HP Deskjet 1220C Review

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HP Deskjet 1220C
2.5 stars
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tony the mad designer.'s Review of HP Deskjet 1220C Inkjet Printer

10th Jun 2003

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
  • Value for money
    1 stars
  • Print Quality
    4 stars
Good Points

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Bad Points

Ink hog, paper jamming, ink slobbering, lousy aligning, messy margins.


General Comments

We recently purchased the Hewlett Packard Deskjet 1220c for our office. Up until then we were using a great epson wide format printer. This HP piece of junk doesn't even compare. Sure it works fine if you plan on using it with plain paper, but if you want to do photo prints on somewhat thick paper, forget it. Using HP's own photo paper, the friction feed can't handle it. It gets stuck getting through, but to make it worse the printer doesn't even recognize there is a problem, and continues to print ink all over itself. Sure you can use the manual feed for thicker uses, but good luck getting it to go in straight. Also the margins on this think suck. Our epson could print up to 1/4" all around the paper, not so here. It's more like 1/2". Plus it's a ink hog. Go to Epson or even canon before you buy this junk.

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  • chris. on 2nd Jul 2003

    I too am bitterly disappointed with the quality of the HP1220c. I used to have an Epson A4 printer that gave excellent results every time, and was a third of the price. As a graphic designer, I needed to upgrade to A3 paper size, and also needed adobe postcript level 3 for outputting from desk top publishing applications. I cannot find a decent paper to use - the best I have found so far is mellotex - HP's paper is terrible. Also, I have previously tried to output photo quality many times - but the quality is no where near as good as the Epson. Plus the replacement cartridges cost around £60 for the pair. If you want one - don't bother!!