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Summary: excellent product
Review: In the past year, I have purchased high end photo printers from Canon, Epson, Sony, Olympus and HP. This is my favorite printer. The only disadvantage relative to the other printers is that the Canon is significantly faster. The HP, especially since they added the third cartridge for longer lasting prints, wins in every other important category.
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Summary: Portfolio Quality!
Review: Let's forget the gadgets like the LCD viewer and card reading features for a moment and get to the nitty gritty. This printer prints EXCELLENT quality photos! I upgraded from the HP Photosmart 1218, which was also a good printer. But with the 1218, even on the highest print settings, I saw pixels. On the 7550, I printed a 4X6 of an outside skyline (taken with a digital camera) and literally could not see the pixels in the sky part! The true test came when I printed 8X11 photos from a digital camera source. The pictures were taken inside, so I expected less detail when printed. Where there were solid colors, I saw NO pixels. It was excellent! The subject (person) in the picture also looked good. Of course there were some pixels there, a little dithering, blur and bitmapping. I had to make some resolution adjustments in Photoshop to sharpen it. Finally, looking at the prints from about 1 foot away, they looked like PROFESSIONAL prints! In fact, they look so good, they're going to be used in a portfolio WITH professional prints. I've read about the Canon being better, and maybe it is. But this one's nothing to shake a stick at. If you want a great printer with the extra features for digital camera users, this is the one I'd suggest! Cons: Big; Rapid ink consumption when printing photos.
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Summary: Great 6 ink photo printer
Review: I have used Canon, Epson and HP printers. Without a doubt I find the HP to be the one that produces the best results for me, with the lest pain and strain. This printer setup easily, without any unexpected turmoil. The machine calibrated its paper tray and 4 X 6 tray without hitch. I inserted a photo card, went to the menu and printed a stunning photo on premium glossy photo paper (gotta use this for best prints). I've printed over a hundred 8 X 10 and 5 x 7, and four times that many 4 x 6 prints with this printer. I am still impressed with the photo quaility of its printouts, Some printers might be faster, some louder, so more expensive, but I think that this is one tough printer to surpass from print quality for the average home user. Easy to use, can print with, or without computer support, and has HP customer support available. A real A+ product.
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Summary: Great pictures...Just what I was looking for
Review: I was looking for a printer that did my digital pictures and could print out my basic black & white documents. I recently had an Epson printer, but I did not like the print-outs and the ink cartridges were so difficult and messy to exchange. I decided to choose a new printer since the Epson wasn't doing my digital print-outs very well.
The first thing that stunned me about this printer is the LCD display in the front and the easy-to-use editing buttons. There is no need to go through the menus looking for the "zoom" or "rotate" selection, there is a button for each editing tool.
Another great feature is the front panel memory card reader. It is so easy to print a picture, even without the computer hook-up. If you have an HP computer, setup is so easy. All you have to do is insert the setup disc and plug in the USB (which is not included for some reason), the computer does the rest....All you have to do is read the Terms & Agreements.
I printed out pictures and they are so stunning, nothing come close to any printer I have ever seen. Also, the black & white print-outs are fast and look as though they are done by a laser printer. The only problem when printing is the 4X6 paper that is included in the paper tray is hard to use and gets jammed easily. I suggest not loading the smaller paper tray more than 15 sheets full.
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Summary: Piece of garbage after warranty period!
Review: This unit printed nicely for me for about a year and 1 month (how convenient that the warranty was for 1 year). HP wants $30 to talk to you on the phone to suggest a fix with no guarantee it will work. I bought it new for $300, and now it will probably cost as much to fix it as to buy one new on Amazon.com. Very disappointing end to a promising beginning. HP customer support stinks as they are unfriendly, unwilling to help, and has communication issues as their customer support lines are staffed in a foreign country that can barely speak English. DO NOT BUY HP. BUY SOMETHING ELSE. ANYTHING ELSE.
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Summary: 4 x 6 w/Tab
Review: Decent printer for photos and documents but you must use the 4 x 6 w/tab only. If you use 4 x 6 without tab it will print 4 x 5 1/2.
I've had good success with this printer and reccommend it.
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Summary: 4x6 Printing Problem
Review: I absolutely dissatisfied with this printer. Being in the tech support field, I can usually figure things out fairly quickly. I busted my head open for HOURS to print 4x6's only to find out it needs "special" tabbed paper to print out. Although I haven't gone out to buy this paper, I can only imagine the price since this requirement only seems to be coming from this particular HP printer. And since this printer is already discontinued I can only imagine what a hard time I will have trying to buy this paper as more time goes by.
If there was an option for no stars, that is what I would give it. I like simplicity and this printer does not offer that, the print quality may be really good, but that doesn't do me any good if it only decides to print a portion of the picture and not the rest. Thank goodness I bought and extended warranty, because I will be getting a new printer.
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Summary: What a great surprise!
Review: I orginally bought this printer a year ago as a basic color printer that would work with both my Mac and my husbands PC. The photo option was just a bonus because I thought I would eventually purchase a digital camera and it might be nice to print some out. Well I have been using it now for a few months as a photo printer paired with my Konica Minolta DiMage G600 6.0mp camera. The photos are exceptional. One would never know they were printed from my digital camera. I use the HP Premium Plus Matte paper. As a Senior Graphic Designer I am pretty particular about the quality. My boss liked it so much he bought one for himself! We have never had any problems with the printer and my husband uses it frequently has a general color printer in his home office. I do admit the cartridges are a little pricey but overall well worth it.
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Summary: The print cartridge holders break.
Review: I bought this printer, refurbished, after a lot of hemming back and forth between several other HP models. The photo quality is wonderful, but I will admit, I use the premium plus quality paper. If you want the quality prints, you need to use quality paper. It prints a bit slow, (the only reason for four stars), but not excessively so. I imagine it has to be set that slow in order to get the wonderful photo quality pictures I have been printing. As far as the ink content that comes with the printer, I have printed out 20 8 x10's and still have yet to run out. This printer is relatively quiet compared to a lot of printers I have heard. It does take up a bit of desk space though, so if you're trying to squeeze a lot into a little space, this may not be the printer for you. The set up was easy, printing pictures five minutes out of the box. I haven't used the print from card feature yet, but it's nice to see it takes all types. As a result, I haven't utilized the LCD screen. But those two features are not what I bought this printer for. One thing I have found, the picture quality is best when printed thru the HP software. I tried printing thru Corel photo and colors weren't quite right. When I switched to the software that came with the printer, not only was I astounded by the quality, I found the software program very easy to use and a nice photo set up. I will still use the other software for any altering of pictures, but use the HP software for actual printing. A great printer for a great price!
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