Product Description

Our versatile Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One is ready to print, scan, copy, and fax as directed. It's ready to turn out lab-quality photos and reprints, laser-quality documents, and beautiful scans. It will print on both sides of the page, print uncut Web pages, and automatically feed paper so you don't have to stand around. And you can even add it to your home network, as it has built-in wireless and Ethernet connectivity.

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Product Details

• Brand: Hewlett-Packard
• Model: PS FAX AIO
• Dimensions: 13.00" h x 20.75" w x 21.25" l, 30.00 pounds

Features

• Print, Copy, Scan, Fax, CD/DVD Printing with Ethernet, Wireless 802.11g/b Network Capabilities
• 2.4-in LCD Color Graphics Display, Lab Quality Borderless Printing Up to 8.5 x 11 in.
• Easily Print from Bluetooth-Enabled Wireless Devices like Cell Phones and PDAs.
• Print Speed 33 ppm Black/32 ppm Color, Color Photos as fast as 25 sec
• Faxes up to 33.6 kbps and Scan Up to 4800 x 4800 dpi

From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer Want an easy, powerful printer that can do it all? Print lab-quality photos and everyday documents, plus fax, scan and copy with the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One. Let the 50-page automatic document feeder do the busy work, so you spend less time waiting by your printer. Push the "Quick Forms" button on the control panel to print fax cover sheets, calendars and checklists—fast. You can also print photos and text directly onto your CDs and DVDs[1] using the built-in media tray.

Enjoy the freedom of printing from any room in your home. Automatically print two-sided documents, copies and faxes. Print 4 x 6-inch photos wirelessly from your iPhone™ and iPod® touch Print scrapbook pages, photo cards and more.

Ready to enjoy the freedom of printing from any room in your home? Forget about messy printer cables with built-in wireless networking[2]. Bluetooth® wireless technology also makes it simple to print directly from your cell phone or PDA. Want to print beautiful photos without using your PC? Slide in your memory card and view your photos on the 2.4-inch color LCD screen. Remove red-eye, plus crop and enhance photos with just the touch of a button. Use the separate photo paper tray to print up to 20 5 x 7-inch photos without changing paper. With HP Advanced Photo Paper, you can print lab-quality photos that will last for generations[3]. Want to save paper? Automatically print two-sided documents, copies and faxes. The Paper-saving Printing Option even lets you print up to four pages on one sheet of paper. Everything your family needs—the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Easily finish everyone's "to-do" list. Print photos. Send and receive faxes with or without a PC. Use Quick Form templates to print checklists, notebook and graph paper, games (like Sudoku) and more. Plus, get creative—and organized—by printing labels directly onto your custom CDs and DVDs[1]. Print wirelessly from any room Reduce the clutter of tangled printer cables using built-in wireless networking[2]. You can also improve productivity by sharing one printer with multiple people. Easily turn your home into your personal photo lab Print all your favorite photos in the comfort of your own home. With the HP iPrint Photo application, you can even print 4 x 6-inch photos wirelessly from your iPhone™ and iPod® touch. Visit www.hp.com/go/iprintphoto for details. For beautiful prints with realistic skin tones and bright colors, choose Original HP Vivera inks. Make your own photo books, greeting cards and more using HP Advanced Photo Paper and HP Premium Plus Photo Paper. Find project templates and ideas at www.hp.com/create

Print, fax, scan and copy with the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One. Enhance photos with the touch of a button. Use Quick Form templates to print checklists, notebook and graph paper, games (like Sudoku) and more.

Save energy in more ways than one with an HP Photosmart Help your family be more energy-efficient. Reduce energy consumption by using one machine instead of four separate products. Plus, this all-in-one is an ENERGY STAR® qualified product. Remember compatible ink, paper and accessories Say it best with Original HP. The HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One uses five individual inks: 564 Black, 564 Photo Black, 564 Cyan, 564 Magenta and 564 Yellow. You can save money on ink by choosing optional XL high-capacity cartridges (not included; please purchase separately). Print all your photos and everyday documents, from 4 x 6-inch prints and scrapbook pages to faxes and checklists, using HP paper. To easily connect your PC to this HP all-in-one, you'll need a USB cable. See all the compatible inks and recommended papers here.

