HP Deskjet 6980 Color Printer (C8969A#B1H)
HP Deskjet 6980 Color Printer (C8969A#B1H)
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 List Price: $183.00 Sale Price: $299.99 Availability: unspecified 
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Product Description
Fast, affordable, efficient. With laser-quality black and white, direct photo printing, and networkability, the HP Deskjet 6980 Color Inkjet Printer has all office bases covered.
Details
- Up to 4800 optimized dpi and Print Speeds up to 36 ppm black/27 ppm color
- Direct Photo Printing without a PC from PictBridge-enabled Cameras
- Wi-Fi Wireless Capability and Wired Ethernet Printing and Print Sharing
- Print Laser-Quality Black and True-to-Life Photos with HP Vivera Inks
- 14.04" lbs. (WxLxH) 17.70" x 14.50" x 5.70"
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Rating
What more can I say. The printer does what I want it to do. I DO NOT print photos with this printer. It is my general purpose home printer. It is very fast and ‘seems’ to sip the ink. The printer’s internal webpage currently gives me a Total Page Count of 413 and I have 60% Black Ink Level and 50% Color Ink Level with included cartridges.
I installed the printer in my garage to free up my office desk space. (Office space recently shrank due to 95% of room being converted to a play room. Bah.
The 6980 worked good on my Windows XP PC using a Linksys wireless router with no security. (Yes… I ran it with no security. I played with MAC filter security and the 6980 worked but I don’t think that’s very good security.)
I recently installed Windows Vista and couldn’t believe it when Vista auto-configured the printer’s wireless connection. Recently, I enabled WPA2-AES security on my router. So, I connected the 6980 to my Linksys router with a Cat5 cable and accessed its “website” tool via the printer’s new LAN IP. No problems. I configured its Wireless Network settings to use WPA2-AES and gave it the Passphrase I setup earlier on my router. After disconnecting the Cat5 cable, I refreshed Vista’s Printer control panel and the printer re-appeared. I typed in its wireless IP in Internet Explorer and its internal website popped right up! I was very happy.
NOTE: The IP for the printer is different depending on whether it is connected via Wireless or Cat5 cable. At least it was for me. Check your OS’s printer control panel to discover the IP. If anything in this review doesn’t happen for you… you may want to read the Network Guide and Setup Guide located here:[...]
(Yes, the printer will make your cheapy pressboard desk wobble/vibrate while it prints. But you didn’t buy a wireless printer to put it on your desk!)
PRINTER REVIEWED
HP Deskjet 6980 Color Printer (C8969A#B1H)
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I’ve had this printer for about 6 months and its been great. I’m not very technical but I got a wireless router going in the house for a laptop that we move around. I assumed getting this printer to work on the wireless network would be a problem, but the setup went fine using a wireless laptop (running the HP setup CD) and the printer hard wired into my ethernet connection per the instructions (they include the cord to do this). Once it was all lined up, I simply unplugged the printer from the ethernet and it worked great wirelessly. We have it tucked into a cabinet where it’s hidden and the wireless laptop prints to it without a problem. One time it wasn’t working so I pulled it out and ran throught the set up again with it plugged into the wall and its run fine wirelessly ever since. The print quality seems great also, but all we have printed are web pages and a few word documents.
Rating
HP printers provide excellent quality, especially compared to the Dell I use at home. For the person who couldn’t find the catch tray, pull the center part of the paper tray forward and tip it back. Voila — a catch tray.
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This printer is a great choice for a few reasons. The least reason to buy a printer is appearance, sure, but the stylish blue appearance on the HP 6980 makes it one of the best looking printers out there. Wireless setup is by far the best reason to chose this printer. I was a bit hesitant about how easy it would work, but the documentation in the box by HP (paper manuals) was very helpful. Just take the printer and the router, run an Ethernet cord between them, and run the software on your PC (PC doesn’t need to be connected to it). Then it instructs you to remove the ethernet cable and in the end, only the power plug needs to be present. I have one Vista desktop and one Vista laptop currently set to this printer.
Some issues to note. It does in fact shake, as I guess many printers probably shake. I recommend placing this on a different desk/table from which you use for your desktop and/or laptop. It’s only a minor inconvenience though. Even with my desktop on the same table, I still feel the shaking somewhat noticeably.
The CD in the package is essentially useless for Vista users. Now in the store, you might see it say “compatible with Vista” and it is, though not as simple as some people I’m sure have been misled to believe. You will need to download the software from the HP site. It’s not hard, just a few clicks on the HP site will get you there. Download and then install on EACH PC with which you’d like the printer to work.
One other quick note. The printer allows you to print a report page showing the printer’s status on your network and other relevant details as well as an IP address you can enter in the browser that shows details such as ink levels and allows some configuration. HP seems to know printers quite well. Highly recommended!
Rating
Delivery was quick. Installing was fast. Got it to sink up the first time connecting to LAN and printer sharing. Quality is great, picture is great. Easy to install. Great Product. Not having all the other problems like some of the other owners.