HP 450CBi Mobile DeskJet Printer with Battery

HP 450CBi Mobile DeskJet Printer with Battery
Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The HP Deskjet 450 series mobile printers deliver the complete mobile office printing solution for mobile professionals who need high-quality, high-performance desktop printing - anytime, anywhere. This compact, lightweight, and stylish yet power-packed for rugged, mobile use printer delivers uncompromised desktop printing - photo-quality printing with up to 4800 by 1200 optimized dpi on premium photo paper and print speeds of up to 9 pages per minute in black and up to 8 pages per minute in color. The HP PhotoREt IV six-ink technology is available with the purchase of a separate optional photo inkjet print cartridge.For worry-free printing from any location the HP Deskjet 450 series printer connects to Windows notebooks, Macintosh PowerBooks, Palm OS handhelds, Pocket PCs, Win CE handhelds, and select Bluetooth (optional) enabled mobile phones. Deskjet 450 series prints images from CompactFlash cards via digital cameras or Pocket PCs - without additional cables or PC connections. With the power to keep up with the busiest users, the Lithium-ion battery prints up to 350 pages per charge and its compact design allows easy mobility (optional with 450ci, standard with 450cbi).
Amazon.com Product Description
Combining rugged design with a lightweight casing, Hewlett-Packard's 450Cbi Mobile DeskJet is an ideal printer to take on the road. Offering wireless Bluetooth connectivity (with an optional adapter) and built-in support for USB, parallel, infrared, and CompactFlash, you can produce documents from your laptop, cell phone, digital camera, or handheld device in just seconds. Print resolution is 1,200 x 1,200 dpi in black, and optimized photo-quality resolution is an outstanding 4,800 x 1,200 dpi on premium photo paper and 1,200 x 1,200 dpi input. The print cartridge is capable of producing up to 400 color (450 monochrome) sheets in its lifetime. An optional photo cartridge (HP 58) makes available HP's exclusive PhotoRet IV color layering technology. HP rates the printer speed at up to 9 ppm black, 8 ppm color in draft mode.

A long-life lithium-ion battery supplies power for 350 pages per charge; with the battery installed, the printer still weighs just 4.5 pounds. HP provides a one-year hardware warranty, and full online and phone technical support is available for one year.

What's in the Box
HP Deskjet 450cbi mobile printer, HP lithium-ion battery, parallel printer cable, power cord, AC adapter, HP 56 black inkjet print cartridge, 19 ml (C6656AN), HP 57 tri-color inkjet print cartridge, 17 ml (C6657AN), reference guide, setup poster, printer software on CD-ROM

HP 450CBi Mobile DeskJet Printer with Battery

Average customer rating:

Great when it works
HP Deskjet 450
Don't buy an HP 450
Photo Printing Amazing
Not bad, but a tad overpriced

HP 450CBi Mobile DeskJet Printer with Battery

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
ProductGroup: CE
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HP No. 56 Black Ink Cartridge (C6656AN)

Accessories:

Netgear FWG114P 802.11g Wireless Firewall with USB Print Server
Netgear USB Mini Print Server (PS121)
HP No. 56 Black Ink Cartridge Twin Pack (C6656AN-Bundle)
HP No. 56 Black Ink Cartridge (C6656AN)
HP No. 58 Photo Cartridge (C6658AN)

Product Features:

1,200 x 1,200 dpi black resolution, 4,800 x 1,200 optimized color dpi on premium photo paper
Weighs only 4.5 pounds even with the included long-lasting lithium battery
Includes foldable sheet feeder and parallel printer cable
PhotoRet IV color layering technology with optional HP 58 photo cartridge
USB, parallel, infrared, CompactFlash, and optional Bluetooth interfaces

ASIN: B00006LLJ6
Release Date: 2002-10-03

Amazon.com Product Description

Combining rugged design with a lightweight casing, Hewlett-Packard's 450Cbi Mobile DeskJet is an ideal printer to take on the road. Offering wireless Bluetooth connectivity (with an optional adapter) and built-in support for USB, parallel, infrared, and CompactFlash, you can produce documents from your laptop, cell phone, digital camera, or handheld device in just seconds. Print resolution is 1,200 x 1,200 dpi in black, and optimized photo-quality resolution is an outstanding 4,800 x 1,200 dpi on premium photo paper and 1,200 x 1,200 dpi input. The print cartridge is capable of producing up to 400 color (450 monochrome) sheets in its lifetime. An optional photo cartridge (HP 58) makes available HP's exclusive PhotoRet IV color layering technology. HP rates the printer speed at up to 9 ppm black, 8 ppm color in draft mode.

