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HP Photosmart Pro B8850 Professional Photo Printer (Q7161A#B1H) | 
| Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
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Rating:  16 reviews
Color: Grey
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista
System Memory: 64
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 47
Dimensions (in): 26.5 x 16.9 x 9.5
nv:Print Method: Photo Printer
First Page Output Time: Up to 10 seconds
Resolution: 4800 x 1200 dpi
Maximum Duty Cycle: Up to 1,000 Pages Per Month
Print Speed: Up to 28 PPM
Dimensions: 26.5 x 16.9 x 9.5 in
Special Features: professional-quality photos
Protocols: USB 2.0
Standard Paper Input: Up to 200 Sheets
Standard Paper Output: 50 Sheets
Paper Sizes Supported: Letter
Paper Sizes Supported: Legal
Paper Sizes Supported: Executive
Paper Sizes Supported: Envelopes
Paper Sizes Supported: Tabloid
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: B8850
Model: B8850
UPC: 883585472512
EAN: 0883585472512
ASIN: B00127X3K4
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Produce archival, professional-quality photos up to 13 x 19 using 8 individual high-capacity HP Vivera pigment inks. Breakthrough color consistency makes it easy for serious photographers to take their photo and fine-art printing to the next level.nts and can output them economically without sacrificing the quality of the original image. The most frequent uses of the HP PhotoSmart photo printer include photo enlargement, cropping, red-eye elimination, scratch removal, replication of snapshots, and the creation of greeting cards and other novelties. These uses require the support of a wide variety of media sizes. These media sizes include a wide variety of media types, like photo weight papers (photographic glossy or photographic matte), special project papers, transparency, and a calendar kit. A new "straight-through" paper path facilitates media types that are too thick for traditional curved paths.
Amazon.com Product Description
The high-quality, efficient HP Photosmart Pro B8850 Photo Printer 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. What's in the Box
Photosmart Pro B8850 printer, 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
Print like a pro! November 14, 2008
Hope T. (Atlanta, GA)
I'd have to say I'm really impressed by the quality of print from the HP Photosmart Pro. I've been a graphic designer for 15 years and have always struggled to match my print to what I see on my screen. I'm pleased to say that this printer gives me a great print at a nice price. It's very affordable and convenient. The only con is that it's a little larger than I needed and takes up a little too much room in my home office.
 Reasons I chose this printer November 9, 2008
Pete (Houston, TX USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't taken delivery yet but thought I would explain why I chose the B8850. I want to print my lifetime photo collection for my family members and their descendants. So I was interested in long lasting prints. The HP 8850 coupled with the Vivera inks and certain HP papers is capable of producing prints that will survive for more than 250 years according to accelerated tests by Wilhelm Research [...]
Printers and papers from Epson, Canon, Kodak, etc have also been tested by Wilhelm but achieve nowhere near the level of print longevity of the HP 8850 when used with the right HP papers.
There are other printers in the HP range that produce similarly durable prints but the 8850 was right for me in terms of maximum print size and other features. I did read that under some circumstances print quality was not quite as good as with some Epsons, especially the Epson 3800. I was sorely tempted by the Epson 3800 despite the shorter life of its prints because it seemed to have a slight edge on print quality under certain circumstances but decided against it on a balance of factors. Its prints will fade sooner, it is more expensive, and it has huge ink cartridges and with the amount of printing I would do, I would probably not use the ink within its shelf life, which Epson say is 6 months. Also, there would be a risk with intermittent usage that the ink would block the print heads which are not replaceable. The HP has that nice feature to keep the ink heads open even if the printer is not being used for a while and the heads are replaceable at reasonable cost if they should fail.
Several reviewers mentioned the high cost of filling the 8850 with ink but failed to point out it has relatively large cartridges - not as big as the Epson 3800 but bigger than lower end printers. I believe ink per unit of volume is about the same price from all the major manufacturers. Also from what I have read the frequent head maintenance routine of the 8850 will use less ink in the long-run than the less frequent cleaning and purging routines used in many other printers.
I thought about the HP 9180 but it is a little slower than the 8850 and more expensive. I don't need the LCD panel nor the ability to use cardstock. The network Ethernet connection is also not needed because I will use the printer on my network by simple printer sharing.
Great Printer September 30, 2008
Terri
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm happy with this printer. I wanted a 13 x 19" printer and this one fit my budget. For me it's a long over do upgrade from my smaller HP 8250, which still prints beautiful prints. I've had no problems using it with Vista...I had it up and running in no time. Since I have PCS3, I let Adobe manage the colors for the printer and the prints are beautiful using Epson photo paper most of the time and other times HP photo paper.
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