HP CP1700 Color Inkjet Printer
Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
  • I Love This Printer
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  • HP Says They Still Have Support for the CP1700...
  • Does this thing come with a hamster inside?
  • cubby from stanmore
HP CP1700 Color Inkjet Printer

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
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Product Features:
  • Professional-quality wide format printing, up to 13-by-19-inch posters, 13-by-50-inch banners
  • Up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi color resolution on premium photo papers
  • Up to 16 ppm black, 14.5 ppm color
  • Connect via USB, parallel, or infrared ports; optional networking
  • PC and Mac compatible

ASIN: B00005OA5C

Product Description

Designed for small businesses, small offices and design houses that demand professional-quality wide-format color printing, the HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series quickly delivers the most cost-effective color documents, proofs, collateral and comps on a wide variety of printing materials. The HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series efficiently delivers high-performance wide-format printing to meet a wide range of business formats. These versatile printers work effortlessly on a variety of media to ensure that your business can quickly and easily create powerful and effective communications. HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series features a modular ink delivery system (MIDS) providing low cost-per-page and low intervention rates. With MIDS, the printer uses individual ink cartridges and printheads allowing you to change only the part that needs replacing. Create large, full-color presentations, high-quality brochures and attention-grabbing banners with versatile HP Color Printer cp1700 and HP printing supplies.

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Hewlett-Packard's CP1700 printer combines wide-format print capabilities with a space-saving design ideally suited for small work areas. Providing both outstanding detail and extremely flexible options, this inkjet easily earns its keep in the home office.

Print speeds exceed those of a typical home printer, with the CP1700 churning out monochrome documents at 16 pages per minute and 14 pages per minute in color. The printer supports single-sheet sizes up to 13 by 19 inches, as well as 13-by-50-inch banners. It can handle transparencies, card stock, and photo papers; the paper tray can hold up to 250 sheets of letter or legal-sized bond paper.

The print quality is stunning, producing impeccably crisp text and color-saturated photos at a maximum 2,400 by 1,200 dpi resolution. Each of the four rich colors resides in a separate ink tank, meaning you only have to replace the specific colors as you use them.

With a built-in USB port for plug-and-play operation with your PC, the printer also boasts infrared connectivity, support for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems, and optional networking and duplex printing capabilities. Hewlett Packard provides a limited warranty, covering parts and service for one year.

What's in the Box
HP Color Inkjet 1700 printer, power cord, setup road map, reference guide, regulatory guide, printer software CD-ROM, HP 10 black inkjet print cartridge 69 ml (C4844A), HP 11 cyan inkjet print cartridge 28 ml (C4836AN), HP 11 magenta inkjet print cartridge 28 ml (C4837AN), HP 11 yellow inkjet print cartridge 28 ml (C4838AN), warranty information

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I Love This Printer.......2007-01-20

This is the best everyday printer on the market. I have bought three of them in the past. I really hope they do not take this printer out of productions. It's reliable, efficient and QUIET... Love it HP!

1 out of 5 stars Beware.......2007-01-03

I have owned nothing but HP for as long as I've been printing and minus a few problems they sufficed. So it is sad to see how much of a dive this printer has taken from its predecessors. I recommended this printer to the office I worked at and upon its arrival we were delighted to use it. This enthusiasm quickly faded as its many problems began to emerge.

Out of 1/2 of the prints sent through it maybe only half come out correctly. This is frustrating if you have a deadline to meet and the only thing preventing you from sending out the work is the printer. These problems mostly seem to stem from using the rear manual feed (since we use heavy stock photo paper). There really is an annoying process of putting in the paper in at exactly the right time or else it will be spit out several times. Also, if you notice an error in a print and you have to cancel it this also leads to possible print errors which usually end in the printer shooting out many 8.5x11 pages of garbage. You figure for the price you shouldnt have to deal with so many problems.

We have since moved on to an Epson 11x17 and minus the high consumption of ink it has proven to be much better. Shop around before you buy and allow for the possibility of changing companies.

