HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 26 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 26 pounds
• ASIN: B0007MW0QI
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 19, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer The ultimate HP 9-ink photo printer designed for the professional, fine art, portrait and serious amateur photographer who wants finished, professional-quality photos up to 13 by 19 inches to sell, exhibit, or admire for generations.¹ Photos can last up to 100 years when displayed under glass² or over 200 years in a photo album.³ The HP Photosmart 8750 produces 9-ink color prints and provides color management controls and remarkable printer flexibility to produce realistic color and true black-and-white photos that are true to your vision.

Features:

• Print photos with rich color, fine detail, and accurate skin tones in 9-ink color with HP Vivera Inks.
• Get black-and-white photos with pure grays, true neutral grays, deep blacks, high contrast, and smooth transitions.
• The extended color palette includes enhanced blue hues for more realistic skies and landscapes.
• HP's 9-ink extended color palette reproduces the rich, realistic colors you envision.
• Quickly print accurate on-the-spot proofs for your own reference or to share with clients.
• Printer controls easily let you apply Photoshop color management tools for true customized prints.
• Expand your options—HP color management tools produce rich colors compatible with Adobe RGB and sRGB.
• Print matte or glossy borderless photos up to 13 by 19 inches using multi-size trays.
• No more waiting to get the photos from the lab! Print professional photos right in your own studio.
• Take advantage of all standard media sizes—from passport, frames, and panorama to gallery-size up to 13 by 19 inches—with or without borders.
• Customized orders—print on different paper types and sizes using multi- size tray and media sensor.
• Print black documents at up to 19 ppm. Print 13-by-19-inch photos as fast as 3.5 minutes and 4-by-6-inch photos as fast as 29 seconds.⁴
• Convenient network printing—share your printer with PCs or MACs or enable wireless printing.
• Quickly print index photo proofing from memory cards for convenient photo referencing.
• Connect to your wired workgroup via the built-in Ethernet port.
• Plug your printer into the Ethernet port of a wireless router for wireless printing benefits (Wi-Fi 802.11b or g wireless with purchase of optional Jetdirect accessory).

Enhanced Blue Hues for Realistic Skies and Landscapes
The HP Blue Photo inkjet print cartridge delivers an extended color palette that includes a richer, enhanced range of blue hues for natural looking landscapes with more realistic sky and water scenes. The Blue Photo cartridge contains specially formulated HP Vivera Inks in light cyan, blue, and light magenta. The new blue ink is designed to peak in chroma (colorfulness) at a lightness higher than the lightness of the blue produced in printers that combine cyan and magenta inks.

The true blue ink used by the HP Photosmart 8750 allows the printer gamut to more closely match the sRGB color space. The blue ink is also brighter than the blue created from blending cyan and magenta inks. Outdoor photography enthusiasts will be especially impressed with the vivid blues in their landscapes, seascapes, and sports photos. While the new blue ink enhances blue tones on any paper, the best results are obtained on HP Premium and Premium Plus photo papers.

8-ink versus 9-ink. Coordinates represent sRGB values of yellow (255,255,0), red (255,0,0), magenta (255,0,255), blue (0,0,255), cyan (0,255,255), and green (0,255,0) printed on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper using default driver settings.

Black and White Prints: True to Your Vision
In the spirit of Ansel Adams' renowned Zone System for optimizing exposure, HP has defined a "Digital Zone" for demonstrating print values (from black to white) for inkjet prints. The Digital Zone divides the dynamic range (DR) of an imaging system into 11 evenly spaced grayscale blocks or zones. The zones represent specific densities, from maximum density (D- max)-the blackest black that an imaging system can produce-to minimum density (D-min)-the whitest white (the paper base). The middle of the scale, Zone V, represents the middle gray tones of the inkjet print.

Professional, Long Lasting Color and Black-and-White Photos
With rich color, fine detail, and accurate skin tones, this versatile printer is ideal for producing portraits, landscapes and other photo assignments. Professional printer controls, an extended color palette, and tools that work seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop make it easy to produce consistent results that are true to your vision. Built-in Ethernet allows printer sharing for small networks, including mixed environments of Macintosh and PCs, plus wireless printing via a wireless router.

What's in the Box
HP Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo printer, HP 97 tri-color inkjet print cartridge (14 ml), HP 101 blue photo inkjet print cartridge (13 ml), HP 102 gray photo inkjet print cartridge (23 ml), HP Image Zone Photo and Imaging software on CD- ROM, Quick Start booklet, user's guide, power supply, power cord, media sampler, media bag, setup poster, reference guide, network guide; USB printer cable not included

Notes: (1) Preliminary estimate of 108 years using the HP 97 Tricolor, the HP 101 Blue Photo, and the HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet Print Cartridges on HP Premium Plus Photo Papers. Based on Wilhelm-Research.com light-fade testing under glass for similar systems (as of November 2004). For more information on additional permanence testing factors, visit http://hp.com/go/premiumplusphoto. (2) Up to 108 years using the HP 97 Tricolor, the HP 101 Blue Photo, and the HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet print cartridges on HP Premium photo papers. Based on Wilhelm-Research.com light-fade under glass for similar systems. For more information on additional permanence testing factors, visit http://hp.com/go/premiumplusphoto. (3) Using the HP 97 Tricolor, the HP 101 Blue Photo, and the HP 102 Gray Photo Inkjet print cartridges on HP Premium Plus photo papers. Based on Wilhelm-Research.com room-temperature degradation (dark fade) testing for similar systems. For more information on additional permanence testing factors, visit http://hp.com/go/premiumplusphoto. (4) Dependent upon type, print mode, and approximate figures. Exact speed will vary depending on the system configuration, software program, and document complexity.

