HP J4580 OfficeJet All In One Printer

Very great printer. Setup was very fast. Printing is great too. Right down to printing in order. If you want to print 5 pages. The printer will print the pages from 5 to 1 where page 1 will end up on top so printing is in order. Also I can print any photo to full size of the paper. And scaning documents came out very well too. The price was great and I receive the printer the next day. Very happy with this printer.

I can't think of how I could be more pleased with my HP Deskjet J4580. When I bought mine (10/7/08), Amazon was offering it at an awesome special price (with one of those "click to see price" links) with Super Saver Shipping... Even on the SSS the printer was delivered only 3 days after I ordered it (10/10/08)! When I clicked to see the price markdown, I was so flabbergasted my first thought was that maybe the low price was because this printer is not "wired" for wireless, and and/or because it didn't come with the USB cable included (a packing lack which quite a few buyers noted not being pleased with). I decided I didn't need a wireless printer anyway, thinking I might have trouble with installation since I know nothing about wireless protocol (I barely know the word protocol). (I did buy a wireless mouse and love it! Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 - Slate) It appears my instincts were right, at least for me, because I just read some of the reviews for anot... Read more

This terrific little fax/printer/scanner, for less than $90(!), is compact and lightweight--about 8" tall, 16 ½" wide, and (without the paper tray) about 11" deep, taking up relatively little desktop space, an all-in-one machine. So far it does absolutely everything I've wanted it to do. User friendly and largely self-explanatory, it requires no complicated instruction manual or ramp up time for those of us who are not especially computer savvy. Printing is fast and "enthusiastic"--it spits out copies quickly and with such force that they end up on the floor if you don't have the tray extension pulled out. For ordinary home use, this machine has been perfect. By setting the printer for "draft" mode, I get much longer use from the (very small) print cartridges, and the quality of the copies is adequate for what I need. For photographs, I would, of course, want higher resolution, but that is an option, too. This is obviously not the equivalent of the big OfficeJet Pro mach... Read more

I'm running Apple Mac OS X 10.5 on a Mac Pro and the HP Photosmart Studio application that comes bundled with this printer looks good, but kills the computer performance. After spending a week emailing HP tech support and getting nowhere, I finally called and the techs verified my suspicion that the application was scanning my iPhoto library (3.2Gb) in the background automatically at when it's launched. I tried three time to let it run (over night), but it ended in an error all three times. If HP can fix this issue, or at least make it optional (there's no way to control this behavior), they may have a winner, but until then I recommend saving yourself some frustration by doing a custom install and DE-selecting HP Photosmart Studio when you first set this device up. Otherwise the printer seems to work as advertised using the separate HP Device Manager application that allows you to use all the functions of the device.

The printer is just what I needed for my home office. Pretty fast and beautiful color printing, scanning is really fast and great. I still haven't tried the fax, but so far I love it!!!