Customer Reviews

HP Photosmart 8050 Printer (Q6351A#ABA)

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(7)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

[...] Yes, you have to buy a separate USB cable and its probably a good idea to buy extra ink cartidges, so the price does go up a little, but that's pretty similar to most printers.

For $119, I was very surprised at the quality of my pictures. Vivid, clean, sharp pictures. I had to almost kiss the photo to see that it was printed off of a printer and not developed. (Pictures taken with a 3.2 MP Nikon Coolpix). Another great thing was that the setup was a sinch, so I was able to print pictures quickly. Lastly, this model (over the 7850) gives you the option to link the camera directly to the printer or insert your camera's memory card into the front of the printer so that you don't even need a computer. (There are some editing limitation with this option, but at least there's the option.) Lastly, there is an extra paper tray for borderless 4x6 photopaper. Nice.

The only complaints I have are that the software is not super intuitive, but I would only dock my rating about a quarter point for that, because the software does offer some nice options like making calendars or brochures, etc. Also, for great B&W photos, you'd have to buy a third cartridge (though there is a storage space built into the printer for an extra cartridge).

Overall, excellent printer for the price.

I was in the market for a new inkjet and finally settled on this printer. The photo output is awesome and it's very fast!

There are only two things I would comment on that new users might not be aware of. I was ready to return the printer as I thought it was defective until I found out what the problems were.

1) When the cartridges dry out, it will tell you that the cartridges are incompatible. This was confusing as I did have the correct cartridges in the printer. A "replace cartridge" message would have been less ambiguous.

2) The printer has so far appeared "dead" once. When I went to turn it on, it would not do so. The solution is on HP's website - you must remove the rear door and do a hard reset. I did this and the printer worked fine again.

The printer does not come with a USB cable, but those can be easily bought for $14-20.

Just received this as a bundle with the HP407 digital camera for about $120.00. The printer is great! Prints good quality, fairly quickly and doesn't burn through the ink. Haven't connected to my computer, as I'm using the printer as a stand-alone portable. I have an HP multifuntion & don't want to risk a software error by connecting a second HP product.

I print off the digital card from the camera, it accepts many different type of cards & printing is easy. I'm still playing around with it & getting used to the features/functions, but so far, it's great! I like the 4x6 tray & the tray storage in the top of the printer. It folds nicely into a relatively small footprint.

I wish HP made a travel bag for use with this printer, I ended up buying a carry-on style bag to accommadate the printer & accessories.

The printer has functions to remove red-eye, crop, and apply things like sepia to the pictures. The on-board display screen is nice and the menu is easy to follow. You can select how many pictures to print per page from 1 to 9, print index sheets, etc. It has quite a few selections available.

I don't know of many printers that come with the USB cable. If you get one that is included, you're very lucky & most likely, it won't be long enough anyway. I give 4 stars because I haven't had the printer long enough to give it the best review possible. From what I've seen so far, it works really well.

This is an acceptable printer, but one must be very, very careful about loading the paper. If you push too hard, you get paper jams. And don't try to load more paper, should you run out, during a printing. More paper jams. I've had quite a bit of trouble.

The ink cartridges are used up quickly!

I purchased this printer because it was nice looking and advertised prints for as low as 24 cents. I was disappointed with this printer. This is an item I did not buy from Amazon but purchased at Staples Office Supply because of a rebate offer. I returned the product.

The picture quality was poor. The pictures were washed out looking. The faces were white with pink but no warm overtones. You couldn't tell people's eye color. The pictures were definitely not photo quality. I compared the pictures to my Dell-all-in one and the lack of warmth (can't think of a better way to describe it) was very noticeable.

HP makes good products but this is not one of them. I showed the sales people at Staples the pictures from the 8050 and everybody agreed they were poor.

I purchased this product in February of 2006. By October of 2006, all of the sudden, I had problems with the paper feeding correctly. I called HP, I spoke with a sales person from Staples (where the printer was purchased) and they suggested I get a cleaning kit or check the type of paper I was putting in and cross checking with how the printer was defaulted in the computer to print. I did that and it still only works if I have a certain amount of paper (not too much, not too little) and if I give the top piece of paper a little push. It is the most frustrating thing to print anything!! When this printer actually does print something, it comes out nicely, but the effort is definately not worth 6-7 months worth of use. I would suggest to keep looking!!

I like HP printers, but the paper-feed rollers have a defect so common that HP mails a kit free-of-charge to specifically address this problem: a plastic insert that goes in the paper tray, topped with a sandpaper-like material to coarsen the rollers. The kit works, but only temporarily. The paper feed errors returned a few months later, the kit no longer works, and HP will not do anything further once the printer's out of warranty.

I hate this printer. I hate this printer. All it does it jam and that is all it has ever done. It is a good piece of equipment if you don't actually use to print.

This is my first HP printer and I am impressed with the quality of the unit, and the quality of the printing. I can't speak for the software that came with it, as I use Picasa2 and don't want to change. It IS Photosmart, I somtimes make a mistake and have the wrong size paper selected...this printer will not print unless things are OK. I mostly print 4X6, and the handy holder for this size stores in the top of the unit. Don't tell HP, but I refill the ink, so this is a budget saving printer. For less than $100, you can't go wrong. Amazon delivered it in a couple days even with free shipping. I would buy another.

We've owned the 8050 for less than a year - using it mainly for occasional B&W printing. Recently, it died giving us an error message saying that the NEW ink cartridges I bought were "incompatible" - which of course was crazy since they were the same HP carts as before.

I called the "help desk" and probably talked to India about 10 times with no help and seemingly no understanding on their part. But, outsourcing saves money, you know. I did a live chat with someone on HP website and though she was helpful, it did not solve the problem.

They offered to mail me a new cartridge 2 months ago but got the wrong zip code for my address. After literally 20 emails, (replies from people with Indian names) the zip code problem was finally resolved and I should be getting the new cartridge soon.

How can the HP "help desk" solve a technical problem if they can't even change a zip code!

I don't have the time or need all this aggravation. Bye Bye HP.