HP B9180 Photosmart Pro Printer

Average customer rating: 4.5

Spectacular Fine Art Prints
Just Stopped Working after One Month of Light Use
VISTA Compatibility Warning
Beautiful images, ease of use, multiple papers, what more could I ask for?
Excellent printer

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HP B9180 Photosmart Pro Printer

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000GWMK8C
2006-09-07

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Amazon.com Product Description

The HP B9180 Photosmart Pro Printer is a professional photo printer with individual ink tanks, precise color accuracy and a wide range of features that make photo printing easy and fun. This compact unit offers vivid color and user-friendly controls for gallery-quality, durable photos and prints on a wide range of papers up to B+ size prints. Thanks to the B9180, it's a snap to get lab-quality images in the comfort of your own home. <table align=right width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/hp-b9180-2.jpg" border=1 align=top>

Eight individual high-capacity ink cartridges produce high-volume printing. </td></tr></table> HP Vivera Pigment Ink Technology For Exceptional Photos
The B9180 uses HP Vivera pigment ink technology which, combined with the printer's eight professional colors, enables accurate and consistent color reproduction. At the same time, the system's gray ink printing technology delivers black-and-white prints with perfectly neutral gray tones and deep black shadow reproductions. The B9180 also works fast: eight individual high-capacity ink cartridges produce high-volume printing with efficient printing speeds as fast as 10 seconds for 4 x 6-inch photos and 1.5 minutes for 13 x 19-inch photos. Ideal for both professional and amateur photographers, this printer lets you print exceptional photos on a variety of different materials, including canvas, photo rag, watercolor, stiff pre-matte and film up to 1.5-mm thick, as well as improved HP Advanced Photo Paper. Professional Photo Quality with Archivable Inks
With the B9180, you can print extraordinary photos and more artistic prints with archivable inks that ensure your photos will stand up to the test of time. Memories may fade, but thanks to the exceptional durability of this printer's ink, your prints will be waterproof and resist fading for more than 200 years. The high-capacity ink cartridges also save you time and money by giving you the option of replacing only those cartridges you've used. Precise Color Management
The B9180 delivers consistent, accurate color with HP densitometric closed loop color calibration, a system specially designed to give you eye-catching, durable prints. You can also take advantage of the Adobe Photoshop plug-in and print customized prints, fast. <table align=left width=250 cellpadding=10> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/hp-b9180-1.jpg" border=1 align=top>

Archivable inks ensure that your photos will stand up to the test of time. </td></tr></table> For even more convenient personalization options, the HP Color Center tool effortlessly guides you through color management and printing so each and every print will come out with eye-popping details. Fast, Impressive Results
The B9180 offers unrivaled print speeds of up to 13 x 19-inch photos in less than 1.5 minutes, and 4 x 6-inch photos in as fast as 10 seconds. It also prints up to 27 pages per minute (ppm) in black and white and up to 25 ppm in color, with a resolution of up to 4,800 optimized dots per inch (dpi) for both color and black and white documents. Thanks to the 200 sheet-input capacity, you won't have to waste time continually replenishing the paper supply. As flexible as it is fast, this unit lets you print photos in a variety of sizes, including passport, panorama, and 13 x 19-inch prints, with or without borders. It's also a snap to print on envelopes, and the 64 MB of memory means the B9180 handles even your most complex jobs with ease. Finally, thanks to the front bypass tray, you can conveniently print multiple size photos without having to swap paper. What's in the Box
HP Photosmart Pro B9180 printer, HP 38 ink cartridges (1 each photo black, matte black, gray, cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light magenta), HP Photosmart software CD-ROM, quick start booklet, user's guide, and power cord.

