![]() The Printing Shortcuts provides several shortcuts or ready-made profiles for quick and easy printing, including General Everyday Printing, Photo Printing-Borderless, Photo Printing-with white borders, Duplex Printing, Fast/Economical Printing, and others. The Advanced tab displays the advanced settings, allowing the user to enable or disable them. The HP C5180 driver window is divided into four tabs: Advanced, Printing Shortcuts, Features, and Colors. The Configuration tab must provide more options in more advanced printers in this series, because the only option shown here is to display the ink status window. A link to online sources for inks is also provided. An ink measurement graphic chart shows ink levels in coarse measure. The toolbox is the maintenance section, where tasks like print head alignment and cleaning and test page printing can be performed. The Printing options are Print Settings and Print Toolbox. The Settings button provides options to alter scan, print, and copy settings. Included software facilitates this process. Embedded OCR (Optical Character Recognition) options allow the user to retain page formatting so the scanned document image file can be converted to document format. The settings dialog window provides options for type of document, where to save the file to, and more detailed settings like resolution, ranging from 75 to 9600 dpi, with an option to print at an interpolated resolution of 19200 dpi as well. The Scan buttons bring up the scanning utility, which only stays open if you request it at the end of your scan. The Help and Support pages are fairly extensive and helpful. The largest, showiest options are three large buttons in the center: Shopping, Help and Support, and Create. The left side of the main window provides five options: Scan Picture, Scan Document, Transfer Images (from memory card in printer to computer), Make Copies, and Settings. The main interface for the C5180 is the HP Solution Center, which is a stock utility for all 5100 printers. The CD menu gives options to install and uninstall programs or add another HP device using the software already installed. We installed the single option first, and this took 15 minutes. There are two options for driver and software installation-direct installation to one computer or network installation. Two installation CDs are included, one for Windows and one for Mac. Installing the drivers and software took about 15 minutes. Once we got the hang of it, there were no further problems. Error messages popped up during the the first few printing attempts because the paper was not slid all the way into the cassette. There are slots for 4圆-inch photo paper and a tray below that for up to 8.5x11-inch paper. Paper loads easily into the cassettes which reside underneath but extending out from the front of the printer. Installation involves raising a separate, spring-loaded, plastic collar/latch for each cartridge, inserting them face out, and then closing and securing the latch. Installing the ink cartridges was not difficult, but the cartridges, which are small house-shaped plastic boxes, are unlike other printer manufacturers' cartridges, so there might be a small learning curve. The total time for physical setup was approximately 10-15 minutes from the time the box was opened to being ready for software installation. Unpacking the printer, loading paper, connecting the power cord, and installing the software was an easy process. If necessary, this snaps on easily, and the printer is virtually ready to go out of the box. The test unit came fully assembled, although it is possible that other C5180 printers may be shipped with the control panel faceplate unattached. ![]() HP does a good job with using recycled and recyclable packaging. The power supply and cord comes in the box along with a setup guide, basics guide, installation CD, and 1-year limited warranty. The design is simple featuring lots of graphics and large type, leading the user through unpacking the printer, loading paper, installing the ink cartridges, and installing software and drivers.īesides the HP Photosmart C5180 printer itself, the package includes six ink cartridges: black (16 ml), cyan (4.5 ml), magenta (4.5 ml), yellow (4.5 ml), light cyan (4.5 ml), and light magenta (4.5 ml). ![]() The Setup Guide makes the setup process very easy. Introduction Setup / Drivers and Software
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