Customer Reviews

HP PhotoSmart 7150 Inkjet Printer

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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

Put the old camera & film in the attic for nostalgia sake! Get a 2 MP digital or higher and print your photos with this printer! The 4"x6" tray is a plus for album & framed prints and the 8x10 tray is fine for multiple prints on one page (called albums). I use desktop publishing programs to create collages of pictures as well. The photo print quality of the HP is magnificent! People who see my photos cannot believe a printer produced them with such vivid color and clarity. I have made "memories" CD's using my cdwriter and imported background music for the "slide shows". The HP software does it all - follow the directions. User friendly and the ink goes a long way! Don't pass on this one - I paid ... only 3 months ago and it's worth much more -it's on sale so run for it! Print only what you like and you will LOVE what you print!

This is my third HP and the results just keep getting better. The 7150 is stylish and well designed. The printer has a 4 x 6 photo tray that allows 20 sheets of photo paper to be loaded and printed in a batch mode directly from HP's excellant photo printing / album layout software. Even with the 20 sheets of 4 x 6 paper loaded you can still print on regular paper via a lower paper tray. Prints using the photo color cartridge are stunning. I have to say I sold my Epson 820 in no time flat and even made my Canon friend blush when he saw how incredible the prints are. As always the big advantage to HP is the quality. These printers don't jam, don't need head cleaning and don't require tweaking to get the results you see on screen.

This printer is great. Separate tray for 4x6 photo paper, so you can easily switch paper sizes. In fact, I was having so much fun with it, I ended up getting a higher megapixel camera so that I could print even bigger, better pictures. I am surprised by how many pictures and other graphics I have printed and still haven't had to change the ink cartridges (separate photo ink and color cartridges) Can exchange the photo ink cartridge for a black ink only one, which is a nice feature. Unless you want to print your pictures without a computer, this is definitely one to check out. If you want to print without a computer, check out the other versions of HP PhotoSmart printers. However, I prefer editing the pictures slightly first (i.e. cropping, color enhancement, brightness or contrast) and then printing them out.

Simply put, it has a basic design, it does what it's supposed to, and it does it well. Only issues are ink usage, but that's an issue with everyone! if you have a new mac or upgraded to osX10.2 you do'nt have to install or download software, it's already on your computer! just plug it in and go.
I'm a digital photographer, and as far as home printers go, it works really well.. So well that I can see how poorly I've been making some of my recent photo's!

I was new to digital photography and wanted a good quality printer without a lot of bells and whistles. I edit all my photos on my computer so I wasn't interested in printing and editing my pictures on the printer itself. You can use a usb cable and load to the printer but I don't use this feature. I have owned this printer since it first hit the shelves last year and have not had one problem with it. It is quiet and is puts out a great digital picture.

...until I discovered it doesn't work with Vista.

Since every other printer I have (Samsung, Sony, Epson, Kodak) works fine in Vista (I'm in the photo biz and have a lot of printers!), I can only conclude that HP is doing something "nonstandard" in its driver and if it followed the rules for writing a printer driver it would have worked.

If you think you may run Vista, do NOT buy this printer.

HP's support web site gave me the run-around....it referred me to a page that did not include information for this device.

I have used this printer with a Presario XP computer. It has been flawless in photo printing, graphic output, and is a draft mode workhorse. I give it five stars for: durability, performance, and quality.

Now you should know: HP will NOT provide a VISTA printer driver. That means you CANNOT use this printer in VISTA. I have spent over one week attempting to use various HP print drivers to no avail. I have contacted HP. Their response: HP will not support this printer in VISTA - buy a new printer.

I'm taking their advice. I'm buying an EPSON.

My HP 7150 prints nice photographs. The quality is very good, but I have had a lot of difficulty getting 4x6 sizes of paper to feed properly.

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.

The first problem i noticed was that the paper feed was *very* particular. to do test prints, i had to *hand feed* a single sheet of paper in. Whenever i tried to load several sheets, the printer said the size was wrong.
After hours of tests & trials, i could only get 1/2 of an 8.5x11 print to print out - images OR text. There is no 800 Customer Service line - it's long distance.
Maybe i just got a bum unit - but i was not happy with the support they offered for the product.
Printers should be on par with telephones - plug & play.