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List Price: $714.00
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Color: Grey
EAN: 0883585472512
Feature: 8-color, long-life, high-capacity HP Vivera pigment inks
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Hewlett Packard
Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Model: B8850
Modem Description: None
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hewlett Packard
Special Features: nv:Print Method^Photo Printer|First Page Output Time^Up to 10 seconds|Resolution^4800 x 1200 dpi|Maximum Duty Cycle^Up to 1,000 Pages Per Month|Print Speed^Up to 28 PPM|Dimensions^26.5 x 16.9 x 9.5 in|Special Features^professional-quality photos|Protocols^USB 2.0|Standard Paper Input^Up to 200 Sheets|Standard Paper Output^50 Sheets|Paper Sizes Supported^Letter|Paper Sizes Supported^Legal|Paper Sizes Supported^Executive|Paper Sizes Supported^Envelopes|Paper Sizes Supported^Tabloid
Studio: Hewlett Packard
System Memory Size: 64
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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8-color, long-life, high-capacity HP Vivera pigment inks
Brilliant colors, rich blacks and neutral grays for stunning images
Automatically adjusts print settings for consistent color ¿ print after print
Efficient self monitoring/self cleaning system keeps printer in top condition
Electrostatic Drop Detection ensures Optimum printer performance on every print
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Editorial Reviews:
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Produce archival, professional-quality photos up to 13 x 19 using 8 individual high-capacity HP Vivera pigment inks. Breakthrough color consistency makes it easy for serious photographers to take their photo and fine-art printing to the next level.nts and can output them economically without sacrificing the quality of the original image. The most frequent uses of the HP PhotoSmart photo printer include photo enlargement, cropping, red-eye elimination, scratch removal, replication of snapshots, and the creation of greeting cards and other novelties. These uses require the support of a wide variety of media sizes. These media sizes include a wide variety of media types, like photo weight papers (photographic glossy or photographic matte), special project papers, transparency, and a calendar kit. A new "straight-through" paper path facilitates media types that are too thick for traditional curved paths.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: unusable and irritating printer
Comment: This printer is terrible to use. The one I got was defective and damaged the paper as it went through. The design is also terrible. Paper is hard to load. It's loud. You have to wait lots for it to reset itself. The software is problematic. When you change one setting it resets others to a default, so you have to change them again, total hassle. The prints look good, but it is a pain of a printer, especially when you have to return it because it leaves roller marks on your paper.
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Summary: Print like a pro!
Comment: I'd have to say I'm really impressed by the quality of print from the HP Photosmart Pro. I've been a graphic designer for 15 years and have always struggled to match my print to what I see on my screen. I'm pleased to say that this printer gives me a great print at a nice price. It's very affordable and convenient. The only con is that it's a little larger than I needed and takes up a little too much room in my home office.
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Summary: Reasons I chose this printer
Comment: I haven't taken delivery yet but thought I would explain why I chose the B8850. I want to print my lifetime photo collection for my family members and their descendants. So I was interested in long lasting prints. The HP 8850 coupled with the Vivera inks and certain HP papers is capable of producing prints that will survive for more than 250 years according to accelerated tests by Wilhelm Research [...]
Printers and papers from Epson, Canon, Kodak, etc have also been tested by Wilhelm but achieve nowhere near the level of print longevity of the HP 8850 when used with the right HP papers.
There are other printers in the HP range that produce similarly durable prints but the 8850 was right for me in terms of maximum print size and other features. I did read that under some circumstances print quality was not quite as good as with some Epsons, especially the Epson 3800. I was sorely tempted by the Epson 3800 despite the shorter life of its prints because it seemed to have a slight edge on print quality under certain circumstances but decided against it on a balance of factors. Its prints will fade sooner, it is more expensive, and it has huge ink cartridges and with the amount of printing I would do, I would probably not use the ink within its shelf life, which Epson say is 6 months. Also, there would be a risk with intermittent usage that the ink would block the print heads which are not replaceable. The HP has that nice feature to keep the ink heads open even if the printer is not being used for a while and the heads are replaceable at reasonable cost if they should fail.
Several reviewers mentioned the high cost of filling the 8850 with ink but failed to point out it has relatively large cartridges - not as big as the Epson 3800 but bigger than lower end printers. I believe ink per unit of volume is about the same price from all the major manufacturers. Also from what I have read the frequent head maintenance routine of the 8850 will use less ink in the long-run than the less frequent cleaning and purging routines used in many other printers.
I thought about the HP 9180 but it is a little slower than the 8850 and more expensive. I don't need the LCD panel nor the ability to use cardstock. The network Ethernet connection is also not needed because I will use the printer on my network by simple printer sharing.
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Summary: WARNING!
Comment: This printer does not work with Photshop CS3 despite HP's sales hype...in particular it does not work with a color managed workflow (where photoshop manages the color) and that is very important to anyone using icc profiles etc. HP tech support is totally aware of this and offer absolutely no fix or understanding of the problem (after numerous hours on the phone with them!)this problem is being reported across the internet forums of DPREVIEW and NIKONIANS etc...check for yourself.
I even had a tech support person tell me that the HP B8850 does not support Photoshop CS3 by design, I can not imagine their marketting and design folks agreeing with that statement!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer
Comment: I'm happy with this printer. I wanted a 13 x 19" printer and this one fit my budget. For me it's a long over do upgrade from my smaller HP 8250, which still prints beautiful prints. I've had no problems using it with Vista...I had it up and running in no time. Since I have PCS3, I let Adobe manage the colors for the printer and the prints are beautiful using Epson photo paper most of the time and other times HP photo paper.
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