Product Description

HP OFFICEJET PRO L7680 Color All In One Printer/ Fax/ Scanner/ Copier. It is the worlds fastest desktop AiO for business color with up to 25 percent lower cost per page. It produces laser quality prints faster than most color laser all in ones up to 12 ppm black/10 ppm color. It contains a breakthrough inkjet draft mode with speeds up to 35 ppm black and up to 34 ppm color. The built in wired networking allows user to share powerful all in one capabilities. Features outstanding scanning with up to 2400 dpi CCD optical scanning for documents, photos, projects and more. Scan and store documents and photos directly to a network folder with Direct Digital Filing. Quickly and conveniently copy, scan, and fax multiple page documents using 50 sheet auto document feeder. Never miss a fax even without power, faxes store in memory when device is on or off. Enjoy efficient high volume printing with optional 350 sheet paper tray for a total of 600 sheets. Archived documents retain laser quality black text and lab quality photos for decades without fading. Do more without a PC using the large 2.4 inch color graphics display and intuitive control panel. Easily preview, select and print photos from memory cards using HP Photo Proof Sheet.

Product Details

• Color: GRAY SILVER
• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: OJ PRO L7680
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 20.90" h x 25.43" w x 14.02" l, 1.00 pounds
• CPU: PowerPC G4 2.1 GHz
• Memory: 2000MB SDRAM
• Hard Disk: 1GB
• Processors: 1

Features

• Robust, professional-grade all-in-one printer, fax, scanner, and copier
• High-quality scans at 2,400 dpi resolution
• Prints up to 35 pages per minute
• Windows and Mac compatible; built-in network card
• 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty

Amazon.com
World's fastest desktop all-in-one for business color at up to 25 percent lower cost per page¹

The HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One printer significantly drives down the cost of color printing, making it easy and affordable for businesses to produce brilliant and durable, professional-quality marketing materials in-house. Ideally suited for small businesses, the Officejet Pro L7680 can increase productivity and save precious space by printing, copying, scanning, and faxing in a single, convenient device that stylishly sits on a desktop.

Fax, scan, and copy up to 50-page documents easily, using the integrated automatic document feeder (ADF).

Check out some of the Officejet L7000 series main features. View larger.

Innovative HP technologies let you scan, share, and archive your work without a PC or software using Direct Digital Filing.

Produce business documents that impress for up to 25 percent lower cost per page than laser AiOs—as low as 1.5 cents per page.1

Built on HP's scalable printing technology, the Officejet L7680 offers faster speeds, lower costs, and higher quality and reliability. Leveraging HP's high-capacity, low cost-per-page print Vivera ink cartridges--which are uniquely optimized for plain paper office printing--the HP Officejet L7680 provides laser-quality text and consistent, brilliant images for brochures and marketing collateral. For even better results, and highly smear-resistant prints, use HP Everyday Papers with ColorLok Technology.

Print at breakthrough speeds
Produce professional-quality documents and bring color speeds and proven HP performance into your home or small office. Print at up to 35 pages per minute (ppm) black-and-white and up to 34 ppm color. Conveniently and efficiently create high-impact documents with laser quality speeds of up to 10 ppm color and up to 12 ppm black-and-white text.

Professional quality, low cost
With the HP Officejet Pro L7680 All-in-One you’ll spend less for a professional business color printer. Create color presentation materials, brochures, graphics, and color text for up to a 25 percent lower cost per page than laser all-in-ones--as low as 6 cents per color page and 1.5 cents per black-and-white page. You’ll also save ink and money since HP Vivera ink cartridges are designed for efficient ink usage. Print up to 2,450 black-and-white pages or up to 1,700 color pages before replacing your HP high-capacity ink cartridges.

Reliable innovations
Boost convenience for everyone in your office by sharing your HP Officejet All-in-One with up to 15 computers, thanks to built-in wired and wireless networking. Rely on enhanced faxing to keep you in touch. With memory for up to 125 pages, you will never miss a fax, even if you run out of paper or ink—or if the power is off.

You can also scan documents at up to 2400 dpi CCD optical resolution flatbed scanning into convenient digital files you can easily store, reprint, and share. With Direct Digital Filing, manage and route your documents quickly and easily without a PC. Innovative HP technologies let you scan, share, and archive your work without a PC or software using Direct Digital Filing. Scan your documents and photos directly to memory cards, USB storage devices, or a network folder from your All-in-One’s control panel. Your scanned documents can be saved as a JPG or a PDF for maximum flexibility in sharing.

