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HP Business Inkjet 2800 Wide Format Printer (C8174A#A2L) | List Price: $614.99
Discount Price: $377.27
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Resolutions up to 1,200 x 600 dpi black, 4,800 x 1,200-optimized dpi color
- Print speeds up to 24 ppm black, 21 ppm color
- 12,000 pages per month duty cycle; 96 MB RAM, expandable to 544 MB
- Parallel and USB 2.0 ports, 1 EIO slot
- Media sizes from postcard to poster
I must be lucky... [Posted on 2006-08-14]
Based on most of the other reviews I guess I won the lottery. Mine works fine, never had a jammed page (and I print 13 x 19 often) and I'm not seeing the ink hogging habits others have reported. I print from an XP machine and a MacBook Pro. Initially, the Mac did not print properly, then the Mac Intel drivers came out and now the Mac prints fine.
The only mystery to me is memory. I added a bunch to increase max page size/complexity, but I can't say that I've seen any improvement.
Works Great! [Posted on 2006-09-04]
I have had my HP 2800 for about 8 months now and I have never had a problem. I print very high volumes for my home business and it has never failed. It handles a huge range of paper sizes, I mostly print 13 X 19, 11 X 17 and it work great. The software that comes with it tells me my ink usage perfectly, and if I let the ink run out, it will stop the print, let me replace the cartridge, and continue printing the image, that is a great asset.
The best benefit is the very low cost per page, you can print color newsletters, brochures etc., in volume without spending a fortune. A huge benefit over the very expensive color lasers. See HP web site for a cost comparison of printing costs, a great help in deciding what printer to buy. I run 5 printers for my home business all are HP printers, very reliable.
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great when it's working... [Posted on 2006-10-26]
When our 2800 is working it's fantastic. We usually print 13x19 (building plans/CAD drawings reduced for easier viewing) and learned early on that thick paper is a must to prevent paper jams (I think that we use 40# paper). However in the last couple of years since we bought the first one we've had it replaced 4 times...they just don't last, our most recent one gave up after 4 months...too bad the it only had a 3 month warranty.
Wide Format Printers [Posted on 2007-01-20]
It's good, but NOISY!!! Clak, clak, clak. It can't compare to the HP Color Inkjet Printer CP1700.
DON'T Buy It! [Posted on 2007-10-15]
This printer thinks it is jammed non-stop, even when there is no paper jam. I spent hours on tech support and they sent me a refurb replacement, which wouldn't even power on. So they sent me another refurbished printer, and it is having the same jamming problem. So they sent me another duplexer and still the same problem. I just got off the phone with tech support again and they want to send me yet ANOTHER replacement (this is all in the past 2 months, of course JUST after the 30-day warranty expired!). I have been taking my projects home to print on my $200 home-office EPSON 3-in-1 inkjet. This HP is supposed to be a BUSINESS grade printer but does not even work as reliably as my much less expensive home-office printer. I am so disgusted in this printer and I'm stuck with it! All they will do is continue to send refurbished replacements, over and over again all of which do not work. Man I wish I bought an EPSON. I expected HP to be a better quality! Note, the tech support at HP is helpful, and courteous, all of them that I have talked to, but they just can't fix the unfixable...
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