HP PhotoSmart 1215 Photo Printer

I love my PhotoSmart 1215 but was a little discouraged when the driver for XP was not available. The neat thing about this printer is, if you mainly use it to print photos from a memory card, you don't have to be connected to your PC. Just know which numbers you want to print, enter and off it goes. The quality of my prints has been great. Right now it's connected to my iMac and is doing splendidly. It's quite dependable and not expensive. I'd recommend it highly.*****

On 04/03/02 I bought a new printer hp photosmart 1215, it installed perfectly, now, suddenly it decided to stop dead!
I have contacted Hp Customer Care re the problem....timeout settings...no help availadle...also my PC tells me there are now no drivers for this device installed! How can this be???

This is a good,inexpensive printer.It is easy for me,still
very gadget illiterate,to install and use.

Every company has their specialty. Canon has cameras, Sony has audio & video, and HP has the printer market nailed.

Now, I will be honest, I have not yet actually bought one of these, but as soon as my next paycheck shows up, it will be mine.

My father has an HP DeskJet 722C that he bought years ago. And even though it's only a 600 x 600 printer, it still makes great photos. That's why I told my neighbor when he asked me what to get that he should only look at HP. And he did, now he has a 932C that he loves.

Now about this printer:
The versatility between parallel and USB makes it easy for anyone with an older PC or newer PC/Mac to connect it up. (Hewlett-Packard's website doesn't say it works with WinXP, but read on...)
Since I wasn't sure whether or not the printer would work with my notebook running Windows XP, I called the people at Best Buy and asked if I could hook up their demo printer to my PC to try it. They said sure, so I did. It worked flawlessy! I had a photo I had previously downloaded to my PC from a digital camera that I had taken of my cat. I opened Paint Shop Pro 7, changed the DPI from 72 to 600, which resized it to about 3 inches. I then blew it back up to 5 inches, which of course then loses quality.
I set the printer to it's highest quality, and clicked "OK" to print. From the time I clicked "OK" to the time it finished printing was only about 30 seconds. Even on the cheapest paper Best Buy found under a pallet in there store, the image was still excellent. I am convinced and a "true HP believer" :).

I normally wouldn't give something the highest rating, but HP has gotten me. I will have this printer, that is for sure.

I have owned this printer for about a year. It has worked flawlessly printing all types of projects. It works great with my digital camera and works great with my visioneer 8700 scanner. HP was slow to update the drivers to be compatible with Windows XP but so was Visioneer. This printer far excceds the quality of the Epson printer it replaced. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another HP printer when the time comes.