Customer Reviews
Excellent printer, excellent prints! 
2003-05-16
Although most people say the prints are grainy, I disagree. I recently purchased this printer, and got some Kodak Ultima Premium High-Gloss, Heavy Weight photo paper, and I have to say, the picture quality is INCREDIBLE! I tried printing photos with low gloss, lightweight paper, and I will say that the quality was somewhat comparable to my old Canon BJC-2100. If you get the right photo paper for this baby, though, it can print some excellent photos at a fraction of the cost for some super high-end models with DPI resolutions beyond what we really need. If you stick these photos in a picture frams, you can't even tell the difference between real photos and photos printed with this thing. All in all, I think it is well worth the money.
Love the printer-hate having to chase paper 
2003-02-24
I love this printer - my only complaint is that it shoots the paper out - you would think they could have a decent paper tray
instead of shooting my still damp photos across the room.
Prints nice photos, but slow and jam-prone with plain paper 
2002-10-02
My HP DeskJet 870cxi died last month, and I replaced it with the Photosmart 1115, which I wanted to use with a Dell desktop (XP Pro) and an Apple iBook (OS 10.2.1).
The only nice thing I can say about this printer is that it prints beautiful photos on photo paper. Printing anything else is a lesson in frustration.
Printing a color web page with this printer is SLOW...it seems much slower than my old DeskJet. Second, I get frequent paper jams when printing on plain paper, and especially when printing envelopes. The printer jams when printing photos on 6 x 4.5" photo paper that came with it. When I print documents on plain paper, I also occasionally get these cryptic error codes, and my document stops printing halfway through the job, leaving the paper stuck in the printer.
The printer also comes with a CompactFlash and SD readers built in. It's pretty cool to insert a Compact Flash or Secure Digital card from a digital camera and print an index sheet right from the printer. However, my XP desktop won't recognize the cards from the printer. It says that there is no card inserted. Frequent e-mails to HP tech support have not been helpful - they say the card is faulty (it works fine in my camera and my Lexar card reader, however).
Mac support is suprisingly lousy, because HP has been pretty good to the Mac in the past. I had to wait a month until HP released drivers for Mac OS 10.2.1 (Jaguar). The Mac drivers have the same problem the XP ones do: I can only print with the drivers; reading CF & SD cards with the printer doesn't work.
I have had many HP printers in the past and have had no problems with them. I think HP struck out with this dud.
Really Good Printer! 2002-08-10
I love this printer. The quality of the photos print are exceptional.
The set up/installation was a breeze except for a mistake (on my part) I had attached the USB and Parallel port at the same time to facilitate a scanner/printer function and this caused no ends of problems.
However apart from this the printer is very good, the card reader facility is excellent, I no longer have to hook up the camera and download my photos to my computor, just stick the card in the slot the computor reads this slot as another drive and then drag and drop files from the card reader driver to your drive on the computor.
The 4x6 photo paper slot is very convenient.
I have two concerns
1. This printer seems to use ink especially color very quickly, however this may be because the starter ink cartridge is smaller than the regular sized cartridge - 21ml vs 42ml. I will have to test with a larger size cartridge.
2. The printer is a bit noisier than I think it should be.
All in all a satisfactory product.
I am extremely happy with this printer 2002-07-11
It is easy to install with Windows XP. No need to worry about using camera software or hook ups and wasting camera batteries. It saves pictures to your PC for you. It also prints beautiful photographs on any paper, and it is selling out like crazy. I grabbed the last one on the shelf at Walmart. Circuit City is sold out. Trust me, get it and sit back and relax.
Uses yellow ink 2008-05-06
I would not buy this printer again. It quickly uses up all the yellow ink. This is a common problem with this printer. See Yahoo Answers, search for "hp photosmart yellow". I think they should be recalled.
Great Printer! 2006-07-03
I've had the photosmart 1115 for 5 years now, and it is still going strong. I use it quite often to produce photos as well as color printouts.
The only problem I've ever had is with it taking more than one piece of paper when printing. Sometimes it will grab 2 or three at a time- irritating when making multiple copies- but not much of an issue for me as I usually make them one at a time.
Disappointed 
2005-02-15
I have used this printer for the last two years, though it has not been heavily used. It has completely broken down, will not acknowledge that it has paper, and the "carriage" is broken. It will not feed anything through and constantly has paper jams. I have been told by repair specialists that it will cost several hundred dollars to fix it because the "carriage" is so expensive. Though it does print beautiful photos, I am very disappointed with this product's performance over time!
HP workhorse 2004-06-30
Great Printer, but does get a bit cranky at times. The 2 side print capability is a plus, saving paper & making printouts more compact. Does a 4 + job on photos, but hard to use the small photo tray. I've used this printer for approx 2 years and just now feel it may be time to upgrade. I feel I made a good choice for my photos.
Nice 2004-05-06
Great printer! Fast and awesome color printing!
