HP Photosmart C5280 Specifications

By Felisa Yang on 23/07/2007

More HP reviews , RRP: AU$199.00

The good:

  • Inexpensive
  • Great graphics and photo print quality
  • Excellent colour scan quality
  • Can print on specially coated optical discs
  • Dedicated photo paper tray
  • Bundled software is easy to use
  • Print quality on discs is good

The bad:

  • Text quality needs significant improvement
  • Photo menus need to be reorganised to be more intuitive
  • Can't produce scannable proof sheet
  • Can't sort memory card contents by date
  • Lacks a PictBridge port

The bottomline:

Its features set is oddly unbalanced, and better all-in-one inkjet options cost just a bit more, but the HP Photosmart C5280 is a good bet for casual home users on a tight budget.

Editors' rating:

7.3/10

Users' rating:

5.7/10

Consumables

  • Media type
  • Paper (plain, inkjet, photo), envelopes, labels, cards (index, greeting), CD/DVDs

General

  • Supported operating system(s)
  • Windows® 2000 (SP3); Windows® XP Home; Windows® XP Professional; Windows Vista™ Ready; Mac OS X v10.3.9; Mac OS X v10.4
  • Device type
  • Thermal Inkjet
  • Output type
  • Colour
  • Functions
  • Printer, Copier, Scanner
  • Dimensions (H x W x D)
  • 23.7 x 45.2 x 38.7 cm
  • Weight
  • 7.13 kg
  • Printer engine
  • Inkjet
  • Connections
  • USB2

Paper features

  • Paper input
  • 125
  • Paper output
  • 50
  • Paper sizes
  • A4, A5, B5, DL, B5
  • Paper trays
  • 2

Print features

  • Print resolution (B&W)
  • 1200 x 1200 dpi
  • Print resolution (Colour)
  • 4800 x 1200 dpi
  • Print speed (B&W)
  • 32 ppm
  • Print Speed (Colour)
  • 24 ppm

Scanner

  • Scanner type
  • Flatbed
  • Optical/Interpolated resolution
  • 4800 x 4800
  • Scanning resolution (native)
  • 4800 x 4800 dpi
  • Scanning resolution (interpolated)
  • 19200 dpi
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