3 out of 5 stars HP Says They Still Have Support for the CP1700..........2006-04-01

I am currently dealing with a printer that is printing weird little hash marks across straight lines at random. We first were getting messages to change the print heads and would do so, only to have it keep telling us we needed to change the print heads. Then we could "trick it" by opening and shutting the cover a few times and we could get a few more prints out of it, before the message would come back, which by the way makes it so you can't keep printing. 6 months ago, we tried to print off color brochures and the colors were horrible--so that wasn't going to work. We also are experiencing blue ghost like things around text and objects when trying to print out autocad files. :P

Our CP1700 has been a work horse on just black and white 11x17 prints for several years now. But now it is just being a BRAT! The ink is expensive, the noise is high, and the speed is ok. We have had decent luck with it until now. Everyone advises to just toss it, but it's hooked up to our network and I hate to have to start all the circus acts to get a new printer hooked up and running CORRECTLY from everyone's computer.

I called HP today and they offered support on the phone for 39.00 for up to 5 days of support--they said I can call as much as I want during that time. I hope it works--I need to get this baby up and running again. Updates to come....

1 out of 5 stars Does this thing come with a hamster inside?.......2006-02-09

We use this printer at my work, and those of us who have a desk in the same room as the printer hate it! This printer has been squeaking so loudly that we joke and tell customers that we have a hamster running on a wheel inside of it. The customers can hear the printer squeaking in the background when they call in. The squeaking is so loud that it is hard to hear on the phone when it is running. The print quality is not very impressive, either. I have one at home by HP that cost a 10th of what this piece of junk did, and the quality on my printer is much better.

No one seems to have any solutions for getting rid of the unbearable squeaking, other than to throw the whole thing into the garbage dumpster.

1 out of 5 stars cubby from stanmore.......2005-11-22

Where do I begin?

I have been a loyal HP user since beginning of time. I had a 1120C which is still working rear feed(the roller failed of course, but it's 6 years old. When I upgraded to CP1700 I had high expectation, but to my disappointment, the nightmare begins!

First I was sold on the fact that it's 4 seperate cartridge, hence lower printing prices. But I notice each colour runs out as quick as the tri-colour single cartridge. SO all of a sudden I am paying 4 times for cartridge of what I use to pay. (plus spares!)

Then the photo quality is actually worstthen the 1120 printer! In the normal mode, all these white line will appear, so you can only get a decent photo print on best mode, which is stupid!
And the colour accurency is also worst then before

And don't get me started on the HP technical support! NO ONE, I mean NO ONE from the technical support can offer any technical support, since HP has out-sourced their support to 3rd world country. Every question you ask, they put you on on hold for 15mins, then get back to you with a case number, and then tell you to bring it to the service centre. And if it's after the warranty period, they won't answer any question, unless you pay $33 for the technical support, but even then, they still can't answer the question

And I started to have problems with the printer after 1 year, and now almost 2.5 years later, the "foot-clutch" (roller) needs to be replaced and was told that HP don't even make that spare parts anymore. SO HP just expects their customer to buy a new machine everytime there is a problem with the machine

The only thing it has going for it is the speed is ok. HP is just not worth supporting anymore!

HP Color Inkjet cp1700 - printer - color - ink-jet ( C8108A#201 )
Average customer rating: Not rated
    HP Color Inkjet cp1700 - printer - color - ink-jet ( C8108A#201 )

    Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
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    ASIN: B00030DEQY

    Product Description

    Designed for small businesses, small offices and design houses that demand professional-quality wide-format color printing, the HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series quickly delivers the most cost-effective color documents, proofs, collateral and comps on a wide variety of printing materials. The HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series efficiently delivers high-performance wide-format printing to meet a wide range of business formats. These versatile printers work effortlessly on a variety of media to ensure that your business can quickly and easily create powerful and effective communications. HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series features a modular ink delivery system (MIDS) providing low cost-per-page and low intervention rates. With MIDS, the printer uses individual ink cartridges and printheads allowing you to change only the part that needs replacing. Create large, full-color presentations, high-quality brochures and attention-grabbing banners with versatile HP Color Printer cp1700 and HP printing supplies.
    No. 11, Ink Cartridge for Color DesignJet Printers, 28 ml, Yellow (HEWC4838AN)
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      No. 11, Ink Cartridge for Color DesignJet Printers, 28 ml, Yellow (HEWC4838AN)

      Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Pcdo
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      ASIN: B0007USG2W

      Product Description

      Item #: HEWC4838AN. Ink Cartridges, Printheads and Dye Ink for HP DesignJet
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      cp1700 Wide Format Color InkJet Printer, 26w x 8-3/8d x 22-5/16h
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        cp1700 Wide Format Color InkJet Printer, 26w x 8-3/8d x 22-5/16h

        Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Pcdo
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        ASIN: B00070PSI2

        Product Description

        Wide-Format Color Inkjet cp1700 Printer. Versatile printing of 4 x 6 postcards to 13 x 50 banners . 16 ppm black, 14.5 ppm color (draft mode); 8 ppm black, 7 ppm color (normal mode) . Up to 2400 x 1200 dpi color; 1200 x 1200 dpi black
        Efficiently delivers high-performance wide-format printing to your growing business. Vibrant, photo-quality color images with HP PhotoREt III color layering technology. Four separate ink cartridges, low-ink indicator LCD and front-panel cancel button help lower your printing costs. 16MB memory and 96MHz processor. 150-sheet input capacity, expandable to 400 sheets. PC and Mac compatible with Parallel and USB connectivity. Replacement Print Cartridges (HEWC4844A/HEWC4836AN/HEWC4837AN/HEWC4838AN), sold separately. 26w x 8-3/8d x 22-5/16h. Manufacturers one-year limited warranty.
        No. 11, Ink Cartridge for Color DesignJet Printers, 28 ml, Magenta (HEWC4837AN)
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          No. 11, Ink Cartridge for Color DesignJet Printers, 28 ml, Magenta (HEWC4837AN)

          Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Pcdo
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          Product Features:
          • Ink Cartridge
          • For HP Designjet 10PS, 20PS, 50PS and 120; 70, 100, 100 Plus and 110 Plus Series.
          • No. 11, 28 ml
          • Magenta
          • Sold As: Each

          ASIN: B0007UO2Y8

          Product Description

          Item #: HEWC4837AN. Ink Cartridges, Printheads and Dye Ink for HP DesignJet
          Ink Cartridge
          For HP Designjet 10PS, 20PS, 50PS and 120; 70, 100, 100 Plus and 110 Plus Series.
          No. 11, 28 ml
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          HP Color Inkjet cp1700 - Printer - color - ink-jet - Ledger, Super B - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 16 ppm (mono) / up to 14.5 ppm (color) - capacity: 150 sheets - Parallel, USB, Infrared
          Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
          • Not bad, not great, but would avoid HP in the future.
          HP Color Inkjet cp1700 - Printer - color - ink-jet - Ledger, Super B - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 16 ppm (mono) / up to 14.5 ppm (color) - capacity: 150 sheets - Parallel, USB, Infrared

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          ASIN: B00006SG21

          Product Description

          Designed for small businesses, small offices and design houses that demand professional-quality wide-format color printing, the HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series quickly delivers the most cost-effective color documents, proofs, collateral and comps on a wide variety of printing materials. The HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series efficiently delivers high-performance wide-format printing to meet a wide range of business formats. These versatile printers work effortlessly on a variety of media to ensure that your business can quickly and easily create powerful and effective communications. HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series features a modular ink delivery system (MIDS) providing low cost-per-page and low intervention rates. With MIDS, the printer uses individual ink cartridges and printheads allowing you to change only the part that needs replacing. Create large, full-color presentations, high-quality brochures and attention-grabbing banners with versatile HP Color Printer cp1700 and HP printing supplies.

          Customer Reviews:

          2 out of 5 stars Not bad, not great, but would avoid HP in the future........2005-09-07

          Not bad, not great, but would avoid HP in the future.

          I did not have some of the problems others had with this printer. Some folks had disastrous results. Mine worked OK for a few years. Now it's dead with the dreaded "pump stall." My two biggest disappointments were that I did NOT get my money's worth (I don't do a lot of printing). And HP no longer supports this printer (there's no one I can call at HP) and of HP's recommended service sites in my area, one doesn't service it and the other said (I'm quoting), "Are you near a trash can, because it's not worth repairing." Would he recommend another HP? "No, sorry." Yeesh!

