Customer Reviews
It Has A Lot to Say 
2008-07-07
The good side: it prints easily and the quality is very good.
The bad side: It uses an incredible amount of ink. If you run a small business this is not the printer for you. You will constantly be buying ink cartridges.
It also constantly gives you messages. I just want the printer to run in the background - I don't even want to know it's there. If you are running out of ink, this thing will remind you every time you turn on the computer, try to print something, over and over again. It is really annoying.
How Simple is Simple 
2008-06-26
My old 832C died a horrible death after 10 years of loyal service halfway through a project. I had to have a replacement and now. Amazon shipped this in two days. I don't need a billion dollar printer that reads my mind and I already have a flatbed scanner. All I needed was a simple printer that fits on my desk and prints fairly simple documents in reasonable time. The 4260 is just that.
For the price, a terrific printer 
2008-06-23
For the low price, this is an excellent printer. The results are wonderful. It looks nice and (important to me) takes up a small amount of real estate on an office desk. As always, HP dumps a lot of bloatware (unnecessary) software on your computer when you install the driver, but the basic setup works fine. Want more? Pay more. But if you'd like a nice, simple inkjet for home/home office use, one that sits on small space and does a nice job with basic printing needs, this is one to consider. I'm satisfied.
One of the best 2008-06-21
I have read all 45 reviews on amazon,but non is professional.
Since I am computer technician and I know a lot about computer and printers I will guide you.
First of all the software isn't that much bad,it's perfect software,but when you want to install software you have two option,1:easy installation(default)2 custom,you must select the second one,only 2 of the softwares are required all others are trashy softwares that just make your computer slow,if your computer is fast and have lots of space like my computer I recommend you to install Hp photo essential too,it's optional but very good software,all others are like a spam!!
The printer cartridge can be refiled,but so hard,because unlike older hp printers there isn't any hole and you have to make hole with drill!!I don't recommend that because it will void manufacture warranty!!
the cartridge is 4.5ML for black and 3.5 for color but it's the size,it's trial and they only put little ink in that,so soon you will have to get new cartridge,may be after 50 page,so i think it's better to order cartridges with your printer.The speed and quality is best,I have had all major printers like brother-epson-sharp-hp-canon-panasonic-lexmark and ...
but non is like hp.canon quality is better for printing photo only,but for everything else hp quality is better,canon is less noisy but slower,if you want good printer get only hp or canon,but I prefer hp,I have hp 940c for 10 years,it was first inkjet printer and 10 years ago was first production,that time it was 150$ and was much more expensive.
My only complain is noise of all hp printers,they are noisy specially when you turn them on,it's because they are fastest printer.
therefor the only reason I gave 4 star to hp is because of it's noise.
all and all it's best and cheapest printer you can find out there!!
Good Quality But Expensive Ink Packs 
2008-06-10
I bought one of these for a real good price and was impressed with the color copies and the black and white ones also. You can use all types of paper, from photo quality to cheap recycled stuff. The only problem I have is that the ink cartridges are expensive and they are so small and only last for a few large print jobs. The cost ads up. I also had an ink cartridge explode, getting black goo all over the tv, computer, bed, my pet dog, frig, microwave, wall, etc, it cost a fortune to clean up and eventually I was thrown out of my apartment because of it.
Good second printer. 2008-06-08
This fast, all-around-great printer is ready to bring you sharp black text, vibrant color documents, and crisp photos. Easily print documents and Web pages. Get vibrant color at up to 4800 optimized dpi and crisp black. Resist photo fading 1 for longer than with traditionally processed photos with the optional six-ink color printing and HP Premium Plus photo papers. Transfer images to your PC from your camera or other device via the front-facing USB port. Print reprints, enlargements, and layouts of photos. Create beautiful borderless 4x6-inch's 2 snapshots and print panoramas. Color print resolution - Up to 4800 optimized dpi color and 1200 input dpi Affordable printing and fewer cartridge changes with high-capacity replacement inkjet cartridges Cancel unwanted print jobs at the touch of a button and save ink and paper Print Capabilities Borderless Printing Supported (up to 8.5 x 24 inch) Paper Handling - 100-sheet input tray, 50-sheet output tray Supported paper sizes - Letter, legal, executive, No. 10 envelopes, cards, borderless photo, borderless panorama and double panorama Connectivity - 1 High-Speed USB, 1 Full Speed USB Move images to PC from cameras and other devices using a convenient, front-facing USB port System Requirements - CD-ROM drive, available USB port and USB cable, SVGA 800x600 monitor with 16-bit color, For Microsoft Windows 2000 SP3 or higher, Intel Pentium II, Celeron, or compatible processor (233 MHz or higher) 128 MB RAM (256 MB or higher recommended), 250 MB available hard disk space, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (SP2) or higher, Mac OS X v 10.3.9, v 10.4 or later, Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel Core processor Dimensions - 18.07 x 18.9 x 5.67 inch (459 x 480 x 144 mm) Weight - 7.6 pounds (3.5 kg)
Economical and efficient 2008-06-04
This printer is easy to operate and prints wonderfully!
I have one computer hard wired to it and my other computer using it as a network printer. The quality it excellent. Worth every penny!
Does not work with Apple Mac wirelessly or over network - avoid 
2008-05-21
While this does work if you with an Apple if you plug it in directly with the USB cable, it does not work with Airport Express wireless networking. It also doesn't work if you try to print from your mac if it is shared on a Windows based computer. The mac will see it, even recognize the driver it needs (when plugged into the Airport) but when it comes time to print, errors. I tried it every which way, including with the Gutenprint gimp drivers. HP Could have designed this to work, but they chose not too.
I Loathe This Printer 2008-05-20
What I want is what I used to get from HP -- a printer I could send a document to, walk away, and come back to find it printed in a few minutes. I can't do that with this one. It requires CONSTANT babysitting and troubleshooting. Almost every single time I send a document to print there's some kind of issue, OR (due to the minimal paper holding capacity) it runs out of paper and THEN there's an issue. When it runs out getting the software to deal with the situation is a nightmare, and in the end it's just WAY too much of a hassle to deal with this machine. I knew I should have gotten an Epson, and in fact I'm going to chuck this (even though it works fine) for an Epson. It prints okay (though the ink tends to bleed), but it's just a time consuming nighmare to have to troubleshoot ALL THE TIME in daily use, and the software is so poorly designed that it's a super hassle even to do something simple like print in draft quality (hey, this helps HP sell more expensive ink cartridges that way, right?). This is the worst ever, and my housemate's Epson just works absolutely fine and trouble free without ANY of the hassles of this HP printer.
You might also want to note that HP ships this printer with ink cartridges that run out fairly quickly so you have to go buy replacements fairly quickly. Add that to the price. The replacements last much longer than the originals even though they have the same numbers, so clearly HP is doing this intentionally. I find that to be a very shady business practice. The point is when you see this selling for $70 or whatever, just know that within a month you will be spending another $60 or so on inkjet cartridges, and that affects the price!
Get an Epson. You'll be so much happier.
Not a bad printer 2008-05-15
Sufficently prints out documents and pics. A bit bulkier and louder than I expected. But still not bad for a $65 printer.
