HP Photosmart Premium Wireless e-All-in-One particular (CN503A#B1H)
- Now AirPrint suitable. Merely print from Apple iphone, iPad, and iPod Contact.
- Get fun and helpful templates for calendars, online games and more, employing HP Swift Types.
- Generate pictures and paperwork, make copies and scan pictures-with out a Laptop.
- Print on-need with the car-participating image tray.
- Preserve time and paper by printing two-sided paperwork instantly.
HP Photosmart High quality Wireless e-All-in-One (CN503A#B1H)is a versatile and cost-effective printer, scanner, copier all rolled into one particular effortless-to-use device, contemplate Photosmart Premium e-All-in-A single Wi-fi Inkjet Printer from HP/Hewlett-Packard. The Photosmart Premium is synonymous with ease. You do not have to be linked to your laptop or computer to use it. You can create lab-quality pictures from your camera’s memory cards and appreciate printing speeds up to sixteen seconds for a colour four. x 6.0inch/102 x 152mm photo in Draft mode. You can print on a range of sorts of papers, up to 8.5 x 14.0inch/authorized dimension, and print borderless pictures up to eight.5 x eleven.0inch/letter measurement at speeds up to eleven. webpages for each moment in black and eight. webpages for each minute in color in Normal style.Acquire a step into the potential the Photosmart works in conjunction with HP ePrint, a totally free mobile printing company. It enables you to print from throughout the space or throughout the nation. All you have to do is mail an e-mail the digital file directly to the Photosmart’s assigned e-mail tackle utilizing a Smartphone, notebook or other cellular gadget. ePrint tends to make it attainable for you to simply print images, paperwork, shows, studies and much more even when nobody is all around.The Photosmart High quality is suitable with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n so you can share it for printing and copying from a quantity of computers. Wireless networking also makes it possible for you to print webpages from the World wide web these kinds of as coupons, recipes, and greeting cards, and you can access templates for calendars, online games and more. In addition, it presents you accessibility to pictures from Snapfish and other picture sharing web sites. The Photosmart’s 4.3inch/109mm touchscreen Color Graphics Show/GGD located on the TouchSmart manage panel enables you to preview, crop and edit your photographs and offers and rapid and easy way to all features.
Checklist Cost: $ 199.99
Price: $ 159.00
HP Support Needs to Improve – sleep mode issue,
UPDATE 11/27/2011:
I do not recommend this printer. Despite firmware updates last year and the printer working for a while, the sleep issue came back and never went away. In order for the printer to work, needed to unplug and replug in to unfreeze it and then use. HP never ultimately addressed the issues. Very disappointing. I have moved on.
UPDATE 12/11/2010:
Have been running a firmware update for over a week now…. while the printer locked up once, it could have been due to a power fluctuation. Overall the issue listed in the CON below seems to be resolved so far. While the printer is nice, HP still gets 2 stars for how this was handled (they should have been responding to the many posts in their support forums for their new product.. also disappointed that an issue like this made it through whatever testing they do).
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
Pros:
- The printer was relatively easy to set up wireless… worked for a mix of Windows 7 x64 computers and Windows XP laptop (all wireless)
- The speed of the printing is quick and the quality of typical documents is nice
- Photo printing looked very nice on photo paper
- The two trays that come with the printer, one for normal paper and one for photo paper are a fantastic idea
Cons: (arrrghhh… frustrating con, hence the 3 star deduction)
- The printer would go to sleep and infrequently never wake up… it would take unplugging and re-plugging the printer power cord to reboot the printer (this takes some time, the printer takes about a minute or so to re-power up). I researched the issue on the HP website forums and found a number of users were having the same issue. There are no firmware updates to fix this issue, in fact, there’s no evidence that HP recognizes this as an issue and is addressing it…
THE FIX AND ONLY HELP… on the forum, an HP employee (who takes pains to stress he’s being helpful and not responding as an authorized HP representative) is the only ray of light… he provides very nice step by step details on how to fix the problem (effectively, change the IP from dynamic to static on the printer). While I am very comfortable doing such a thing, I can see the majority of users not being comfortable doing this and effectively being left with a printer that locks up every day. HP really needs to get their stuff together and at least say something to the effect that they are working on the issue.
Disappointed in HP support.
At this point, I would not recommend this printer to anyone except people with higher than average level of tech knowledge.
