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Summary: Best printer HP has ever made
Review: My wife wonders why I've bought so many printers over the years. I think it might be up to ten by now. I expect I will keep the 7550 a good long time. I have finally found what I've been searching for- a printer that does an outstanding job with photos and uses inks that will last while also doing a decent job as a document printer.The 7550 uses 7 inks. I think that is the current high water mark for consumer printers. Yes, that much ink raises the cost of operation, but the results are worth it. The few reviewers who have had problems with the printer sound to me like issues with simple fixes. It is unfortunate that HP service couldn't solve these issues. Mine worked perfectly out of the box. It is very customizable. If you always print pictures from the computer, great. If you want skip the computer and use memory cards, great. If you have an HP camera and want to plug in directly, great. I've used all three methods. The photos produced are bright and detail is incredible. I can't vouch for the 65 year longevity claim (yet), but I can tell you the pictures resist fading. I've placed several in a sunny room just to see. After three months, there is no visible fade. I wish HP and the other printer makers would stop trying to make us buy their own cameras and allow a true USB direct connect. And I wish HP would throw in the two-sided printing accessory instead of just leaving a place for it in the back of the printer. Those are my only two complaints with the 7550. I don't consider either issue a major point. This printer has the easiest ink changing process and paper loading process of any HP I've owned. The LCD screen is handy and the control buttons are well marked and helpful. I particulary like the Print Cancel button. Good job HP. Products like the 7550 will keep you at the top of the printer market.
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Summary: I returned this one for Canon i850...
Review: This one is expensive when it comes to ink and also noisy. I will recommend to test out Canon i850 and you will know the difference... Canon i850 is way, way elegant , versatile printer and cheaper on inks,
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Summary: SIMPLY, THE BEST
Review: I first bought a Canon 900. Lousy pictures from any but Canon paper. Next was an Epson 850. Had to wait on the tubes to load. Picture quality great, but BAD ink smears at top of paper. Then bought the 7550! Unreal! Senses the type paper used and adjusts automatically. Print on ANY paper is outstanding! Photo prints from Canon S40 4.0 meg camera are WONDERFUL! Document printing is from the seperate and cheaper priced cartridge. Cartridge ink level is indicated. Why would ANYONE buy another printer? Forget the slightly higher price. It is worth every penny.
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Summary: Please with move from HP 1100 Photosmart to HP 7550 Photosma
Review: I had an HP 1100 Photosmart Ink Jet printer for nearly 3 years and was very pleased with it. However, I was never able to install Windows XP because of incompatibilty. This in the face of installing numerous drivers from HP. I was not able to hook up with USB either. With my HP 7550 all such worries have gone. No problems in setting up and even downloaded a new driver from HP. I am very pleased with my prints from 4X6's to 8 1/2 X 11's. I really like all the new features of the 7550. It makes printing photos and other documents a snap. Finally, I made one call for Technical help and found the HP Tech to be extremely helpful in resolving the very simple problem. In my opinion you can't go wrong with this printer.
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Summary: Good Pictures, Great Features.
Review: This is a pretty impressive printer. It has all the bells and whistles that a high end home photo printer should. The LCD monitor is the key feature. You can review your pictures right on the printer. By using the memory card reader, you can call up photos from Smart Media, Compact Flash, Sony Memory Stick, and SecureDigital. You don't even need to have a computer to use this printer. This printer has several other advantages over its little brother the 7350. The 7350 has the ability to utilize the new HP ink cartridges. Unfortunately, it only holds two of the three at a time. This means you have to swap them out when you print text or photos. The 7550 has a slot that holds all three. Another nice feature is that the new black cartridges are pretty [inexpensive] in comparison to previous black ink tanks. The printer can make borderless 4x6 prints pretty well. My only real reservation about the current HP line is the lack of brightness of the ink. Even the photo black can be a bit muddy. The 7550 prints quality pictures, but the convenience is the key feature. There are better photo printers on the market, but this one combines really decent pictures with the durability and the convenience associated with HP.
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Summary: This is #1
Review: As a previous Epson fan, I searched for a new Epson Photo Printer before deciding to check the HP (and other) printers. After much research, I purchased the HP 7550. An excellent printer, and extremely quiet (a feature I was not concerned about, but a bonus.) If you want to save yourself weeks of research (this perfectionist did it for you!) just buy this one. It is a top of the line printer at a very reasonable price. Definitely worth the extra few $'s for the extra features over the lesser priced models. The quality of print is superior, even on the non-HP glossy photo paper that I have left from my previous printer.
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Summary: Quality Problems
Review: I have bought the HP 7550 twice, and had to return it twice. The purchase was from a major retailer. It was easy to set up and the prints were good, but the machine was not properly calibrated from the factory, so that 6x4 in. borderless prints would not print on the 6x4 paper without leaving a border on one side or the other. After two hours problem solving with customer service, they suggested I return it. I returned it for another HP 7550 (factory unopened box). This time it was calibrated properly. Some pictures looked great, but on pictures with a lot of black or red, there was a noticable red marbeling in the pictures, and black never looked to be solid balck. Once again, after two hours on the phone problem solving, HP customer service suggested I return it either to HP or the dealer. I wonder how many others are havong quality problems. My next printer will not be an HP.
