HP Deskjet 9800 Wide Format Color Printer (C8165A#A2L)

I got this printer to replace mine that had just gone into permanent printer jam mode and I couldn't fix it. So I was all set up to get newer refurbished one of the same model. I whipped it out of the box and it was ready to finish my Season work in only moments. My only complaint is that it shipped with no print cartridges. Luckily I had the ones out of my last printer. I couldn't find anywhere that the ad said there would be no ink with it. Truly, what is a printer without ink? I had gotten several newer models of HP wide formats but they didn't do the job as I needed it done, like this one.

I bought this printer in 2008 (four years ago) because my boss owned one and it had always been reliable and easy to use. She used hers for printing hundreds of multi-page, full-color newsletters and brochures. I was immediately impressed with the color, the speed, and most of all the fact that I could easily create the custom size I wanted, hit print, and leave the machine running without worrying about paper jams or crooked printing!I bought my own for digi-scrapping because at the time I couldn't find any local shops that could print 12x12 photo-quality prints, and paying for an out-of-state place to do it was not only expensive, but a huge pain in the arse when the pages showed up bent, smeared, on the wrong type of photo paper, etc. I was putting together a fun scrapbook, nearly 40 pages long on 12x12 sheets, to go to several different family members for Christmas, so financially (and emotionally!) it just made more since to cut out the middleman and avoid the frustration.The 9800 did not fail! I printed over 300 12x12 sheets with this printer, and although I don't use it very much anymore, I still haul it out of the closet every once in a while to print things like colored print inside Christmas cards or the occasional picture. I've printed full-color, edge-to-edge, tri-fold pamphlets on glossy paper; 8x8 digi-scrap pages for smaller projects on photo paper; and of course regular ol' 8.5x11 plain paper stuff too. I've never ran into an issue.I wouldn't recommend this printer to anyone who doesn't need larger-sized printing though, or printing things in small quantities. The 9800 takes up a ton of space - it has to in order to print such large photos - and it's not wireless so it's definitely in your way (which could be remedied by buying extra parts, but I never minded enough to spend the extra cash). There are far more places that now print large photos, too, so I can't imagine this would be cost effective for the typical home user. BUT! For large-scale, multi-page printing needs, even printing edge to edge, I highly recommend!

printer last for two month and quit there after ... control sensors gets worn out ... a repair or replace of the printer head assembly was estimated at: us $ 316.00 ... just a piece of JUNK ... I give it away for free to anybody who wants it :ref: [email protected]

Terrible printer.... The ink is more expensive than the printer

What I find puzzling is why HP continues to churn out new printers even before the latest models are put on display, making all sorts of changes, but ignoring completely the old problems that are handed down from generation to generation.Like its predecessors, this fancy-shmancy printer promises much for people who need to create posters, flyers, banners and so on, but as usual fails to deliver the goods.It works great for the ordinary stuff - printing letter sized documents from e-mail, Word, Excel etc. with all the settings on "normal", and even does pretty well printing high resolution pictures on photographic paper, but when it has to get down to anything more complicated, it shivers, balks and then goes into a blind panic, creating havoc and paper destruction with wild abandon.Firstly, this one uses completely different ink cartridges to previous printers, and to add insult to injury, these are smaller than the old ones. Even though there's a very helpful feature that tells you how much ink you have left, it only serves to annoy you when you see that you are just two days away from shelling out more money for new cartridges.Secondly, my previous HP printer allowed me to create a letter-sized document and then enlarge it to 11" x 17" with a couple of clicks. If this one has that feature it's too well hidden for me to find it, and I gave up trying. If you need a flyer done, and were thinking of blowing it up to make a matching poster - the least irritating way is to change the paper size settings and just enlarge everything manually. If you only need a poster, make sure you set the size first. On the subject of size, this printer assumes you know the dimensions of paper with the codes A3, A4 and so on, and only by "Googling" did I confirm that 11 x 17 goes by the alias "tabloid".If you need to print a bundle of flyers, and planned to print them in the economy fast mode, don't even consider setting it to 25 and going for coffee. Even if you fan the paper until your co-workers complain about the chill, the printer will work itself up into a frenzy, and begin printing your document in random pieces on multiple sheets of paper, and spitting the results at you with almost religious fervor. You also have to remember to indicate that you don't need the two-sided printing, or you'll get a bunch of blank pages in the middle of the pile of 150 sheets it used to print your 25 flyers, most of which look like bits of a jigsaw puzzle.The "Cancel Print" button still doesn't work properly, and you'll have a lot of wasted paper if you need to stop a print job. The control buttons have now been moved from the right hand side like every other printer I've ever owned, and are now on the left hand side, so that I have to do yoga stretches over the desk to get to them.On the good side, it prints regular documents quickly and with good quality, and once you have your paper sizes set up correctly, it prints 11 x 17 and 13 x 19 posters. Time will tell whether the rollers have been improved on this model, as the last one refused to pick up cardboard or large paper sizes after a few months.I'm beginning to think that the printer's devil has split its soul into multiple parts, and is using HP printers as horcruxes. Only by destroying them all will we be saved. Can anyone spare a trustworthy Defense against the Dark Arts printer designer?Amanda Richards, August 6, 2005

This is the 3rd HP Deskjet 9800 Wide Format Color Printer I have bought. I can no longer find them in stores, so when the one I'm using stops working, I buy another one. We have a mechanical engineering business and we supply our customers Tabloid sized color prints of the parts we supply. I am also an artist and this printer fits all of my needs.

Now I just use my HP 9800, was a printer for standard formats and bought this for medium formats but is impressive quality and performance, excellent item, good price, fine atencioones the seller and great communication.