Background
HP manufactures a wide variety of printers, ranging from professional-grade machines to home printers.
This model is called an ‘All-in-One’ printer. This means that it has many different capabilities besides printing, including scanning and copying. This printer is compatible with a variety of paper types, including plain paper, legal paper, cards, envelopes, transparency film, 4 x 6 in photo paper, and 8.5 x 11 in photo paper
Identification
To find the exact model of printer that you have, use this HP support page, which has information on where identifying numbers are located on your HP printer. There are several important numbers. First is the marketing name, which is C8180. Next, there are product numbers that indicate a specific product. For the C8180, the product numbers are L2523A, L2526A, L2526B, and L2529A. Finally, there is a regulatory model number, which is used by regulatory agencies to classify and identify a product and determine whether it meets certain industry standards. For these printers, the regulatory model number is SDGOB-0712.
Technical Specifications
Physical Specifications
- Height: 21.6 cm (8.5 inches)
- Width: 44.8 cm (17.6 inches)
- Depth: 38.8 cm (15.3 inches)
- Weight: 11.3 kg (25 pounds)
Printing specifications
- Up to 1200 x 1200 rendered dpi black when printing from a computer
- Up to 4800 x 1200 optimized dpi color when printing from a computer and 1200-input dpi
- Panorama-size printing
- Method: drop-on-demand thermal inkjet
- Language: PCL3 GUI
- Duty cycle: Up to 3000 printed pages per month
Copying specifications
- Copy resolution up to 4800 x 4800
- Digital image processing
- Up to 50 copies from original (varies by model)
- Zoom to 400%, fit to page (varies by model)
- Copy speeds: black-and-white copies up to 32 copies per minute, color copies up to 31 copies per minute
Scanning specifications
- Image editor included
- Integrated OCR software automatically converts scanned text to editable text (if installed)
- Twain-compliant interface
- Resolution: 4800 x 4800 dpi optical; 19200 dpi enhanced (software)
- Color: 96-bit color, 8-bit grayscale (256 levels of gray)
- Maximum scan size from glass: 21.6 x 30.4 cm (8.5 x 12 inches)