HP PhotoSmart P1000 Inkjet Printer

Product Description

For the digital camera owner or printer-buyer who intends to purchase a digital camera and who wants to have the ultimate printer for all their PC and digital camera needs, the HP PhotoSmart P1000 printer delivers HP's best print quality and performance plus the ability to print and save directly from a wide range of digital cameras. HP PhotoSmart P1000 allows you to print directly from digital cameras without trading off print performance. HP PhotoSmart P1000 and HP Premier photo-quality paper product realistic photo images with HP's PhotoREt enhanced color-layering technology. HP PhotoSmart P1000 prints not only pictures from your digital camera but everything from black and white text documents to color presentations. You can print high-quality documents and projects (such as photo album pages, greeting cards, or newsletters) that you have created using your computer.

Amazon.com Review

While kids may coo over carnival-colored units, you'll be impressed by the substantial, professional demeanor of the gunmetal black Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart P1000 printer. It connects to your PC and also directly accepts CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia from your digital camera. Plus, it offers fast, photo-quality printing and HP PhotoREt technology.

A compact desktop printer designed to be a companion to PCs, the HP PhotoSmart P1000 can print images from your digital camera without the use of a computer, and you can begin printing moments after opening the box. The printer control panel allows a great deal of control with just a few options. We loved the infrared port, which allowed us to transfer photos directly to the printer (requires a digital camera that is infrared capable.) The Quick Success setup poster gave all the basics, clearly illustrated for the fastest no-fuss installation. For more detailed explanations and troubleshooting, the user's guide was thorough and easy to understand. The distinct LCD display made choosing which photos to print, how many, and in what size logical, with just a quick tap of soft pad buttons. To print from your computer is no more difficult--just a couple steps away--than to connect the cables and install the software.

HP printers are designed to be easy to set up and get you straight to work, and the P1000 is no exception. In our tests, this unit delivered great photos in crisp color combined with flexible and dependable operation. When using CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia, our photos had clean, true colors on any paper and especially on photo paper. Offering a maximum resolution of 2,400 dpi, we enjoyed getting fast copies of our prints--up to 8.5 pages per minute for color photos (and 11 ppm black text). You can store photos on your computer for many other uses, such as e-mail and sharing albums on Web sites.

Solidly built and durably designed, the P1000 includes an adaptable 100-page-capacity paper tray and a print-cancel button. The P1000 printer provides great results on all types of media, ably providing professional quality and crisp clean black text on regular paper, photo paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels, and more. It also improves your work environment with its compact size and quiet operation. Even in small workspaces, at just 18 by 15 by 8 inches, it fits into your life, your home workstation, or small office. Hewlett-Packard also backs this printer with a one-year warranty and HP online support.

Pros:

Great-quality prints from your digital camera
Compact, easy to use, professional looking
Infrared connection between camera and printer

Cons:

Cumbersome poster-size setup guide

Amazon.com Product Description

The HP PhotoSmart P1000 from HP works either with your PC or directly with your digital camera. The printer has slots for your digital camera's CompactFlash Type I/II or SmartMedia cards, so with the P1000's 600-dpi resolution and HP's PhotoREt technology, you can print beautiful color photos at up to 8.5 pages per minute. Plus, if your digital camera supports HP JetSend infrared technology, you can print wirelessly.The HP PhotoSmart P1000 also makes a great PC printer. Just connect the printer to your PC's USB or parallel port. You can combine laser-quality text, graphics, and photos for printing greeting cards, newsletters, or pages for your photo album. You can use your own software or the great suite that's included with the printer. You can also use your digital camera's memory card as a separate disk drive.The HP P1000 comes with black and color ink cartridges, a user's guide, a Quick Success poster, an HP photo-paper sampler pack, HP Image Editing software, and HP Photo Web client software.

