Why won’t my HP C5280 All-In-One print decent photos?
In August 2007, I bought an HP PhotoSmart C5280 that wouldn’t work with my Mac, because HP shipped buggy software and didn’t bother to actually tell anyone, and I had to jump through ridiculous hoops to find and install the fixed software. When I started trying to print photos, which was the primary use for which I purchased this printer, the photo quality was abysmal. My attempts to get HP to do something about it met with a great deal of difficulty. Since my last blog posting on this, I have dealt with two HP escalation engineers. I have on numerous occasions been promised call-backs which never came. HP has sent me two replacement printers, for a total of three printers I’ve tried, and numerous color and photo ink cartridges, for a total of seven cartridges I’ve tried. I have wasted around seven hours of my time, countless sheets of paper, countless 4×6 photo sheets, and countless ink on alignment pages, test pages and prints. None of this has helped. Every single alignment page I’v