Save energy in more ways than one with an HP Photosmart.

Get the specifics PRINT SPEED: Up to 33 ppm black, 32 ppm color; 4 x 6 photo as fast as 25 seconds[4] FAX: Up to 90-page fax memory, up to 90 speed dial numbers SCAN: Resolution up to 4800-dpi optical; maximum scan size 8.5" x 11.7" COPY: Reduce/enlarge 25%-400% PAPER HANDLING: 3" x 5" to 8.5" x 14"; up to 2,500 pages per month

Print wirelessly from any room.

What's in the box? HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Photo media sample pack Printable CD-R HP 564 Black Ink Cartridge HP 564 Photo Black Ink Cartridge HP 564 Cyan Ink Cartridge HP 564 Magenta Ink Cartridge HP 564 Yellow Ink Cartridge Power supply Power cord Phone cord Basics Guide and Setup Guide CD-ROMs (for software)

HP Photosmart The premier home printer. The easy way to print beautiful photos Want to print lab-quality photos in the comfort of your own home? Buy HP Photosmart printers and all-in-ones. You can edit and print photos without using your PC, plus make reprints for your family and friends at the touch of a button. Print scrapbook pages, photo cards and more—without going to the store. Print everyday documents using Original HP Vivera inks What's special about these inks? They're made with a unique formula that gives your documents more detail, vivid colors and laser-quality black text. Since each color is separate, you avoid wasting ink—and money—by replacing only the cartridge that runs out. Want to get more ink for less money? Buy optional XL high-capacity cartridges[5] for three times the number of black pages and two times the number of color pages than standard cartridges. Reduce, reuse and recycle Want to help your family go green? Easily save paper with automatic two-sided printing. Plus, use HP Smart Web Printing[6] to select what you want to print from multiple websites—and print it all on a single page. Since HP Photosmarts are ENERGY STAR® qualified products, you can be sure you're saving power. Did you know HP recycles your print cartridges for free? Visit www.hp.com/recycle for details. In 2006, HP recycled more than 164 million pounds of hardware and print cartridges—the same weight as 600 jumbo jets.

Print everyday documents using Original HP Vivera inks. Print multiple websites on a single page.

Choose the right product for you. Want to burn photos to CDs and DVDs? Buy the HP Photosmart C8180 All-in-One. Don't need fax capability? Buy the HP Photosmart C6380 All-in-One.

[1] Requires printable CDs/DVDs; not included, sold separately.
[2] Wireless performance is dependent upon physical environment and distance from access point.
[3] Display-permanence rating by Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc., or HP Image Permanence Lab. For details, visit www.hp.com/go/printpermanence
[4] After first page; see www.hp.com/go/inkjetprinter for details.
[5] Not included. Please purchase separately.
[6] Requires Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.

ENERGY STAR and the ENERGY STAR logo are registered U.S. marks.

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Customer Reviews

In the end, the printer is a dud
This is overall a very good printer. I like the built in duplex scanner and printer; it scans 2 sided documents without the need to flip it as well as prints 2 sided. The only drawback is that there is a brief 10 second or so pause after printing one side to allow the ink to dry.

I would give this product a 5 star rating but lowered it by 2 for two reasons.

Reason 1:

I question the quality of this printer. My first one was defective. It had two problems.

First, the key pad would not function properly. It ignored about every other key press and that was when pressing them normally. Pressing the buttons quickly such as to scroll down a menu would result in only a few buttons being recognized if any. Going through the menu with this defect was a chore. I checked the display model at a store which did not have that problem. This defect appeared to affect all the buttons.

Second, the printer registered the ink as installed on December 2008 even though it was installed in May 2009. This did not affect the ink warranty however.