Product Description

The HP Photosmart Pro B9180 Photo Printer delivers exceptional image quality and the best photo performance on the market. HP Vivera pigment ink technology, combined with the printer's professional colors, enables accurate and consistent color reproduction. HP's third-generation gray ink is more neutral than ever before, allowing for exceptionally smooth transitions and detail. Eight individual high-capacity ink cartridges enable high-volume printing with efficient printing speeds producing 4x6 inch photos in as fast as 10 seconds and 13x19 inch photos as fast as 1.5 minutes ideal for professional photographers and advanced amateurs. Users can print exceptional photos on digital fine art media including canvas, photo rag, watercolor, stiff pre-matte and film up to 1.5-mm thick, as well as improved HP Advanced Photo Paper. System Requirements - Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, XP Home, XP Professional, XP64, Mac OS X v 10.2 and higher, USB 2.0 and optional Ethernet Dimensions - Width 26.6 x Depth 16.9 x Height 9.2 inches Weight - 37.7 pounds

Customer Reviews:

Spectacular Fine Art Prints.......2007-06-11

The one I received from Amazon was DOA, never got one print from it. I contacted HP immediately and after some waiting on the telephone they set up to replace it. Very nice of them, the replacement arrived less than a week later. Thank you Cindy.

It produces excellent prints especially on the very expensive fine art paper. I don't think this machine is meant for an amature, unless you're loaded or just have a fetish for really spectacular prints. If you have the money to spend it is well worth it. If I didn't sell the prints I think it would be a very expensive habit however. The prints on the fine art paper are luscious, maybe the most realistic I've seen!! I would recommend this printer with some reservations. It does only a pretty fair job on the plain card stock that I use for greeting cards. It really excells as a fine art/photo printer however. Also, lay out the extra bucks and buy straight from HP, it may save you some hassel. I have a Z3100ps GP arriving tomorrow or the day after, I'll let you know about that one at a later date.

Just Stopped Working after One Month of Light Use.......2007-05-15

I've owned this printer for less than two months. Just last week, it stopped working. After a few minutes with tech support, I was told I have "defective firmware" and that I can exchange it for a new one. Here's what it does: When I print something, it stops in the middle of the first piece of paper, and tells me I'm out of paper. Nothing prints, I'm actually not out of paper, the thing is just totally screwed up. Another thing, when I first bought it and set it up, before I had a chance to print one thing on it, it ran out of black matte ink. It wouldn't let me set it up on the network cause it wouldn't let me past the "out of black matte ink" message on the screen. My local stores do not carry this kind of speciality ink, so I had to wait until my ink arrived in the mail and the network person had to come back to my house to finish setting up the network.

VISTA Compatibility Warning.......2007-05-09

Please note that this printer will not work as advertised with VISTA. HP customer support has informed me that the printer does not support 13x19 printing with VISTA. I learned this after troubleshooting and wasting major amounts of ink and costly paper. In this large size, prints only contain part of the image. I purchased this printer because HPs website advertises this printer as "certified for VISTA" and capable of borderless prints at 13x19. It amazes me that HP continues to falsely advertise their product. Be warned of this issue and HPs decision to continue to falsely advertise.

Beautiful images, ease of use, multiple papers, what more could I ask for?.......2007-05-07

Out of the box, I plugged it in, installed the driver and photoshop plug in, and was printing. It had an printhead issue when I started printing (a certain printhead wasn't functioning well, resulting in certain colors not printing), but I followed the directions in the manual and on the printer's screen, and the problem was corrected. I was terrified I had broken it, but it corrected the problem with only a few steps. Print head insertion was easy, print cartridge insertion and replacement is really easy. Of course, if you print a lot, you burn through some print cartridges pretty quickly. I found the cartridges easily on Amazon and HP's website. The fancy papers are expensive, but they are specialty papers, so expensive is not surprising. The only thing I find to be a small frustration is when I want to print outside of Photoshop. The Photoshop print plug in is perfect, no worries. However, I am an Aperture user, and would like to print from Aperture sometimes. When I do so, the print colors are different. I find great print to print consistency when printing from Photoshop with the plug in, so that is great. The other quibble I have is the specialty paper door on the from of the printer (the silver panel in photos of the printer). It operates without trouble, the printer knows whats going on when you open the door, it gives you easy to follow instructions on inserting specialty paper, but the door itself feels a little placticky. Not the solid, smooth piece I would want it to be. However, I finally have a printing option for my studio that allows me to print beautiful results without trying to be a printer tech as well as a photographer! As far as I am concerned this is the one stop solution I was looking for.

Excellent printer.......2007-04-12

I'm so sorry. I had this whole big thing written up about how great this printer is, and then my browser crashed, leaving my review behind in the dust. Rather than re-writing it (don't we all hate doing that...), I'll just leave it at that. Great printer. Buy one. Buy their $30 extended 3-year next-day exchange warranty. Good day.

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