HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- User Rating: 
Summary for HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- Do not buy; does not work with Vista
Notes on HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- HP has decided *not* to update the 8750 driver to support Vista. Borderless printing and color profiling do not work. They want me to purchase a new printer rather than providing support for the one I already have. This is corporate HP when it is worst. I cannot recommend HP to anyone.
HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- User Rating: Summary for HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- Buyer Beware NOT compatible with Windows Vista
Notes on HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- I have had this printer for 2 years with no problems and had been very happy with its performance. However, bought a new PC with windows vista and after countless hours wasted on line with HP, I now find out it does not print BORDERLESS as it is not compatible with WINDOWS VISTA. I'm angry that HP wasted my time and has not solved this issue. Do not BUY if you use Windows Vista.
HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- User Rating: Summary for HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- Great printer, better than my old Canon i9900
Notes on HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- As a former professional photographer, a printer's performance as a photo processor is really where the rubber meets the road.
I shoot Nikon pro-level cameras and lenses, both film and digital. I have a Canon 9950F dedicated print scanner, a Nikon CoolScan negative/slide scanner, and an HP 8750 as a dedicated printer for larger format photo prints. I use Photoshop, Lightroom, DNG Converter, and other top-end photo software. The quality of my photo prints is absolutely crucial to me artistically.
I had a Canon i9900 printer, which made great prints in non-archival inks; not acceptable. The Vivera inks used in the 8750 will last over 100 years when used on HP's Premium Plus papers, and the unit yields stunning prints. Image quality is as good as one gets from a lab.
The printer interfaces beauutifully and reliably with my computer system (a periodic problem with the Canon, I might add), a desktop running XP Media Center Pro. Absolutely no glitches at all.
I have to say, I love this printer, and strongly recommend it.
HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- User Rating: Summary for HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- Very Frustrating
Notes on HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- 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...
HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- User Rating: Summary for HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- Better than the 2400 in many ways.
Notes on HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer ...- 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!
