HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer
Manufacturer: hp
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
This ultimate HP 9-ink photo printer is designed for the professional, fine art, portrait and serious amateur photographer who wants finished, professional-quality photos up to 13 x 19 inches to sell, exhibit or admire for generations. The HP Photosmart 8750 series produces 9-ink color prints, provides color management controls and remarkable printer flexibility to produce realistic color and true black-and-white photos true to your vision.

HP Photosmart 8750 Large-Format Professional Photo Printer (Q5747A#ABA)

Average customer rating:

Pro Printer
Great color. Handles small paper (4
GREAT WHILE IT LASTS...
Excellent printer -
Great results but a gas (I mean ink) guzzler.

HP Photosmart 8750 Large-Format Professional Photo Printer (Q5747A#ABA)

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
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Product Features:

Borderless printing from 4 by 6 to 13 by 19 inches
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
USB 2.0 and Ethernet interfaces, optional wireless B/G; PC/Mac

ASIN: B0008MO8J4

Product Description

Box Contents: HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer, HP 22 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge, 5 ml ink volume, HP Image Zone Express Photo and Imaging Software on CD-ROM, Setup Poster, User's Guide, Power Supply, Power Cord
If you're a professional, fine art, or portrait photographer, or even a serious amateur, your wish is granted. Yep, now you print your own professional-quality photos at home or in your studio, in sizes up to 13 x 19". HP's Photosmart 8750 prints with or without borders, in vivid color or in stark black and white. In very little time and with minimal hassle (no trekking to the lab), your best shots are ready to exhibit, sell, or simply admire . Resist photo fading when displayed under glass2 for more than 100 years, or in a photo album3 for more than 200 years Produce rich colors compatible with Adobe® RGB and sRGB with HP's color-management tools Use on a small network of PCs and Macs, plus enable wireless printing Compatible cartridges - HP 96 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (21 ml), HP 97 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge (14 ml), HP 99 Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge (13 ml), HP 100 Gray Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge (15 ml), HP 101 Blue Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge (13 ml), HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge (23 ml) Supports Windows 98, 2000, Me, XP Home, XP Professional; Mac OS X v 10.1.5, 10.2, 10.3 Unit Dimensions - 25.3 x 15.7 x 8 inch / Weighs 26 lbs

Customer Reviews:

Pro Printer.......2007-05-09

This is the printer for you if you are into pictures of all sizes. The quality of the prints are unbelievable. It doesn't use as much ink as I thought it would.

Great color. Handles small paper (4.......2007-04-21

I have a love/hate relationship with this printer.

First, the good features:
1) Superb color. Hard to beat.
2) I've never experienced a clogged print head (Epson is notorious for this). HP print heads are replaced when you replace the ink cartridge; on Epsons, you are just replacing the ink.
2) Networked. You can print to it from every computer on the network.
3) Handles plain paper documents very well.
4) Prints up to 11"x19"!
5) Photo prints are excellent (when the paper is straight - see bad features).

Now, the bad features:
6) Handles small (4"x6"). It often pulls the paper in crooked. I've had batches of prints where every other one was bad. You know how expensive the photo print paper is. Even installing the small paper is funky; you have to shove it way into the machine -- not intuitive.
7) It accepts memory cards and, theoretically, you can print directly from the cards. The reality is that the physical interface is so clunky, you should expect to do everything from your computer.
8) Software drivers are bloated and intrusive -- [...].

GREAT WHILE IT LASTS..........2007-03-30

I LOVED this printer!! The print quality is truly phenomenal! I had a few issues with paper sizes, too many pieces being fed through, the rear feed slot, same as other reviewers, but looked beyond those because the prints were so wonderful. And yes, I am speaking in past tense of my wonderful printer, because it is DEAD at the ripe old age of 13 months! Exactly ONE MONTH after the 1-yr warranty, my printer is "unfixable". And HP won't do anything for me... after speaking to 8 people on the phone (only one of which I understood fully) and 3 supervisors, they just said that I'm SOL... So, yes, very nice printer, if it lasts.

