HP C6280 Photosmart All-in-One Printer (CC988A#ABA)

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 21.8 x 17.6 inches ; 17.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 26 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000UY3O22
• Item model number: C6280
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,020 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2007

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

If you're looking for a single device that prints, copies, and scans, the HP Photosmart C6280 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, and Copier is your answer. The printer has a built-in 2.4-inch display you can use to easily print photos without a PC: Simply put your memory card into the memory card slot (compatible with Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, xD-Picture Card), preview it on the display, and print. Enhancing your photos and removing red eye is as simple as pushing the HP Red-eye Removal button.

The HP Photosmart C6280 produces lab-quality, fade-resistant photo prints by using a six-ink color system for accurate color reproduction. Photos will always print on the correct side of the paper with the right quality settings because of HP Auto Sense technology. And coupled with HP Advanced Photo Paper, the C6280 is sure to produce photos that are smudge and smear-resistant right from the printer. Print speed is outstanding as well, at up to 34 ppm black and 33 ppm color. For those looking to save paper, an included duplexer lets you print on both sides of the paper. With built-in Ethernet, everyone on your home network can share the printer.

The scanner uses a Contact Image Scanner (CIS) for scans at up to 4800 dpi optical resolution with a scan size of up to 8.6 by 11.7 inches. The copier supports pages up to this size as well and you can make up to 50 copies in one pass. Color copies are supported and there are settings for enlarging and reducing from 50 to 400 percent. HP Photosmart C6280 supports Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP Home and Professional, and Windows Vista as well as Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.x. It is backed by a 1-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Photosmart C6280 printer, 02 black ink cartridge, 02 cyan ink cartridge, 02 magenta ink cartridge, 02 yellow ink cartridge, 02 light cyan ink cartridge, 02 light magenta ink cartridge, software CD, setup guide, basics guide, power cord, and two-sided printing accessory.

Product Description

HP C6280 Photosmart All In One Printer. Print efficiently with six individual inks and more. Save paper by using the included duplexer to print on both sides of the paper. Share this all in one on an existing home computer network, using built in Ethernet. Replace only the cartridges that run out of ink with six economical, individual ink tanks. Print documents and 4 x 6 inch photos without swapping out paper, using an automated photo tray. Create high quality photo scans with 4800 dpi resolution and 48 bit color. Effortlessly print photos, using a 2.4 inch display. Print lab quality, fade resistant photos and laser quality documents in 6 ink color. Easily print photos without a PC, using memory card slots, a 2.4 inch display and HP Photosmart Express. Ensure photos print on the right side of the paper with the right quality settings, using HP Auto Sense Get the print you intended enhance your photos and remove red eye with the HP Red eye Removal button. Share smudge and smear resistant photos right from the printer when using HP Advanced Photo Paper. Print photos and documents at blazing speeds. Get blazing print and copy speeds up to 34 ppm black and 33 ppm color plus photos as fast as 10 seconds. Print what you see HP Smart Web Printing ensures you get useable web pages without cutoff edges.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photos Better Than Lab Quality, November 28, 2007

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Happy at Home (Wadsworth, OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP C6280 Photosmart All-in-One Printer (CC988A#ABA) (Office Product)

I have gone through several color printers in the past few years. This printer by far is the best quality color printer to date. In my opnion it should be rated as a number one printer for the money and quality it puts out.

It is one of the few out printers out there that use 6 color cartridges which makes a HUGE difference in the way your photos appear. With a higher spectrum of color, the blend of colors are much more natural.

I work in an industry in which I work hand in hand with a lot of print shops (I don't work for HP). The shops that use large format HP printers use the same 6 color configuration that the C6280 uses. What that means to you is that you are getting virtually the same quality out of the C6280 as the more expensive $30k to $40k large format printers that print shops use.

One of the greatest features of this printer is that you can get a photo that you had taken lets say 4x6 print, scan it, and print out a 8x10 copy of that photo with just as good resolution. You can do all this without using a computer. You do it all from the printer itself. It is really like your own portable photo lab.

