Products Review

HP PhotoSmart C3180

HP PhotoSmart C3180 is probably the best Inkjet all-in-one combo printer on the market.  Featuring up to 4800 x 1200 dpi printing clarity, up to 22ppm printing speed and a built-in digital card reader that allows your new baby to print straight off your CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Secure Digital, Multi Media Card or xD Picture Card, this is one printer, scanner and copier not to be sneezed at!  Think of all the great things you could be printing that are instead locked in the virtual prison that is your screen photos, business cards and t-shirt designs, just to name a few!  It can hold up to 100 pages at a time too, so you will not  be constantly changing the paper over.  It truly is the perfect budget printer.

Hewlet Packard Printer  PhotoSmart C3180 Product Specs

Printing system:

• Print technology: HP Thermal Inkjet
• Print speed (black, best quality, A4): Up to 2.1 ppm
• Print speed (black, draft quality, A4): Up to 22 ppm
• Print speed (black, fast normal quality, A4): Up to 8.5 ppm
• Print speed (black, normal quality, A4): Up to 7.1 ppm
• Print quality (colour, best quality): Up to 4800 x 1200 optimised dpi color when printing from a computer and 1200 input dpi
• Print speed (colour, draft quality, A4): Up to 20 ppm
• Print speed (colour, fast normal quality, A4): Up to 6.7 ppm
• Print speed (colour, normal quality, A4): Up to 4.9 ppm
• Print speed (colour, best quality, A4): Up to 2.1 ppm
• Print speed (colour photo, draft quality): As fast as 25 sec
• Print speed (colour photo, normal quality on photo paper, 10×15): As fast as 50 sec
• Print speed (colour photo, normal quality): As fast as 50 sec
• Print speed (colour photo, best quality): As fast as 130 sec
• Print quality (black, best quality): Up to 1200-rendered dpi black when printing from a computer

  Scan system:

• Optical scanning resolution: 1200 X 2400 dpi optical resolution  
• Hardware scanning resolution: Up to 1200 x 2400 dpi
• Enhanced scanning resolution: Up to 19200 dpi
• Scan type: Flatbed
• Bit depth: 48-bit color
• Twain version: Version 1.7
• Gray scale levels: 256
• Image scaling or enlargement range: 50 to 400%
• Copy speed (black, draft quality, A4): Up to 22 cpm
• Copy speed (colour, draft quality, A4): Up to 20 cpm
• Copy resolution (colour text and graphics): Up to 4800 x 1200 optimized dpi (colour copying on HP Premium Photo Paper and 1200 scan dpi)
• Copy resolution (black text): Up to 600 dpi
• Maximum number of copies: Up to 50

Paper handling:

• Paper handling standard/input: Input tray: Up to 100 sheets
• Paper handling standard/output: Output tray: Up to 50 sheets
• Standard media sizes: Paper: A4, A5, A6, B5-JIS, Mitsuguri, Panorama; Envelopes: A2, C6, DL
• Custom media sizes: 77 x 127 to 215 x 610 mm
• Media types supported: Paper (inkjet, photo, plain), cards, envelopes, iron-on transfers, labels, media (borderless, HP premium), transparencies
• Media weights by paper path: A4: 75 to 90 g/m²; legal: 75 to 90 g/m²; envelopes: 75 to 90 g/m²; cards: up to 200 g/m²; 10 x 15 cm photo: up to 236  g/m²
• Maximum input capacity (sheets): Up to 100
• Maximum input capacity (cards): Up to 10
• Maximum input capacity (envelopes): Up to 10
• Maximum input capacity (transparencies): Up to 20
• Maximum input capacity (10×15cm photos): Up to 20
• Standard output capacity (sheets): Up to 50
• Standard output capacity (cards): Up to 10
• Standard output capacity (envelopes): Up to 10
• Standard output capacity (transparencies): Up to 15

Photo printing and smart features:

• Borderless printing: Yes (up to 215 x 610 mm)
• Memory cards compatibility: Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Memory Stick® Duo, Secure Digital or MultiMediaCard, xD Picture Card

Other technical information:

• Standard connectivity: 1 USB
• Standard memory: 32 MB
• Maximum memory: 32 MB
• Compatible operating systems: Genuine Windows 98 SE, 2000 (SP3 or higher), Me, XP Home, XP Professional; Mac OS X v 10.3.9, 10.4
• Minimum system requirements: Intel® Pentium® II or Celeron® compatible processor or higher; 128 MB RAM for Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Professional  (256 MB or higher recommended for all operating systems); 425 MB available  hard disk space; SVGA 800 x 600 monitor with 16-bit colour; Windows® 2000 (SP3 or higher), XP Home, XP Professional; Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.01 (SP2  or higher); CD-ROM drive; available USB port and USB cable for direct connection; Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 5 or higher recommended; Internet access recommended. For Microsoft Windows Vista: 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor; 512 MB RAM; 1.2 GB available hard disk space; Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Power supply type: External
• Power requirements: Input voltage: 90 to 264 VAC (+/- 10%), input frequency 47/63 Hz (+/- 3 Hz)
• Power consumption: 70 watts maximum
• Duty cycle (monthly, A4): Up to 1000 pages per month
• Weight: 5.08kg
• Dimensions (W x D x H): 434 x 587 x 162 mm
• Safety: IEC 60950: 1999 3rd edition; EN 60950: 1999; IEC 60825-1 Edition 1.2: 2001/EN 60825-1+A11+A2+A1: 2002 Class 1(Laser/LED); UL 60950: 1999; CAN/CSA-22.2 No. 60950-1-03; NOM 019-SFCI-1993, AS/NZS 60950: 2000, GB4943: 2001
• Acoustic power emissions: Colour printing: 5.6 B(A); black-and-white  print, normal: 5.9 B(A); colour copy: 5.4 B(A); black-and-white copy: 5.7 B(A);  idle: 3.3 B(A)