Simply scan documents to a folder from your control panel--without the need of any special software or a PC. By converting your paper-based documents to a digital format and become more productive and less cluttered.

Print faster and spend less
Add performance while keeping expenses low. Reduce time spent waiting for documents with breakthrough color speeds and proven HP performance. HP makes business printing faster and more efficient and convenient than ever, while reducing your operating expenses. Produce business documents that impress for up to 25 percent lower cost per page than laser AiOs--as low as 1.5 cents per page.² Plus, because the AiO prints, copies, scans, and faxes in color and black-and-white, you get exactly what you need in one valuable device.

Unsurpassed productivity
The HP Officejet Pro L7680 comes with a 250-page paper tray and an additional 350-sheet paper tray for a total input capacity of 600 sheets--you spend less time reloading paper and more time being productive. Efficiently handle higher volume, complex printing with the automatic two-sided print accessory. Add value and reduce your paper use by as much as 50 percent. Fax, scan, and copy up to 50-page documents easily, using the integrated automatic document feeder (ADF). The ADF eliminates the need to stand by and manually feed your document, saving time for other important tasks.

You’ll also work with confidence knowing that the HP Officejet Pro L7680 is designed to handle heavy workloads with a 7,500 pages-per-month duty cycle and built-in HP quality. HP printing and imaging systems help you create powerful, professional communications easily.

<sup>1. Cost per page laser supplies comparisons based on published manufacturer specifications of the highest capacity cartridges available for color laser all-in-ones under $1,000 and mono laser all-in-ones under $500 as reported by Current Analysis, Inc. as of July 2006. HP Officejet Pro L7000 Series All-in-One estimates based on HP 88XL Ink Cartridges (not included, sold separately) estimated street price and published yield. For more information, go to www.hp.com/go/pageyield. Actual results may vary.
2. Referenced low running costs are available with HP 88XL Large Ink Cartridges only. Not included, purchase separately.</sup>
What’s in the box
Officejet L7680 All-in-One Printer, Fax, Scanner, Copier, Auto two-sided printing accessory, 350-sheet 2nd paper tray, 2 printheads, HP 88 Black Ink Cartridge (20.5 ml), HP 88 Cyan Ink Cartridge (9 ml), HP 88 Magenta Ink Cartridge (9 ml), HP 88 Yellow Ink Cartridge (9 ml), power supply, power cord, phone cord, Setup Poster, Getting Started Guide, CD-ROM for Windows and Mac, User's Guide on, Ethernet cable

Customer Reviews

A good printer for a small business...with a couple of minor exceptions
I've had the HP L7680 for slightly over three months. I've been a pretty heavy user, having printed (according to the self-test page) almost 4000 pages during that time. Unlike some of the others mentioned here, my unit has been completely reliable.

Print Quality - Printing is very sharp and closely approaches laser quality...it's certainly above the threshold for business correspondence and presentations. The color output is solid, with almost no visible banding. I have not used it to print many photos, but those that I have have been also acceptable, given the constraints of a four color ink system. If photography printing is your primary usage, you should buy a printer with more ink colors.

Ink consumption - Over the span of 4000 pages, I went through the initial set of ink cartridges and am now on the third black cartridge...the second cartridge was a standard capacity one, while the third is the XL version. It's still 2/3 full. A second set of color cartridges were also the standard capacity versions. They're still 3/4 full. When they go empty, they'll also be replaced with the XL versions. Most of my printing is obviously black with a minor amount of spot color.

Faxing - It works. Faxes seem to get there.

Copying - The internal memory is inadequate to allow more than 5-6 pages of a document to be scanned and stored for collated printing. This flaw was obviously anticipated by the printer's firmware designers...the page
that causes the memory to overflow is returned to the scanning input tray so it can be scanned in the next five page batch. Unfortunately this flaw requires manual intervention...you have to remove the five printed pages from the output tray, set them aside and then place them on top of the next batch out. This is an absolute pain...The leader of the copier design team should be required to make fifteen copies of Tolstoy's War and Peace as atonement.

Scanning - The HP software works, but is awkward. I have yet to discover where the defaults are set...and the preset ones aren't optimal for my office. I'd like to be able to set it to scan an 8x11.5 letter size by default, rather than have the software guess the paper size based upon the image. It's NEVER guessed correctly. And, after scanning something into Adobe Acrobat, I need to click on "cancel" three more times before the image is finally transferred...it's like a Japanese monster movie...The Software That Wouldn't Die. There's other annoyances. The bottom line, though, is that it works. It's just doesn't work nicely.

