Find the perfect gift for everyoneHP Officejet J5780 All-in-One
Manufacturer: HP Part number: Q8232A#ABA
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- The low price of the HP Officejet J5780 makes up for some drawbacks, including slow print speeds and lackluster text prints. We recommend spending a little more for the competition from Canon.
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CNET editors' review
HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One price range: $167.17
- Reviewed by: Felisa Yang
- Reviewed on: 04/05/2007
- Released on: 02/21/2007
The good: Compact; inexpensive; easy to use; excellent color scans; generous support options.
The bad: Text prints need a lot of improvement.
The bottom line: The low price of the HP Officejet J5780 makes up for some drawbacks, including slow print speeds and lackluster text prints. We recommend spending a little more for the competition from Canon.
The HP Officejet J5780 is an inexpensive multifunction inkjet printer that's suitable for a home office with light printing needs. Without an Ethernet jack, it's not suitable for larger, networked offices, while the lack of media card slots limits its appeal for general home use. For a home office, however, it serves up the right mix of features--fax, copy, scan, and print--for a mere $150. In terms of print speed and quality, it's a middle-of-the-pack machine. We think that a home office user would be satisfied with this printer, but we like the slightly more expensive Canon Pixma MP530 better because of its superior print quality, particularly with black text. If you can spare the extra $50, we say go for the Canon.
Design
The HP Officejet J5780 is a compact all-in-one, which makes it easy to tuck into the corner of your desk. It measures 18 inches wide, 15.2 inches deep, and 9.3 inches tall, and weighs less than 15 pounds. A 35-page automatic document feeder sits on top of the scanner lid, which conceals an A4-size scanner. Even with the ADF, the maximum size document you can scan is A4.
Two trays serve as the input and output trays. The lower input tray holds 100 sheets of regular paper. The output tray has a pullout arm to help you keep longer sheets under control. While the input tray can certainly hold legal-length paper, it doesn't have a support arm, so the edge of the paper will rest on your desktop.
The control panel is busy, but well-organized. The buttons are grouped by task, and they center on a two-line text LCD. Each task (copy, scan, fax) has dedicated buttons for common options, such as redial and speed dial for fax and reduce/enlarge for copy, as well as menu buttons and dedicated start buttons (in both black and color). An alphanumeric keypad and five one-touch dial buttons round out the control panel.
The J5780 uses a two-tank system: one black and one tricolor. For improved color ranges when printing photos, you can swap in a tricolor photo tank ($25) for the black. Refill tanks come in both regular and high-capacity versions. The regular black prints about 200 pages and costs $15, while the large version costs $30 and prints about 750 pages. The regular tricolor costs $18 and prints 170 pages, while the high-capacity version costs $35 and prints 520 pages. Using the high-capacity tanks for the best value, we estimate that black prints cost about 4 cents per page and four-color prints cost about 10.7 cents per page. The Canon Pixma MP530's costs are lower for both prints.
Features
The J5780 offers the standard set of features for a work-oriented all-in-one in this price range. It offers only a USB connection, so it's better suited as a dedicated printer for a single user. Unlike many other office-oriented all-in-ones, it lacks a built-in duplexer and media card slots (though you can still print photos from your PC). Of the two, we'd rather it have a duplexer for a home office.
When copying, you can reduce or enlarge over a range of 25 percent to 400 percent, using either preset values or custom values. For faxing, you can program up to five one-touch entries, and up to 80 speed-dial numbers, including groups. Incoming faxes can be stored in memory and reprinted later. If you'd like to block incoming faxes from specific numbers, use the Junk Fax Blocker feature (you'll need to subscribe to Caller ID). If you're scanning a document or image, you can save it to your PC, open it in a number of programs for editing, or use the optical character recognition feature to create an editable document. Once the scan is saved to your PC, you can use HP's bundled utilities to share, edit, and e-mail the scanned documents.
Performance
Among the all-in-ones in its price range ($50 in either direction), the HP J5780 was a middle-of-the-road performer. It printed black text at a rate of 6.0ppm, slightly behind both the Canon Pixma MP530 and the Lexmark X5470. It was quick with 4x6 photo printing, however, scoring 0.7ppm for a single print and an average of 0.77ppm when printing a 10-print batch. Its scan speeds were at the back of the pack: 2.8ppm for grayscale and 2.9 for color. And with copying (using the ADF), it fell in the middle again, with a score of 1.86ppm.
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In most of its tasks, the J5780 did a pretty good job, but its text prints disappointed us. The characters showed obvious flaws and jaggedness, and the text was "swollen"--everything looked big and puffy instead of being sharp and clean--even on coated inkjet paper. The color graphics print looked better, with good color reproduction. It did suffer from some jaggies, though, and overall, it was slightly washed out.
The 4x6 color photos we printed showed decent detail and color, though we noticed some graininess. We would've liked to see more brightness, too.
The J5780 did a pretty good job with grayscale scans, though compression in the dark end of the spectrum resulted in some lost details in the shadows of photos. Happily, the J5780 produced a great color scan, with true colors and sharp details. Overall, it's a middle-of-the-road printer and its quality would be good enough for basic office work, though it's not of a quality that's suitable for presentation materials. We liked the quality of the Canon Pixma MP530 better.
