Hewlett Packard DeskJet 648c Printer

by HP

Product Details

Product Manual [1.47mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 16 x 7.9 x 17.2 inches ; 11.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 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: B00004TKMH
• Item model number: 648c
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 648C is a compact and quiet ink-jet printer that produces sharp results on plain and photo paper alike. Together, HP's exclusive fast-drying inks, PhotoREt II color-layering technology, and automatic color matching with HP ColorSmart III give you accurate color. In photo mode, the Hewlett-Packard 648C produces 600 x 300 dpi resolution.

This printer boasts printing speeds of up to 6 ppm in black and 3 ppm in color. It includes a paper tray with a capacity of 100 pages, and it works with a variety of sizes and media. Compatible with both Macintosh and PCs, the Hewlett-Packard 648C features parallel and USB connectivity (USB for Windows 98 and 2000 Professional and Mac OS only).

Along with the printer, you receive a power cable, black print cartridge, color print cartridge, user's guide, and software package. Software includes Disney Club Blast, HP Internet Connection Center, HP Cartogra PhotoWebsite, HP Photo Printing, and HP Instant Delivery.

The Hewlett-Packard 648C also comes with a 90-day manufacturer's warranty.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Affordable, efficient printer, October 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hewlett Packard DeskJet 648c Printer (Office Product)

It's not just a printer, it's an HP printer!

Anyone who decides to buy a new printer must feel a little at a loss with today's abundance of printers. Good printers. It all boils down to a simple question - how much are you going to spend for your printer? HP 648C is efficient, HP-smart and relatively cheap - under $100.

DRIVERS: A few users have been confused with the installation process and apparent mislocation of a printer driver. All HP printers from 64xC series have the same driver. This obviously applies to 640C, 642C and 648C. There are differences between these printers, but the driver is the same. DO NOT panic during setup when you notice that Windows installs 640C driver for your 648C printer! It's all as it is supposed to be.

WINDOWS 2000: Although 648C is Win2000 compatible, a proper version of driver is not included on the CD. Instead, as noted on quick-installation poster, you have to go online, visit HP support page, go to the drivers section and download a proper version of a driver. All other software included on CD is designed to work in Win98 environment, and thus you will have NO USE of extra features included, while working in Windows 2000. Fear not, the printer works flawlessly - and isn't it what we wanted?

SPEED: In the normal mode (default), the printer is slow, about 3ppm. The output is clear and crisp, though. This is not a disadvantage. Affordable printers cost little exactly because they aren't superspeed dragons with photoCD abilities. Customers targeted by HP in the case of 648C do not usually need speed-dragons. This printer works well and is cheap. This really counts. Under DRAFT mode, it is as fast as you might want it at home, provided you don't print masses of documents. In that case, a laser printer would be a better solution.

DESIGN: 648C is sleek and fits nicely to an HP Pavilion computer, if you have one. Not that this information is terribly important... :)

USB/SERIAL: Contrary to what some customers said, I haven't had any problems with USB connectivity between 648C and my Windows 2000 computer. As soon as I plugged in my USB cable, Win2k recognized my printer and installed it in no time. As I said before, YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD WINDOWS 2000 DRIVER FIRST.

SUMMARY: You get more than what you paid for. It's HP's cheapest model, but provides their famous quality. Go for it if you do not necessarily have your wallet bursting with $ notes. You will be happy

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't be easier, August 26, 2001

By 

phazed (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hewlett Packard DeskJet 648c Printer (Office Product)

I also bought this printer as part of a bundle (came with a scanner) at a pretty decent price, but not quite this low. I've been a geek for over 10 years now, so I'm pretty good ad judging cost vs. value when eyeing new peripherals. This printer is exactly what I expected it would be. Decent printing at a very reasonable price. The setup (including reboot) took about 3 minutes (USB) on my WinME system. All of the other computers on the network picked up the driver and were instantly able to print without having to install any additional drivers (except the Win2K machine, which I did have to download and install separately). I haven't had any bleedthrough with my paper, but I also have the printer set to print using "less ink" (printer properties). Anyone who purchases this printer will be using it for casual home use, so there's no reason not to. It saves a lot of ink! Don't expect photo quality from this printer (or any printer for this amount of money). If that's what you're buying it for, go look at the 900 series.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay for the price, August 28, 2000

By 

Abe J. Flores "htuttle" (Culver City, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hewlett Packard DeskJet 648c Printer (Office Product)

This printer is pretty much the same quality as the rest of the 600 series, which means that the B&W printing is fine but the Color printing is mediocre and grainy, but it does get the job done. I will note that when we first tried to hook this up to a brand new out of the Box Win98 PC via the USB port it refused to work and only finally cooperated when we hooked it up through an old fashioned Printer Cable. I don't know what benefits, if any, would have been had through a USB connection but HP shipped the wrong drivers in the box aparently so we never found out, and the HP Website Patches didn't help either. In any case I'm MUCH happer with the 900 series.