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HP CP1160 Color Printer | List Price: $353.00
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1
Features: - High-speed, up to 17 ppm in black, 16 ppm color
- Up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi color resolution on premium photo paper
- USB, parallel, and infrared connectivity; optional networking
- Automatic duplex printing
- PC and Mac compatible
Availability [Posted on 2002-08-28]
This item was ordered 8/3/2002 and still have not received this item as of 8/27/2002. NOW they tell me it is on a first order basis!
So how far down on the list am I?
A great success in my household [Posted on 2002-09-22]
A while ago, our faithful old Apple StyleWriter finally bit the dust after years of service, and I suddenly found myself looking for a new printer. I spent a lot of time researching before settling on the cp1160. The result: My family simply loves it. It's quiet, it has decent quality output, and the auto-duplexing feature is very nice. I've worked out my cost per page to be somewhere around three cents for black, seven cents for color (YMMV). Works flawlessly with Mac OS 9 and OS X. It fits nicely in a fairly tight space, and I can even stack the network switch that it connects to on the nice, flat top surface.
Awsome Print, Not so good ink cost? [Posted on 2002-11-25]
I'll make this short. I love this printer. It has the best text printing I have seen on any inkjet yet and I have seen many over the years. It's only 4 color so although it doesn't do too bad in the graphics department either I'd still suggest a photo printer for photos. One bad thing is the ink doesn't last too long. Too bad. I thought the replacement ink cartridges would be cheaper than most because HP uses seperate print heads while most brands, including HP, use cartridges with the print heads built in. Well, it seems the savings is marginal. Still, if you want top notch, as close to laser text printing as you can get, then this is the one! I love printing on two sides of the page as well! Very nice.
Expensive disappointment [Posted on 2003-06-05]
Recently, our small business purchased this printer to speed up our label printing ability, assuming that a faster, more expensive printer would actually be an upgrade. We were sorely mistaken.
This printer ruins one out of every 5 sheets of labels, requiring that someone "babysit" the device for it to work properly. The same problem occurs when printing mulitple pages at a time on regular paper.
Often, it will not print anything, sending the error message that the ink cartridge cannot move, which then moves upon hitting the cancel button, with a loud snap and grinding noises.
To add further insult, after contacting HP's customer service (and waiting on hold for over 30 minutes), we were rudely told that their printer doesn't claim to be able to print labels, so it's our problem. The CP1160 is a constant source of frustration, intensified by it's high cost. If you're looking to upgrade your small business printer, I strongly caution you against purchasing this one. After this experience, our company will never purchase another HP product again, ever.
This is the best printer I have ever used [Posted on 2004-04-13]
I have had my CP1160 now for about 3 years, first for small scale home office/graphics use, which it is fantastic at. And now as a full time PhD student--running tons of PDFs and text document through it. In both capacities, this printer has been amazing. Even now, after it's been discontinued by HP and the inkjet market has really taken off, it's still the best thing out there. I wouldn't trade it in for the world. The text quality on this printer is fantastic... even as small as 8 points in footnotes. Always clear, even at low quality settings. It runs graphics beautifully--clean, clear, crisp. Autoduplexing is a god-send, although a little slow. It never EVER paper-jams, something that I am still surprised at the way I abuse this thing. It takes thick cardstock, envelopes, labels, everything. Plus, for what is a relatively large inkjet these days, it has a flat-top which means you can stack things on top of it and it runs just fine. HP says you can handle 40 lbs on top of it--I don't know how much weight I've stacked on it but it never blinks an eye. It's been moved, stacked, stored, driven across country in the back of a van, and it's perfect. It even fell off a shelf once and still prints really well. The only negative things I've found is the shaking. Somebody else said it shakes like a washing machine and that's true. It needs a sturdy place to live. But it's quiet, prints great and is well-designed. No curvey bubbley looking design that dates its shape. Also, for the amount of printing I do now (about 5000 a month, the high end of its recommended use) it uses relatively little ink. Just make sure to continually check ink usage settings and don't use the high resolution mode unless you need it. Honestly, on photos if you use photo quality paper, the Normal setting is almost nearly as crisp and vivid as the high resolution. If you can find one of these printers, buy it. If I find another, I'll buy it just so that I won't ever have to use another printer. My laser does nothing but collect dust. This printer can beat the output of a home laser without any problem.
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