Customer Reviews:

Mostly Great - Used for 3 years now, but..........2003-05-30

I LOVE this printer! I've owned one since a few months after they became available, and bought a camera (HP 618) well-matched to it. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly - and I've experienced all three but still love the printer enough to be getting a new one right now.
Beautiful quality pictures, great features, easy install but drivers for XP may be challenging to find. Can be used to make prints without the aid of a computer. Front panel with LCD display and all controls available to select paper and quality options, multiple copies, etc. Big 45ml ink tanks seem to last a long time. I saw another reviewer say 50 to 75 8x10 color prints can be produced on a set of ink tanks, and I'd say that's probably pretty accurate. If you do a lot of general everyday printing of webpages and letters & stuff as well as photos, you'll get many more pages, especially if you use draft mode when you don't need the high-quality pages you get from the default settings. Can accept type I & II memory cards, and uses USB or parallel port to connect to a computer. Also can use infra-red data connection IF your camera is HP JetSend compatible, but this is difficult to find in a camera now, even if you get a camera from HP.
Now for the bad. Some documentation as well as directional symbols on the printer make it easy to insert envelopes incorrectly resulting in upside-down orientation. Paper jams can be tricky to clear, and may cause frustration which in my case possibly led to more printer damage. Difficult to operate 4x5 special photo tray, which can contribute to paper feed errors if not positioned correctly when not in use. Ink cartridges (when they do finally run out) can be expensive if you use the genuine HP cartriges, about $... for the tri-color, and $... for the black. Cheaper ones are available in smaller volume (HP genuine, half filled), and substantially cheaper full-size refills (from Staples) are available for about half or less these costs.
And the ugly: If you start getting frequent paper jam errors, good luck getting this printer fixed since it has been discontinued and parts are unavailable. I didn't have paper jam problems until after a couple of years and probably around 2100 pages. The test print you can run from the front panel shows my total pages printed to be 2985.
I tried to get repairs from two local authorized HP service centers in Toledo, OH as well as from HP customer service, and the best they (a local place) could do for me was to replace the printer with a reconditioned one at about $.... HP could only offer me - get this - a reconditioned unit for about $... OR a swap for over $... (?). Their replacement parts page lists a "printer replacement" option for over $...!!! What's up with that? They recommended a "trade up" to the 7150 photosmart, a terrible idea to me since it has none of the features of the P1000 - no IR, no memory card options, not standalone, smaller ink tanks - for around $.... "Trade-UP" must be a reference to the money THEY will make from more frequent ink purhcases by consumers. Plus, instead of a tri-color and a black cartridge, the 7150 uses a tri-color and a "photo" color by default, and if you want to do a lot of black they expect you to buy an "optional" black cartridge which you swap out with the "photo color" cart.
I guess the P1000 line just had too many nice features for HP to allow it to survive, so if you want one get it while you can. Even with the problems I've had I want another, it has EXCELLENT bang for the buck!

Don't buy if you have XP as your OS.......2003-01-26

This printer is terrible if you're running XP. Trouble getting it to operate, problems once you do, and very little help from HP. Good luck even getting the proper drivers to download from the HP site.When it works, pic quality is great...although there are feeding problems once in awhile.

Great but can be tricky to set up........2002-04-14

I've had this printer for about 8 months, and I am finally happy with it in general. When I first set it up, it was via parallel connection on a PC running Windows ME. Total set up time was 10 minutes and text and graphics printing was very good. However, loading photo paper, which requires some tricky maneuvers and varies among the different sized papers, is enough to discourage a lot of photo printing, especially on 4" x 6" paper, which uses a separate tray for loading and is finicky on a good day. I then moved the printer to my laptop and tried to set it up via the USB port. This was rougher and required uninstalling the printer and then reinstalling it and selecting USB connectivity. Not a big deal except nowhere does it say to do that; you just figure it out by trial-and-error. The big deal came when I upgraded my laptop's OS to Windows XP. The original driver for ME or even Windows 2000 does not work with XP. Try finding the driver via the HP website and you're in for the run-around of a lifetime. It turns out their FTP site in the U.S. is so overloaded that you'll only be directed to that site at weird, off hours. Otherwise, you're redirected to the Twilight Zone. My success finally came when I located (via a Google search) HP's Euro FTP server, which at midnight here was quite responsive. Quality remains quite acceptable and noise is very good. Ink usage is a bit high, but as I rarely am in the mood to print photos anymore, it's less of an issue.