          Other issues:
          When I restarted the Mac in the morning, I had to restart the printer, too, or the HP didn't know it was still connected to the Mac. It's like it became lost.

          Color print quality was adequate, perhaps not as good as Epson or Canon.

          Handled tabloid paper just fine (which is an option I needed), but was finicky with envelopes. And of the two envelope guides, only one actually could touch the envelopes, meaning they didn't always feed straight.

          Would add color to black and white prints, even if the image was black and white and I told the HP software to print black and white.

          Display is not back-lit and is hard to read.

          Software communication with the Macintosh was amateurish, requiring a lot of hand holding just to print a page.
          HP Color Inkjet cp1700 - Printer - color - ink-jet - Super B, A3 Plus - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 16 ppm (mono) / up to 14.5 ppm (color) - capacity: 150 sheets - Parallel, USB, Infrared
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            HP Color Inkjet cp1700 - Printer - color - ink-jet - Super B, A3 Plus - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 16 ppm (mono) / up to 14.5 ppm (color) - capacity: 150 sheets - Parallel, USB, Infrared

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            ASIN: B0009KWPUE

            Product Description

            Designed for small businesses, small offices and design houses that demand professional-quality wide-format color printing, the HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series quickly delivers the most cost-effective color documents, proofs, collateral and comps on a wide variety of printing materials. The HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series efficiently delivers high-performance wide-format printing to meet a wide range of business formats. These versatile printers work effortlessly on a variety of media to ensure that your business can quickly and easily create powerful and effective communications. HP Color Inkjet Printer cp1700 series features a modular ink delivery system (MIDS) providing low cost-per-page and low intervention rates. With MIDS, the printer uses individual ink cartridges and printheads allowing you to change only the part that needs replacing. Create large, full-color presentations, high-quality brochures and attention-grabbing banners with versatile HP Color Printer cp1700 and HP printing supplies.
            No. 11, Ink Cartridge for Color DesignJet Printers, 28 ml, Cyan (HEWC4836AN)
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              No. 11, Ink Cartridge for Color DesignJet Printers, 28 ml, Cyan (HEWC4836AN)

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              Product Features:
              • Ink Cartridge
              • For HP Designjet 10PS, 20PS, 50PS and 120; 70, 100, 100 Plus and 110 Plus Series.
              • No. 11, 28 ml
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              ASIN: B0007UM1L4

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              Item #: HEWC4836AN. Ink Cartridges, Printheads and Dye Ink for HP DesignJet
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              Pioneer PDP-5045HD 50" PureVision High-Definition plasma TV with HDTV tuner and CableCARD slot
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                Pioneer PDP-5045HD 50" PureVision High-Definition plasma TV with HDTV tuner and CableCARD slot

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                Product Features:
                • 50" HDTV panel (displays all signals at 768p)
                • widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio
                • 1280 x 768 pixels

                ASIN: B00078XIWC

                Product Description

                Sports. Movies. Sitcoms. Yes, even reality shows. They all look phenomenally great on this 50" widescreen high-definition plasma TV. And with good reason: here are just some of the technologies that Pioneer has built in: Pioneer's exclusive PureDrive keeps video signals entirely in a lossless digital domain, for greater signal control and far higher video quality. With Pioneer's new Advanced PureCinema with 3-3 pulldown, film-based material on DVD, videotape, and even regular TV will match the smooth, natural reproduction you'd see in a theater. ACE II (Advanced Continuous Emission II) uses 10-bit processing to produce 1, 024 gradation steps for each cell - creating a palette of over 1.07 billion colors and delivering reproduction accuracy up to 16 times greater than competitors' panels. Deep Encased Cell Structure: Each individual lamp is encased in its own "cell", with walls on all sides so that light doesn't bleed into neighboring cells. This energy-efficient design allows each lamp to deliver a more concentrated beam of light, for truer colors and brighter images. Pioneer places a patented black coating between each row of plasma cells, absorbing the light hitting the panel. This significantly reduces reflections coming back to your viewing position and nearly doubles the effective contrast. The PDP-5045HD comes fully loaded: its outboard media receiver is equipped with a Digital Cable Ready Tuner (DCR) with a basic Passport EPG and an ATSC terrestrial HDTV tuner plus a full set of interfaces, including a next-generation High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). This all-digital, high-bandwidth consumer interface can transfer huge amounts of pure, digital data at very high rates of speed. Two-way stereo speakers and a swivel stand are also included.

