HP PhotoSmart P1000 Inkjet Printer

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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

60 reviews

Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Nt 3.5, Windows Nt 4, Windows Nt 5, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 2000 Server, Windows
Media: Electronics
System Memory: 8
Modem: None
Compatibility: PC USB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 14.3
Dimensions (in): 19.4 x 16.7 x 11
Warranty: 1

MPN: C6723A
Model: C6723A
UPC: 082916653617
EAN: 0082916653617
ASIN: B00001WRSA

Features:

•	Accepts your digital camera's CompactFlash or SmartMedia--no PC required
•	Up to 2,400 x 1,200 resolution on photo paper
•	Exclusive HP PhotoREt color layering technology for sharp, accurate color
•	Prints up to 11 ppm in black, 8.5 ppm in color
•	Supports compatible infrared cameras, PDAs, and notebooks for wireless printing

Accessories:

•	HP No. 45 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (51645A)
•	PDF Converter Professional 5.0
•	Belkin F2A046-06 IEEE 1284 PC A-B Parallel Printer Cable; DB25M/Cent36M (6-Feet)
•	Belkin F2A046-10 IEEE 1284 A-B Parallel Printer Cable (10-FT)
•	Viking 128 MB CompactFlash Card (CF128M)

Editorial Reviews:

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.

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.

Pros:

Great-quality prints from your digital camera
Compact, easy to use, professional looking
Infrared connection between camera and printer

Cons:

Cumbersome poster-size setup guide

Amazon.com Product Description
The HP PhotoSmart P1000 from HP works either with your PC or directly with your digital camera. The printer has slots for your digital camera's CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia cards, so with the P1000's 600-dpi resolution and HP's PhotoREt technology, you can print beautiful color photos at up to 8.5 pages per minute. Plus, if your digital camera supports HP JetSend infrared technology, you can print wirelessly.The HP PhotoSmart P1000 also makes a great PC printer. Just connect the printer to your PC's USB or parallel port. You can combine laser-quality text, graphics, and photos for printing greeting cards, newsletters, or pages for your photo album. You can use your own software or the great suite that's included with the printer. You can also use your digital camera's memory card as a separate disk drive.The HP P1000 comes with black and color ink cartridges, a user's guide, a Quick Success poster, an HP photo-paper sampler pack, HP Image Editing software, and HP Photo Web client software.

Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Mostly Great - Used for 3 years now, but... May 30, 2003
James A. Moore (Pemberville, OH USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I LOVE this printer! I've owned one since a few months after they became available, and bought a camera (HP 618) well-matched to it. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly - and I've experienced all three but still love the printer enough to be getting a new one right now.
Beautiful quality pictures, great features, easy install but drivers for XP may be challenging to find. Can be used to make prints without the aid of a computer. Front panel with LCD display and all controls available to select paper and quality options, multiple copies, etc. Big 45ml ink tanks seem to last a long time. I saw another reviewer say 50 to 75 8x10 color prints can be produced on a set of ink tanks, and I'd say that's probably pretty accurate. If you do a lot of general everyday printing of webpages and letters & stuff as well as photos, you'll get many more pages, especially if you use draft mode when you don't need the high-quality pages you get from the default settings. Can accept type I & II memory cards, and uses USB or parallel port to connect to a computer. Also can use infra-red data connection IF your camera is HP JetSend compatible, but this is difficult to find in a camera now, even if you get a camera from HP.
Now for the bad. Some documentation as well as directional symbols on the printer make it easy to insert envelopes incorrectly resulting in upside-down orientation. Paper jams can be tricky to clear, and may cause frustration which in my case possibly led to more printer damage. Difficult to operate 4x5 special photo tray, which can contribute to paper feed errors if not positioned correctly when not in use. Ink cartridges (when they do finally run out) can be expensive if you use the genuine HP cartriges, about $... for the tri-color, and $... for the black. Cheaper ones are available in smaller volume (HP genuine, half filled), and substantially cheaper full-size refills (from Staples) are available for about half or less these costs.
And the ugly: If you start getting frequent paper jam errors, good luck getting this printer fixed since it has been discontinued and parts are unavailable. I didn't have paper jam problems until after a couple of years and probably around 2100 pages. The test print you can run from the front panel shows my total pages printed to be 2985.
I tried to get repairs from two local authorized HP service centers in Toledo, OH as well as from HP customer service, and the best they (a local place) could do for me was to replace the printer with a reconditioned one at about $.... HP could only offer me - get this - a reconditioned unit for about $... OR a swap for over $... (?). Their replacement parts page lists a "printer replacement" option for over $...!!! What's up with that? They recommended a "trade up" to the 7150 photosmart, a terrible idea to me since it has none of the features of the P1000 - no IR, no memory card options, not standalone, smaller ink tanks - for around $.... "Trade-UP" must be a reference to the money THEY will make from more frequent ink purhcases by consumers. Plus, instead of a tri-color and a black cartridge, the 7150 uses a tri-color and a "photo" color by default, and if you want to do a lot of black they expect you to buy an "optional" black cartridge which you swap out with the "photo color" cart.
I guess the P1000 line just had too many nice features for HP to allow it to survive, so if you want one get it while you can. Even with the problems I've had I want another, it has EXCELLENT bang for the buck!