Product Description

The HP Deskjet 450 series mobile printers deliver the complete mobile office printing solution for mobile professionals who need high-quality, high-performance desktop printing - anytime, anywhere. This compact, lightweight, and stylish yet power-packed for rugged, mobile use printer delivers uncompromised desktop printing - photo-quality printing with up to 4800 by 1200 optimized dpi on premium photo paper and print speeds of up to 9 pages per minute in black and up to 8 pages per minute in color. The HP PhotoREt IV six-ink technology is available with the purchase of a separate optional photo inkjet print cartridge.For worry-free printing from any location the HP Deskjet 450 series printer connects to Windows notebooks, Macintosh PowerBooks, Palm OS handhelds, Pocket PCs, Win CE handhelds, and select Bluetooth (optional) enabled mobile phones. Deskjet 450 series prints images from CompactFlash cards via digital cameras or Pocket PCs - without additional cables or PC connections. With the power to keep up with the busiest users, the Lithium-ion battery prints up to 350 pages per charge and its compact design allows easy mobility (optional with 450ci, standard with 450cbi).

Customer Reviews:

Great when it works.......2007-02-02

The 450 CBi is a great printer out of the box. Unfortunately, the paper feed mechanism becomes [..] over time, and after a couple of years the printer becomes virtually unusable. It's also not nearly as durable as the old 350 series - an essential if you intend to use it as a MOBILE printer.

HP Deskjet 450.......2007-01-10

I received this product in very good condition.
Very happy with the purchase.

Don't buy an HP 450.......2006-11-19

I absolutely loved the printer HP 450 when it was working, perfect printing. After a while the paper gets jammed and then it gradually stops working. I tried to get it repaired - still didn't work. Then I looked on the internet and there are lots of people saying the same as me. The paper feed gets jammed its all very frustrating.
So I have purchased CanoniP90 from Amazon it's good but not as good as as the HP when it worked well.

Photo Printing Amazing.......2004-11-06

I got a new laptop this year, and it came with a free Dell Printer/Scanner/Copier thing, which I was pretty excited about, but it turned out it was HUGE. Took up waaaaay too much desk space in my already cramped dorm room, so at a friend's recommendation I got the HP 450 CBi. It's amazing.

First reason it's amazing is that for day-to-day printing it is just as good, if not a little better, than any other HP inkjet I've ever had, and I've had quite a few.

Second, the portability is great. Not only is it great to be able to bring my laptop to the theatre and update paperwork, etc. on the spot, but it's even better to then be able to immediately print it out and hand it to whoever it needs to go to.

Third, it's photo printing quality is incredible. With HP Premium Plus glossy photo paper, and the #58 photo cartrige, all of the pictures I've printed on it are virtually indistinguishable from film prints.

The only cons I'd say are the capacity of the ink cartriges (and the price, but I suppose all ink cartriges are rediculously overpriced), and the overall price of the unit. However, if you've got a good amount of money to spend on a printer, need to conserve as much space as you can, and could benefit from the portability, I would highly recommend this printer.

Not bad, but a tad overpriced.......2004-03-17

I bought this printer to go with my HP Pavilion ze5200 laptop the summer before heading off to college. I knew that in college, I'd be mobile and on the run, so I was looking for a good quality printer that was small enough to fit in a dorm, but wouldn't crap out on me as I was printing a ten page paper half an hour before it was due.

It's been about nine months since I bought the 450Cbi, and I've had a really good experience. It's small enough to fit compactly on my little dorm-room desk, and every time someone walks into my room they say, "Oh! What a cute printer!" It's small and lightweight enough to throw in my backpack along with my laptop as I go to the library or student center to study, and the fact that it can be battery-powered is just awesome--I can be sitting outside in the middle of the quad, with no outlets in sight, tapping away happily on my laptop with my printer chugging out my papers beside me. The quality is fantastic, both photo and simple black-and-white, and one black ink cartridge lasted me eight months, which is amazing considering all the papers a college student has to type.

For the negative stuff: As other people have said, it has a problem with paper jamming. I've had several times where the paper has jammed, and I've had to work like the devil to un-jam it. However, nothing has broken, and all in all, it's held up beautifully considering how much I put it through, always lugging it from one side of the campus to the other. My infrared printing did suddenly stop working on me for some reason--my laptop will detect the beam and begin to print, but an error will pop up and refuse to print anything that's not a Notepad file. As well, I was also disappointed that though the printer is advertised as being wireless, it doesn't actually come with a Bluetooth card. No matter though, a parallel port cable is short, compact, and has worked perfectly fine for me. I do think that it is a little overpriced--I paid $250 for it--but for me, it's been a great a little printer and I don't regret my choise to buy it.

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