Comments on: HP PhotoSmart C6250: The Last HP Printer I Will Ever Buy

By: james

james — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:01:15 +0000

I have this printer running on a network, both wired and wireless using a mixture of Vista, XP and Mac OSX machines and its never failed once.

By: Colleen Zwarich

Colleen Zwarich — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:35:23 +0000

I am the IT person at a large office. Some of the computers I work on are laptops and some of them have Vista. The printer reinstalls every time you reboot on the VISTA machines only. I think it is a bug in vista!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:35:49 +0000

I bought a new C7280 that uses the same driver. I installed it from the CD and it locked my computer (quad-core Intel, all four processor cores pegged at 100% utilization.) I traced the problem as you did to a service that the driver installs. I uninstalled the software and downloaded it from the website (prior to the 1-1-08 version) and it gave me the same problem as the CD one. I tried tech support and was EXTREMELY frustrated by that awful experience. I do like the hardware and the printer works well using the basic driver, but I miss the ability to scan images to my computer and other features that the full package allows. I am very hesitant about trying their new driver because at 195,144KB, it seems excessively bloated. I was hoping someone would tell me that they fixed the lock-up problem; I have not found that yet. I will never buy another HP printer again.

By: ArthurT

ArthurT — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:02:15 +0000

We have two of these printers, and we bought them at christmas time also. Worked with Windows 2000/XP Home/XP Pro etc etc. Then my sisters laptop, a dell tried to print to it. After installing the drivers, it could not find it on the network ( i.e. all the other machines could but the Vista Box ). So we plugged it in directly. ( Same problem as you! Has to find the printer every time for boot. ) so, I backed up her machine, installed Windows XP Pro. Re-installed the drivers. Now everyone is happy, and everyone can print. After using HP printers for … 25+ years, and PCs since DOS 1.1, I think that the Vista driver is not very well done, and that Vista itself is not well done. A neibour of my fathers had a computer, looked dead to me, so He bought a new computer with Vista! He still cannot get his C6250 to scan. I dont think it will ever work. The machine, after a month, started this weird grinding noise ( Power suplly fan! ), He took it back, and got the SAME computer with Windows XP. He has had no problems. He can scan, and print, and copy.

The best part? Printer Carts at Costco, $56.99 for the TINYEST CARTRIDGE I HAVE EVER SEEN. Thought I was going to have to use a magnifying glass to see it. Cant hold that much ink.

4inkjets.com => 13 peice cartridge set, 3 blacks, 2 sets of color $60.
Same tiny carts. Itty bitty cartidge, but for 65% less.