HP PhotoSmart P1000 Printer

• Accepts your digital camera's CompactFlash or SmartMedia--no PC required
• Up to 2,400 x 1,200 resolution on photo paper
• Exclusive HP PhotoREt color layering technology for sharp, accurate color
• Prints up to 11 ppm in black, 8.5 ppm in color
• Supports compatible infrared cameras, PDAs, and notebooks for wireless printing

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. --Mike Brown

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.

bad usb connection on P1000:
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...

Good prints... bad compatibility:
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.

Workhorse that does want to give out:
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:
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:
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.