Hewlett Packard Photosmart C3180 AIO All-in-One Printer Reviews

My youngest daughter has been after me to get her own printer for almost a year now; heretofore she has been sharing my HP Officejet 7130. I limit what she can print and she doesn't like that one bit.  So when I purchase my new HP dv9000z notebook computer, the company was offering up a Photosmart C3180 All-In-One Inkjet Printer for a mere $20.00 after mail-in rebate, so I took the plunge and bought it. 

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The Photosmart C3180 All-In-One Inkjet is a small unit, but it packs in a lot of features.  HP advertises this printer as an All-in-One, but it lacks the ability to fax, which is...

Install:  Everything was fine until after the program asked to connect to the USB cable.  It detected the device, but after 15 minutes of waiting for the install to finish, I decided to start over because it was apparent that the install was frozen up, even though task manager said it was running.  The install also gave me some memory error message, so what I decided to do was try and reinstall by turning off Windows Defender, as well as my anti-virus (I use AVG), and firewall (Windows XP).  It reinstalled smoothly. 

This is my first color inkjet, leave alone photo printer, so I have no...

As a college student, I was looking for a cheap, decent printer that I could use just to print off a few pages now and then.  I usually use the printer at school when printing off tons of papers, but this is perfect to have around my house when I need it.  It is fast and simple to use.  I printed a photo off of here once and it was beautiful! I am very impressed with this printer for how cheap it was and for how many features it has.  The scanner also works well- even when I set my 2,000 page Anatomy book on it!  Overall, I am very happy with this printer and would recommend it to anyone......