HP PhotoSmart 8150 Inkjet Printer |  | Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
Buy New: $299.95
as of 7/31/2010 06:35 CDT details
New (3) Used (4) from $44.99
Seller: KDF
Rating:  28 reviews
Media: Electronics
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 15.4
Dimensions (in): 20 x 18.1 x 9.1
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: Q3399A#ABA
Model: Q3399A#ABA
UPC: 829160451787
EAN: 0829160451787
ASIN: B0002MKC9A
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Up to 4,800 x 1,200 optimized dpi color, 1,200 x 1,200 dpi black | | • | Up to 20 ppm black and color speed, 4-by-6 photo as fast as 27 seconds | | • | 2.5-inch LCD to rotate, crop, zoom, and remove red-eye before printing | | • | Frame-by-frame printing of digital video | | • | USB interface, slots for digital-camera memory cards; PC/Mac |
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Product Description
CL) AA) H/P PS8150 PHOTO PRINTER
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 28
 Great printer October 18, 2004
C. Whinney (PA United States)
68 out of 69 found this review helpful
We bought this after a big trip to the UK and Europe to print out my digital pics for my still analog mother. Needless to say, she wants a digital camera very badly for Christmas now.
Its so easy to just pull your memory card from your camera, plug it into the printer and be able to zoom, crop and do basic editing (color balance, etc) right on the printer. We aren't even going to hook it up to a computer, becuase if you're just using it for pictures theres almost no need.
I looked at the 8450 with networking and 8 print nozzles, but didn't think it was worth $80 more. Like I said, we arent even hooking it to a printer, let alone our network, and frankly I do not know how noticeable 2 more print nozzles are going to be when the pictures look this spectacular in the first place.
Print speed is surprisingly fast, as I've been seeing 30seconds for a borderless 4x6.
I definitely recommend it
Good Printer, but a little hungry it seems January 6, 2005
MGMcd (Columbia, MD USA)
37 out of 37 found this review helpful
I recently got this printer as a gift, and I have had great luck printing more than 250 4"x6" prints, some on 8.5x11, and some on Kodak 4"x6.25" stock (leaves a little handle for your prints). The pitcures are very good, with only a little bronzing, which seems to make the prints jump at you. The images were from a 5 megapixel Canon, so they were pretty rich.
I printed from 200dpi images from PhotoShop, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and HP Image Zone (or whatever it is.) Windows is the best of the three for batch jobs. The HP software was klunky, as always. Let's face it, they are not software developers.
I also printed some retouched black and whites, and there was some graining with enlargements, but the overall effect was very good. There was some color artifacting (pink or blue tint) to the black and whites, but I just found out HP makes a grayscale photo cartridge for this printer, so I will get that and I am sure there will be no extra colors.
I printed to both glossy and matte, and the images were excellent. With heavy blue saturations the ink takes longer to dry, so watch out you don't smudge your skies or other blue backgrounds.
The printer does go through cartridges, though. I have replaced the photo cartridge (black, light cyan, light magenta) three times for about 300 prints, so 100 each (4x6) is probably the rule of thumb. It also uses a true cyan, yellow, magenta cartridge which doesn't seem to run out as fast. Color reproduction is excellent while the ink lasts.
Works great right out of the box! May 27, 2005
wolverine librarian (Michigan)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've been hemming and hawing over which photo printer to by since I bought my digital camera. I didn't have enough sense to think it through and by the scanner, printer, and camera all at the same time. I thought I would just use the Kodak kiosk like i've been doing. That lasted about a week.
The three main contenders were the HP photosmart 8450 because it was highly rated and had 8 ink cartridges, and memory card slots
The HP photosmart 8750 because it printed up to 13"x19" and it had the memory card slots,
The canon i9900 because it was supposed to be the absolute best for the serious amateur had 8 ink tanks and printed large, downside though, no memory card reader.
So why didn't I buy any of these and instead got the HP photosmart 8150? It's quite simple actually for two ink tanks less i.e. six instead of eight, it cost 100.00 dollars less where I bought it or 60.00 dollars less on Amazon. I got it home, pulled it out and installed the software. For some reason you have to install the software first then connect the printer. I was up and running in 10-20 minutes, (there's alot of software it comes with photo editing software and scrapbook assistant)plugged in my SD card and printed my first photo five minutes later (I was playing with the menu, it's NOT slow). You can edit right on the printer screen theres some fun effects and borders that you can do. Color was amazing worked right the first time. And the really cool thing is that it has two trays built in. One is for letter sized paper and the other is for 4"x6" photo paper you just slide a switch to engage the photo paper.
Some things to consider:
-Blasted thing doesn't come with the 2.0 USB cord I had to steal the cord off of my new CanoScan.
-It takes a LOT of room on your hard drive 600MB yes over half a gig.
-It's big it's about twice the size of my normal printer
-If you're going to be doing a lot of black and white printing, the gray ink cartridge HP 100 is NOT included
-It does come with photo paper
-It does have memory card capability.
-One other thing, this may be a duh thing to those in the know, but for a newbie, when you are putting the photo paper in the printer it goes glossy side DOWN with the tear tab towards you. I just slapped it in there and ended up printing on the wrong side, which actually made for a neat effect but you do want to print on the correct side.
I highly recommend it. Glad I didn't buy the Canon i9900; right now that would be gilding the lily.
GREAT Printer April 30, 2005
SOGWAP (Somewhere in the USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had to get a printer quick after mine just konked out. I did some research and this looked like the best deal for it's features. I love it. It prints terrific photos, and the regular every day black print is awesome and fast.
Picture printing for dummies! Like me! January 5, 2005
J. Miller (Bayonne, NJ United States)
This is a great product with or with out a computer. You get to manage you SD card. You get to print out your pictures in normal or best or ok quality. I like normal. Doesn't use and abuse much ink. I also like the LCD screen. Not to small. It has alot of buttons right on hand. you could obtain the menu from a touch of a button. it is perfect for those who don't like to surf menus to much or surf with one or two buttons. it has pictures on the buttons for that easy knowing professional quality printer. ( that is what we call it) You won't be disappointed. The quality also depends on your paper. I use epson and the quality is lab perfect.
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