HP Photosmart C4180 All in One Printer, Scanner, and Copier

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17 x 7.8 x 6.4 inches ; 11.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FJLBTK
• Item model number: C4180
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Complete photo All-in-One performance for home with HP's Photosmart C4180 All in One Printer, Scanner, and Copier. Print, copy and scan all your photos and documents with reliable performance. Breakthrough speeds - 4x6 photos as fast as 25 seconds and documents up to 30ppm black, 24 ppm color. HP Inkjet Cartridges are designed for efficient ink usage so you can sve ink and money. Sned photos to and from your all-in-one fast with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Connection. Print photos without a PC using the 2.4 Inch Display and Digital Camera Memory Cards. Also, print a 9-frame story sequence of your digitial video clips without using a PC. You can also easily personalize any CD or DVD with colorful photos and text printed onto HP CD/DVD Tattoos.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good printer - Great Scanner/Copier, November 20, 2006

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Trojan LRey "trojanlrey" (rancho santa margarita, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Photosmart C4180 All in One Printer, Scanner, and Copier (Office Product)

I am an admitted HP loyalist. I did purchase an Epson to see what the fuss was about. Ended up donating it to Salvation Army less than a year. This C4180 replaced it. I like the fact that only two cartridges are needed. I never purchase the photo version toner. Plain color works just fine.

Puzzled by some of the negative reviews. I hooked mine up to a Mac G5 and also loaded the software. Print jobs look fine. Photos are terrific. Copies for routine household chores (report cards/articles)are very clear. But the real pleasure is the scanner.

I had a 3-yr old flatbed scanner (also HP) that just wasn't giving me the clarity I needed. My goal was to convert all those baby pictures to digital files. This tool really fits the bill.

I finally figured out that it's best to run the scanner from the computer, not the on-board console commands. It also helps to permanently add the HP Scan Pro software to the row of programs that appear along the bottom of the screen.

I've gone through about 600 photos. Although it can scan 4 photos at once(4x6), I found that placing 3 is better. Why? With more space between the photos, the scanner detects 3 distinct objects. That means you don't have to go in later to crop and "file-save as" a file with 4 different photos. What's even better is that each of the 3 photos gets saved with it's own file name. Say I call the first file as "Disney". The 2nd and 3rd file would get named "Disney 01" and "Disney 02".

There are some quirks in the software. When launching it, it tends to default to TIFF files which can take lots of memory. Be cognizant of this and remember to adjust your settings before your first scan of a session.

Overall I am thrilled with the output. And feel better knowing my favorite photos now have a high-quality digital back up. Don't know why it works so well for me but not others. Could be that I am on a MAC. Why not give it 5 stars? Because it's my way of sending a message to all printer manufacturers who insist on bleeding us dry with annoyingly small/over priced cartridges. Epson was worst, HP is a little better.

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Initial Reaction: Easy to Use, July 22, 2006

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Steven Gordon "Cartographer and author" (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP Photosmart C4180 All in One Printer, Scanner, and Copier (Office Product)

I just purchased and set up this printer several hours ago. Being on a Mac (OS 10.4.7), I found set up occurred easily and quickly. First, I followed the 14-step "Start Here" poster. Once the software was loaded, it transferred from CD and ran through its installation application quickly (about 10 minutes).

In my set-up, the C4180 is connected by USB cable to a G5 iMac. I also have a G4 PowerBook and both machines are connected by wireless network. Copying, scanning and printing from the iMac was successful. But to print over the wireless network required that I activate Printer Sharing from the Internet & Network > Sharing preferences (accessed from the System Preferences). Once this was done on the iMac, the C4180 showed up as a printer on the remote PowerBook.

One hitch occurred during scanning. I placed a map on the glass and used HP's Photosmart Studio to control the scan settings. I set the scan to 200 dpi and enlarged the preview frame to scan the whole image. After clicking OK a warning came up that I didn't have enough memory to complete the task (I had 1.5 GB of RAM and no other software running). So I brought up Photoshop and controlled the scan from there. No problems (and the scan completed at 200 dpi). I'll have to return to Photosmart Studio and dig into how it works.

For ease of set-up and immediate gratification, this printer fulfills my needs and meets my expectations perfectly.

39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Done HP, August 5, 2006

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Digital Photographer "Used to Like Nikon,s" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP Photosmart C4180 All in One Printer, Scanner, and Copier (Office Product)

Just bought mine yesterday, set up was quick, easy, no glitches no problems, it was so obvious what to do with it, read on instructions later.
HP has done a great job with this printer at a very reasonable price, my first attempts at printing photos were just great,very happy with this printer, I think at any price its hards to beat.
Tried scanning and then scanning and printing, all very successful.
Only negative I have is that HP does not give you full ink tanks with their printers, its a bit more than a sample, but, ok, the printer is so good, I accept it.
Their method of using another cartridge for printing 4 x 6 prints fits neatly on the side and is unseen,yet, works so well when pluged into the printer.
A top printer at a great price.