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HP DesignJet 130 Large Format Printer (C7791C#A2L) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: PIECE OF CRAP!!!!! DON'T BUY IT
Comment: Well like may Graphic Artist I wanted to produce layout s in large
format. I have always heard how good HP was and how easy it was to use so I figured that me next printer should be the king of printers.
I can't tell you how upsetting this piece of crap is.
It is so picky that you need to load the paper just the right way for it to grip it and if you don't it will keep kicking it back out to you over and over again. I must have done this 8 times before I just wanted to beat the living hell out of it. Oh but it gets better, this thing is so stupid that it does NOT calibrate the colors on its own. It takes you to a website and you have to have HP do it for you. It still didn't print sharp. And get this I try to call their customer service for support and they charge .69 min. Where do these jerks selling crappy printers get off charging for customer service????
My god save your money and just print your stuff at Kinko's or a small needing printing company.
HP is a crap brand!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: great printer, no problems
Comment: I've had this printer (with attached roll feeder) since Nov 07 and it has caused no problems for me. Since then I have printed around 175 or so large format colour images. Setup was a breeze, no problems with the changeover from XP to Vista, and all in all a great machine.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great printer - a bit tricky to learn
Comment: I've been printing large format glicees with this printer and it works great. But I was a little disappointed to learn that it can't do borderless printing on large paper. In order to print a borderless 18 x 24 image, I had to use 24 x 26" paper, so there is some waste involved. Also, you have to feed big sheets through the back of the printer, which is a little tricky because you've got to line it up perfectly or it will spit it back out. It took me a whole day to get a good feel for doing that. Overall, I'm very happy with this printer. The images it creates are spectacular! It's worth learning if you want to print crystal clear images on large paper.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer GREAT PRICE!!!
Comment: We purchased this printer for the school district that I work at and I am the primary user. I love this printer!!! I have printed school marketing posters with full photo quality and it looks as though we hired a professional. I am not sure what a previous reviewer was talking about not being able to get paper anymore because we can still get it right from the [...] website. It has a variety of media it can print on from regular heavy paper, glossy photo paper, and even Tyvek. We use the Tyvek for our outdoor signage. It isn't a "super" fast printer but I can't imagine anything printing in this large a format printing very fast anyway. We have had local professional photographers come in and want to see it and look at samples and now they are considering getting one!!! This is a great printer and I would recommend it to anyone professional or to anyone just wanting to print out large format pictures. The WOW factor will never go away!!!

UPDATE: One of the previous reviewers talked about there being 12 ink cartridges to replace and although they are in fact correct about the 12 part they are not all actually cartridges. There are 6 cartridges: Cyan, Light Cyan, Magenta, Light Magenta, Yellow, and Black. This six ink system is what HP has switched to for any printer with photo quality output like its higher end Deskjets and most anything named Photojet. Although this sounds like a money making scheme to require more cartridges it is what some companies have been doing for years now and that is not requiring you to switch out a complete cartridge when only one color might be low. The other 6 "cartridges" are in fact printheads that must be changed for each color as well. However, this is not required everytime you change the ink but does make a great deal of difference in the quality of the printing if you dont change it when required. As far as I can tell from the system monitor it is every three or so cartridges however, I tend to think its based more on the amount of full page printing you do. We do a lot and we are no where near needing to change them yet. This is also becoming standard on these same 6 color printers as well because now with the 6 color cartridge it is no longer possible for the print cartridges to "travel" back and forth accross the page with the cartridge chassis inside the printer. You know what I'm talking about the sound you could hear from most older printers was the sound of the ink cartridges and the inkjets moving accross the page. Now the ink is delivered in tiny tubes that allow only the six printheads to move while the ink cartridges are stationary. So yes you must replace twelve different consumables but not at nearly the same rate as usual. There are moniters on the small LCD screen on the side of the printer and it will indicate the level of remaining ink in the cartridges and quality of the printheads. Can't say enough good about this printer it is a sure bet.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great printer from an awful company
Comment: I've had this printer for two years and it prints marvelous prints. The problem I have is with HP: they decided to stop making paper for this printer and, instead, told me to go with 3rd parties. A company that doesn't stand behind their products is one that will not get future business from me.

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