Product Description

HP Inkjet Multifunctional Printer Machine Officejet L7680
• Network ready multifunction printer prints up to 12ppm/10ppm mono and colour at 2400 x 4800dpi• Fax speed 3 seconds per page• Colour faxing & auto redialling• Scans at 2400 dpi• Copies up to 99 copies at 16ppm/15ppm mono & colour• Reduce/enlarge 25 - 400%

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35428 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Hewlett Packard
• Model: cb038a
• Released on: 2008-05-22
• Dimensions: 35.05 pounds

Features

• HP Inkjet Multifunctional Printer Machine Officejet L7680
  • Network ready multifunction printer prints up to 12ppm/10ppm mono and colour at 2400 x 4800dpi• Fax speed 3 seconds per page• Colour faxing & auto redialling• Scans a

Manufacturer's Description
The HP Officejet Pro L7500/7600/7700 series is designed for small business / home business users looking for a fast, high productivity, network-ready all-in-one offering professional-quality printing at a significantly lower cpp than comparable lasers.

Maximise your productivity with Laser Quality Speeds of up to 12 ppm black/10 ppm colour – faster than many leading colour lasers. Share up to 35 ppm black/34 ppm colour printing via your wired network. Print, copy and scan using 50-sheet ADF.

Ensure minimal impact on the environment with this energy efficient range of all-in-ones. Reduce paper usage by up to half with automatic two-sided printing and copying. Digitise documents, photos and more with efficient flatbed scanning.

Print professional-quality colour documents, brochures and graphics with HP Officejet inks and save as much as 50% per page over lasers. Save on everyday documents too with laser-quality black at a cpp up to 40% lower than comparable lasers.

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Customer Reviews

Great for Linux compupter (not so great for Vista)
I bought this all-in-one printer after my last HP printer for the past six years has finally gave up. I wanted to replace it with a quality printer that will serve me for another six years and decided to go for HP as I know they make quality printers. Yes, they do make cheap flimsy ones as well, so a little bit of research was required and finally I decided to go for this one. I'm glad I did as this printer obviously one of their better ones. It is sturdy (and heavy) and there's nothing flimsy about it. Printing quality is very good and fast. Scanning quality is excellent, the best I've seen from an all-in-one to date (even more expensive ones).

As for installation, the review is mixed. Installation on my Kubuntu machine couldn't have been easier. Having plugged the printer directly with a USB cable the printer was isntantly and seamlessly installed as if it was always there. Connecting to the printer through a network required me to install a new printer and then select it from the list of available printers (it was the only one there) and in less than a minute it was working. Setting up the scanner to save documents directly to the computer (digital filing, as HP call it) was also very quick and easy. I haven't tried using the fax yet but as the drivers were installed for me I have no reason to think it wouldn't work.

On Vista things were a bit more difficult. Although Vista saw the printer it had no drivers for it, nor did it find any on the internet (does it ever?) and it disliked the installation CD that came with the printer.
That required to download new drivers from the HP website (60mb) and then go through the lengthy installation process, but after about 40 mintues it was installed finally installed. I haven't set up the digital filing for Vista yet but unless Vista makes it difficult to share folders, it should be straight forward. Fax drivers were not installed, so don't have high hopes on it working.

I'm giving it five stars because I think it's a quality printer and despite the Vista experience as I feel it's not HP's fault. If you are a Linux who wants to make sure that this printer will have full functionality on Linux so this one is. If you are a Vista user, you might want to consider to upgrade to a better operating system first (e.g. Windows XP).

75% success - but unable to scan
I bought this printer without adequate research as I have always had good experiences with HP printers.
I connected the L7680 to an HP laptop running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 using USB cable. There were several "hiccups" during installation and I had to downlad two patches from the HP web site before I could make progress.
After that, printing, copying, faxing and photo management were really excellent. Unfortunately I could not get scanning to work at all. I downloaded all the fixes but still no success, and HP help line simply blamed the incompatibility problem on Microsoft. When I try to scan i just get a "communication error" message and a suggestion that i download the fix that i have already installed. When I checked the HP Forums I see i am far from alone - this is a problem experienced by many, many people.
As I need scanning as a key function of my printer i have sent it back. This is very unfortunate as otherwise it met all my needs and now I do not know what to buy as an alternative. Any recommendations?

Hassle to install, else a fine printer
I bought the HP Officejet Pro L7680 to replace my multifunction HP Officejet T45, which served me for 10 years till the carriage belt broke. Although on Amazon Prime, I paid extra for next-day delivery for Saturday which was worth it, since the printer arrived at 9am. The product comes with the minimum packaging necessary but is let down by the excessive and non-recyclable packaging engulfing the cartridges and printer-heads. Installing the L7680 - I am on XP - is a noisy and paper-wasting experience. It takes over 20 minutes and uses up several sheets including one that says: 'Important! Please Read!' in several languages. When I started to connect it to my machine, I noticed the main boo-boo. The L7680 thoughtfully ships with two RJ11 cables, one with a UK terminator. But it ships with _no_ USB cable at all. It is also unclear in the documentation if one must connect the printer using the USB port at the back (a Type B port) or the one in the front (a regular Type A port). Through trial and error, I ended up connecting the printer to test using a very short USB TypeA-TypeB cable I had at home. When testing the fax, an error report was printed which is fair enough but when it is all working and the front panel says it is working fine, what the need to print another report was, I could not understand. Otherwise on testing, it all worked fine. I hope it stays with me as long as the T45 did.