Product Details

• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: HEWC8947C

Features

• Economical design, perfect for home, small office, or back-to-school
• Up to 600 x 60 dpi black resolution, 1,200 x 2,400 dpi color
• 10 ppm black printing, up to 8 ppm color
• USB connectivity for easy setup
• Handles a wide array of media types and sizes

Amazon.com Product Description
HP's 3420 Deskjet printer offers an economical package of features in a compact space-saving design. Students especially will appreciate this printer, as it churns out page after page of text, color graphics, even color photos of loved ones at home. Delivering resolutions of up to 2,400 x 2,400 dpi and speeds reaching 10 ppm for black and 8 ppm for color, this versatile little printer works with both Macs and PCs via simple USB connectivity.

The HP 3420 easily handles a wide range of media types and sizes, including photo paper and transparencies, and has a 100-sheet capacity input tray. It offers easy operation and prints from a two cartridge system -- one black cartridge and one tri-color -- and even displays ink levels onscreen so that you'll never unexpectedly run out in mid-project. The HP 3420 comes backed by a 90 warranty on parts and labor.

What's in the Box?
HP Deskjet 3420 color inkjet printer, power cord and power supply, HP 27 black inkjet print cartridge (C8727AN), HP 28 tri-color inkjet print cartridge (C8728AN), reference guide, setup poster, printer software, additional software and Internet links

From the Manufacturer
With the right features at the right price, the HP deskjet 3420 color inkjet printer is perfect for your dorm or family home. It offers photo-quality results with up to 2,400 color dpi (on premium photo papers) from the tri-color cartridge and up to 600 dpi of black text and graphics. Get up to 10 pages per minute true black text and eight pages per minute in color. The printer's compact design saves valuable space.

Customer Reviews

Light weight "technology" makes breakage faster!!!
The printer works perfect, prints exceptionally well for the price and has a wonderful light weight feel to it, BUT there is a strong chance it won't last you 6 months even with minimal usage. Please read the warnings of the other reviews that said it broke on them too. It seems a little piece inside of the printer wears and breaks off in no time. These printers are said to have a "light weight technology", but more like cheap plastic technology to me. I went through 2 of these printers and similar in one year, first the 3420 and then the 3320 which did the same thing in less than 6 months. I don't do much printing and reading these reviews I realized it's not the user's fault. HP is a great brand when it comes to printers. However, I suggest you go with a much higher up printer that will give you your monies worth.

Decent Printer If you don't do much Printing
I have seen the 1 star reviews and I am sure they are probably right, but if you don't print much, this is a ok budget printer. I've had no problems with it in the 6 months I've had it but then again, I print like maybe 5 pages per month. It's a good printer if you need to provide a printer to your grandma or someone who uses a printer not much.

My printer died too.
My printer died last night. Searching for a solution, I found these posts describing the exact same problem with the carriage. Its very disappointing because I purchased it for the HP name. I used it minimally-- not more than 50 printed pages. I would not recommend this product.