HP PhotoSmart P1000 Printer

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

While kids may coo over carnival-colored units, you'll be impressed by the substantial, professional demeanor of the gunmetal black Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart P1000 printer. It connects to your PC and also directly accepts CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia from your digital camera. Plus, it offers fast, photo-quality printing and HP PhotoREt technology.

A compact desktop printer designed to be a companion to PCs, the HP PhotoSmart P1000 can print images from your digital camera without the use of a computer, and you can begin printing moments after opening the box. The printer control panel allows a great deal of control with just a few options. We loved the infrared port, which allowed us to transfer photos directly to the printer (requires a digital camera that is infrared capable.) The Quick Success setup poster gave all the basics, clearly illustrated for the fastest no-fuss installation. For more detailed explanations and troubleshooting, the user's guide was thorough and easy to understand. The distinct LCD display made choosing which photos to print, how many, and in what size logical, with just a quick tap of soft pad buttons. To print from your computer is no more difficult--just a couple steps away--than to connect the cables and install the software.

HP printers are designed to be easy to set up and get you straight to work, and the P1000 is no exception. In our tests, this unit delivered great photos in crisp color combined with flexible and dependable operation. When using CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia, our photos had clean, true colors on any paper and especially on photo paper. Offering a maximum resolution of 2,400 dpi, we enjoyed getting fast copies of our prints--up to 8.5 pages per minute for color photos (and 11 ppm black text). You can store photos on your computer for many other uses, such as e-mail and sharing albums on Web sites.

Solidly built and durably designed, the P1000 includes an adaptable 100-page-capacity paper tray and a print-cancel button. The P1000 printer provides great results on all types of media, ably providing professional quality and crisp clean black text on regular paper, photo paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels, and more. It also improves your work environment with its compact size and quiet operation. Even in small workspaces, at just 18 by 15 by 8 inches, it fits into your life, your home workstation, or small office. Hewlett-Packard also backs this printer with a one-year warranty and HP online support. --Mike Brown

Amazon.com Product Description

The HP PhotoSmart P1000 from HP works either with your PC or directly with your digital camera. The printer has slots for your digital camera's CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia cards, so with the P1000's 600-dpi resolution and HP's PhotoREt technology, you can print beautiful color photos at up to 8.5 pages per minute. Plus, if your digital camera supports HP JetSend infrared technology, you can print wirelessly.

The HP PhotoSmart P1000 also makes a great PC printer. Just connect the printer to your PC's USB or parallel port. You can combine laser-quality text, graphics, and photos for printing greeting cards, newsletters, or pages for your photo album. You can use your own software or the great suite that's included with the printer. You can also use your digital camera's memory card as a separate disk drive.

The HP P1000 comes with black and color ink cartridges, a user's guide, a Quick Success poster, an HP photo-paper sampler pack, HP Image Editing software, and HP Photo Web client software.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 14.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 19 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000063W9A
  

Technical Details

• Accepts your digital camera's CompactFlash or SmartMedia--no PC required
• Up to 2,400 x 1,200 resolution on photo paper
• Exclusive HP PhotoREt color layering technology for sharp, accurate color
• Prints up to 11 ppm in black, 8.5 ppm in color
• Supports compatible infrared cameras, PDAs, and notebooks for wireless printing

Customer Reviews

The printer is great. I couldn't be happier with it, especially since it is so inexpensive. The thing I don't like is the fact that the ink costs an arm and a leg -- check out the cost of HP cartridge 78...If you print many photos, the ink costs start to add up--mainly if you are doing full letter size prints. However, it's still much cheaper than getting film developed.

I've had the P1000 for a couple of years. Worked great with WindowsME. After installing XP on my desktop I had to reinstall the printer software to get it to work. Just got a new laptop and it doesn't work at all.. in fact, the P1000 causes my Dell Inspiron to crash whenever I disconnect the USB cable. When the cable is connected the laptop never recognizes the printer.