Great photos from a simple printer.......2002-03-25

How great is this printer? I own 2 of them and travel with one most of the time. It prints fantastic quality for photos. Sometimes I will keep it in the car when I go to parties or weddings. Having shot a lot of digital photos all night I then bring in the HP P1000 and slip in the chip from the camera. Presto! I have a thumbnail of each photo taken. By the time the first 8x10 comes out I have a crowd of people around me. Most people are shocked at the high quality this printer puts out. The printer also works great for turning out black and white documents for business. One of the items that surprised me was how long the print cartridge last. They have a large capacity and keep going and going.
I have made this my number one recommended printer for friends and no one has been disappointed. There are newer versions of this line of printer but they cost more. A simple printer creating great photos.

It Works!.......2002-01-19

I have had the Photosmart P1000 for nine months. I haven't kept up with the new models, except that they seem to be very similar with some increase in printing speed plus the addition of a Memory Stick slot to some models.

I have not used this printer where it would appear to have the greatest appeal -- printing directly from digital camera memory cards with no computer in the loop. Reason? I have a sony memory stick and HP tells me there is no adapter.

I tested the permanence of the inks on several papers by placing them behind low e glass under a late fall sun for two months. Based on the results, I suggest that the user also run some quick tests, because paper does make a difference in permanence. I'd include Pictorico Glossy Photo Paper (which I would call semi-gloss), because it costs less than $.75/8X10. Direct sunlight will fade automobile paint, and atmospheric acid will attack most color dyes. Most museums believe that flash photography will fade oil paintings. So don't expect too much of any kind of color print unless it is sealed under UV resistant glass.

This printer will print photographs. The color is stunning on high quality paper and the surface of the picture shows no layering except on 25 cent paper. Compared to an Epson 875DC, I would say that a P1000 blue sky is slightly green, but when viewed alone the blue from the P1000 simply looks vibrant.

Most serious drawbacks? 1) Maximum print size is 8 X 10. 2)Ink cartridges cost around $... each and make 50 to 75 8X10 color prints.

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Amazon.com Product Description

The HP PhotoSmart P1000 also makes a great PC printer. Just connect the printer to your PC's USB or parallel port. You can combine laser-quality text, graphics, and photos for printing greeting cards, newsletters, or pages for your photo album. You can use your own software or the great suite that's included with the printer. You can also use your digital camera's memory card as a separate disk drive.

The HP P1000 comes with black and color ink cartridges, a user's guide, a Quick Success poster, an HP photo-paper sampler pack, HP Image Editing software, and HP Photo Web client software.

Customer Reviews:

Workhorse that does want to give out.......2007-01-09

The only things that has worked harder for me is my Maytag washer. Honest!

I have printed perhaps 4oo to 5oo great photos in 8x10 and several hundred 4x6. I printed simple signs that earned more than the coast of the printer, all the ink used and paper. I am on my 3rd case of plane paper, plus heavy weight paper.

I have use it with the usb cable and the printer cable. The small photo tray worked well after I surrendered and read and followed the instructions.

I have had my P1000 for 5 years or more...I have gone through several PCs, am on my 3rd scanner and have tossed two printers in the dump...one a wide print photo oriendted HP, the other that came "free" with another PC.

I considered buying a new one (or two) on Amazon 2 years ago for ?..$75/00 if a member correctly.

I have been able to download software that enables we to use it on XP home edition. The HP software worked well for me. Also have been using photoshop 6.

