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Summary: HP 7150
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I reviewed this product on October 19th, last year. It has been six months now, and the printer is still operating flawlessly. It feeds well, prints great color pictures, and I am completely pleased with it.
If only HP would make one a little faster, with the same quality. Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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Summary: See my earlier review
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I reviewed this product on October 19th, last year. It has been six months now, and the printer is still operating flawlessly. It feeds well, prints great color pictures, and I am completely pleased with it.
If only HP would make one a little faster, with the same quality. Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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Summary: Prints excellent photographs
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My HP 890C inkjet printer stopped feeding properly some months ago. I had extra ink cartridges on hand, and they're expensive, so I continued to use it, even though I was hand-feeding just about everything. It was a rare occasion when it fed two sheets of ordinary copy paper consecutively. So, finally I gave up in disgust and bought the Photosmart 7150 Inkjet a few days ago.
It feeds well, and tonight I just finished printing 32 old family black and white photos, four copies of each,4 up on each 8.5" X 11" sheet of Kodak glossy photopaper. The quality is superb! At least as good as the prints you would expect from a quality photo shop. I should say that, on the best quality setting, the printer is extremely slow. But the quality makes the wait worthwhile. Also, it assists in the drying for the picture to come through slowly. I had a heck of a time getting 4 up of the same picture on a single sheet. Finally, I went to Corel Draw 8 (Corel Photo Paint didn't help) and imported 4 copies of the same picture and enlarged them to fill the sheet. It worked fine, and now I know how to do it in the future. The printer is inexpensive, and I hope it continues to feed properly. The best printer I ever had was an HP Laserjet, which I bought in 1989. My experience with that one keeps me coming back to Hewlett Packard. I've had three or four printers since then, and except for the 890C they've all met my expectations. Now, if only they would come up with a printer that was fast, as well as capable of good quality... Joseph Pierre
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Summary: Surprised
Review: After purchasing a new 5MP digicam, I was in the market for a nice photo printer to complement it. I researched all different types of printers, including laser, dye-sub, and inkjet. You can pretty much pay whatever you like for a printer.
Leaning toward the dye-sub printers (and a good chunk of dough), decided in the end to just get a "cheapo" inkjet photo printer, and decided on the 7150 (it was the same price as the 5550). Well, I was very pleasantly surprised. This thing outputs very nice photos! Much better than I was expecting. I had no trouble at all hooking it to my XP systems, and printing on both 8x10 sheets, as well as 4x6 sheets. I only use it to print photos with, so can't comment on the text output of this printer. Great product!
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Summary: A bit disappointed...
Review: As an HP-only printer owner over the 15 years I've been using the PC, it was a natural for me to again go to them when I upgraded my 1MP digicam to a 4MP. I've had nothing but great performance and reliability from these machines! The upgrade to the HP 7150 Photosmart was a no-brainer. I did anguish over whether to go with the Canon i850, as I have worked in consumer electronics for the past 6 years, so I know my way around printers, and know the Canon's rep for quality. Anyway, the printer was incredibly easy to set up and get running! I set it up for max quality and photo ink, and the first photo was STUNNING! I noticed a few peculiarities that bothered me, though: - Prints were coming out curled at 4x6 AND 8.5x11. I want my prints to come out as flat as the paper they're printed on.
- In my opinion, the printer is WAY too noisy for my taste. My wife and I work opposite shifts, so I have to print the occasional job while she's asleep --- well, WAS asleep! Overall, I love the 4x6 paper tray, and the HP name. I'm sorry to say, though, I will be returning the 7150 in exchange for a Canon i850. I will miss my nice, quiet 722C(the printer I'm replacing) - hopefully, the Canon won't let me down...
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Summary: hp photosmart 7150
Review: great printer, easy to install software. Bought this to replace an Epson bought last year. You get your money out of the ink cartridge. Only problem I could find was that envelpopes had to be loaded on at a time.
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Summary: Won't print Landscape
Review: I also will be returning this printer. My frustration was trying to print a document in landscape mode. Whether I chose Landscape or Portrait, it printed the same way. Very frustrating.
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Summary: good, but not exellent
Review: I bought HP 7150 a week ago, and so far it's been running well. I saw severl reviews on the paper feeding problem of this printer, but so far it's not with me. As to the photo quality, I should say, it performs very good in colors and resolutions, but not in color shades. So if you want sth not that expansive for your ordinary photo printing, you can check this model out. One big thing I don't like about it (although I have prepared well for this problem) is that it's extremely ink consuming! Everybody has told me about it, but I was still surprised at the quick decreasing ink level (shown in the software) when printing photos!
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Summary: I would buy a different one
Review: I bought this because I wanted a photo quality printer for my digital camera and I like HP printers. However this has several problems. 1: Installation. When I tried to put in the printer cartridges I put one in fine, then the cartrige holder moved to the inside of the printer and got stuck in there. 2: Ink Cartridges. The printer uses two cartridges and says it comes with two in the box, which I thought was great. However it comes with a standard color cartridge and a special photo cartridge. You have to buy the black one serately, which for me ment ordering online and waiting another week just to use my printer. You also can only put in 2 cartridges at a time, so you have to switch the black and photo cartriges. 3: Camera connection: Unlike most Digital Camera Printers this one does not let you insert a memory card, instead you have a USB interface. This I thought was fine, since my camera has USB output. However, the input jack was the wrong shape. (USB cords are square on one end, a flat rectangle on the other; the square end goes into the transfering end, the flat end into the recieving end) However on this printer the square end goes int the printer, as it does with my camera. As a result I could not connect the camera to the printer. After reading the fine print, I found out why: this printer is designed for HP digital cameras. I would not recomend this for anyone. If you want a photo quality printer that prints directly from a camera, the HP 1100 and 1200 series lets you print directly from a CompactFlash or SmartMedia card and the higher end models have a color preview screen. Epson also makes several ones that take in the memory cards, however I do not prefer Epson printers over HP, and I have not seen an Epson model with a preview screen.
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Summary: Good Quality Prints
Review: I bought this printer a little over a month ago and so far it has not given me any problems. I was surprised at the quality of prints that the HP 7150 can produce. I'm happy to say the prints came out to be the same or even better than lab produced prints (to my experience with lab produced prints). However, the HP 7150 sometimes have problems with feeding paper, especially through the 4x6 tray and can ruin your photo paper. With certain types of papers, such as Avery's photo papers, the Hp 7150 can leave visible marks on the papers. These marks are from the HP printer taking the paper when printing. The best photo paper is probably the HP Premium Plus photo paper which can last up to 75 yrs and won't have marks as mentioned above. With some photo paper, the longevity is around 2 to 30 years on a rough estimate. As the other reviewers have mentioned, the HP printer is a noisy one, but with the quality prints that the printer can produce, the noise is not a factor to me. One significant let down on this printer is that it can not print borderless 4x6 pictures no matter how you set it up. The maximum print area for 4x6 prints is up to 5.5". I was able to print borderless 5x7 prints using a different software from the one that came with the printer. I have not had experience with any other photo printers, I am happy this printer. This is a quality product despite some of its imperfections, but again, many products have their positive and negative sides.
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