HP Photosmart C6180

[Mike]

Thinking of buying the HP Photosmart C6180 . Does anybody have any
experience with one? It is an all in one printer. One of the things that I
am concerned with is it apparently takes 6 cartridges, and I don't know if
they are refillable with the print head on the cartridge.
thanks
mike

 

[Jerry]

Thinking of buying the HP Photosmart C6180 . Does anybody have any
experience with one? It is an all in one printer. One of the things that I
am concerned with is it apparently takes 6 cartridges, and I don't know if
they are refillable with the print head on the cartridge.

I own a 5180 (pretty much the same thing but no fax). Can't really
tell you anything about refilling, never tried it.

I do know that those HP02 carts are chipped, and they are very Big
Brother-ish. The printer will whine when it's running low on ink, it
will stop when it thinks it's out of ink. There is also an expiration
date, printed on the cart, AND hard coded into the chip on the cart.
If you print so little that you hit the expiration date on a cart, or
you really stocked up on a bunch of carts and they sit on the shelf
for a while, the printer will pop up a message stating that if you
continue printing on an expired cart, any repairs needed because of
using expired ink will not be covered under warranty. I suppose this
means you should check the dates in the store when you buy them, make
sure they haven't been sitting around too long, kind of like milk.

Other than that HP attitude, love the printer - nice photos, speedy
text. Only had one problem, not the printer itself, wall-wart died,
covered under warranty, shipped me a new one in 3 days.

Regarding inks, HP does sell a combo photo pack with photo paper and
all the inks for less that the individual costs of just the inks,
supposed to be good for 250 (I think) photos. Never have been able to
find out for sure, but I think the photo pack carts contain less ink
than the normal carts. On the packaging of the normal carts, I have
always been able to find information about the ink volume, never have
been able to find that on the photo pack carts. It's been my
(subjective) experience though, that the photo pack carts don't last
as long.

Hope this helps,
Jerry

 

[Mike]

Thanks. I think I will keep on looking. I have an Epson Stylus CX4800. It
has no fax, and the thing that annoys me are the ink cartridges. The ink
cartridges show empty when they still have 15% to 20% ink left. This led to
a law suit, which Epson settled rather cheaply. On top of that the printer
will shut down when the ink levels register a phony replace. I don't like
the idea of a printer shut down when one cartridge registers empty or a
built in expiration date. Again thanks for the info.
mike

 

[Bob Headrick]

Regarding inks, HP does sell a combo photo pack with photo paper and
all the inks for less that the individual costs of just the inks,
supposed to be good for 250 (I think) photos. Never have been able to
find out for sure, but I think the photo pack carts contain less ink
than the normal carts.

I do not have direct experience with the 02 based photo packs, but for
integrated printhead cartridge photo packs such as the 57 or 95 the
individual ink fills were tuned to match the stated yield. For the C5180
the photo yields for standard cartridges can be found at:
http://h10060.www1.hp.com/pageyield/us/en/PSC5100/photo.html I would expect
a 250 page photo pack bundle to have a yellow cartridge with more ink than a
standard 02 cartridge, while I would expect the black to have less.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging

 

[measekite]

Jerry wrote:

On Aug 9, 10:01 am, "Mike" <[email protected]> wrote:



Thinking of buying the HP Photosmart C6180 . Does anybody have any experience with one? It is an all in one printer. One of the things that I am concerned with is it apparently takes 6 cartridges, and I don't know if they are refillable with the print head on the cartridge.



I own a 5180 (pretty much the same thing but no fax). Can't really tell you anything about refilling, never tried it. I do know that those HP02 carts are chipped, and they are very Big Brother-ish. The printer will whine when it's running low on ink, it will stop when it thinks it's out of ink. There is also an expiration date, printed on the cart, AND hard coded into the chip on the cart. If you print so little that you hit the expiration date on a cart, or you really stocked up on a bunch of carts and they sit on the shelf for a while, the printer will pop up a message stating that if you continue printing on an expired cart, any repairs needed because of using expired ink will not be covered under warranty. I suppose this means you should check the dates in the store when you buy them, make sure they haven't been sitting around too long, kind of like milk.


Based on all of this I will not buy an HP printer.  The one I have is before HP decided to abandon their customers.


Other than that HP attitude, love the printer - nice photos, speedy text. Only had one problem, not the printer itself, wall-wart died, covered under warranty, shipped me a new one in 3 days. Regarding inks, HP does sell a combo photo pack with photo paper and all the inks for less that the individual costs of just the inks, supposed to be good for 250 (I think) photos. Never have been able to find out for sure, but I think the photo pack carts contain less ink than the normal carts. On the packaging of the normal carts, I have always been able to find information about the ink volume, never have been able to find that on the photo pack carts. It's been my (subjective) experience though, that the photo pack carts don't last as long. Hope this helps, Jerry

 

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