My replacement printer operated normally. The keypad recognized all the buttons. I was able to quickly work my way through the menus. The ink showed it was installed in May 2009. However, the connection piece in the back that connects everything (power cable, phone, Ethernet, USB, etc.) does not appear to be tightly connected to the printer housing (not a big deal).

Reason 2:

In choosing my new printer, I was looking for a low cost printer to do black and white printouts to replace my old HP laser 4si. The replacement black ink cost appears to be much more expensive when compared to the HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless all in one model. This printer uses the 564XL black ink which is good for only about 800 pages. The 8500 all in one uses the 940XL black ink which is good for about 2200 pages, nearly 3 times more, yet they cost about the same when purchased from Amazon. It would appear the price per page for black ink is more than double the cost of the 8500 model.

The color inks appear to have the same per page cost between this model and the 8500 when purchased through Amazon. The inks for this printer have about 1/2 the page capacity, but are also about 1/2 the price.

While I prefer the 8500 models black ink cost, I decided against that higher end model because of an annoying high pitch noise it emits from where the power cable connects (at least from the one I took home as well as from several store displays).

Good Quality Photos:

The photos look great on HP glossy paper. Looking at them, they would appear to come from a photo lab, there was no graininess. I never believed Ink Jets could print such beautiful images. However, when I printed them through Windows Vista photo gallery, they came out too red. I adjusted the magenta down and increased the cyan and yellow. I still wasn't happy with the results. When I printed them through the HP Digital Imaging Monitor and selected Auto Photo Fix under advanced options, the colors appeared to print correctly under the default settings. So I am guessing in the future, I will need to print all my pictures via the HP Digital Imaging Monitor.

Follow up on 6/17/09 (Revised from 6/7/09 to correct saturation and color tone)

I recommend turning off Auto Photo Fix because it doesn't seem to work correctly on all photos. Instead, I have created a new setting. I use Bright -6, Saturation 0 (neutral), Color Tone -30 (cool), Cyan 12, Magenta -8, Yellow 5, and Black 0. I print on HP photo paper with the automatic settings and run this through the Photosmart software. The default color settings (zero on all) were way off, extremely red and too warm.

The above settings produce amazing lab quality results.

You can move the picture up and down in the HP Photosmart Essential software to crop it as well.

Follow up on 9/2/09

I have had several issues with this printer which I was able to correct:

1) The auto paper feeder would not feed the paper through after a couple of sheets. HP support gave me some documentation how to clean the rollers and that resolved the problem

2) Using Vista 64 bit software, the printer frequently sent my computer a connection error when scanning documents. A July 2009 update on HP's website corrected that problem. It is a firmware update that I highly recommend.

3) The fax would not work with my Comcast ISP phone service. Per HP's website, a solution is to lower the connection speed; I set mine at the lowest, 9600, and the fax now works perfectly using Comcast's ISP service.

I noticed a big difference between this HP printer and my former Epson printers. When my Epson printers thought the ink was empty, that was it, the printers stopped working. This HP printer on the other hand gives frequent notices when it thinks the ink is empty but doesn't shut down the printer. I have gone through all my cartridges at least once, some twice using XL cartridges (I have used the printer a lot), and have ignored the warnings. I wait until I can visually see that the color is gone on my print outs. Replacing the totally empty cartridge with a level one cleaning does the job. The ink indicator is fairly inaccurate from my experience and I can use the cartridges much longer than what the printer thinks I have.

I don't recommend a level two cleaning unless needed as that uses up lots of ink.

I am still very happy with this printer.

Follow up on 10/5/09

I noticed this printer sometimes cuts the bottom line on some of my printouts. After searching the HP forums for awhile, I found a fix. If this also happens to you, go to your control panel, select printer, right click on HP Photosmart C309a series and chose properties, go to tab ports, and uncheck the box that states Enable bidirectional support which is towards the bottom.

Follow up on 10/30/09

I installed Windows 7 on my system initially as an upgrade. The HP Solution Center no longer worked. I also had issues with other software (non HP software), so I did a clean install of Windows 7. The HP website has Windows 7 software for this printer which I have installed and so far appears to work fine. I suggest that if you install Windows 7, you might want to uninstall all the HP software prior to the upgrade and then install the updated Windows 7 HP printer software.

