HP Photosmart C4680 Printer Review

HP's Photosmart C4680 colour ink jet multi function printer faced troubles since it was launched. The high price for a slow printer surprised people and gadget freaks alike. HP claimed that for low-volume use there is no better printer than HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one.

Features

In this printer what HP adds is, no additional features and even the deletion of a few features that are found in almost all contemporary printers. For example, the basic Ethernet or media-card slots that are present in all competitors printers are not added in the HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one. In addition to this the tray of the HP

Photosmart C4680 All-in-one is a single one with slots for 80 sheets. In addition to this, output tray is also missing. If you are printing using this printer, you will have to stand near it because in the absence of the output tray, the printer and papers are stacked at the input trays to the maximum of 15 sheets. After that you have to manually take that out so that the rest of the prints can pile on that. However, a few features that are acting as components to make people think to purchase the

HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one is the control panel and support software. Here are very simple and easy to use. In addition, the HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one also comes with a 1.5-inch LCD> this gives the menu options and makes this printer easy for new users to navigate through. The quality of the HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one is such that the plain, black text looks crisp.

Drawbacks

When it comes to the accessories and component of the HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one there are many drawbacks that the users are pointing to. The non inclusion of Ethernet, output trays and other such essential pats that are there in the competitors are making the users muse over the manufacturers and their decisions on making this printer. However, one of the major area on which the users are not very satisfied is the color print quality. The speed to churn out prints is slow and to add to this the quality of the color photos are also good. They show small degree of bending and graininess.

What is hot in this HP photo printer!

The simple and non complex nature of this hp printer is what attracting the people towards it. Although the speed of the printer is not very great, but when one sees the quality of the prints, one tends to forgive the speed part of the printer. This is because HP, while making the HP Photosmart C4680 All-in-one kept the fact in mind that everything that a user wants is best quality and this is what this printer does. Instead of spending money on elaborate features, it has ensures that the quality of the printer and scanned images are the best of all.