The HP Photosmart 8750 is a web - ready , wide of the mark - format , photo inkjet pressman that can output borderless 13 - by-19 - inch prints using as many as nine dissimilar dye - based inks . It claim to be a printer for professional lensman , but because of a few quirks and its sluggish speed , it would probably be a better fit for advanced hobbyists who want to make larger print at base .
Multi-color cartridges
Using HP ’s Vivera inks , the 8750 ’s prints should last as long as 100 days under meth and 200 years in a photo album . Unlike many inkjets , and even some recently announced HP printers , the Photosmart 8750 does n’t use single ink tanks . It can handle three multi - color cartridges at a prison term .
It embark with Gray Photo ( light gray , dark grey-haired , and photo black ) , Tri - color ( cyan , Battle of Magenta , and white-livered ) , and a new Blue Photo cartridge ( light cyan , light magenta , and photo blue ) that HP say will make sky and water appear more naturalistic .
Two other cartridges compatible with the 8750 are sell separately — a black cartridge can be install instead of the gray-headed photo pickup for print text , and a photo cartridge hold back light cyan , light Battle of Magenta , and black can be installed instead of the downhearted photo cartridge for print sepia stroke . Individual inks would be a great feature for this printer , especially if it imply not suffer to trade out unlike cartridge for different kinds of print .
Slow print speeds
you could connect this printer to your Mac via USB 2.0 or 10/100 Ethernet , but it is no speed daimon . On the Best Photo background ( the 2d highest quality ) , it took between five and six hour to produce an 8 - by-10 - inch print of our 22 MB Macworld test photo using the USB 2.0 port ; it took 13 minutes for a 13 - by-19 - column inch print of the same papers . impress them via Ethernet took a few seconds longer . Compared to other 13 - by-19 - inch photograph printers like the Canon i9900 ( ) and the Epson Stylus Photo R1800 ( ) , the HP lagged behind . The Canon and the Epson were able to print the 13 - by-19 - inch print in the same time it took the HP to nail an 8 - by-10 - inch print .
The Photosmart 8750 also sustain printing process at once from PictBridge - enable cameras and includes slots that accommodate most types of photographic camera card . One thing that this $ 500 Photosmart printer deficiency , that even the $ 130 Photosmart 7760 has , is a color LCD for viewing photo thumbnails . To publish from a camera wag , you must run off ink , paper , and time printing a numbered index tack and then use the text - only LCD menu to select the telephone number of the photo you ’d like to print .
The printed output was very pleasing , though a bit heavy on the blue and reds when using the printing machine equipment driver ’s specific ColorSync mount for the ink magazine installed . opt to practice the include ICC profile in Photoshop or HP ’s own ColorSmart options made the images await regretful . pitch-black and white photo see very good with neutral grays — helped by the pressman ’s gray photo ink .
There were no obvious dot patterns in any of the prints , but there was a strange grain to some photos when first coming out of the printer , with ink in the dark domain seeming to ride on top of the newspaper . This settled down over time as the print dry out .
The HP Premium Plus Photo Paper has a special grating coating on the back of each sheet to keep the print from adhere together when in the production tray . But be deliberate when treat the prints . They stay tawdry for a while , and I did have some ink come off the Sir Frederick Handley Page when I turned one over to write the printer configurations on the back .
Macworld’s Buying Advice
The HP Photosmart 8750 is a practiced , big data format desktop photo pressman and a good choice for the advanced hobbyist looking to make larger prints at home . But slow print time , foresightful drying times , and lack of individual ink armored combat vehicle will have professional photographer looking elsewhere .
James Galbraith isMacworld ’s lab director .