The other thing is that bidirectional support was re-enabled causing some of my print outs to cut-off at the bottom. The printer was not listed in devices and printers. To remove bi-directional support, you can open up Internet Explorer and select print from the menu. Under select printer, highlight HP Photosmart 309a Series and right click it and select properties. Go to the tab ports and uncheck the box that states Enable bidirectional support which is towards the bottom and click OK. The system will save the setting even if re-booted.

Follow up on 11/9/2009

I am not happy. I am downgrading this printer to one star from three. I noticed some discoloration on my table right next to the printer. I lifted the printer and saw a tremendous amount of ink on my table underneath the printer. I have never seen an inkjet do this before. Needless to say, my small table is permanently damaged. I have returned this to the store I bought it at and replaced it with a Canon Pixma MX860.

All the features I wanted
I bought this last week after taking back two others in one week (HP C4599 and HP6310 because salesmen assured me they had both fax and wi-fi but they didn't.) This Photosmart Premium (C309) has EVERYTHING I wanted: color fax, print, copy, scan, 50 pg document feeder, very easy two-sided printing, built-in wi-fi and bluetooth, reads from Flash drives and memory cards, has LCD screen, and can work independently of the computer.
Hook-up and software loading took me almost an hour but was fairly simple, I did WiFi setup so it isn't physically connected to my computer at all and can be placed elsewhere in my home office. I DID follow another reviewer's advise to custom install and skip the HP updates and shopping junk that use up space and slow you down. Great advice. My added advice: Be sure to uninstall EVERY piece of HP software you previously had on your computer before starting.
OK, so besides the listed features here are my likes and dislikes:
LIKES: appearance very pretty; instructions very intuitive; can separately pre-load photo paper; unexpected neat little add-on features like Quick Forms to print calendar pages, graph paper, even a few games like Sudokus!; can reproduce photos with one button; color resolution is intense; can even print on CD's (if you buy the right ones); prints fast once it gets started. One other very cool feature: it prints straight from my iPhone using free HP iPrint application.
DISLIKES: takes too long getting started after you press "print" and is noisy doing it (though quiet when actually printing); the black on documents is not quite black enough (though I suspect this may save ink and perhaps can be adjusted in settings); photo paper loading didn't work with Kodak paper (but worked fine with HP paper); ink is expensive...I don't yet know how long it'll last.
Overall there are just too many good features to enjoy on this printer that I can't focus on the few flaws. I'm in love.

The Real *** All-In-One Printer ***
I used this printer about a month ago and all works perfect since installation. Dont use the CD that come with the printer is a waste of time, go to HP Web page and Download the Last and Full Version of the Driver for this printer.

The Printer is a true Full featured pack. No other printers have all the toys that this baby have. When you find fax-scan-copy-printer dont have CD/DVD print, when you find scan-copy-cd/dvd-printer dont have a fax, this baby have all Fax, Scan, Copy, Printer, Print CD/DVD, bluetooth, WiFi Conection, Network, Pict Bridge, USB, 64MB ram, 50 Pages Document feeder, 2 Trays (one for normal paper and one for photo), automatic double sided print (Duplex Printing on both sides of paper), 2.5" Screen, 32 ppm average draft and over 12 ppm Laser Quality, 5 Ink cartridges (1 each black, photo black, cyan, magenta, yellow), 2500 pages monthly duty cicle and over 1250 pages photocopy cicle. This Real All-In-One have all the components that you would have in all the other models of the same brand. Is very robust, dont junk paper and you can buy cartidges of high capacity (XL) than reach until 750 pages average.

What other toy we can have in a printer? ... maybe the same but laser?
Is one of the best and more complete printer in the market, I can print from anywhere in my home and virtually over anywhere printable media.

If you want the Full Featured and most complete printer "take this baby" with Blind Eyes. Worth each penny and have all the stuff in a advanced and high level of Quality and velocity.

... Sorry by my Alien English :o)