Product Description

MODEL- HP-8750 VENDOR- HEWLETT-PACKARD FEATURES- Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer The ultimate HP 9-ink photo printer designed for the professional fine art portrait and serious amateur photographer who wants finished professional-quality photos up to 13 x 19 inches to sell exhibit or admire for generations. The HP Photosmart 8750 produces 9-ink color prints provides color management controls and remarkable printer flexibility to produce realistic color and true black-and-white photos true to your vision. Includes Printer Tri-color Ink Card Blue Photo Ink Cart Gray Photo Ink Cart Power cord Power supply Quick Start booklet User Guide Software CD Media sampler with bag Setup poster Reference guide and Network guide.* Professional photographs - Print photos with rich color fine detail and accurate skin tones in 9-ink color with HP Vivera Inks. - Black-and-white photos with pure grays and true neutral grays and deep blacks high contrast and smooth transitions. - Extended color palette includes enhanced blue hues for more realistic skies and landscapes. * Photos up to 13 x 19 inches - No more waiting to get photos from the photo lab! Print professional photos right in your own studio. - All sizes--from passport frames and panorama to gallery-size up to 13 x 19 with or without borders. - Customized orders--print on different paper types and sizes using multi-size tray and media sensor. - Print 13 x 19 photos in as fast as 3.5 minutes and 4 x 6 photos in as fast as 29 seconds. * Long-lasting photos - Print true-to-life photos that resist fading longer than lab-developed photos. - Photos resist fading for over 100 years displayed under glass or over 200 years in a photo album. * Get the colors you envisioned - HPs 9-ink extended-color palette produces the rich realistic colors you envision. -

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than the 2400 in many ways., November 7, 2005

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T. Lyons "photographer" (Princeton, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer (Personal Computers)

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!

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, what a printer!, June 4, 2005

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Phillip D. Breske (Ocala, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer (Personal Computers)

After researching for weeks I finally bought this printer and I can say after one day with it that I am amazed at the quality it delivers. Better than anything I've ever received from a lab, but then I've never used a lab that gave me what I would call amazing results.

I found mine at the local CompUSA and since Amazon hasn't yet dropped the price significantly lower than a brick-and-mortar store, I bought it there. I usually prefer to get big ticket items like this locally so I can return it right away if the product is damaged or defective. Mine was neither.

I compared this printer to the Canon i9900 and Epson R1800 and here's why I decided on the HP:

* Ethernet built-in and all printer status functions are available via a standard web browser interface;
* The built-in display on top of the printer can control many functions including cleaning and testing, and it gives a real-time display of the ink levels in the three different cartridge locations;
* straight-thru paper path;
* Photo Grey ink cartridge that uses black and two levels of grey for (hopefully) superior B&W prints;
* print nozzles are replaced with each ink cartridge replacement (never a clogged head!);
* the satisfaction I've had with other HP products.

The other printers each have some of these features, but neither of them has all of these.

The only other printers I have used in the past were Epson el-cheapo models and the print heads clogged all the time, so I was really worried about getting another printer that may have even the slightest chance of clogging. If the heads on this printer do clog beyond the point at which a simple cleaning will fix it, just pop in a new cartradge and the problem is fixed.

Now, I've read that many users of Canon and Epson printers got amazing results right out of the box, but I didn't, and it was all my fault. Since I've never had a "real" photo printer before, I didn't have a proper color workflow on my computer. My monitor is calibrated with Mac OS X "Tiger's" built-in calibration tools and I really had no idea what I was doing when I first tried printing with this new printer, so the first pages were less than stellar. I stayed up for a few hours past bedtime to read the web articles on setting up a color workflow and how to use the color preferences in Photoshop CS and by the time I went to bed I was pretty bleary-eyed to say the least, so I gave up and got some sleep.

After a good night's rest and a little more reading and experimenting, I finally hit on the perfect workflow and now I can't believe how beautiful the prints are! Even without a hardware-calibrated monitor I am getting almost exactly on paper what i see on-screen, and that is just incredible. I've thrown some pretty tough images at it and each one has come out perfect. Even the B&W prints are better than those that were printed on B&W paper from a photo lab.

I've never actually seen a 13" x 19" print until today and I'm hooked. I can tell you I'm going to be spending a lot of money on big paper in the future and I may need to add more walls to my place. :)

For an experienced user with a managed workflow, I can see that setting up this printer and getting immediate results would be a snap. If you are using a Mac with OS X "Tiger," you won't even need to install anything on the computer - the OS has the printer drivers and paper profiles already installed. And if you have a network all you have to do is run an ethernet cable from the router/hub to the printer and look for the printer in the Printer Setup Utility. Mine showed up as soon as I opened the utility window. (I can't see how anyone who is serious about using their compuiter as a creative tool would use anything but a Mac.)

The only aspect that I would change at this point would be the use of three ink cartridges for the nine ink colors. In a perfect world, there would be nine cartridges like the separate tanks of the Epson and Canon. That's the only thing I can think of right now, but if I come up with any others I will try to come back and update this review or post another.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful color and B&W prints!, May 3, 2005

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Catherine Huneke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP - Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer (Personal Computers)

The photosmart 8750 produces exquisite photos with sharp clear details, amazing transitions especially in blue skies, and real neutral black and white. The 9-ink system produces the colors I want out of the box, but I can also use ICC profiles for extra control. On glossy paper, the dye-based ink creates beautiful depth in the image without gloss differential issues. When printing black and white, only ink from the gray cartridge is used, producing true black and white prints that rival any other method I have used. With the deep blacks, the black and whites are particularly stunning on the HP satin paper. Overall, this printer produces fantastic prints and I love seeing my work in 13x19 inches!