I have given away numbeous framed photos to frineds and family printed on it and had the pleasure of seeing people enjoy them.

I doesn't give up. There many be better printers. I am still looking and also am holding on to this HP P1000...I also have a Canon i9900 which is working out well enough.

And I just might get another P100. Anyone want a HP 3845? Free! The trash men wount be here until Thursday (2 days)

it works....i guess.......2006-08-17

This thing works sometimes, and its cheep. Other then that I don't have much good too say about it. It uses up the ink in the expensive cartridges like water. And is so noisy it sounds like a truck going off road. I've owned quite a few cheep HP ink jet printers, and I've been disappointed by them all. I am going with Epson or paying a little more for a higher model HP. In the print world, you get what you pay for and buying cheep is a bad idea.

Ok printer for the price.......2004-09-10

I bought this printer 3 years ago. It works great. The only problems are: the power cord has a short in it, the ink is pricy, not enough memory, freezes up, and sometimes will print lines or it will smear. I like HP printers and think I will stick with HP for a long time. I am going to up-grade to the HP laserjet 4050N or 1300N because of our home network. I think this model has some defects but in the newer printers HP has fixed them.

Good prints... bad compatibility.......2004-02-06

I've had the P1000 for a couple of years. Worked great with WindowsME. After installing XP on my desktop I had to reinstall the printer software to get it to work. Just got a new laptop and it doesn't work at all.. in fact, the P1000 causes my Dell Inspiron to crash whenever I disconnect the USB cable. When the cable is connected the laptop never recognizes the printer.

bad usb connection on P1000.......2003-10-21

I really liked this printer when I first got it about 3 years ago. Sure it was loud and a little slow, but it printed pretty good. Well, after about 1 1/2 years of VERY light duty, I all of a sudden start getting error messages on my PC telling me the printer is not connected to the computer. First I changed the cord to no avail, then I tried different open USB ports on my computer, so it ends up I just have to position the USB cable perfectly to the back of the P1000 to get it to work. At least it would still work, right? Well that got me by for about six months and now it just will not connect at all. Now my HP P1000 has a nice new home in the trashcan and I'm giving Canon a try. If HP puts as much thought into printers as they do computers I definetely don't want to buy another HP product again...

Average customer rating:

Good with a couple of draw back

Princeton Senergy 714 17"LCD Monitor

Buyers beware!

WOW

Excellent Value for the Money

Princeton Senergy 714 17" LCD Monitor

Manufacturer: Princeton Graphics
ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:

1,280 x 1,024 resolution, 0.264 x 0.264 mm pitch

300 cd/m² brightness, 450:1 contrast ratio

150° horizontal viewing angle, 16ms super-fast response time

Analog RGB and digital DVI inputs

Built-in stereo speakers

ASIN: B0001MKU2U

Product Description

A 17" LCD panel is about equivalent to a 19" CRT, in terms of viewable image size and recommended resolutions. Displays a crisp, clear 1280 x 1024 native resolution and is capable of scaling to lower resolutions. Optimal for the playback of multimedia movie clips and video editing with no ghost effects. Compatible with DVI digital video standard. Digital signal provides superior front-of-screen performance without requiring additional adjustments. Also compatible with DFP graphic cards with optional adapter. Delivers maximum compatibility for both Analog and Digital video sources. Designed to supply the user with the fullest range of viewing capabilities necessary to enhance, web browsing and full page viewing experience. Wall and arm mount capabilities for space saving and custom application environments. Provides asset protection in public accessible areas.