Excellent printer -.......2007-03-30

I've been an Epson printer girl up until now. I began with the 1270, which was a terrific printer, lasted forever, did a great job, etc. It finally died of old age and I purchased the 1280. It was temperamental, sucked up ink big time, and just was not as good as the 1270. It died an early death, barely a year old. I was tired of the ink problems with the Epsons, so I did a great deal of research on larger-format printers, and finally decided on the HP 8750. I was influenced by the fact that the little HP PSC 750 I have owned for more than 6 years is just a terrific, sturdy, quality printer (and scanner and copier). I've been working with the 8750 since end of December, and so far I'm very impressed with it. The quality is excellent, operation is pretty straight-forward, it doesn't end up with dried ink supply like the Epson's are prone to do. The 8750 produces beautiful 11X14 prints - I'm just delighted with it. So far, I'm very, very pleased with this HP product, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to print larger-format color and/or b&w prints.

Great results but a gas (I mean ink) guzzler........2007-03-10

This printer is easy to set up and use and produces striking results with Photoshop, but it drinks ink by the gallons. I am able to get less than 20 11x17 prints from a set of cartridges that cost about $100. I think there is an option to use less ink and of course you can set the quality lower than "best" but for the work I do it isn't worth the risk. Apparently HP has come out with a pigment based printer that uses less ink.

HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

Average customer rating:

Very Frustrating
Better than the 2400 in many ways.
Not worth the money!
Wow, what a printer!
Beautiful color and B&W prints!

HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

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Product Features:

Usually Ships the Same Day
Usually Delivered within 24-72 hours
Highest Quality Product
Manufactured by Hewlett-Packard
Sold as 1 EA

ASIN: B0007MW0QI

Product Description

This ultimate HP 9-ink photo printer is designed for the professional, fine art, portrait and serious amateur photographer who wants finished, professional-quality photos up to 13 x 19 inches to sell, exhibit or admire for generations. The HP Photosmart 8750 series produces 9-ink color prints, provides color management controls and remarkable printer flexibility to produce realistic color and true black-and-white photos true to your vision.

Customer Reviews:

Very Frustrating.......2007-04-22

The 8700 prints a very nice page. But its quirks and inconsistencies doom it to one of the most frustration pieces of hi tech I've owned (and I work in an IT department).

The source of much of the frustration comes from feeding the paper, a seemingly innocuous problem, I admit. But, I've never had a smooth paper feed since I got the printer. It's not a calibration issue, it seems to not know when paper is in, when it should feed it, and it grabs at the paper so quickly that crooked prints are inevitible.

I wish I could write a good rec for this printer, but it's a high maintenance beauty not worth the frustration. Just get something that works and you'll save yourself hours of printer set up frustration in the course of your life. Considering there's so much competition, why bother with this product...

Better than the 2400 in many ways........2005-11-08

I am a serious amateur photographer who has displayed his work in corporate galleries and sells at art shows and online. I have used the Epson printers (2200, 1280) in the past to make my prints. While these printers do make excellent prints, the frustration I have always experienced has been in the color management end of printing. I've spent upwards of $80 a piece for professionally created icc profiles and even bought the ImagePrint RIP program in my attempts to obtain the perfect prints. While these solutions did work out to my satisfaction, they were an extra cost over and above the cost of the printer price. I always felt that if I was going to pay $600+ for a printer, that it should produce a great print right out of the box.

The 8750 does just that! This is because the color-management is done for you in the driver when using the HP papers. This printer works as well as my Epson 2200 did without the fuss. The HP 8750 gives me perfectly neutral B&W's with great detail in the shadows and no blow-out in the highs. It's a printer that does it's job right without the user needing to learn any of the 'secret techniques'.

You may read that HP forces you to use their papers to get the best quality, but after some Internet research I learned that the surface of HP's semi glossy is similar to Ilford's Galerie Smooth Gloss paper. Galerie Smooth Gloss had been my paper of choice with the 2200 and I had quite a large stock of it in different sizes. Still being able to use the Ilford was one of the major reason I decided to go with the HP over the Epson 2400 upgrade. You will need to use Ilford's icc profile to get good results. But the HP procedure is far less complicated than Epson's and it's well documented in their manual.

In my attempts in the past to create the neutral b&w print, I had used the MIS inking system and turned the Epson 1280 into a dedicated black and white printer. But within a year the nozzles became clogged from the ink. Plus that ink was EXPENSIVE! $45-50/CART! So I ended up buying the ImagePrint software for the 2200. Another $500 spent! All in the quest for the holy grail of the perfect print. Ugh! Then there was the issue of metamerism with the Epson inks. Metamerism is where the prints looked different under different lighting conditions. With the HP, there is absolutely no metamerism! I made one B&W print on the 8750 that look great under the tungsten light of my room. I then ran downstairs to see it in the sunlight and it still looked great. This picture is now hanging in my office at work and under fluorescent light, it still looks great. That's impressive!

