HP PhotoSmart C4480 All-in-One Printer (Q8388A)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 11.4 x 17.1 inches ; 15.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 14 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0017OCLOQ
• Item model number: C4480
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 2, 2009

Product Description

Amazon. com Product Description
The HP Photosmart C4480 All-in-One Printer is a compact all-in-one device that can handle all your and your office's printing, copying, and scanning needs. Offering laser-quality black text, vivid color graphics, and lab-quality photo prints, this printer can do it all.

The HP Photosmart C4480 All-in-One Printer offers: Ability to print, copy, and scan from one device. Lab-quality photo prints. Print and copy speeds up to 30 ppm black, 23 ppm color. Built-in memory card reader lets you print directly from memory cards.

Print a 4 x 6-inch photo in just 25 seconds with the C4480. View larger.

Fast, High-Quality Output
Thanks to HP Vivera inks and a print resolution of up to 1200 dpi black and 4800 x 1200 dpi color, all your prints--from text documents to colorful presentation--will be sharp and clear. Fast, too! The C4480 offers print and copy speeds up to 30 ppm black and up to 23 ppm color. By adding HP's optional 6-ink photo cartridge, you can produce lab-quality photos as well. A 4 x 6-inch photo will be ready in a mere 25 seconds. Thanks to a built-in memory card reader and a 1.5-inch color display, you can easily print photos without a PC; simply insert the memory card and make sure everything looks okay on the LCD screen.

The C4480 can handle a variety of print media including plain, inkjet, and photo papers, envelopes, transparencies, labels, cards, iron-on transfers, borderless media, and panoramic paper up to 8.5 x 24-inches. It can also produce a borderless print up to 8.5 x 11 inches. When you are using different types of media, you can be assured of optimal results thanks to the printer's automatic paper-type sensor. The input tray has a 100-sheet capacity for letter/legal paper, and can hold up to 20 sheets of transparencies, labels, 4 x 6 photos, photo paper, cards, and up to 10 envelopes.

The C4480 produces copies at the same high-quality output and fast speed as it does prints. You can reduce and enlarge from 50 to 400 percent of the original, and make up to 50 copies at one time.

HP Vivera inks offer outstanding print quality.

A CIS-based flatbed scanner lets you make full 48-bit color scans at up to 1200 x 2400 optical dpi. The maximum scan size is 8.5 x 11.7, and the device has a scan speed of 13 seconds for preview mode, less than seconds for an OCR scan of a letter-size document, and less than 48 seconds for a 4 x 6 color photo. The scanner outputs in JPEG format for easy convenience.

The C4480 measures 17.1 x 23.1 x 6.4 inches (WxDxH) is backed by a 1-year manufacturer's warranty and additional support available from HP Total Care.

What's in the Box
HP C4480 printer, blank print cartridge, tri-color print cartridge, power cord, power adapter, setup guide, basics guide, HP software.

Product Description
HP PhotoSmart C4480 All In One Printer. Easily print, scan and copy using this compact, affordable all in one. Plus, print photos without a PC using the color display and memory card slots. Get laser quality text, vivid graphics and lab quality photos that last for generations.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

98 of 98 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great performance for the price, July 13, 2008

By	S. Ehrman (Abingdon, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just bought this, so if you are looking for long-term performance this isn't the review for you. But so far I like what I have seen.

There were problems with the previous model (4280?), including bad text printing performance, so I wanted to stay away from that model. I saw this one and couldn't find any reviews, so I went ahead and bought it, hoping it would be better. As far as I can tell, the text printing (along with photo and normal graphics) is certainly good enough. It is a bit slow, but for most people (myself included) who don't need to print reams of paper every hour, it isn't that big of a deal.

Scanning/copying is a little bit slow as well, but again not a big deal to me. It will just be nice to have a capable copier in the house.

I haven't used some of the functionality, such as the card reader, but printing, scanning and (PC-less) copying seem to work great.

Installation is easy (as long as you don't have Windows 2000 like the first dolt, er, person reviewing this printer), though it takes longer than I would have suspected, as it is loading up your computer with oodles of junk-ware that will most likely never be run. I'll most likely go back later and clean those things out the best I can. But that's what I get for being lazy and telling it to install everything.

Setup couldn't be more straightforward. I've never owned an all-in-one before, so I was a bit surprised that after it printed the print-head alignment page, instead of it asking me to look and see how lined up it was, it told me to put the page into the scanner, and it aligned itself. Brilliant.

This thing looks great, is remarkably compact and feels sturdy. Make sure you have a USB cable when you buy it, as it is not included.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars FAIL, November 5, 2008

By	Colleen Kane (Baton Rouge, LA United States) - See all my reviews

I got this printer free with my MacBook and it's looking more and more like that's about what it's worth. I might have given it two stars but admittedly I am writing this after spending the past 25 minutes dealing with an apparently unsolvable paper jam. As another review noted, this printer got to the end of the paper supply and after that it was more jams than Hot 97. I keep turning it on and off (which in itself is another problem and it won't always turn on and off, sometimes you have to pull the plug) and now all it wants to do is suck in more paper and feed it out without printing anything until it jams yet again.
Another issue I've had with this printer is with scanning-- you have to adjust the scan size yourself manually in the preview window (which doesn't automatically open when you scan), otherwise it will by default scan each of your pages at a different random size and shape! (?!?!)
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's planned obsolescence. This thing was not built to last, it wasn't even built to work well for a few months! I got it just two months ago, and only use it to print out contracts and recipes, it's not even getting much use and I've already had this many issues with it.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really good for college, September 28, 2008

By	S. Boyden (Houghton, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really like the HP PhotoSmart C4480 printer and it works really great for a college student and since it is fairly small it is perfect for being in a dorm room. The set up was extremely easy and fast even for a Macintosh computer. The one thing else that I needed to get for it was a USB cord because it doesn't come with one, but it comes with ink so you don't have to buy ink right off the bat and most colleges carry the ink for the printer. The paper feed tray folds right in and over the opening so if you need more space you can close it up and only open it when you need it. The speed for printing is also very nice because I forgot to print out a 5 page paper up until five minutes to get to class and it printed it in under 30 seconds while I was throwing everything else in my bag for class.