Customer Reviews

HP PhotoSmart 1115 Inkjet Printer

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4 star:		(3)
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Setup was total of 10 min., Works great right out of the box with no problems. This printer is very quite and quality is excellent. I am a professional designer with lots of ink jet experience (desk to large format). For a consumer printer its great. You can complain about high ink costs, but, realize that over the long run the printer will work great everytime because HP includes a new print head on every cart that you buy. I have a HP 550c from 9 yrs ago (still working) and an epson 660c that just died.
Just look at the customer reivews, compare.

This printer is worth it.

Markomark

Got this printer yesterday and printed everything GREAT. LOOKS FANTASTIC ON PAPER.

My HP DeskJet 870cxi died last month, and I replaced it with the Photosmart 1115, which I wanted to use with a Dell desktop (XP Pro) and an Apple iBook (OS 10.2.1).

The only nice thing I can say about this printer is that it prints beautiful photos on photo paper. Printing anything else is a lesson in frustration.

Printing a color web page with this printer is SLOW...it seems much slower than my old DeskJet. Second, I get frequent paper jams when printing on plain paper, and especially when printing envelopes. The printer jams when printing photos on 6 x 4.5" photo paper that came with it. When I print documents on plain paper, I also occasionally get these cryptic error codes, and my document stops printing halfway through the job, leaving the paper stuck in the printer.

The printer also comes with a CompactFlash and SD readers built in. It's pretty cool to insert a Compact Flash or Secure Digital card from a digital camera and print an index sheet right from the printer. However, my XP desktop won't recognize the cards from the printer. It says that there is no card inserted. Frequent e-mails to HP tech support have not been helpful - they say the card is faulty (it works fine in my camera and my Lexar card reader, however).

Mac support is suprisingly lousy, because HP has been pretty good to the Mac in the past. I had to wait a month until HP released drivers for Mac OS 10.2.1 (Jaguar). The Mac drivers have the same problem the XP ones do: I can only print with the drivers; reading CF & SD cards with the printer doesn't work.

I have had many HP printers in the past and have had no problems with them. I think HP struck out with this dud.

My friend just brought a Epson c820 and it print better photos
than my HP 1115. I paid ~$[money] and he paid only ~$[money] from costco.
So, I brought one myself. Epson print better photo than HP 1115.
If you think of buying this printer, try Epson first.
Also, the driver of HP 1115 doesn't work with my Iomega CR-RW and
my new Epson printer together. Bad software driver!!!

I have used this printer for the last two years, though it has not been heavily used. It has completely broken down, will not acknowledge that it has paper, and the "carriage" is broken. It will not feed anything through and constantly has paper jams. I have been told by repair specialists that it will cost several hundred dollars to fix it because the "carriage" is so expensive. Though it does print beautiful photos, I am very disappointed with this product's performance over time!

Great Printer, but does get a bit cranky at times. The 2 side print capability is a plus, saving paper & making printouts more compact. Does a 4 + job on photos, but hard to use the small photo tray. I've used this printer for approx 2 years and just now feel it may be time to upgrade. I feel I made a good choice for my photos.

Great printer! Fast and awesome color printing!

The HP Photosmart 1115 is very good. I haven't had any problems
with it. I have printed many 8.5 by 11 photos with crisp color.
The picture is only as good as the photographer. If you did not
take a clear picture, then do't expect a miracle from Photosmart.
I would recommend it to anyone. It does a beautiful job.That is
correct to with the print cartridges, both last a good while.
I had printed many photos before I had to change it. So there
you have it. Photosmart is reasonably priced and easy to use.

Just brilliant color quality and great B&W.

When using photo paper you cannot see any pixelation! It's like having your own printing lab.

Unlike my many epson printers in the past, there is also no degradation in quality over time (8 mths.)

The one problem I had was that the printing unit inside was stuck when it arrived. It made an awful grinding sound when it tried to start up, so I had to call support (not toll free!!). They explained that I had to apply pressure to a certain area to free the unit. It was all a bit stressful and it eventually worked and I have had no problems since.

The ink cartridges seem to last way longer than my epson ones did in the past. Just recently changed both (8 mths) with fairly regular use. I probably printed 50+ 4x6 glossies.

I have not seen or tried any of the newer epsons, they may be be comparable in all respects. I have my doubts though.

...it worked flawlessly on my XP OS.

Although most people say the prints are grainy, I disagree. I recently purchased this printer, and got some Kodak Ultima Premium High-Gloss, Heavy Weight photo paper, and I have to say, the picture quality is INCREDIBLE! I tried printing photos with low gloss, lightweight paper, and I will say that the quality was somewhat comparable to my old Canon BJC-2100. If you get the right photo paper for this baby, though, it can print some excellent photos at a fraction of the cost for some super high-end models with DPI resolutions beyond what we really need. If you stick these photos in a picture frams, you can't even tell the difference between real photos and photos printed with this thing. All in all, I think it is well worth the money.