Customer Reviews:

Good with a couple of draw back.......2005-04-02

I bought a Princeton Senergy 714 17' LCD monitor and then Dell UltraSharp 1905FP 19' a month later. Since my computer supports dual monitor setup, so I was able to make a side-by-side comparison. Here's the result in case anyone is interested in buying:

Synergy 714 Pro:
1. Good response time with relatively small amount of ghosting. You can still tell there's a little ghosting when playing a movie, but it's good enough. In comparison, Dell's 1905FP is just so bad in ghosting that it's almost a torture to watch a movie on it.
2. Natural color representation. The tone of skin color looks perfectly natural on Synergy while it looked awful on Dell. It's almost like 1905FP doesn't have enough gradient to properly display the color transition. To use a slightly exaggerated analogy: as if 1905FP is on a 256-color scheme while Synergy is on a 65365-color scheme.
3. Very bright.

Synergy 714 Con:
1. Biggest complaint: Poor contrast ratio. The black background has a gray tone to it. So even though Synergy is very bright, I still prefer to read text on the Dell because of its high contrast ratio resulting in crispy text.
2. Small screen with the same resolution as Dell 1905FP (1280*1024). So text is harder to read. (Only matter if you spend long hours in front of the monitor reading text.)
3. Stand has limited adjustment and can't pivot. (minor)

DVI connection doesn't seem to make a big difference on either monitor.

Princeton Senergy 714 17"LCD Monitor.......2005-02-21

This is my first LCD Monitor and I only have one question,WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG. It replaced a 17" SONY FLAT PANAL [16" VIEWING]. Good looking monitor,no dead pixels,plug and play,3 year warrenty includeing bulb,what are you waiting for.And as far as I am concerned Princeton is the best all around deal.Way to go Princeton I highly recommend and when I get the bucks I will upgrade to a Princeton Senergy 914 19" LCD.

Buyers beware!.......2005-02-11

After reading the good reviews here and the cheap price, I decided to buy this monitor. I plugged in the monitor with the DVI cable and turned it on and the picture looked great except when I pressed the menu button a scrambled box came up, all of the menus are scrambled colored boxes!I tried the regular analog cables and its the same. Also when I booted the computer up the next day, half of the screen had my Windows desktop and the other half was black. It took another 20-30 seconds before the full Windows screen loaded, this has never happened before with my old monitor.

WOW.......2005-02-06

This monitor... is just great. I honestly was not prepared for the incredible quality of this display... color is just insanely saturated (reds in particular are incredibly vivid), and the backlight is super bright, so much so that I am tempted to turn it down. As another reviewer said, there is a very slight bluish cast that I corrected with a custom color profile. No dead/stuck pixels. No ghosting. Came with all the cables. DVI at this price is unheard of, I'm so glad I found this monitor and didn't have to compromise with a (strictly) VGA one, and am able to take advantage of my PowerBook's DVI connection. Speaking of the PowerBook, this display put the PowerBook's to absolute SHAME, I was intending to use the 'Book as a secondary display, but I can't even look at it in the same glance after looking at this monitor. Anyway, again, this thing is phenomenal. Don't walk, RUN to your wallet and buy this thing, you will NOT regret it.

Excellent Value for the Money.......2005-02-02

I just purchased one of these monitors to replace an aging Viewsonic 19" CRT and I'm extremely impressed. It had no dead pixels when I recieved it and was a snap to set up. The picture is clear and bright (so bright out of the box, I had to adjust the brightness down). My only beef with it is that the labels on the controls are very difficult to read, fortunately, I won't need to constantly adjust the monitor.

The response time is sufficient fast to eliminate ghosting on 3D shooters, and other graphics look beautiful, despite the presence of a 6-bit, rather than 8-bit LCD matrix (6-bit matrixes are becoming common on monitors that offer quick response times at fairly low prices). I can't see any evidence of dithering (the method by which it emulates 16+ million colors), and I've looked very closely at images I'm familiar with.

Although it's a 17" monitor, it has about the same amount of viewable area as my old 19". Since it's an LCD, and capable of displaying a higher resolution more clearly than a CRT, I feel like I have more viewing area now. Plus, I was able to take advantage of the $75 rebate, making this a steal!

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