Wednesday, March 23, 2005
HP PhotoSmart 8750 Printer and Ink Cartridges Review
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HP PhotoSmart 8750 Printer Key Features:
- USB 2.0 and Ethernet interfaces, optional wireless B/G; PC/Mac
- Up to 1,200 x 1,200 dpi black resolution, 4,800 x 1,200 dpi optimized color
- Print speeds up to 19 ppm black, 4-by-6-inch photo in about 29 seconds
- Direct printing from popular memory cards, PictBridge compatible
- Borderless printing from 4 by 6 to 13 by 19 inches
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Detailed Specs (HP 8750, Q5747A#ABA):
Product Description for HP PhotoSmart 8750 (From the Manufacturer, Hewlett Packard)
The ultimate HP 9-ink photo printer designed for the professional, fine art, portrait and serious amateur photographer who wants finished, professional-quality photos up to 13 by 19 inches to sell, exhibit, or admire for generations.1 Photos can last up to 100 years when displayed under glass2 or over 200 years in a photo album.3 The HP Photosmart 8750 produces 9-ink color prints and provides color management controls and remarkable printer flexibility to produce realistic color and true black-and-white photos that are true to your vision.
Features:
- Print photos with rich color, fine detail, and accurate skin tones in 9-ink color with HP Vivera Inks.
- Get black-and-white photos with pure grays, true neutral grays, deep blacks, high contrast, and smooth transitions.
- The extended color palette includes enhanced blue hues for more realistic skies and landscapes.
- HP's 9-ink extended color palette reproduces the rich, realistic colors you envision.
- Quickly print accurate on-the-spot proofs for your own reference or to share with clients.
- Printer controls easily let you apply Photoshop color management tools for true customized prints.
- Expand your options—HP color management tools produce rich colors compatible with Adobe RGB and sRGB.
- Print matte or glossy borderless photos up to 13 by 19 inches using multi-size trays.
- No more waiting to get the photos from the lab! Print professional photos right in your own studio.
- Take advantage of all standard media sizes—from passport, frames, and panorama to gallery-size up to 13 by 19 inches—with or without borders.
- Customized orders—print on different paper types and sizes using multi-size tray and media sensor.
- Print black documents at up to 19 ppm. Print 13-by-19-inch photos as fast as 3.5 minutes and 4-by-6-inch photos as fast as 29 seconds.4
- Convenient network printing—share your printer with PCs or MACs or enable wireless printing.
- Quickly print index photo proofing from memory cards for convenient photo referencing.
- Connect to your wired workgroup via the built-in Ethernet port.
- Plug your printer into the Ethernet port of a wireless router for wireless printing benefits (Wi-Fi 802.11b or g wireless with purchase of optional Jetdirect accessory).
What's in the Box
Photosmart 8750, Hp 96 cartridge, HP 97 cartridge, power supply, basics guide, setup poster, CD with HP Photo & Imaging software for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh; HP Memories Disc Creator software, electronic documentation, HP media sampler, warranty and registration card; USB and Ethernet cables not included
Notes: (1) Preliminary estimate of 108 years using the HP 97 Tricolor, the HP 101 Blue Photo, and the HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet Print Cartridges on HP Premium Plus Photo Papers. Based on Wilhelm-Research.com light-fade testing under glass for similar systems (as of November 2004). For more information on additional permanence testing factors, visit http://hp.com/go/premiumplusphoto. (2) Up to 108 years using the HP 97 Tricolor, the HP 101 Blue Photo, and the HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet print cartridges on HP Premium photo papers. Based on Wilhelm-Research.com light-fade under glass for similar systems. For more information on additional permanence testing factors, visit http://hp.com/go/premiumplusphoto. (3) Using the HP 97 Tricolor, the HP 101 Blue Photo, and the HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet print cartridges on HP Premium Plus photo papers. Based on Wilhelm-Research.com room-temperature degradation (dark fade) testing for similar systems. For more information on additional permanence testing factors, visit http://hp.com/go/premiumplusphoto. (4) Dependent upon type, print mode, and approximate figures. Exact speed will vary depending on the system configuration, software program, and document complexity.
HP PhotoSmart 8750 Street Price: $499.99
PC MAGAZINE.com Editors' review:
The HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ($499.99 direct) is one of the rare ink jet printers designed primarily for photos at sizes up to 13 by 19 inches. And although you can use it as an all-purpose printer, it's best as a second printer reserved strictly for photos.
At 10 by 25.3 by 24.1 inches (HWD), the Photosmart 8750 has a large footprint, but still manages a sleek look, with a gray finish punctuated by a flip-up LCD panel, memory card slots, and a PictBridge connector for cameras. Inside, the printer takes three cartridges with six to nine ink colors, depending on which ones you use. It ships with a tricolor cartridge with cyan, yellow, and magenta; a photo gray cartridge with three shades of gray; and what HP calls a blue photo cartridge, with light cyan, light magenta, and blue, for a total of nine colors and a wider gamut than most photo printers.
You can swap the blue photo cartridge for one with light cyan, light magenta, and black, and swap the photo gray for a black cartridge. We ran our text and graphics tests with a blue photo, a tricolor, and a black cartridge (7 colors) for fastest times. For photos, we used the nine-ink configuration for best quality.
Photos were at the high end of very good, just missing out on excellent. Most images qualified as true photo quality, but we saw a sprinkling of minor issues, including a slight tint in one photo that gave clouds a pink tinge. Graphics were also at the high end of very good, and text was at the high end of good.
Performance was less impressive, averaging 2 minutes 29 seconds for each 4-by-6 and 5:20 for each 8-by-10. The similarly priced Canon i9900, another photo printer that prints up to 13- by 19-inch output, took just 30 seconds for each 4-by-6 and 1:05 for each 8-by-10. The HP printer is faster for business applications, at 18:05 total on our test suite compared with the i9900's 25:19, but then, neither printer is intended for all-purpose printing.
More relevant is that HP claims a 100-year lifetime for 8750 output displayed under glass, or 200 years in a photo album, a claim that Canon doesn't make. If you care about long-lasting prints, you may decide it's worth waiting a little extra time for the output.
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