So...the copying and scanning issues dropped this printer from a strong five stars down to three. It prints great and if there was a socket where I could add in more memory, the copying problem would go away. But there isn't. And while the scanning stuff is just annoying, the copying problem is a real time-waster.

Update: Since I've had the printer for a year and a half, I thought I'd add in a quick update and note that it's still going strong. I've gone through 500cc of black ink, 50-60cc of cyan and yellow, and 36cc of magenta. There has been some drift in the alignment, resulting in some slight banding while printing, but I suspect that that could be calibrated out. The only major problem has been wear in the automatic page feed mechanism in the document feeder, which causes misfeeds while faxing or copying. Cleaning the rollers and pads helped, but they should be replaced. The purchase of a high speed scanner (Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Sheet-fed Scanner) has pretty much eliminated my use of the automatic document feeder, otherwise this problem would be a serious hassle.

Pretty Good So Far
I've had this machine for about 5 days and so far so good. I had trouble installing it on one of my desktop computers and made the mistake of calling HP. Tech support answered right away, but the lady who was trying to help me didn't understand english very well and I had touble understanding her because of a thick accent. She suggested making some changes to my startup file and if I had followed her instructions, I don't think my computer would have re-booted.
Instead, I tried installing it on my laptop and it installed quite easily. I then installed it on another laptop and a different desktop and it is working fine on all machines. The printer is plugged into my router and I've had no trouble accessing it from the wired desktop, or wirelessly on the laptops through my wireless access point.
I am not a technical expert, but to me the print quality looks very good. The printer is very fast. I purposely handled one of the dried printouts with damp hands, and the ink did not smear.
I have not had a chance to set up the fax yet so I can't comment on that. My only complaint is the amount of software that HP installs. I might uninstall it and then re-install it with the "customize" option. Right now Zone Alarm is constantly reporting attempts by the software to access the internet, even if I'm not doing anything with the printer. I don't know why the price is showing up on Amazon at $414. I've seen this everywhere for $399; and Staples has a $50 off coupon too.

UPDATE 3/18/07
I used the fax wizard and set up the fax machine quickly, with no problems. The printer is faster than I expected. In draft mode, the quality is very good, and the L7680 is faster than my laser printer.
Scanning is problem free. I like the having the option of scanning directly to a portable USB device. I'm hoping it has a "preview mode" for scanning. I haven't been able to find it yet.

Customer service was worse than the giant ink leak
We set up the printer carefully and it seemed fine at first. A few days later, we tried printing, and the pages came out stained with ink. Opening up the printer revealed large black ink puddles in the area underneath where the print heads move. There was obviously an internal ink leak.

I've used many HP printers in the past, both at home and at work, so I was optimistic that HP would be helpful and efficient in fixing the problem. Little did I know, the frustrations were only beginning.

The HP representative spoke minimal English and insisted on having me do all kinds of silly things to try to "fix the problem". Nothing he suggested could possibly have cleaned up the ink leak, but I humored him. For more than two hours. By now, the moderate ink leak had turned into a giant horrible mess, with black ink spilling over the desk under the printer. The printer was now reporting that the black ink cartridge was empty -- i.e., the entire contents of the cartridge had leaked out.

To be clear, this was not a case of a bad support agent. The guy was obviously working from a series of scripts whose sole objective was to prevent them from fixing an obvoiusly defective product. From a "bean-counter" perspective, this probably saves HP a few dollars, but it's an incredible waste of time for customers. And it resulted in ink spilling everywhere. (Shouldn't HP know that, if a customer calls with an ink leak, you don't tell them to do things that will cause more ink to leak out?)

Meanwhile, the agent was still refusing to fix the printer and was insisting that I needed to get a new ink cartridge. Of course, adding more ink would just have caused more ink to leak out. (Also, the ink leak was on the right side of the printer and the cartridges on the left, so this could not conceivably have fixed the problem.) He was steadfastly refusing to replace the printer.

Finally, I told the agent that I was going to post a description of what happened to Amazon, and he should tell this to his manager. A long time elapsed. Finally, he came back and said they would replace the printer after all.

Another hour elapsed of trying to get the agent to enter the credit card information correctly. (HP neededs "collateral" before they'll honor their warranty obligations, and the combination of a balky credit card approval system and an agent with awful typing and English skills meant the process took forever.)

In summary:
-- HP product quality is not what it used to be.
-- HP support is the worst I've ever experienced - ever.
-- HP will refuse to honor its warranty obligations unless you threaten to post your experiences.