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Service and support
HP backs the Officejet J5780 All-in-One with a standard one-year warranty, which is on par with the competition. While under warranty, you can get toll-free phone support 24/7 for free. HP's Web site has downloadable drivers, software, and manuals; e-mail and online chat tech support; FAQs; and a troubleshooting guide.
User reviews
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I hate this printer!
by ihatethisprinter on May 2, 2008
Pros: It is inexpensive
Cons: bad print, bad paper feeder, paper jams
Summary: This is the worst printer I have ever owned. It is designed to eat up your ink by ENDLESS aligning of pages... or, feeding double pages so you only have ...
Summary: This is the worst printer I have ever owned. It is designed to eat up your ink by ENDLESS aligning of pages... or, feeding double pages so you only have half what you want printed & you waste ink and paper... or, just because it wants it will omit sections of a document- further wasting paper and ink. Paper jams easily. And it wants you to align cartridges EVERY time you put in a new cartridge... wasting more ink and paper! I NEVER review products, but this product gets me so angry every time I use it that I am compelled to get the word out! DO NOT BUY THIS STUPID PRINTER!
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Does a better job than my paper shredder
by Alphonse_G on October 19, 2008
Pros: Compact, al in one
Cons: jams and shreds paper more often than it prints
Summary: This could be the last HP printer I buy!
Summary: This could be the last HP printer I buy!
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HP Office Jet Vs. Canon MP530
by shellyki on June 22, 2008
Pros: Cannon All In One is HORRIBLE!
Cons: I do not know yet
Summary: Canon MP530 is HORRIBLE!!!! OMG I wish we would have read the reviews before buying this piece of junk! We were getting yet another set of color ink cartrigages for ...
Summary: Canon MP530 is HORRIBLE!!!! OMG I wish we would have read the reviews before buying this piece of junk! We were getting yet another set of color ink cartrigages for the damn Canon and I said NO MORE Just buy the HP and let's try it out
The Canon MP530 is NOT usable we only printed about 20 pages and we spent more money buying ink because the Canon MP530 will NOT work AT ALL without ink and IT ALWAYS thinks it is out of ink - My personal opnion on the Canon MP530 is that Canon is trying to make money selling ink because at least for the Canon MP530 you can NOT use the printer OR the scanner OR the copier OR even print in black and white unless every single ink cardtrigage is ALWAYS VERY FULL and I mean to the top! I am hoping to take a video of us putting this Canon printer on our fire pit and placing it on You Tube - every time we needed it it failed and it was so frustrating - As you can tell I am venting but mostly i would NOT reccomend anyone buying the Canon MP530! -
This is nothing more than a printer. Does not scan or copy after a few months of use.
by Quality? on June 4, 2008
Pros: It was packaged nicely.
Cons: Frustrating as all I do is look for a solution.
Summary: Done with HP. Back to Sony or Dell.
Summary: Done with HP. Back to Sony or Dell.
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Brilliant, but ...
by montdor1 on May 16, 2008
Pros: AIO functions work great, usually.
Cons: Software needs compatibility updates, HP.
Summary: There's no question this is a superb machine. I give it (only) a VG rating, though, because despite its technical prowess, there are times -- for example, wireless printing ...
Summary: There's no question this is a superb machine. I give it (only) a VG rating, though, because despite its technical prowess, there are times -- for example, wireless printing -- when it is capricious, unreliable and/or difficult to work with. Having all those function in one place causes softpaq/software conflicts. The hardware is awesome, nonetheless. Overall, then, its rating is VG.
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Good Printer Bad Fax
by jgbrown54 on April 10, 2008
Pros: Good printer. Good Scanner. Good stand-alone fax.
Cons: Bad PC fax. Does not support coversheets from PC.
Summary: HP has removed support for sending a coversheet when sending a fax from your PC. Apparently so many people complained about the fact that the coversheet was enabled by default ...
Summary: HP has removed support for sending a coversheet when sending a fax from your PC. Apparently so many people complained about the fact that the coversheet was enabled by default that instead of disabling the coversheet they just dropped it altogether. I don't know about you but when I send a fax it needs a coversheet to insure that it gets routed properly when it gets received on the other end. I guess your supposed to call the person you are send the fax to and have them stand by the fax machine to wait until they receive your fax. If they carry this idea into all of their software then before long we will only be able to print what they think we should print. After spending many hours with their support group, the only work-around is to print the coversheet and put it back through the scanner when you want to send a fax.
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HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One
by nmr1902 on March 16, 2008
Pros: Excellent.....
Cons: No concerns so far..
Summary: I did a lot of Internet survey before buying this product (HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One). Many people were saying that its printed text quality is not good, it makes a ...
