HP PhotoSmart P1000 Printer

Works well. I just couldn't buy a new printer when I have several ink cartidges for the HP P1000 PhotoSmart. The Printer costs less than a new 78color ink cartidge

The only things that has worked harder for me is my Maytag washer. Honest!


I have printed perhaps 4oo to 5oo great photos in 8x10 and several hundred 4x6. I printed simple signs that earned more than the coast of the printer, all the ink used and paper. I am on my 3rd case of plane paper, plus heavy weight paper.

I have use it with the usb cable and the printer cable. The small photo tray worked well after I surrendered and read and followed the instructions.

I have had my P1000 for 5 years or more...I have gone through several PCs, am on my 3rd scanner and have tossed two printers in the dump...one a wide print photo oriendted HP, the other that came "free" with another PC.


I considered buying a new one (or two) on Amazon 2 years ago for ?..$75/00 if a member correctly.

I have been able to download software that enables we to use it on XP home edition. The HP software worked well for me. Also have been using photoshop 6.

I have given away numbeous framed photos to frineds and family printed on it and had the pleasure of seeing people enjoy them.

I doesn't give up. There many be better printers. I am still looking and also am holding on to this HP P1000...I also have a Canon i9900 which is working out well enough.

And I just might get another P100. Anyone want a HP 3845? Free! The trash men wount be here until Thursday (2 days)

This thing works sometimes, and its cheep. Other then that I don't have much good too say about it. It uses up the ink in the expensive cartridges like water. And is so noisy it sounds like a truck going off road. I've owned quite a few cheep HP ink jet printers, and I've been disappointed by them all. I am going with Epson or paying a little more for a higher model HP. In the print world, you get what you pay for and buying cheep is a bad idea.

I bought this printer 3 years ago. It works great. The only problems are: the power cord has a short in it, the ink is pricy, not enough memory, freezes up, and sometimes will print lines or it will smear. I like HP printers and think I will stick with HP for a long time. I am going to up-grade to the HP laserjet 4050N or 1300N because of our home network. I think this model has some defects but in the newer printers HP has fixed them.

I've had the P1000 for a couple of years. Worked great with WindowsME. After installing XP on my desktop I had to reinstall the printer software to get it to work. Just got a new laptop and it doesn't work at all.. in fact, the P1000 causes my Dell Inspiron to crash whenever I disconnect the USB cable. When the cable is connected the laptop never recognizes the printer.