HP DeskJet 1220Cxi Printer

by HP

Product Details

Product Manual [3.18mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 26.5 x 23.3 x 9.2 inches ; 22 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 28 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00004SYVC
• Item model number: 1220Cxi
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Ideal for designers, publishers, or anyone looking for professional-quality printouts, the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 1220Cxi provides high-performance printing on a wide variety of media.

The 1220Cxi will print anything from 4-by-6-inch postcards to 13-by-19-inch Super A3 posters. It handles transparencies, thick card stock, and everything in between. The 1220Cxi can help you with creative projects such as iron-on transfers, greeting cards, and banners. For your home office, use the label and envelope printing functions, or switch to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi mode for realistic color for all your photo media.

Using PhotoREt III Enhanced Color Layering, the 1220Cxi brings together high speed printing and Hewlett-Packard's latest technology. Printing at 11 pages per minute in black and 9.5 in color, the DeskJet 1220Cxi is the fastest in its category. Resolution and color are adjusted automatically for the sharpest results, which is especially useful for low-resolution Internet images.

Plus, you'll get HP's smart software package that allows you to expand your printing abilities even further. The booklet-printing feature automatically activates two-sided printing and arranges pages for binding. HP ZoomSmart scaling technology allows you to enlarge or reduce documents easily, and with the tiling feature you can print posters five or more times the original size.

The 1220Cxi includes two paper trays, 150-sheet input capacity, and a 5,000-page-per-month duty cycle. It offers convenient features such as a low-ink indicator and a cancel button that immediately terminates a print job at a single touch. The 1220Cxi is compatible with both Windows and Macintosh platforms, and an optional HP JetDirect external print server can be added so everyone can share this highly versatile printer.

Manufacturer's Notice

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, (CPSC), Longwell Electronics, of Brea, Calif., is voluntarily recalling about 2.5 million power cord sets sold with inkjet printers from Hewlett-Packard Company. The connector can break, exposing electrical contacts and posing a shock hazard to consumers. No injuries or incidents have been reported. This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibility of injury. The gray, two-wire power cord sets with a LS-7C connector were sold with the following HP printers: HP Deskjet 800 series and 900 series, HP Photosmart 1000 series, 1100 series, 1200 series, and 1300 series inkjet printers. The name 'Longwell' is molded on the plug between the blades.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

188 of 191 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent professional inkjet printer, May 28, 2000

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A. Alkins - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP DeskJet 1220Cxi Printer (Office Product)

First of all, I must say this is a professional printer. If you are a regular home user, consider the 950c (Nearly the same print quality, Half the price)

This printer is quite large but is very well designed. It is also is looks good only adding to the beauty of your desktop space. The pinter has the normal hp feed (Feed from lower tray and print on upper tray) It also has a back feed which gives you a straight paper path allowing you to print on hard surfaces with bending the paper.

The cartridge is huge holding lots of ink allowing you alot more pages per cartridge. There are 2 different cartridges, black and colour.

The print quality is very fantastic. Images, when printed on normal paper looks very professional. You have to look very hard to notice that this is an inkjet printer. On glossy paper, the print quality doesn't look home made at all, the quality looks as good as some catalogue prints. Also, this printer can print huge 13 x 19 sheets.

The printer is very easy to use, with 3 buttons on the printer (Cancel, Power and Resume/Feed paper) It was also very easy to install, just pop in the USB cable and install the software. I also installed the same printer on Parallel port and it was just as easy. The HP Printer software is excellent. When you print a document, A preview screen comes up showing you all the pages so you can select to print some pages or all ( Very helpful when printing out web pages because you tend to waste paper when the last page as just one line or the ending of a webpage)

This is a great professional choice, recommended for businesses, art students and other graphic design people.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning!!!, December 18, 2001

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david Schwartz (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP DeskJet 1220Cxi Printer (Office Product)

The unit is being shipped with defective (lids) covers. After going through the whole start-up. The cartridges will not activate. The lids are not putting enough pressure to activate the sensors.

You will find this out after spendinding your money & time call the (Non-toll Free Warranty Support). They are aware of the problem and shipped me another lid. The only problem is that this lid did not work either. You have to actually put pressure or step on the lid to make the Printer work. The minute you take the pressur off...The printer stops...

HP Acknowledged they are having problems with this issue. However they still make you go through the time & expense of re-shipping. Telephoning and wasting time on hold...Never again

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Poster-ise your life!, April 11, 2004

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FrKurt Messick "FrKurt Messick" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP DeskJet 1220Cxi Printer (Office Product)

I have been doing public relations work (my paying jobs) for the past fifteen years. For many of those years, I had to make tough choices -- I could have a printer that would permit me to print 11x17 (poster-size) paper, or I could have a colour printer, but never the two would mix (at least, not in a way that I, poor struggling self-employed student, could afford). When I discovered the HP 1120C, an affordable, good quality wide-format colour printer, I rejoiced, and bought two of them (one for home, one for office; the one at home on a Mac, the one at home on a PC).

So, when looking to upgrade after these printers had given good service, naturally I looked to HP again, and they (bless them) had an upgraded model, still within the realm of affordability. This is the 1220Cxi.

I produce a lot of posters. I did a series of 13 career posters for our local schools, and suddenly had 500 orders for sets (yes, that is 6500 posters to run). Nor are these simple posters, but rather colourful, graphic-full posters (which is required if one is to have the chance at catching the average school child's attention). I managed it on this printer. That is remarkable in anyone's book. Yes, I was running them night and day, but still, this is probably one of the harshest tests to give any printer. And it came through with flying colours.

This printer prints well on PC and the Mac (although I have had the experience that it always runs more slowly on the Mac, and the interface I've had to use for my Mac (a G3 233mhz) is somewhat clumsy in that it doesn't allow me to toggle easily between the HP, my laser printer, and the modem).

The HP DeskJet 1220C is one of the faster printers in the wide-format inkjet category. It prints at up to 11 pages per minute in black and 6 or so in color. It uses PhotoREt III Enhanced Color Layering Technology, an HP benchmark in print quality. The printer also has an alternative mode of 2400 x 1200 dpi printing on photo stock media.

I regularly use photo paper, transparencies, cardstock thickness as well as regular paper formats, and it always performs beautifully. In addition, it has features such as reverse printing/mirror image (I make decals to go on windows, which must be printed in reverse), and tiling, so that you can print things out much larger (up to five times larger); by the time you tile five 11x17 sheets together, you're getting pretty big printing there!

The documentation says also that it will handle a 5000 page per month workload, but there are some months we churn out more, and it keeps on going!

Print cartridges can be expensive (we use discounters and buy in bulk to reduce our costs) but, comparing that cost to the cost of professional printing (which isn't needed for the school audiences we're reaching) and adding in the flexibility of being able to change and print on demand, there is no contest--this printer is the tops!

I also greatly appreciate the HP website, which has downloadable templates, solutions, drivers, etc. It is well designed, and it is easy to find what you need on the site. Consider spending a little extra when getting a printer, even for home use, and get the wide-format--you'll be pleased with the flexibility of printing that it affords.

It did give up after about three years, but given the heavy level of printing I subject printers to, this is fairly typical (I've never had one last five years from any source).