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Summary: Awesome higher-end home photo printer
Review: GREAT printer for the home user looking for a little higher end. Setup was very easy and printing even easier from both the PC and direct from the card. Quality was awesome...even from the still shots out of my camcorder which of course are not 3+ MP
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Summary: Great Except for Two-Sided Printing
Review: SUMMARY
Pluses:
· Rugged, according to HP.
· Quiet operation with minimal vibration.
· Fade resistant ink, according to HP.
· Loaded with features, including a small display and a separate 4x6 tray.
· No cartridge swapping
Minuses:
· TWO-SIDED PRINTING ACCESSORY WORKS WITH PLAIN PAPER ONLY.
· Factory settings for color photos give dark, muted colors. (Fixable in most cases-see below.) More pluses than I can cover within the 1,000 word limit. The software installs easily and runs glitch-free. Canceling a job doesn't send the printer and software into a tizzy like with my previous printer. HP gives each of its printers a "recommended monthly volume, maximum" rating, which HP techies call the "duty cycle", which is how many pages the printer can print per month without dying young. This printer is rated at 5,000 pages per month, much higher than some of HP's cheaper printers. Per HP support, "About 20,000 hours of use is the average mean time before failure if you stay within the duty cycle." So if HP is right, the 7550 will print many thousands of pages before it wears out. I tend to believe this because the printer's quiet operation (after loud clunks at the beginning of the paper feed), with little table shaking, suggests that it is not under much stress. The impressive control panel includes four card slots, thirteen buttons, and a small LCD display. Yes, the 7550 is a small computer in its own right. For me, this is more a psychological edge than a practical advantage because I like to pass my photos through an editor and run the printer from my desktop computer. It hasn't misfed a page yet, from either the main tray or the 4x6 tray, and the 4x6 photos print reliably, not sometimes tilted like with a gravity-fed printer. HP claims that the ink will be fade resistant for 65 years, which is important to anyone who, like me, prints family history or other archival information intended to last for generations. (By the way, I recommend also using an acid-free paper. HP, will that extend the fade resistance beyond 65 years?) I've spent ten hours, much paper, and half the ink in my color cartridges in testing this printer and learning its quirks and how to get the best results. Setting up a print job requires several software selections regarding dots per inch, paper type, and color handling. Or you can just set it on "Automatic" and hope for the best. Actually, when left on Automatic, the 7550 is pretty good at sensing the paper type and selecting the best dpi, but the color settings sometimes need manual intervention, as I will explain. Factory settings for the 7550 darken and dull the colors in my Fuji 3.2-megapixel digital-camera photos. For example, a vibrantly green leaf among brown leaves turned into a green-brown splotch that no longer stood out. (The unedited photo, taken in bright sunlight, shows correctly on my monitor, which is set to True Color, 24-bit. However, for photos taken with the flash, the camera is also partly to blame for color washout.) BUT I can bring the colors back to life, without using a photo editing program, as follows: Click on the 7550 printer icon, then click on the Color tab, then move each of the three sliders two notches to the right, toward Vibrant, Lighter, and Warmer. This gives more differentiation between colors and simply makes the photo match reality. With this adjustment, the 7550 prints superb color photos. If I slide further to the right I can really jazz things up, but I may get weird effects such as the brown gutters on my house turning red. The two-notch adjustment works for landscape photos but is not necessary for canned art (which does fine with the factory settings), and it harms greyscale photos by adding a red haze. Based on one test that included a person's face, the skin tone was excellent with the adjustment, so I think that the adjustment works for most color photos. It may over-redden a photo where editing has already boosted the colors. If a page contains both a black-and-white photo and an unedited color photo, a compromise is needed-maybe all color sliders one notch to the right. Finally, all this color information is MY experience with the 7550. Your own camera and camera settings may give different results. I guzzle ink and will boost HP's ink profits. If, say, the black ink well in the photo cartridge empties but the other two ink wells are half full, that's too bad. It's time to throw that ink away and buy a new ink cartridge. If you want efficient ink management, buy a Canon printer. Finally, my big problem with this printer. A major reason why I bought a 7550 instead of a Canon S900 is that I print on both sides of the page. (I print books.) The 7550 and several other HP high-dpi printers allow attachment of an optional two-sided printing accessory, advertised as providing "brilliant photo-quality on both sides of the page." Once you buy the printer, its help text tells you that the accessory is for plain paper only. I had a long chat with HP's online tech support (which I like), and they stress that the two-sided printing accessory should be used only with paper weighing less than 24 lb. I have never seen a photo-quality paper below 24 lb. Even if a coated paper was that lightweight, one side would show through to the other. Note: HP's own two-sided photo quality paper is 36 lb. The whole idea of two-sided printing, let alone "brilliant photo-quality," is inconsistent with lightweight paper. HP throws me this consolation: If I run a thicker paper through the duplexing accessory (thus stretching its internal mechanisms) and never attempt to return to a thinner paper, it MAY continue to work, but they won't support this.
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Summary: A great printer for the money!
Review: Excelent printer! Set up was a snap...you will need a usb2 hi speed cable to connect to your computer...It is fast and relatively quiet.I love the LCD display that allows you to view your photos from the camera before printing. The only down side if there is one is the cost of ink(it only comes with a start up set of cartridges) and the body feeling rather flimsey. In either case, it is a lot of printer for the money.
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