The biggest recommendation that you need to follow is that you MUST use HP photo paper to achieve the best results. That is all I have used and I have not been disappointed yet.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great bargain for the price, October 31, 2007

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Patrick C. Miller "PCM" (Grand Forks, ND) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP C6280 Photosmart All-in-One Printer (CC988A#ABA) (Office Product)

I bought this printer for $200 to replace a 10-year-old SCSI scanner and an aging HP PhotoSmart printer that cost me $50+ every time I had to replace the two ink cartridges (which was too often). I also wanted to network it to two wired PCs running Windows XP, a wireless PC running XP and an wireless laptop running Vista.

I do a good deal of digital photography, so high-quality printing is important. I also have many articles published on the Web that I wanted to print two-sided on heavy stock paper. I don't need fax capability, but having a copier at home is a definite plus.

The C6280 was easy to set up and get running right out of the box. It fits into the footprint vacated by my old HP printer. Initially, it was easy to network with my other computers, but the printer tended to disappear from the network until I assigned it a static IP address. Once I did that, it became a very reliable network printer.

I didn't expect this printer to be speed demon, and it's not. However, it is plenty fast for my purposes. It is a bit noisy when it first starts printing and does shake my desk a bit. I consider those minor annoyances, not big problems. To me, the text is black, crisp and clear. I have no problem whatsoever reading it.

For photo printing, it's taken a bit of experimenting with my photo editing software and the printer settings to get the image quality I desire. However, now that I've worked out the settings, the image quality is fantastic. I've done a limited amount of scanning and copying with the C6280, but in general, it seems to perform those functions very well.

The criticism about having to wait for duplex printing to dry on one side of the sheet before printing the other is rather silly. This is an inkjet! Of course it's slower at two-sided printing than a laser printer. If fast duplex printing is important to you, buy a laser printer.

For $200, I thought that this all-in-one printer was a good deal. Now that prices are coming down, it's an even better deal.

Additional comments: I've had a problem with the scan function not working with the primary PC on which I do the most scanning. When the HP digital imagining monitor failed to properly initialize, the scan function would hang up and the only way I could get out of it was to reboot my computer. I finally decided to try using the newest C6280 drivers alone without any of the HP software. This appears to have solved the problem.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent All-in-One Printer, January 5, 2008

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EvilPumpkin "Wannabe Gamer" (Bay Area, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP C6280 Photosmart All-in-One Printer (CC988A#ABA) (Office Product)

I purchased this printer to replace my older HP 7260 Photosmart printer that had run out of ink and an old $5 scanner that I picked up during a Black Friday sale several years back. I really wanted a printer that I could use with my all wireless laptop house - 1 XP, 1 Vista to do routine printing both photo and regular printing, and the fact that the all-in-one was only $20 more than the 7460 with a built-in duplexer and scanner, I thought why not?

Setup Vista: The Vista laptop setup was a real breeze. (I ignored their instructions to try and avoid the HP bloatware) When I went to the Add Printer setting of the Control Panel, Vista detected the printer on the network. I selected have disk to get the driver, and then had a functional printer without going through the HP install process. Yay!

Setup XP: The XP laptop setup was a bit more cumbersome as we had to use the HP install disk. Despite selecting all of the options to not install all of the optional HP software (such as buying your HP supplies online, checking automatically for updates, providing customer feedback, etc.), it detected that our previous installation had those features and updated them all. Argh! It really isn't that big a deal to then go and uninstall all of that junk, but it is annoying. I had 6 HP programs running in the background after the first install. HP should really be ashamed of themselves...Once I uninstalled all of the bloatware, I was up and running with zero problems.

Printing: Classic high quality printing from HP that I have always liked. Did some black and whites using only the black cartridge, a 4x6 photo, some web pages, all were reasonably fast...by the time I got up they were done...that's why I wanted wireless anyways.

Scanning: I wanted to scan a picture. So I went over to the unit, put the picture on the glass and hit Scan Menu. Saw 2-3 options, Scan to Card, Scan to computer. Hit scan to computer and it showed my computer's name. I hit OK, then it scanned and by the time I got back to my laptop I had a dialog box asking about resolution, file name options etc. Once I set up those options, it was done. I scanned a second picture and all of those options were saved, and it was just done before I even got back to my laptop. Excellent!

All in all, a great experience so far. I would definitely recommend this printer.