Original HP Print Cartridges are $75 for the pair and they leak into the bottom of the printer if left installed. Remanufactured/Refilled print cartridges cause even more problems with the print driver ink level monitors and often don't work at all. If you remove them and store with the protective shipping caps, they last a little longer but require printer recalibration sequence once re-installed. Color cartridge is especially troublesome as at least one color print head will often screw up prematurely ruining the whole cartridge. I've had this unit four years and only use it occasionally but on each occasion, I've had to go buy new cartridges to get it to go. In the whole time I've had it, I've printed less than fifty pages and have gone through a total of five sets of cartridges. Most of which were Genuine HP cartridges. Unless you intend to use this printer on a daily basis, I would recommend stepping up to a laser color printer using toner cartridges instead of liquid ink jet types. In addition, print quality is not all that great. Even at it's best quality print resolution and high quality media, the color is not crisp and the sharpness of the image is lacking. Print quality proportionately decreases with larger format prints. In short, if you want a big disappointment, buy one of these.Read full review
This printer is the slowest on my hallway! Forget what it says about pages-per-minute since it takes forever to kick out a page. But, it's the only one on the hallway that can print 11X17 in color. The old 1220C has a USB port on it, where the even older 1120C only has parallel, so I got this one to use in my office where the usual computer is a notebook with no parallel port. If the paper pickup rollers are kept scruffed up and clean (I use tape path cleaner, probably the last can in existance) it will feed the large sheets reliably and can print in small batches. I use it to print 20 to 30 'tabloid' newsletters quarterly, to print an analysis document or diagram if it's going to be used around a table or in class, and also use it to print 11X17 signs to laminate and post to announce this or that at the dog park. If this one lasts as long as the 1120C, which is still going strong, it'll still be around in 2020, if we're still using paper then. A side-benefit is that the ink cartridges for HP's large format printers are _huge_ and don't cost a lot more than the teensy little cartridges that cost as much as the smaller printers themselves.Read full review
The HP model 1220c is an old die hard. They do an excellent job and no maintenance. I had one at home for almost 8 years and only put in ink. A lazer is nice, but toners cost too much money and frankly I think inkjets can do an equal quality job of a lazer printers and for a 1/3 of the cost. I have worked in different offices and I do CAD work. HP1220 is excellent for check prints and every office I was in had one or two 1220's. I worked for a steel Fab. shop and the shop drawings were to be on 11X17 sizes of paper. We had a 1220, not a C, just 1220 (it was an early model). It almost run a continuous 6 hours a day, 5 1/2 days a week. It was like that for 3 years, and all we put in it was ink. It was still working fine when I left. I think it ran more sheets of paper that Bill Gates has in dollars. HP needs to start making them again and throw that crap junk that they made to replace the 1220 in the trash, or shove it where the sun don't shine.Read full review
Looks brand new. Great value awesome printer. Was delivered 1 day earlier than promised.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I have used one of these (HP 1220C) for over 20 years. That's right- the same printer for over 20 years. It just quit feeding paper and I'm looking for a replacement. I don't have the time or skills to repair it. Software is still available online and ink carts are available too. These inks have no expiration date chips so you don't have to replace palatially used cartridges. You may also reload your used carts. Try to get over 20 years out of any new printer today. I dare you!
Verified purchase: No
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