One more great thing about printer: the nozzles are built into the actual ink cartridges. So if I need to exchange, say, a dark gray for a black cartridge, I don't have to waste ink by going through a cleaning cycle because I'm installing a new nozzle at
the same time. SWEET!

Not worth the money!.......2005-06-23

The Photosmart 8750 printer seems to be very well made with some nice features and is easy to setup. However my "test" photos were very disappointing. Using HP Premium Plus Glossy photo paper and the printer set to "best quality" a band would appear across the printout spoiling the print. The banding runs parallel to the print head path and starts around the last 1.25" of the print. The band varies in width and intensity somewhat but and is typically .125" to .50" wide. I increased the print quality to the MAX DPI "Highest quality" and more banding appeared in the print. I then tried printing directly from the compact flash card using the same image and I still had visible banding. I then exchanged the printer for another 8750 a couple of days later with no luck. This time the banding was typically fainter but almost always present to some degree. When image printing from one of its card slots or even from the PC, the rhythm of the print head sudden slows pauses at one side of the page. It then moves to the other side and again pauses and this is repeated for about 9 times around the time the banding happens. The print head will again go back to its normal rhythm and finish printing the image. I removed each ink cartridge and printed the image to see if one of the cartridges was causing the problem. None of seemed to be as there was always banding visible. Also when printing a B&W image the band was present there too. At any rate the print quality would be excellent except for the banding that keeps appearing. I retuned the printer for a refund after speaking to the support technicians.

Wow, what a printer!.......2005-06-04

After researching for weeks I finally bought this printer and I can say after one day with it that I am amazed at the quality it delivers. Better than anything I've ever received from a lab, but then I've never used a lab that gave me what I would call amazing results.

I found mine at the local CompUSA and since Amazon hasn't yet dropped the price significantly lower than a brick-and-mortar store, I bought it there. I usually prefer to get big ticket items like this locally so I can return it right away if the product is damaged or defective. Mine was neither.

I compared this printer to the Canon i9900 and Epson R1800 and here's why I decided on the HP:

* Ethernet built-in and all printer status functions are available via a standard web browser interface;
* The built-in display on top of the printer can control many functions including cleaning and testing, and it gives a real-time display of the ink levels in the three different cartridge locations;
* straight-thru paper path;
* Photo Grey ink cartridge that uses black and two levels of grey for (hopefully) superior B&W prints;
* print nozzles are replaced with each ink cartridge replacement (never a clogged head!);
* the satisfaction I've had with other HP products.

The other printers each have some of these features, but neither of them has all of these.

The only other printers I have used in the past were Epson el-cheapo models and the print heads clogged all the time, so I was really worried about getting another printer that may have even the slightest chance of clogging. If the heads on this printer do clog beyond the point at which a simple cleaning will fix it, just pop in a new cartradge and the problem is fixed.

Now, I've read that many users of Canon and Epson printers got amazing results right out of the box, but I didn't, and it was all my fault. Since I've never had a "real" photo printer before, I didn't have a proper color workflow on my computer. My monitor is calibrated with Mac OS X "Tiger's" built-in calibration tools and I really had no idea what I was doing when I first tried printing with this new printer, so the first pages were less than stellar. I stayed up for a few hours past bedtime to read the web articles on setting up a color workflow and how to use the color preferences in Photoshop CS and by the time I went to bed I was pretty bleary-eyed to say the least, so I gave up and got some sleep.

After a good night's rest and a little more reading and experimenting, I finally hit on the perfect workflow and now I can't believe how beautiful the prints are! Even without a hardware-calibrated monitor I am getting almost exactly on paper what i see on-screen, and that is just incredible. I've thrown some pretty tough images at it and each one has come out perfect. Even the B&W prints are better than those that were printed on B&W paper from a photo lab.

I've never actually seen a 13" x 19" print until today and I'm hooked. I can tell you I'm going to be spending a lot of money on big paper in the future and I may need to add more walls to my place. :)

For an experienced user with a managed workflow, I can see that setting up this printer and getting immediate results would be a snap. If you are using a Mac with OS X "Tiger," you won't even need to install anything on the computer - the OS has the printer drivers and paper profiles already installed. And if you have a network all you have to do is run an ethernet cable from the router/hub to the printer and look for the printer in the Printer Setup Utility. Mine showed up as soon as I opened the utility window. (I can't see how anyone who is serious about using their compuiter as a creative tool would use anything but a Mac.)

