- Up to 32 ppm black text, 31 ppm tone text; 4×6 print in as small as fourteen seconds
- Individual 6-ink tone with HP Vivera Inks; USB, PictBridge
- Photos with or but borders up to 8.5 by twenty-four inches, together with fun panoramas
- Automated 4×6-inch tray for dedicated print printing; discretionary automobile two-sided printing
- Image arrangement to perspective photos as well as videos, solidify your the one preferred stage as well as print
Product Description
Box Contents: HP Photosmart 8250 Printer, HP twenty-two Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge, 5 ml ink volume, HP Image Zone Express Photo as well as Imaging Software upon CD-ROM, Setup Poster, User’s Guide, Power Supply, Power Cord The HP Q3470A Photosmart 8250 Printer lets we suffer easy print printing, the world’s fastest print printer. Easy to set up as well as use, it prints pleasing photos as well as laser-quality black text. Print the 4 x 6 print in as quick as fourteen seconds for as small as 24ยข each, or bland papers during upon fire speeds up to 32 ppm black text, up to 31 ppm tone text. Six available particular ink armoured column assistance equivocate the con of using out of specific inks in the center of the print or page by vouchsafing we simply reinstate on… More >>
Tags: 8250, Photosmart, Printer
We purchased this printer as a gift for my father in-law for Christmas. Conceptually, I loved the design. Separate ink tanks with one head, ability to print your own 4×6 prints from the card slots. He has a very nice Panasonic 4 MP camera but never prints out the pictures for my mother in-law. We thought this would be a great addition.
After he opened it up, I set it up for him. We had taken pictures that day and wanted to see how they printed. I was horrified at how obvious the ink lines were and how poorly the printer layered color! In lower light situations, the prints were very disappointing. Only is very high (like direct sunlight with no clouds on the not shadow side) were the prints more like what I expected. I assumed after this that I need to calibrate the printer but found out, too late. This was par for the course on the 8250.
All in all, I cannot recommend anyone purchase this printer. The print quality is no better than my super cheap Canon S300 printer at home…
PRINTER STOPPED RECEIVING PHOTO PAPER AFTER COUPLE OF MONTHS AND NO WAY TO FIX. DON’T EVEN TRY.
PRODUCT SUCKS! AFTER THIS I WILL NEVER BUY HP AGAIN.
As one reviewer proposed about this printer, discussing how HP leads the pack and everyone else copies their technology, well … guess what? That’s about as far from the truth as possible. Hewlett-Packard has finally gone and done the improbable: created an inkjet machine with a permanent printhead and individual ink tanks. I’ve always loved their business inkjet line, but this new photo printer is proof enough that HP has–in fact–been hurting financially in the digital photography printing market. Furthermore, they quite clearly created a mimic of Epson’s recent, successful Photo Sylus line by employing the two things mentioned above about this model.
I do, however, appreciate that HP has taken steps to finally engineer inkjet printers in a more costly manner. Their next step should be to increase print resolution, drop the picoliter size further (to match the new 1.5 Epson models and approximately 1 picoliter Canon models), and create prints with a more realistic finish.
As another reviewer poked fun at Canon and Epson for putting emphasis on waterproofing their inks, get this: there is GOOD reason for making inks this way. Waterproof, smudge-resistant not only do what their name says, but they also are shielded from dampness, normal handling, and also DON’T STICK TO PHOTO ALBUMS, unlike HP’s sticky inks. Intelligent chemical engineering of photo-quality inks is something Hewlett-Packard needs to do SOON, if they are to be considered serious in this industry by those who understand what having a durable ink means. It’s not enough to just get Wilhelm-Imaging Research to say your Vivera inks won’t fade until the year 2120. Ask this instead: How will the picture exist then if natural handling, humidity, and other factors deteriorate the picture long before one generation has passed?
What can I say about the appearance of the prints (from the 8250) themselves? Well, althought I can’t quite agree that the prints are more coarse in appearance in their older inkjets, the individual Vivera inks still lack the color accuracy that Epson achieves with the Stylus Photo R320. Caucasian flesh looks like rigamortis has set in, and landscapes appear as if they’ve bathed in artificial colors. There’s not quite enough subtlety in color on this machine, as has been a flaw with EVERY Photosmart model since the beginning.
No photography-savvy printer model out there is perfect. The Photosmart 8250 finally deletes the old, useless method of temporary printheads and tricolor cartridges, but still cries out to its maker for a more realistic color palette, chemically stronger inks, and a plea that someday soon there will be a new machine with something more innovative than saying “Hey! We’re got the fastest photo printer in the world, but had to copy some of Epson’s methods in the process to make it semi-worthwhile!”.
Best of luck next time, Hewlett-Packard.
This is a gteat printer. I have had mine for about 2 years now and printed 1000’s of pages and Pics on it.
Am now looking to upgrade to maybe an Epson r2880 or the HP equivalent…
This printer has been a problem since day one. There have been constant paper jams, constant “out of paper” when it is NOT, black plastic pieces that came out of printer after 6 months that didn’t change how the printer functioned, paper loading problems, paper tray problems, photo tray problems, HP support problems, HP lack of support problems, but I’ve got to tell you, if you can handle not totally losing your sanity while trying to get it to print, the quality is fairly decent. Tomorrow my family is taking the printer to the shooting range to use as target practice…they are tired of hearing their mother try to reason with a printer. They are concerned about my blood pressure.