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|Read this; before you even consider purchasing this printer,
I am going to cut to the chase here; under no circumstances should you buy this printer. Feature rich, the printer sounds great on paper, and for the most part, many of the features work as advertised. The big problem with this printer is it does not print reliably. Don’t take my word for it though, read the other 1-star reviews and visit HP’s own Support Website forums to see the problems others are having with this model, and similar models before it.
I purchased this printer from Costco because it had some great features (wireless printing, large touch screen interface, duplexing, compact in size etc…), and because Costco has a painless return policy. I returned it because it didn’t do the one thing I needed; print reliably. You would have to run the clean print head job in order to get the printer to print properly. After the printer would sit for a bit, it would not print properly again, until you ran the cleaning job again. And the printer could not even complete the alignment process either. My first thought was I got a bad one out of the batch. After doing some research though, I found these problems were all too common with this model and others from HP. Do not let HP’s horrible support con you into blowing even more cash on new ink cartridges, it will not fix the problem. And don’t let them try and send you an RMA, you will still have the same problems.
I have requested Amazon add a “reliability” rating to this product, as it needs it.
I can’t be anymore clear about this; look at another line of printers; Epson’s Artisan 725 is great, and in the same price range. HP needs to learn how to put out quality consumer level printers again. I will not be buying another HP inkjet printer until they prove they aren’t putting crap in a flashy box.
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|Not exactly simple…,
This is easily one of the strangest beasts I’ve ever come across in the computer world — a printer/scanner/copier with such an insane amount of functionality that it’s hard to even know where to begin when testing it. The packaging obviously takes a cue from Apple, but a different, funkier approach — the printer comes with its own carry bag, as well as a pouch holding the power adapter. Setup is somewhat involved, though easy enough to follow along with. Print quality is decent *as long as the ink cartridges are properly aligned*; this can be a bit of a headache, and I went through a good half a dozen sheets of paper trying to get it in place, but it was worth the effort. Wireless printing is seamless, though it seems to lack any authentication options, which can be a pain for people who live in urban areas with lots of wifi traffic. Configuration through a web browser is damn near a necessity for anyone using Linux with this printer, and the interface is fairly complete and well designed.
The web interface is… interesting. It’s certainly useful for some things — Google Maps and Mapquest apps, for example, make it much easier to grab a map on the way out the door, and the various arts, crafts, and recipes web apps make it reasonably easy to, say, pick out a birthday card at the last minute if you haven’t had a chance to go card shopping, or you need something for your five year old to color right now. The selections, however, are somewhat limited, and HP hasn’t yet shipped their SDK for writing your own apps. Overall, the touchscreen interface is reasonably workable, if a little sluggish at times; SD card navigation could be a bit more flexible, for example, since shuffling through several hundred pictures on a loop is frustrating. It’s got promise, but it really is just a well-executed gimmick.
There’s no shortage of other oddball bells and whistles either — you can get an email address for your printer, for example, so you can print documents at home from any given remote location. (Frustratingly, it doesn’t offer ODF or PostScript support, but it handles PDF and even plain text just fine.)
Scan quality is decent enough, with solid color reproduction. Photo printing from a computer is a bit of an adventure; the process for switching paper trays (there are two, one for photos, one for plain paper) is not obvious, though it works fine off an SD card. I haven’t tested two-sided printing yet, but it’s there if you need it. Supply costs are a bit on the high side; if you use HP supplies, a full rack of ink cartridges can be over $50. The photo paper sample in the package is abysmally small, only about five sheets, though HP photo paper isn’t too expensive.
Well, one thing’s for sure, you won’t be buying this for the office. This is strictly a home user’s printer, preferably to be used with a laptop. If you like bells and whistles, this printer has way too many of them. For everything it does, the price is pretty reasonable, but I can’t help but wonder what the real value of all these extra features that are dependent on the good graces and continued existence of the manufacturer. If you buy it, you’ll probably like it. But you might also find that it’s a bit of overkill.
Update 12/6/10: SANE drivers don’t seem to exist for the Photosmart series of printers, so if you’re committed to HP on a Linux platform, you might be doing yourself a favor buying this printer (or a similar one with a web interface) for general usage. However, the webscan interface does limit how you can tweak the scan image to resolution, paper size, color/B&W, and file format (limited to JPG and PDF). HP does provide the HPLIP drivers, but they seem to be somewhat limited compared to the Windows and Mac drivers.
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