The only aspect that I would change at this point would be the use of three ink cartridges for the nine ink colors. In a perfect world, there would be nine cartridges like the separate tanks of the Epson and Canon. That's the only thing I can think of right now, but if I come up with any others I will try to come back and update this review or post another.

Beautiful color and B&W prints!.......2005-05-04

The photosmart 8750 produces exquisite photos with sharp clear details, amazing transitions especially in blue skies, and real neutral black and white. The 9-ink system produces the colors I want out of the box, but I can also use ICC profiles for extra control. On glossy paper, the dye-based ink creates beautiful depth in the image without gloss differential issues. When printing black and white, only ink from the gray cartridge is used, producing true black and white prints that rival any other method I have used. With the deep blacks, the black and whites are particularly stunning on the HP satin paper. Overall, this printer produces fantastic prints and I love seeing my work in 13x19 inches!

HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Ink Jet Photo Printer

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HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Ink Jet Photo Printer

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ASIN: B000OVUA7S

Product Description

HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Ink Jet Photo Printer
Black Print Speed—19 ppm
Color Print Speed—18 ppm
Maximum Print Resolution—4800 x 1200 optimized dpi
Borderless Printing—Up to 13 x 19
Maximum Paper Size—8-1/2 x 24
Photo Print Speed (4 x 6)—As fast as 29 seconds
PC Free Printing
Standard Input Capacity—80 sheets
Monthly Volume—1,000 pages
Network-Ready
Connectivity—USB, Ethernet, PictBridge
Compatibility—Windows® 98, 2000, Me, XP; Mac® OS X v 10.1.5, 10.2, 10.3
Size—25-3/10w x 24-1/10d x 10h
Manufacturers Warranty—One-year limited
Replacement Cartridges—HEW-C8767WN (Black); HEW-C9363WN (Large Tri-Color); HEW-C9369WN (Photo); HEW-C9368AN (Gray Photo); HEW-C9365AN (Blue Photo) (sold separately).

HEWQ5747A HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

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HEWQ5747A HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

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Black Print Speed19 ppm Color Print Speed18 ppm Maximum Print Resolution4800 x 1200 optimized dpi Borderless PrintingUp to 13 x 19 Maximum Paper Size8-1/2 x 24 Photo Print Speed (4 x 6)As fast as 29 seconds PC Free PrintingYes Standard Input Capacity80-sheets Monthly Volume1,000 pages Network-ReadyYes ConnectivityUSB, Ethernet, PictBridge CompatibilityWindows® 98, 2000, Me, XP; Mac® OS X v 10.1.5, 10.2, 10.3 Size25-3/10w x 24-1/10d x 10h Manufacturers WarrantyOne-year limited Replacement CartridgeHEW-C8767WN (Black); HEW-C9363WN (Large Tri-Color); HEW-C9369WN (Photo); HEW-C9368AN (Gray Photo); HEW-C9365AN (Blue Photo) (sold separately). HEWQ5747A HEW-Q5747A 00829160741741 0829160741

HEWQ5747A - HP Photosmart 8750 Large-Format Professional Photo Printer (Q5747A#ABA)

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HEWQ5747A - HP Photosmart 8750 Large-Format Professional Photo Printer (Q5747A#ABA)

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Product Features:

Print Resolution (DPI) - 4800 x 1200
Print Speed (Black) - 19
Special Features/Suggested Use - Prints to 13" x 19"

ASIN: B000MYNLSW

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HP Photosmart 8750 Large-Format Professional Photo Printer (Q5747A#ABA)

Hewlett-Packard HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

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Hewlett-Packard HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

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Sold as 1 EA
Manufactured by Hewlett-Packard
Highest Quality Product

ASIN: B000F3XPHC

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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 x 19 inches to sell, exhibit or admire for generations. The HP Photosmart 8750

HP PhotoSmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer - Printer - color - ink-jet - Super B - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 19 ppm (mono) / up to 18 ppm (color) - capacity: 80 sheets - USB, 10/100Base-TX

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HP PhotoSmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer - Printer - color - ink-jet - Super B - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 19 ppm (mono) / up to 18 ppm (color) - capacity: 80 sheets - USB, 10/100Base-TX

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
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HP part number: Q5749AA2L
Original HP equipment.

ASIN: B000MYNEAC

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