HP PhotoSmart P1000 Printer

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• Item Weight: 14.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000063W9A
• Item model number: P1000
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 30, 2002

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

While kids may coo over carnival-colored units, you'll be impressed by the substantial, professional demeanor of the gunmetal black Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart P1000 printer. It connects to your PC and also directly accepts CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia from your digital camera. Plus, it offers fast, photo-quality printing and HP PhotoREt technology.

A compact desktop printer designed to be a companion to PCs, the HP PhotoSmart P1000 can print images from your digital camera without the use of a computer, and you can begin printing moments after opening the box. The printer control panel allows a great deal of control with just a few options. We loved the infrared port, which allowed us to transfer photos directly to the printer (requires a digital camera that is infrared capable.) The Quick Success setup poster gave all the basics, clearly illustrated for the fastest no-fuss installation. For more detailed explanations and troubleshooting, the user's guide was thorough and easy to understand. The distinct LCD display made choosing which photos to print, how many, and in what size logical, with just a quick tap of soft pad buttons. To print from your computer is no more difficult--just a couple steps away--than to connect the cables and install the software.

HP printers are designed to be easy to set up and get you straight to work, and the P1000 is no exception. In our tests, this unit delivered great photos in crisp color combined with flexible and dependable operation. When using CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia, our photos had clean, true colors on any paper and especially on photo paper. Offering a maximum resolution of 2,400 dpi, we enjoyed getting fast copies of our prints--up to 8.5 pages per minute for color photos (and 11 ppm black text). You can store photos on your computer for many other uses, such as e-mail and sharing albums on Web sites.

Solidly built and durably designed, the P1000 includes an adaptable 100-page-capacity paper tray and a print-cancel button. The P1000 printer provides great results on all types of media, ably providing professional quality and crisp clean black text on regular paper, photo paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels, and more. It also improves your work environment with its compact size and quiet operation. Even in small workspaces, at just 18 by 15 by 8 inches, it fits into your life, your home workstation, or small office. Hewlett-Packard also backs this printer with a one-year warranty and HP online support. --Mike Brown

Product Description

For the digital camera owner or printer-buyer who intends to purchase a digital camera and who wants to have the ultimate printer for all their PC and digital camera needs, the HP PhotoSmart P1000 printer delivers HP's best print quality and performance plus the ability to print and save directly from a wide range of digital cameras. HP PhotoSmart P1000 allows you to print directly from digital cameras without trading off print performance. HP PhotoSmart P1000 and HP Premier photo-quality paper product realistic photo images with HP's PhotoREt enhanced color-layering technology.HP PhotoSmart P1000 prints not only pictures from your digital camera but everything from black and white text documents to color presentations. You can print high-quality documents and projects (such as photo album pages, greeting cards, or newsletters) that you have created using your computer.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great pics from this printer, May 29, 2002

By	George Rabatin (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The printer is great. I couldn't be happier with it, especially since it is so inexpensive. The thing I don't like is the fact that the ink costs an arm and a leg -- check out the cost of HP cartridge 78...If you print many photos, the ink costs start to add up--mainly if you are doing full letter size prints. However, it's still much cheaper than getting film developed.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best printer i have ever owned.it`s great, May 23, 2002

By	speedracer4077 (slc,ut usa) - See all my reviews

this printer is outstanding.photo quality is perfect.ease of install and operation is great. if you don`t have a photo printer this one`s for you. and the price you can`t do much better than this. this printer sold for $ 499.00 when it first came out. don`t pass on this deal !

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Set up can be a little tricky., May 21, 2002

By	Rheumor (New Orelans) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I've had this printer for about 8 months, and I am finally happy with it in general. When I first set it up, it was via parallel connection on a PC running Windows ME. Total set up time was 10 minutes and text and graphics printing was very good. However, loading photo paper, which requires some tricky maneuvers and varies among the different sized papers, is enough to discourage a lot of photo printing, especially on 4" x 6" paper, which uses a separate tray for loading and is finicky on a good day. I then moved the printer to my laptop and tried to set it up via the USB port. This was rougher and required uninstalling the printer and then reinstalling it and selecting USB connectivity. Not a big deal except nowhere does it say to do that; you just figure it out by trial-and-error. The big deal came when I upgraded my laptop's OS to Windows XP. The original driver for ME or even Windows 2000 does not work with XP. Finding the driver via the HP website was the run-around of a lifetime; their FTP site in the U.S. was so overloaded that you'd only be directed to that site at weird, off hours. Otherwise, you were redirected to the Twilight Zone. My success finally came when I located (via a Google search) HP's Euro FTP server, which at midnight here was quite responsive. Recently, the driver has been easier to access (I know, because I just had to reformat my C: drive). Print quality remains quite acceptable and the noise level is very good. Ink usage is a bit high, but as I rarely am in the mood to print photos anymore, it's less of an issue. Overall, this is a great all-around printer for the money.