![]() The HP PhotoSmart C4280 is available for $91. This is a 10 year old model, that was built for a service life of no more than 3 years. This is sold by HP at the bargain price of £79 on their site, doing my Internet searches found it at a best price of £39.99 including shipping from the first link below. This service is generally not practical though - its going to run you 150-250 for repairs, which just isnt worth it for an older printer. Why buy an inkjet printer when a unit like this is almost the same size and not that much more expensive than even a basic printer and you then have the ability to print direct from camera cards, to copy that document and even to scan items to the PC? For those copies a basic interface on the unit makes everything a single button press. If you give a good original the scanned output will be good, OCR of a text page will also be good providing it is not folded or creased, if it is you may need to make a few changes. Print speeds were quite near what was claimed, the scan speed for documents was slow but accurate and some colour documents looked as good as the original. So easy to use, you can even print photos without a PC just pop in your memory card and view/select via the 3.8 cm colour display. Print quality was excellent - even in draft mode - and I was happy with everything I scanned or copied. HP Photosmart C4280 All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier Get great photos, documents, web pages, copies and scans with HP's most affordably priced photo all-in-one. My HP Rewards Best All In One Printer and the easiest printer you’ve ever had to set up from Wirecutter. Get our best deals when you shop direct with HP. The optical scanning resolution is 1200DPI, the hardware scanning resolution is 1200x2400DPI and by enhancement it is possible up to 19200DPI. Save on our amazing HP® Photosmart C4280 All-in-One with Free Shipping when you buy now online. Scanning from the flatbed is as easy but of course you do need the PC to be connected and switched on, you can scan from the unit but providing it is switched on it is probably easier to insert the page in the flatbed and then do everything from the PC. Remember my timings are from pressing the copy button to print a single copy. Here I use the preset default settings, a black copy took around 40 seconds and a colour one around a minute. You can of course copy both black and colour pages while the PC is off or even disconnected. I am somewhat surprised that the more full featured Photosmart Premier was not included. Not that fast but the quality of both was good. Printing A4 borderless pages using Windows Printer and Fax Viewer or HP Photosmart Essentials came out at around the same time, printing in best mode on photo paper at around 4 minutes this is with both a single image and four images on an A4 sheet. Doing my standard printing tests in 'fast draft' mode you get good clear black printing, the ubiquitous 200 word document prints at 20PPM while a more normal 1500 word document spread over four pages prints at 15PPM.
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