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Summary: Awesome Photos
Review: If you are looking for an affordable photoprinter, not a fast text printer, this is the one. I have a 2 year old printer at home printing digital photos at 2400x1200 dpi. I printed the same photo on both my old printer and the hp 7660 at max resolution and wow the colors in the hp printer are more vivid and accurate. The photo felt more life like, similar to film prints. The draw backs are you can not refill the ink cartridges, and you have to switch between black and the photo cartridges. It is slow printing text pages compared to a dual roll printer like a deskjet. In summary if you want a great photo printer at a reasonable price this one is it, if you want to print say 24 page documents all the time buy another printer. This was designed to be a photo printer, not a document printer.
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Summary: MAC Users - Get the Latest Driver from HP Support
Review: If you have a Mac G4, if your OS X version is 3.3.4, HP would have you believe that the printer will work out of the box, with later versions of OS X. After some 4 hours of trying to work this out on a G4 PowerBook, here are the results of trying to use the CD provided "with the printer".
1. It set up fine and showed the printer in the OSX printers window.
2. It tested itself fine in the Test and WOW! mode, printing its specimen pictures using the Powerbook
3. Trying to print a picture from Photoshop CS, caused the Adobe program to ABORT.
4, Trying to print a picture from Preview, caused the Apple program to ABORT.
5. Trying to print a picture from iPhoto caused the Apple program to ABORT. I returned the printer the next day to Circuit City, even though it cost me a 15% restocking fee. They were selling old stock, with out-dated drivers.
I then went to Cosco, and bought the (High-End) $299 HP Printsmart 7960 Printer on sale for $179. It has the latest CD with the correct driver. This printer works as it should.
In talking with the HP Support person, I found a day later, that I could have downloaded the new driver from their site, but the store people had no clue that this would be a problem for Macintosh. They speak PC, not Mac.
And with the way it uses ink, I estimate that I will equal the price of the printer in 4 sets of ink cartridges, in about a month. They should sell the printers for free, and make their money on the ink cartridges.
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Summary: Expensive to own
Review: If you plan to refill your own cartidges DO NOT BUY this printer. After you refill the cartidge, the HP inkjet utility will not read the new ink level. This leads to a warning before each printing. You have to stop you current work, bring the window forward, click continue each time. It took me 20 minutes to print 24 student mark updates. My old crappy Lexmark 35 did it in one click.
HP support offers nothing but "buy our over-priced cartridges at 25% of the price of the printer.
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Summary: Don't buy this printer!
Review: It prints beautiful photos and gorgeous text, if you can get it to print! It's "automatic" paper reader fails to read paper. I had photo paper that it continually told me didn't exist. In a rainstorm, it wouldn't even recognize fresh, out-of-the-box HP premium photo paper! It won't recongize envelopes as paper. unless you turn them opposite as to what the printer recommends making them very hard to format. Now my freshly bought and expensive printer cartridge has "failed." If you want to keep your blood pressure within normal limits, stay away!
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Summary: Great photo printer
Review: Like other reviewers, I wasted dozens of pages trying to get printer to work initially. Printouts would give up randomly (usually with 3/4 of a page printed) with a CRC error. HP support desk blamed corrupt files on my hard disk (Windows ME)which seemed dubious as I had had no other problems suggesting corruption of files. Was about to take the printer back to the retailer, when I happened to take delivery of a new PC (XP) and decided to try it on that. It all worked perfectly on the new PC first time. I have heard of other users having perfectly working HP PCs on ME/W98, finding CRC errors on upgrading to XP. Obviously something is amiss, but for me a happy ending. The printer is first class at highest quality settings using best glossy paper, printing flawless borderless photos to A4 with ease. It gets through a lot of coloured ink though, maybe only producing 8-12 A4 photo sheets per cartridge which is about a 1/3 of the volume my old Epsom colour printer used to produce on a similarly priced cartridge (with similar quality results). It is very slow at producing plain text, unlike my HP1512 which breezes through producing documents. It, like most HP photo/inkjet printers, is a noisy beast and there is always the concern that the grinding and banging noises emanating from its innards are fatal, but it makes them over and over again, without apparent harm. It doesn't take much paper in the in-tray so not suitable for volume use. I occasionally get 'paper not big enough' errors using some Neato CD inserts which are perhaps 1/4mm narrower than A4 - which seems a bit fussy. The printer has multi-format card readers, so printing straight from the printer without a PC is possible by using a digital camera's memory card, but there is no preview of the photo on the small LCD monitor, so you'd have to note down the picture numbers from the camera first. Overall I am very happy with the printer, due to the quality of the output which is its main selling point.