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                With its digital cable readiness and Passport electronic program guide (EPG), Pioneer's 50-inch PDP-5045HD PureVision plasma TV represents the state-of-the-art from head to toe. Its perfectly flat, high-contrast, high-brightness (1,000 cd/m2) display benefits from high-quality engineering and innovative Pioneer enhancement technologies.

                With a plasma screen you get vivid colors like you've never seen before, extremely wide viewing angles (wider, even, than those of most LCD screens), and easy placement due to a plasma monitor's slim profile--the PDP-5045HD is a mere 3.9 inches deep, perfect for desk or wall mounting. Brightness tends to be extremely uniform across plasma screens, which are also impervious to the picture distortion and negative color balances that afflict CRT monitors when placed near lighting or sound systems.

                The PDP-5045HD is packaged with a stand-alone media receiver equipped with an ATSC terrestrial HDTV tuner and a full set of interfaces, including a next-generation High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). This all-digital, high-bandwidth interface can transfer huge amounts of pure, digital data at very fast rates.

                The media receiver is compatible with high-definition terrestrial broadcast transmissions as well as NTSC (standard definition) broadcasts, both of which factor into the set's 2-tuner PIP (picture-in-picture) performance. The media receiver also manages an array of inputs, including satellite, cable, DVD, DVR/VCR, and computer signals up to wide XGA (1,280 x 768).

                In the PDP-5045HD, each individual lamp is encased in its own deep "cell," with walls on all sides so light can't bleed into neighboring cells. This energy-efficient design allows each lamp to deliver a more concentrated beam of light, rendering truer colors and brighter images. Pioneer also places patented Black Stripe light-absorbing coating between each row of plasma cells. This nearly doubles the effective contrast.

                Pioneer PureDrive ensures a pure digital signal path from source to image. With PureDrive, an analog broadcast is converted once to digital and remains in the digital domain until viewing. All incoming digital signals go through no analog-to-digital conversion. By minimizing or eliminating the A/D or D/A conversions, Pioneer reduces various kinds of digital "noise."

                Advanced PureCinema maintains faithful and accurate reproduction of film-based content. Pioneer was the first to introduce advanced film detection using 3:3 film-to-video conversion at 72 Hz in a plasma display. This renders film content smoothly and naturally, closer to what you'd see in a movie theater. Previously, televisions offered only 3:2 film-to-video conversion at 60 Hz, which--while still a great improvement over unprocessed video--nevertheless resulted in visible onscreen artifacts, such as slightly uneven motion.

                Pioneer's Advanced Continuous-Emission display technology II (ACE II) represents another first, eliminating false contours that can appear in close-ups of faces. This improved 10-bit processing allows the television to display smooth transitions from dark to light areas without losing detail or compromising the image contrast. ACE II works with PureDrive to permit the set to display more than a billion colors.

                You can position the set on a table or mount it to the wall, and it's designed to accent almost any home decor. The black frame and silver, side-mounted speakers are sure to elicit admiration from friends and family, but the true high-definition picture is likely to make the lasting impact.

                Connections abound: choose from 16 digital and analog terminals, including dual HDMI and IEEE 1394 (i.Link) connections, a front-panel RGB jack for easy connection to a PC or Macintosh output, and a range of composite-, component-, and S-video inputs. S-video/composite-video/RF tuner outputs foster hookup with ancillary devices such as DVRs or VCRs. The set also includes side-mounted speakers and a tabletop stand that swivels.

                What's in the Box
                Plasma panel, media receiver, 2 speakers, a swivel stand, a smart remote control, remote batteries, a remote stand (with 4 mounting screws), 4 screw-hole caps, a 3-meter digital connection cable, a 1.8-meter VCR controller, 2 AC power cords, 3 speaker cushions, 3 bead bands, 3 speed clamps, a cleaning cloth, 1 RF coaxial AV cable, a user's manual, and warranty information.

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