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More…HP's Photosmart C4480 color inkjet multifunction printer is inexpensive ($100 as of August 4, 2008), and its prints look nice. But it's slow, and its design is a bit skimpy.
HP Photosmart C4480
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | No |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 100 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 50 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 100 |
| Duplex printing | No |
General Features
| Printer Emulation Type | Host-based |
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| PictBridge compatible | No |
| Printer languages supported | PCL3 |
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PCWorld Rating, September 30, 2009
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Pros
Noteworthy text and photo quality
Media slots; simple design
Cons
Copies and scans slowly; inks are pricey
Copies and scans slowly; inks are pricey
Bottom Line
It offers many features that home and student users want, but not much speed. Inks can be costly.
HP Photosmart C4480 Inkjet Multifunction Printer
Photosmart C4480 Review, by Melissa Riofrio, PC World September 9, 2008
The Photosmart C4480 looks like a big shoebox. Slide your fingers into the canal along the top front edge, and you can either lift the scanner lid or flip open the front panel. A slender plastic arm pivots out from the opened panel, and a little stop flips up from the end. This is your 50-sheet output tray and your 100-sheet input tray: As they finish printing, output pages fall on top of blank sheets. This design may save money, but it's also sort of a mess. No duplexing (two-sided printing) is available.
The control panel is simple--because it doesn't do much. A very small (1.5-inch) color LCD on the front of the MFP has three tiny buttons on its left side. Press a side button to choose one of the minimal on-screen options: making one to ten copies, or scanning straight to your PC. You can also use the display and the two media-card slots to work with photos. HP's Solution Center desktop software offers more copy, scan, and photo options, such as selecting up to 99 copies and customizing your scanner settings.
The Photosmart C4480's output looked great, but obtaining it requires a bit of patience. In our tests, plain-text pages printed at an acceptable pace of 7.5 pages per minute, but color graphics printed at 1.8 ppm or slower. Text on output pages came out dark and legible, and photos were attractive even on plain paper--though sometimes they seemed a bit dark and grainy on HP's own paper. Scans and copies looked pretty good.
Ink costs are acceptable. The machine ships with a standard-size black cartridge and a tricolor cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridge, each of which lasts less than 200 pages. The high-yield versions are the cheapest way to go: a 710-page black cartridge costs $30 (which works out to 4.2 cents per page), while the 480-page color cartridge costs $35 (7.3 cents per page).
The Photosmart C4480 is a nice little inkjet MFP with a couple of big problems: slow graphics printing, and a design that is minimalist to a fault. The similarly priced Epson Stylus NX400 is faster and has more features, though its output quality isn't quite as good. HP's performance in our recent Reliability and Service survey was average.
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 35.87 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 28.34 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 29.69 |
| Color Output Quality | Superior |
| Color Photo Quality | Good |
| Copy Output Quality | Very Good |
| Copy Quality | Very Good |
| Final Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 18.54 |
| Final Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 1.36 |
| Final Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 27.55 |
| Grayscale Glossy Output Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Very Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Very Good |
| One-Page Copy | 26.82 |
| One-Page Copy (secs) | 26.82 |
| One-Page Line Art, Maximum Resolution | Superior |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 35.5 |
| One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | Good |
| Overall Scan Quality | Very Good |
| Preview Scan, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 22.13 |
| Preview Scan, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 22.47 |
| Preview Scan, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 22.84 |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 62.21 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 104.02 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 104.02 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 1.8 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 1 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 2 |
| Tested Lineart Speed (ppm) | 1.7 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 7.5 |
| Text Output Quality | Superior |
| Three-Page Word Document | 68.23 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 68.23 |
| Total Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 18.54 |
| Total Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 1.36 |
| Total Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 27.55 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 71.52 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 71.52 |
Scanning
| Preview scan, 2-by-2-inch document, 600 dpi | 22.13 |
| Preview scan, 4-by-5-inch document, 100 dpi | 22.47 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 22.84 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 22.84 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Superior |
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Reviewed by: shaunmtai
Strengths: Prints / Copies / Scans, Fast, 1200dpi B&W, 4800x1200 resolution, cool memory card reader and design
Weaknesses: Price is a tad high in my opinion, lots of other all-in-ones at similar price range; ink is above average, cost wise
Overall: I bought this HP C4480 as a backup for my laser printer; its great because one machine is able to print, copy and scan. The photo prints actually come out semi-lab quality - not bad! Its a speedy machine too, 30 ppm (pages per minute) for black and 23 ppm in color. The built in memory card reader is handy especially at work where I don't have all the wires / card readers. I think this generation HP printers have a great, sleek design as well. The slowest of all functions is the scanner portion, but most products are the same way. Overall, an average priced machine that is above average!
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Reviewed by: The PriceFinder
Strengths: all-in-one printer, well built
Weaknesses: none
Overall: this printer frees up space by having a printer, copier, and scanner all in one machine. It is also easy to use. It isn't that heavy either when you think about how much just a standard printer weighs. Definitely an awesome machine!
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Reviewed by: dacider
Strengths: Comes with a 1.5 LCD and a media card reader for quick printing/scanning/copying without the computer.
Weaknesses: No wireless capability, though at this price point its not really a weakness.
Overall: Installation is fairly simple with 1.5 LCD giving step by step instruction on how to setup the printer. Despite what I have read about the software, I have not had any problem installing it on my first try on Windows XP Home. After setting up I printed a photo with the 3 photo papers it came with and was fairly impressed with the result. With the Hp software its possible to shrink or crop the picture but there is no option to stretch to use with the borderless printing option. Overall very satisfied with this purchase.
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