HP C4188 Ink
Photosmart C4188 Ink Cartridges

HP C4188 Printer Review

The HP Photosmart C4188 inkjet printer is an all in one made for the home office user who wants to print photos. Weighing only 12 pounds, anyone in the home can move this machine if needed. Live in a small home or have a small office space? Don't worry about that—the C4188 has dimensions 17.4x11.46.4 inches. It has a USB connection, as well as four memory card slots. Some compatible cards include Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and xD cards, among others. It has the ability to produce up to 3,000 pages a month, which will be hard for most home users to surpass. The C4188 also has an internal memory of 32 MB.

For users who would like to print photos but are not looking for a high maintenance printer, this probably isn't the best option. Though only two HP C4188 ink cartridges—black and tricolor—are needed for standard printing and copying, two tanks are optional. These optional Photosmart C4188 ink cartridges contain photo gray and photo color ink. What's complicated about 4 tanks of printer ink? Well, in order to use the photo tanks, the standard HP C4188 ink must be removed and vice versa. Though this isn't too difficult, for those who will switch printing jobs often, this could become annoying. One great aspect, however, is the fact that this printer ink can print on an array of media types—such as plain paper, photo paper, inkjet paper, envelopes, transparencies, iron-on transfers and cards.

Using the black HP C4188 ink, about 30 pages per minute can be printed or copied, and this Windows and Mac compatible unit can also print about 24 pages per minute with color. It will also create resolutions as high as 4800x1200 dpi using color Photosmart C4188 ink, and black ink can reach resolutions of 1200 dpi.