HP Photosmart Photo Printer
HP Photosmart Photo Printer Pro B8850
HP Photosmart Photo Printer
HP Photosmart Photo Printer
Technical Details
- 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
What’s in the Box
HP Photosmart Photo Printer Pro B8850, power supply, power code, HP 38 cartridges (photo black, matte black, gray, cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light magenta), HP 70 print heads (magenta/yellow, light magenta/light cyan, matte black/cyan, photo black/light gray), CD with HP Photosmart software, user’s guide, and quick start poster.
Description
The high-quality, efficient HP Photosmart Photo Printer Pro produces vivid prints in seconds, allowing you to create eye-catching marketing materials or to preserve your family memories with stunning quality–all from the comfort of your own home or studio.
The printer achieves precise color printing with its eight individual, pigment-based HP Vivera inks, which provide wide-ranging color for lifelike results. It also prints stunning black-and-white photos with true neutral grays and deep blacks. And basic color calibration automatically adjusts the print settings to maintain accuracy–ensuring consistent color reproduction, print after print. When printed on HP Advanced Photo Paper, your photos will have exceptional, archival-quality that will resist fading under glass for over 200 years.
The printer’s high quality matches its efficiency. It can produce 4-by-6 inch-photos as quickly as 10 seconds per print. The printer’s input tray holds up to 60 sheets of photo paper, and it has a 50-sheet capacity output tray. The high-capacity ink cartridges make for more affordable printing and fewer interruptions. Plus, photos are ready to handle immediately and resist water, smudges, and humidity–all designed to save you time.
The printer is compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS3 for easy management and streamlined printing, and the HP color management tools fully support Adobe RGB, sRGB, and ICC profiles for greater color control.
Reviews
By: Pen Name (Fairbanks, Alaska)
The HP Photosmart Photo Printer Pro B8850 is a professional-grade printer from HP designed as a cheaper version of the HP Photosmart Photo Printer Pro B9180. It produces very high quality prints up to 13″ x 19″ using pigment ink printing, which results in much higher quality images than traditional ink jet or laser. If you have never heard of pigment ink, you probably do not need this printer. At roughly $6 a print, the B8850 isn’t designed for printing mapquest directions, but exhibition prints or those suitable for framing.
The printer looks great, and it comes with all the ink to get started (8 different inks), plus 25 sheets of HP Photo Paper, and a folder to store your paper in so it doesn’t get damaged (at almost $2 a sheet you will be thankful for it). Setup was very easy and took around 45 minutes to setup the printer and calibrate the ink cartridges. Unlike most HP software that I am familiar with for their printers and scanners, the software that comes with this printer is not too bad.
The inks HP uses are very good quality. As far as the ink usage goes, it seems to be fairly acceptable based on other printers I’ve used of this type. I mainly print full 13×9 sheets and I’m at roughly 40% ink left on the colors after 25 prints. If you are printing letter, you will use considerably less. Ink cartridges run around $25 per cartridge, or a little over $230 for a full set.
B8850 can print up to .7mm thick while the B9180 can print up to 1.5mm. B8850 has no LCD Panel and uses status lights instead. Sleep mode added. If you don’t use your printer everyday and sometimes go weeks without using it, this prevents the inks from drying out and conserves the print heads. Currently, there is only a $50 difference in price between the two printers. Edit: - 8/11/08 - Two months later, I still love this printer and have had to replace the inks twice. Previously, we were using a third party to print our images.