2 out of 5 stars

Don't buy if you have XP as your OS January 26, 2003
Jim (Los Angeles, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This printer is terrible if you're running XP. Trouble getting it to operate, problems once you do, and very little help from HP. Good luck even getting the proper drivers to download from the HP site.When it works, pic quality is great...although there are feeding problems once in awhile.

3 out of 5 stars

Great but can be tricky to set up. April 14, 2002
Rheumor (New Orelans)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

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. Try finding the driver via the HP website and you're in for the run-around of a lifetime. It turns out their FTP site in the U.S. is so overloaded that you'll only be directed to that site at weird, off hours. Otherwise, you're 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. Quality remains quite acceptable and noise 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.

5 out of 5 stars

Great photos from a simple printer March 25, 2002
Wayne Barnes (New Zealand)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

How great is this printer? I own 2 of them and travel with one most of the time. It prints fantastic quality for photos. Sometimes I will keep it in the car when I go to parties or weddings. Having shot a lot of digital photos all night I then bring in the HP P1000 and slip in the chip from the camera. Presto! I have a thumbnail of each photo taken. By the time the first 8x10 comes out I have a crowd of people around me. Most people are shocked at the high quality this printer puts out. The printer also works great for turning out black and white documents for business. One of the items that surprised me was how long the print cartridge last. They have a large capacity and keep going and going.
I have made this my number one recommended printer for friends and no one has been disappointed. There are newer versions of this line of printer but they cost more. A simple printer creating great photos.

4 out of 5 stars

It Works! January 19, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I have had the Photosmart P1000 for nine months. I haven't kept up with the new models, except that they seem to be very similar with some increase in printing speed plus the addition of a Memory Stick slot to some models.

I have not used this printer where it would appear to have the greatest appeal -- printing directly from digital camera memory cards with no computer in the loop. Reason? I have a sony memory stick and HP tells me there is no adapter.

I tested the permanence of the inks on several papers by placing them behind low e glass under a late fall sun for two months. Based on the results, I suggest that the user also run some quick tests, because paper does make a difference in permanence. I'd include Pictorico Glossy Photo Paper (which I would call semi-gloss), because it costs less than $.75/8X10. Direct sunlight will fade automobile paint, and atmospheric acid will attack most color dyes. Most museums believe that flash photography will fade oil paintings. So don't expect too much of any kind of color print unless it is sealed under UV resistant glass.

This printer will print photographs. The color is stunning on high quality paper and the surface of the picture shows no layering except on 25 cent paper. Compared to an Epson 875DC, I would say that a P1000 blue sky is slightly green, but when viewed alone the blue from the P1000 simply looks vibrant.

Most serious drawbacks? 1) Maximum print size is 8 X 10. 2)Ink cartridges cost around $... each and make 50 to 75 8X10 color prints.

Best feature? Default settings appear to produce best prints.