The HP Photosmart C4180 All-in-one is functional in layout then again when the task is to print, scan as well as copy appearance is much less critical compared to offering the goods and this it really does with the extra advantage of six ink quality.

The C4180 is simply a rectangular box, 32x27x15cm and any time the paper tray is dropped with paper within it the middle figure grows by another 15cm. It is light grey in colour.

This is a two cartridge printer, it is either four ink or six ink, to clarify there exists a standard 3 colour cartridge and either a single black or three marginally different shaded colours to offer six ink printing.

Carrying out a full install required 920MB of hard disc space and took 26 minutes, which includes a restart.

Lets begin with printing and the ubiquitous 200 word document at draft mode, this printed at a quite acceptable 20PPM in four HP Photosmart C4180 printer ink cartridge mode as well as a still satisfactory 16PPM in six ink formation. The 1500 word document spread over four pages came through at 15PPM in four ink plus 12PPM in six HP Photosmart C4180 printer cartridge.

Now on to printing photos on photo paper, here I used six HP Photosmart C4180 ink cartridge mode entirely and the period of time consumed for an A4 borderless page ended up being close to four minutes, the output was exceptional. Printing a range of two, three and four photos per A4 page was in between 210 and 250 seconds, again the quality was in fact excellent.

This All In One have the ability to print directly from the more popular digital camera cards and in this case a 15x10cm photograph needed 2minutes while an A4 image or either two or three images in an A4 sheet between 3.5 and 4 minutes.

There are a total amount of 23 keys upon the left part of the flat top of the machine together with a 5x3.5cm TFT display over them that can be tilted up by as much as 90degrees from the rear to avert glare. On the right of this is a flatbed scanner that opens up landscape front to back. On the left front border are the four card slots and the left side has a dispenser which fits into the base of the unit for easy printing of 15x10cm pictures.

The rear - left side of back - possesses the USB and power adapter sockets.

The software furnished gives as much support as you want, while the amount of control whenever printing direct from cards is not really enormous you may always place them in a card reader to import into the Computer and then the help and adjusting offered is greater. Nevertheless for printing photos without very much modification the software within the machine is actually alright.

Probably most copying will be whilst the PC is off or not even connected and using the control keys on top of the device however you may also copy direct from the Personal computer with normal quality, a black copy will take around 20 seconds plus a colour one about 30 seconds, all our copies were actually clear and extremely legible.

Should you supply the machine a clean sharp page to scan it ought to create a great copy, I was completely satisfied with these scans You can scan either for the built in OCR and output to a package or leave the scan as an image, in either case the furnished software worked well. Lots of options are accessible with the software and what ever your amount of computer expertise you should be achieving fine results with this device.

For the capital there aren't any serious defects with the HP Photosmart C4180 which does everything rather well.