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Also, business letters are important to me and I can't get envelopes to feed properly.
It has been frustrating not having availability of free customer service.
I will probably replace this unit with an Epson in the near future.
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
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.
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!
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.
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...
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
The new improved HP Photoprinters as well as the Deskjet 5550
have regained their six colors for printing buy using a Photo
Cartridge which can be swaped with a Black ink Catridge for accurate text printing.Also the HP Printers have the nozzles built into the Ink Cartridges, meaning if they cannot be cleaned when clogged up you can simply purchase a new Cartridge
which will resolve the problem as well as getting better print quality via the new nozzles.
Unless you would want to print direct from the printer without a computer, which you can do in the 7350 and the 7550 via thier
Card readers, and thier Printout Previews mode, and dont forget the giant size 1.5 inch color LCD Monitor built into the 7550 which obviouslly cannot show much detail.(I would rather veiw the photos on my 19 inch monitor and adjust them if need be thru software.Also all three Photsmart printers can print directly from Some newer HP Digital Cameras from the front USB connection.
The 7150 has the same Excellent print quality as the two more expensive units without the expensive options as mentioned above.The only faults found on my printer are a touchy 4X6inch
Photo paper holder,hard to load just right, and on some 4X6 Borderless prints the printer does not stop printing at the end of the photo and paper does not release.This problem if found is fixed by updating the Drivers from HP website.
Definitely do not pass up checking out this printer,the results are gorgeous.Puts my Lexmark to shame.
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a
light bulb?
A: Seven. Scotty has to report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in
the Engineering Section is getting dim, at which point Kirk will send
Bones to pronounce the bulb dead (although he'll immediately claim
that he's a doctor, not an electrician). Scotty, after checking
around, realizes that they have no more new light bulbs, and complains
that he "canna" see in the dark. Kirk will make an emergency stop at
the next uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb
from the natives, who, are friendly, but seem to be hiding something.
Kirk, Spock, Bones, Yeoman Rand and two red shirt security officers
beam down to the planet, where the two security officers are promply
killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured.
As something begins to develop between the Captain and Yeoman Rand,
Scotty, back in orbit, is attacked by a Klingon destroyer and must
warp out of orbit. Although badly outgunned, he cripples the Klingon
and races back to the planet in order to rescue Kirk et. al. who have
just saved the natives' from an awful fate and, as a reward, been
given all light bulbs they can carry. The new bulb is then inserted
and the Enterprise continues on its five year mission.
