the screen where I can simply name it on-the-spot and direct it to the preferred folder. Also, when I want to turn the power off, I have to press and hold the power button, rather than just touching it to turn it off. Not that big of a deal, but kind of annoying when you don’t hold the button down long enough. Additionally, it is a louder printer than our previous one. One nice feature we didn’t previously have: it shows the ink levels for each print cartridge on the control panel. (And the print cartridges are inexpensive.)
December 5th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Legit printer. Recommended.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After perusing through bunch of printers on amazon, I found this affordable printer.
Its capabilities are good enough for a college student for sure although it doesn’t have fax.
I got it a few days after I ordered it. It’s pretty awesome.
Note that it does not come with a cable that you need for the printer.
The cable doesn’t cost that much so not much of a problem.
Also, the CD was cracked when I opened it, but I downloaded the driver from HP site so no problem there.
Overall, very good printer!
December 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am
A great printer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this to replace an HP PSC 1350 that stopped working. The F4480 arrived; and works perfectly with my MAC OS X. I did buy a new USB cable. It didn’t come with one; and I was right to do so. The new printer would not work with the old USB cable. Must have been a bad USB cable. They do wear out. And the ink for this printer is very reasonable and only uses two cartridges.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Satisfied
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I should say…this printer is nice enough~. A printer which can print, copy, scan—what else do you want? and a fair price, good appearance. —that’s all I want! But you have to buy a USB cable~ that’s not nice~
December 10th, 2009 at 4:38 am
caveat emptor!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
A nice printer rendered nearly useless by 2 reasons (so far) to hate this thing, had it about 2 weeks. #1: snatches paper like a starving man grabbing bread. Has snarled EVERY sheet of glossy brochure paper I’ve fed it! #2: Who wrote the software, a pinhead? If you remove a paper jam (see #1), or even do something as simple as replacing a cartridge, it signals “no paper fed” and then you have to print whatever it wanted like it or not, or fight with it by unplugging, turning off & on, turning pc off & back on, etc. etc. and it still doesn’t always reset. I am just about to throw it through the wall!
Update: two weeks later, after two printers and over 2 hours on the phone just now with amazon & hp, I can guarantee you I will never buy another HP product. Never. Ever.
December 11th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Hp 4480 PSC all good.Works well with xp and Linux
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have no complaints with this PSC.I had a 1200v PSC it worked well for 4 years.This model is faster,higher dpi,and prints much clearer.A great machine for the price.
December 11th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Arrived DOA. MAC users beware of included printer install documentation
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this printer with all the good reviews on Amazon in mind. The printer arrived and I followed the setup the printer directions carefully for my quad core MAC desktop running Snow Leopard OS 10.6.1. I got the printer to print the setup alignment page fine but when I tried to print a document after the install nothing happened. I uninstalled and reinstalled the CD printer software three times. No luck. I switched usb cables no luck. After three hours of setup, in desperation, I called HP support and was put on hold for 45 minutes. I finally got a real live person on the line and spent we spent another 2 hours trying to get it up and running. Conclusion DOA. BTW, the instructions are outdated. Although HP set up instructions for MAC called for the installation CD to be used, I was told by customer support it was simply plug and play under MAC OS 10.6! I think I was less angry about it not working at all than time I wasted installing and uninstalling from the CD. BTW, the uninstall function does not completely uninstall all the software. So now I have manually trash the remaining printer software.
December 13th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Great printer for a great price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This printer was up and running in 5 min from box to printing. With a great price to go along with the ease of setup, use, and quality prints it can’t be beat, extra large ink cartridges are a steal on Amazon. Great economical buy.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
HP ink jet printers last around a year & a half
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Printers now have features no one would have dreamed of even a few years ago, & they’re cheap enough to be disposable. Which they are. At least, with Amazon, there’s no postage cost for the continual flow of printers to my house. Printers are kept cheap so the companies can sell expensive ink cartridges. Then, after about a year, something irreparable goes wrong with the cartridge holder. Every time. I had two HP printers in the house: one wouldn’t accept the color cartridge, the other simply broke & wouldn’t take either cartridge. Repair would have been too expensive: so I had to buy another printer, which left me with a small fortune in cartridges which were now unusable. There have been no paper jams on this printer yet. The instructions for the scanner are about useless for the printer’s owner, & the FAQ on the HP Printers site is no help. It scans, but there is no easy access to the image. The quality of the printing seems to have declined & it’s slower than the last printer. Color quality is not high.
While it lasts, it will do.
December 14th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Works well enough for me
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
SHIPMENT: typical for free shipping (few days,,not too bad for free), retail box was the packaging (arrived safely though)
SETUP: no usb cable included but I used my old hp usb (usb head at one end and the other is more square with rounded corners on the top, 1/4″ x 1/4″ or so, if u need to go get one brfore your printer arrives), follow the quick setup sheet (it’s easy/short, I’m not much for instructions but glad ?I read them), I have an older pc but the disk setup took some 20 minutes or so with a restart too.
PRINT QUALITY/SPEED: moderare speed, good quality text printing, will post follow-up when I print pics, also will post when I find out how long the inks last (I am skeptical about them, little and light cartridges)
RECOMMEND: at this point, yes…you won’t find it cheaper retail
December 17th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Another Fine Printer From HP…
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The HP DeskJet F4480 Inkjet All-in-One Printer is a great inexpensive quality printer for the casual pc printer user. The best thing about this printer is it works great with Windows 7…
The only complaint is it doesn’t come with a USB cable when bought new in the box, but I find this is commonplace with many HP printer models…
Another Fine Printer From HP…
December 19th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Nirvana
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
My highest priority was for an all-in-one that would fit upon my home desktop alongside my computer and monitor. I needed to replace my HP F4180 because of queuing problems with the latest version of one of my photo editors.
By comparison, the F4480 is much faster, quieter and sleeker. Prints spew out at least 50% faster. The unit is quieter in operation and has the sound of quality. The F4480 is sleeker and shorter.
I can’t address this unit’s durability except to say that I am a computer hobbyist of over thirty years. For about the last ten years I have chosen HP products exclusively. I am very pleased with HP’s online support (chat) system.
As for ink usage, I will willingly pay more for the convenience of needing only two cartridges.
Tho I use printers predominantly for printing and copying documents, I am delighted with the photo quality of the prints which are sometimes exhibited on the walls of our home.
As for the software, I downloaded the driver only version from the HP website. The full HP software on the CD may be helpful to novice users but is an annoyance for folks who don’t like all the ads. Better freeware options exist elsewhere online.
Price was not an issue, this was simply the best at fulfilling my particular needs. However, I am still in awe of the low price.
December 19th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Good price, nice printer, but no USB cable included!
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I went out to Staples just before closing a few days ago; I needed to get some stuff printed out and I finally decided to break down and buy a printer. Once I got home and opened the box, guess what I found? No USB cable included!! I guess HP figured that I would already have one. (Sidenote–I have a bunch of USB cables around the house, but somehow I didn’t have the type required)
That aside, it is a great deal for the price. It might not be the fastest or the most expensive, but if you need to print mainly word documents, then this is a great printer for a bargain price. I would have given it 5/5 stars if only it had come with a USB cable!
If you already have the correct cable type, then you need not worry. Ignore this review and buy it.
December 20th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
HP Deskject F4400
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I like this printer very much. It not only makes copies of what I have printed on the computer, but it makes copies of pages that I already have. This saves us miles of driving to make copies of copies.
I am not up to date on installation. My daughter helped me set this up.
Delivery was on time, the item arrived without damage, etc.