Summary: I did a lot of Internet survey before buying this product (HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One). Many people were saying that its printed text quality is not good, it makes a lot of noise, and fax related issues. I think this machine is so simple to use, and I used all of its functions, they worked really well. Those people, who complain, should spend some time in reading the manual, or else they are people from some other brand, commenting to make negative impact on this machine. With so good results and very economic price, I certainly recommend this product.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: HP
- Part number: Q8232A#ABA
- Description: Enjoy greater productivity with the HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One. Combining printing, faxing, copying and scanning capabilities, it?s a compact machine that's the ideal business solution for fast, high-quality printing at low cost. Whether it?s print, fax, scan or copy, the HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One with built-in high-speed USB 2.0 feature, does its work quickly and efficiently. Enjoy print and copy speeds of up to 30 ppm black and 24 ppm color. Send color faxes at 33.6 kbps, with built-in caller ID and junk fax blocker. And, scan everything from photos to legal-sized documents with 2400 x 4800 dpi resolution and 48-bit color. What's more, the one-touch buttons allow you to quickly fax, scan and copy. It?s efficiency your business will appreciate. With a low cost-per-page for both black and color documents, it?s so affordable to bring your business proposals and marketing materials to life. In fact, with the optional high-capacity inkjet cartridges, laser-quality prints are made even more affordable. Plus, you can print up to A4 size borderless photo. To achieve brilliant photos, choose to print in 6-ink color. Stay productive with this versatile All-in-One with print, fax, scan and copy functions, while a 35-page Automatic Document Feeder lets you focus time elsewhere. Included HP software enables you to edit text from scanned documents. You can even organize, edit and email your photos easily with HP Photosmart Essential software. All these amazing features in one reliable machine, compact enough to fit on your desk.
General
- Copier Type Digital
- Fax Type Plain paper
- Printing Technology Ink-jet - Color
- Display 2 lines x 16 characters
- Width 18 in
- Depth 15.2 in
- Height 9.3 in
- Weight 14.6 lbs
Memory
- Standard Memory 364 MB
Copying
- Max Copying Speed up to 30 pages/min (mono) / up to 24 pages/min (color)
- Max Copying Resolution up to 600 x 1200 dpi (mono) / up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (color)
- Gray Scale Half-Tones 256
- Max Document Enlargement 400 %
- Max Document Reduction 25 %
- Maximum Copies 100
Printing
- Inkjet Technology HP Thermal Inkjet
- Max Printing Resolution up to 1200 dpi (mono) / up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (color)
- Max Printing Speed up to 30 pages/min (mono) / up to 24 pages/min (color)
- Printer Drivers / Emulations PCL 3
- Ink Type HP Vivera Inks
Scanning
- Optical Resolution 2400 x 4800 dpi
- Interpolated Resolution 19200 dpi
- Gray Scale Depth 8 bit
- Color Depth 48 bit
Fax Machine
- Max Transmission Speed 33.6 Kbps
- Fax Resolutions 300 x 300 dpi
- Total Memory Capacity 100 pages
- PC Faxing Yes (send only)
Fax Machine Features
- Features Color faxing
Document & Media Handling
- Max Original Size 8.5 in x 11.7 in
- Original Type Sheets
- Document Feeder Capacity 25 sheets
- Min Copy Size 3 in x 5 in
- Max Copy Size 8.27 in x 23.4 in
- Min Copy Weight 64 g/m2
- Max Copy Weight 280 g/m2
- Supported Media Type Cards, Labels, Envelopes, Photo paper, Plain paper, Transparencies, Iron-on transfers
- Standard Media Capacity 100 sheets
- Output Trays Capacity 50 sheets
- Document & Media Handling Details ADF - 35 sheets, Input tray - 100 sheets, Output tray - 50 sheets
- Speed Details Copying : up to 24 pages/min ( A4 ) - Color, Copying : up to 30 pages/min ( A4 ) - B/W, Printing : up to 24 pages/min ( A4 ) - Color draft, Printing : up to 30 pages/min ( A4 ) - B/W draft, Printing : 25 sec ( 4 in x 6 in ) - Photo draft
Finishing Equipment
- Collator None
- Stacker None
- Stapler None
- Binder None
PC Connectivity
- PC Connection Availability Yes
- PC Connection Hi-Speed USB
- Operating System Support MS Windows XP, MS Windows 2000, Apple Mac OS X 10.3, Apple Mac OS X 10.4, MS Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Power
- Power AC 110/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
- Power Consumption Operational 40 Watt
Miscellaneous
- Consumables Included 1 x Cartridge ( Yellow/cyan/magenta ), 1 x Cartridge ( Black )
- Microsoft Certifications Certified for Windows Vista
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature 41 °F
- Max Operating Temperature 104 °F
- Humidity Range Operating 15 - 80%
CNET Labs' Benchmarks
- CNET Labs Color Scanning Speed Test (pages per minute) 2.94
- CNET Labs Gray Scale Scanning Speed Test (pages per minute) 2.8
- CNET Labs Photo Speed Test (pages per minute) 0.7
- CNET Labs Presentation Speed Test (pages per minute) 1.75
- CNET Labs Printer Graphics Speed Test (pages per minute) 1.51
- CNET Labs Text Speed Test (pages per minute) 6
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Manufacturer info
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