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Summary: Quality Photo Printer
Review: Like other reviewers, I wasted dozens of pages trying to get printer to work initially. Printouts would give up randomly (usually with 3/4 of a page printed) with a CRC error. HP support desk blamed corrupt files on my hard disk (Windows ME)which seemed dubious as I had had no other problems suggesting corruption of files. Was about to take the printer back to the retailer, when I happened to take delivery of a new PC (XP) and decided to try it on that. It all worked perfectly on the new PC first time. I have heard of other users having perfectly working HP PCs on ME/W98, finding CRC errors on upgrading to XP. Obviously something is amiss, but for me a happy ending. The printer is first class at highest quality settings using best glossy paper, printing flawless borderless photos to A4 with ease. It gets through a lot of coloured ink though, maybe only producing 8-12 A4 photo sheets per cartridge which is about a 1/3 of the volume my old Epsom colour printer used to produce on a similarly priced cartridge (with similar quality results). It is very slow at producing plain text, unlike my HP1512 which breezes through producing documents. It, like most HP photo/inkjet printers, is a noisy beast and there is always the concern that the grinding and banging noises emanating from its innards are fatal, but it makes them over and over again, without apparent harm. It doesn't take much paper in the in-tray so not suitable for volume use. I occasionally get 'paper not big enough' errors using some Neato CD inserts which are perhaps 1/4mm narrower than A4 - which seems a bit fussy. The printer has multi-format card readers, so printing straight from the printer without a PC is possible by using a digital camera's memory card, but there is no preview of the photo on the small LCD monitor, so you'd have to note down the picture numbers from the camera first. Overall I am very happy with the printer, due to the quality of the output which is its main selling point.
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Summary: Don't Waste Time with Other Printers...
Review: This is the photo printer to get! I bought mine last week from Sam's Club for under $100 (and it came with a USB cable). I researched printers for quite some time...and the HP Photsmart 7660 had just the features I was looking for. GREAT print quality, VERY quiet operation, easy to use, and it worked right out of the box. Follow the simple steps on the setup guide and you're in business. There are other HP's I looked at but most had bells & whistles I didn't need or was never going to use. I printed color photo's, back & white photo's, and documents and I'm pleased with every print so far. I purchased the black & white print cartridge and the photo's look clean, crisp and equal to the quality from a photo lab. If you do any black & white work get the catridge, you'll be happy you did. I bought both HP photo paper and Kodak premium photo paper and I'm happy with both although the HP photo paper seemed to have a higher luster and is a bit heavier. I like the seperate 4x6 paper tray on the printer - easy to use. As a photographer I like the convenience of this printer. I can view and edit my photo's in Adobe Photoshop 7 and have great quality prints up to 8.5x11 in almost an instant. Not sure how long the printer cartidges last yet. I bought several just in case they run out fast. I'm keeping close track of my usage so I can figure out the cost per print. I'll try to post some info on that subject at a later date. In the mean time I know I made a wise choice selecting an HP Photosmart printer.
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Summary: I like it for the quality and cost
Review: This was the least expensive of the HP printers that I was considering. When I brought it home and started using it I definitely made the right decision. The boderless prints are great and the quality is fantastic. I also like that this printer is not as loud as my deskjet HP, a big plus. Some things to consider though it doesen't come with a usb cord, so purchase one also if you plan on buying this printer (note: be sure to get the right one) I have a usb cord but the one I have didn't fit into the slot, so I had to borrow the usb cord from my scanner instead. Also, I wanted to point out that the print cartridges, seem to run out fairly quick (they are pretty small though, so it makes sense), have a supply on hand if you plan on printing an album out like I am. Overall I like this printer for it's cost and the quality prints.
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Summary: Great photo printer
Review: We purchased this printer when our son was born. The 4x6 borderless printing is awsome. The ink seems to last a long time and the photo quality is just like getting them developed. I use the HP premium glossy photo paper (samples come with printer). People can't belive I printed the pictures from home. For the money this printer cannot be beat! Only thing bad is if the photo gets wet the ink smears, until an affordable printer comes out that uses ink that don't smear (and with this printers same print quality) this is the printer for someone with a small budget and wants great quality.
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Summary: great performance
Review: When I fist installed the printer, I couldn`t get it to work. Then I disconnected my USB devices, then I downloaded the driver update, and reinstalled it. After reinstalling, I re-connected my USB devices to the computer and I`ve had no problems since then. It prints out fantastic photos and with great detail. I`ve got my scanner, monitor and printer all calibrated together. I print what I see on my screen. I`ve used the photo cartridge and can`t believe the print. I`ve had Epson and Canon`s and this printer exceeds them. This is my 2nd HP printer. I work in the Printing industry and have compared this with our commercial printers and the results are much better. It shows greater detail in the highlights and the shadows. Other than the USB snafu at installation, I`d recommend this printer over all the printers I`ve seen and used. And the price can`t be beat. I slide the ink saturation tab all the way over to the left and I think it helps conserve ink with no loss of quality. Don`t let `picoliter` and `ink nozzle` talk from the others sway you into making an expensive mistake. If all you want is the best picture quality and a great price, go with the HP 7660.
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