The HP Photosmart C8180 All-in-One delivers the fastest and easiest way to print photos at home. This ultimate photo archiving all in one features a 3.5-inch touchscreen for easy navigation and LightScribe technology for etching labels directly onto the surface of CDs/DVDs. In addition to delivering easy printing at home, this feature – packed printer offers lab-quality photos, laser-quality documents, copy and scan functionality, as well as built-in wireless and Ethernet connectivity. With one touch buttons, blazing print speeds, Bluetooth, HP Smart Web Printing and an automated photo tray, the HP Photosmart C8180 All-in-One lets users tackle a variety of printing jobs with ease.

Features

* All-In-One device offers color printing, copying, and scanning, with support for LightScribe
* Outstanding print quality for photos and documents; speeds up to 34 ppm black and 33 ppm color; support for LightScribe to print CDs
* Scan documents and photos at up to 4800 dpi optical resolution
* Backed by 1-year warranty
* Device measures 17.6 x 8.5 x 15.4 inches (WxHxD)

Review By Reviews.cnet

The design of the C8180 is similar to the rest of the printers in the Photosmart series, but this particular model has a few notable hardware additions that you won’t find in most all-in-ones. Unlike most printers, the C8180 has a swiveled touchscreen that lets you control all the software functions including photo editing, wireless setup and management, and scanning jobs.

The touchscreen eliminates button clutter and frees up the rest of the front panel for simple buttons that control one-touch red-eye removal as well as a few others for start, stop and cancel. The front of the C8180 also has a memory card bay with slots for Compact Flash, xD, SD/MMC and Memory Stick cards.

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Review By Pcworld

Inserting photo media into one of the front slots summons the Photosmart Express menu on the control panel’s LCD. You can even send an image from a Bluetooth-equipped phone. Printing options include simple album formats, various layouts, and even video-frame capture (which I didn’t try). The bundled HP Photosmart Essentials software offers more tools. There’s a dedicated input tray for 4-by-6-inch photo paper. The scanner platen (with an included holder for slides and negatives) digitizes hard photo media. The printer’s six total inks include light cyan and light magenta, for a broader palette when printing photos.

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Review By Trustedreviews

Colour prints on plain paper are also generally good, with solid areas of colour and good registration of black text over the top. A photocopy of our black text and colour graphics page showed better colours than many, though there was noticeable feathering of text into the paper, which gives it a fuzzy, spiky appearance. This can also be seen in the straight black text print and is a shame, as it lowers the overall print quality in an otherwise excellent set of test results.

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Review By Imaging-resource

The C8180 comes with an easy-to-follow installation booklet, which we always applaud, although this one is a bit complex. But so is the printer. Do you want to connect it to your network or a computer? And if a network, do you want to connect with a cable or wirelessly?

The wireless feature in this day of broadband routers is a tremendous advantage in placing the printer. It can go anywhere, really, as long as your router can find it. Since it also operates without a computer to copy photos or documents, you don’t have to keep it with the computer gear. All you need is an electrical outlet.

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Review By Hardwaregeeks

Speaking of software, the printer comes bundled with Photosmart Essential software for your PC. This software, although not required, gives your printer added benefits. For example, the printer sends pictures to any given computer, for easy emailing or more intensive editing, and all it takes is 3 to 4 taps on the touch screen.

So now you are probably wondering, “How good is the scanner?” Well, it’s pretty damn good! The quality of the scanned images is probably the best quality of any scanner I have used to date. It can deliver a resolution of up 9600 dpi (dots per inch) or 19200 dpi when enhanced with software and 96 bit rate.

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Review By Pcmag

Graphics are easily acceptable for any internal business use, though (as with many printers) thin lines tend to disappear. If you stay away from thin lines, the quality is sharp enough to hand out to an important client or customer you need to impress with your professionalism. I noticed a tendency for full-page graphics to make the plain paper in our tests curl, however. If you cover most of the page with graphics, you may want to use a more-expensive, heavier-weight paper.

Color photos handily rank as true photo quality—better than what I’d expect from my local drugstore. I saw a problem with color balance in a monochrome photo, with slight tints at some shades of gray. That won’t be an issue if you print only color photos, however.

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Review By Computershopper

The setup and install procedures for the C8180 are fairly straightforward. Partway through the process, the installation CD will ask if you want to set up the C8180 as a USB or network device (either Ethernet or Wi-Fi). If you want to switch the computer to the other connectivity option at a later time, you’ll have to reinsert the CD to install a second set of drivers. Note, however, that Bluetooth connectivity requires the USB drivers, so if you haven’t installed the C8180 as a USB device on that system, you will be asked again for the CD. Another downside: You can have a USB and network (wired or wireless) connection active at the same time, but you can’t have a simultaneous Ethernet and Wi-Fi connection. When you connect an Ethernet cable to the C8180, it automatically disables the 802.11 radio.

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