The HP Deskjet 1280 Printer is a versatile, wide-format printer designed to meet the needs of business and home office users for fast, high-quality text, graphics and color images... more
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A review by intelligents on HP Deskjet 1280 April 22nd, 2007
Author's product rating:
Picture quality
Excellent
Printing speed
Average
Colour sensitivity
Excellent
Ease of use
Easy
Value For Money
Good
Advantages:
excellent photo and text quality, easy to use, cheap running costs
Disadvantages:
slow, no borderless A3, not much A3 paper choice, longevity of prints
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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I bought this printer cos i found it for £99! Bargain! It was a one off. I must say I was very impressed with its quality and ease of use. It is big, but it prints A3!
I bought some good quality HP A4 photo paper to start with and the colour accuracy - to what it was on my computer screen - was amazing. It was exactly right. Some printers you can spend ages getting the print to look as it does on screen. So far, very impressed.
A3 next. I looked around for A3 paper and was a bit disappointed with the choice. Canon and Epson have A3 paper readily available, but I couldn't find any HP A3 paper in shops. I don't like using third party paper unless i know its good. After looking on the internet i managed to get some. This wasn't the best quality paper i could buy but i was only using it as a test. The difference in paper quality had an effect with the print. Although the colours were accurate, there wasn't as much depth to the image. So next time i'll buy the better paper. Despite this printer having, on paper, half the resolution as my other printer the images produced from the HP are just as sharp, if not sharper in some cases. This printer has 4800x1200 dpi, my Canon has 9600x2400 dpi. Certainly black lines in photos were much clearer on my HP than my Canon. One slightly disappointing this is i can't seem to get a borderless A3 print. Can't find it in the print settings - i think its because its not a 'photo' printer. Some printers on the market are designed as 'photo' printers and so give you all the options. This one gives a lot of envelope sizes instead!
The printer is slow but i'm not working to deadlines so it doesn't bother me. I have a Canon printer which prints amazingly fast for anything needed in a hurry. I'm more interested in quality. Both photo and text quality are very good. As i've said earlier the colours are accurate printing from both my Mac and PC, prints are very sharp, and with the right paper they have good depth. My fiance has a small HP photo printer - a photosmart 325. This also prints very good photos. The only problem is that the prints are sensitive to light - they fade pink - and are not water resistant. This is one weakness with the HP printers i've experienced. If you store them in an album, or out of direct sunlight, you won't get a problem. The prints from this printer seem a bit more durable than those from the small HP, but Canon and Epson printers still have the edge.
The cartridges do last a long time, and because the printer has been around a fair while, the ink costs are cheaper. It takes on black cartridge and one colour cartridge (with cyan, majenta and yellow). The majority of its A3 competition have separate cartridges meaning that you only replace the colour that needs replacing - not the whole cartridge as in this case. They also house more colours. This one, as i've already said, has cyan, majenta and yellow (in one cartridge). As well as these three other printers have blue, light cyan, light majenta, green and red (in separate cartridges). These give those printers a broader colour range. For your average person having all these will be just too costly and a bit of a pain to get hold of. But for your real enthusiast its all worth it! The problem for professionals is that cyan and majenta are shades of blue and red. Sometimes they need true blue and true red for accuracy. Also, more recently, companies such as Epson have released printers which use pigment ink - most inkjets use dye inks. The beauty of pigment ink is its longevity and durability. Unlike dye inks, pigments ink is not as sensitive to exposure to light or to water spilages. Like its name suggests dye inks will run if fluid is spilt onto them. If this sounds more like the printer you're looking for then this HP is probable not the one for you. But if you have a printer with say 8 cartridges and they range from £7-14 each that's quite an expense. I certainly wouldn't want to spend that much for what i use it for. My cartridges cost approx £15 for black and £10 for colour. Also most of the competition costs about 2-3 times the price of this machine. Most are around £400-550.
I like this printer. It's well built, though the paper feed doesn't seem as sturdy as my Canon, and reliable. If its a good price, this printer is well worth it.
Advantages: Effecient, fast, durable Disadvantages: none found yet
I have been using Hp deskjet 1280 for around more than a year now almost {i think}. The only time when my product wasn't working was during the service time of the printer, that too lasted only for an hour.
Believe me, the printer is very very versatile. The maximum size of printer paper that can be put is universal A3 size. The printing quality is very crisp and the color quality is just too good. The printer gives out color prints in almost less ... ...pretty cheap which comes at around 2000 rupees that is around 42$. The servicing of the printer takes very less time and the printer has a warranty of around a year.
The overall efficiency of the printer is too good and the printer works almost on everything, ranging from networks to usb cords, without any glitches. ...
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Advantages: Very fast with excellent photo printing clarity! The ink lasts ages! Disadvantages: It is quite big and bulky but if you have a desk no problem!
If your looking to mainly print out documents with the occasional picture this printer is ideal! It has the benefits of a photo printer but has the speed of a document printer. Highly recommended!
Create marketing materials in-house Finish your print jobs faster Produce vibrant, natural colour in print Make a big impression The cartrdiges for this printer seem to last forever and as I am a student I am forever printing out documents and photo's! ...
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Advantages: Fast Printing, Cheap for an A3, Neat and Simple Design Disadvantages: Still expensive
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Introduction
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The HP DESKJET 1280 is not just any printer. This baby will print A3 and any size up to it with a speed and precision that marvels me for is small price tag. I plugged it in, installed the drivers and printed. SIMPLE.
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Features
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* Choice of media from standard company stationery to thick card stock, photo media, and more
* Heavy media up to 280 g/m2 prints smoothly and ... ...* Product Description: HP DeskJet 1280 - printer - colour - ink-jet
* Printer Type: Personal printer - ink-jet - colour
* Max Media Size (Standard): Super B, A3 Plus
* Max Media Size (Custom): 330 mm (Super B) x 1270 mm
* Dimensions (WxDxH): 59.3 cm x 38.1 cm x 23.3 cm
* Weight: 10 kg
* Print Speed: Up to 14 ppm - black draft - A4 (210 x 297 mm) ¦ Up to 11 ppm - colour draft - A4 (210 x 297 mm) ¦ Up to 7 ppm - black normal - A4 (210 x 297 mm) ...
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Advantages: Prints like Cheetah on speed, quality is like 20/20 vision with vision enhancing glasses, decent value for money. Disadvantages: Cannot use cheap alternative ink, has an arse bigger than my aunt May.
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With his smirk and really badly gelled hair as if he ran it down the side of a greasy oven door, he asked me in broken English, "Can I help you sir?"
I asked for an A3 printer, and without even flinching, took me to the area with three A3 printers on display. One was the HPDeskJet1280, one was the Canon i6500, and one was the legendary... the 'I wont bust open your wallet and make it weep' printer.. the Epson Stylus Photo 1290S. Wow I thought... Epson...
Wow, until I saw the prices. What in name of Jesus Christ's holy mother is that price tag doing there underneath the printer I wanted? £299.99? You're having a laugh! The Canon and the HP printers weren't far off either. Canon was a nasty £389.99, and the HP was £229.99. I looked at the bloke and asked him, "Can I buy the Epson display model mate so that it is cheaper?"
He goes, "No...
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The HP Deskjet 1280 Printer is a versatile, wide-format printer designed to meet the needs of business and home office users for fast, high-quality text, graphics and color images on a wide range of media sizes and types. The printer delivers solid, quality performance at a price you can appreciate and lets you do more in-house with versatile printing and flexible media handling.
17.07.2005
