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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | HP B8850 Photosmart Pro Photo Printer. Now you can easily produce archival, professional photos at home or in studio. Eight individual pigment based HP Vivera inks give you precise, wide ranging colors for lifelike portraits and brilliant landscapes. True neutral grays and deep blacks ensure stunning black and white photos. Count on exceptional fade resistance archivalquality prints resist fading under glass for 200 plus years, using HP Advanced Photo Paper. Plus, photos are ready to handle immediately and resist water, smudges, and humidity. HP color management tools fully support Adobe RGB, sRGB, and ICC profiles for greater color control. Basic color calibration automatically adjusts the print settings to maintain accuracy and ensures consistent color reproduction print after print. You will find this printer to be a quick and efficient solution for creating eye catching marketing materials and presentations in house. HPs inks, media, and printing technology are all designed and tested to work together for precise color, image uniformity, and detail. High capacity, individual ink cartridges enable more affordable printing with fewer interruptions. Minimize waste with Electrostatic Drop Detection, an efficient, self monitoring system that keeps the printer in top condition by cleaning only the individual print nozzles that require it. An HP DreamColor product, the HP Photosmart Pro B8850 helps you effortlessly achieve prints that match your creative vision. See 4 by 6 inch photos in as fast as 10 seconds, 13 by 19 inch photos in as fast as 90 seconds. The printer is compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS3 for easy management and streamlined printing. The HP Photosmart ProPrint plug in for Adobe Photoshop CS2 automatically synchronizes CS2 and the printer driver for a single user interface. An interactive, animated setup wizard ensures easy installation. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 16.89 inches | | Product Width: | 26.5 inches | | Product Height: | 9.5 inches | | Product Weight: | 37.7 pounds | | Package Length: | 30.51 inches | | Package Width: | 23.03 inches | | Package Height: | 12.99 inches | | Package Weight: | 47.66 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 32 reviews |
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| | Features | Description du produit: HP PhotoSmart Pro B8850 - imprimante - couleur - jet d'encreType d'imprimante: Imprimante photo - jet d'encre - couleurDimensions (LxPxH): 67.3 cm x 42.9 cm x 24.1 cmPoids: 17.1 kgTechnologie d'imprimante à jet d'encre: HP Thermal InkjetAlimentation: CA 120/230 VCapacité totale: 200 feuillesCertification Vista : Certified for Windows VistaConfiguration requise: Windows XP Édition Familiale, Windows XP Professionnel, Windows XP Édition Media Center, Microsoft Windows VistaFormat maximal du support (standard): A3 PlusGarantie du fabricant: Garantie de 1 anInterface: USBLangage(s) d'impression: PCL 3EPalette d'encres prise en charge (couleurs): 8 encresRAM installée (max.): 64 MoRésolution maximale (N&B): 4800 ppp x 1200 pppRésolution maximale (couleur): 4800 ppp x 1200 pppTaux d'utilisation mensuel: 1000 pagesType de support: Étiquettes, papier ordinaire, papier couché, papier photo, cartes, papier pour beaux arts
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 Great quality, difficult to use, will wake you in the middle of night May 28, 2010
So I'm writing this now after being very frustrated with one particular feature of this printer and want to warn any potential buyers who plan to keep this printer in the same room they sleep in. It auto-cleans itself 24 hours after last use, which I guess is useful, except that it means if you print something late at night or early in the morning, it will most definitely wake you up the next time you go to bed early or wake up late. The cleaning cycle lasts for 45 seconds and is pretty loud. It makes me regret buying this printer, because now I have to either unplug it (since it will turn itself on to clean) or make a point to printer in the afternoon if I ever print at a time where I might otherwise be asleep.
I've confirmed with tech support you can't change the settings on the auto-cleaning :(
Otherwise, I've found the printer more confusing than I expected, but the print quality is good. It's somewhat slow and very loud. It's incredibly bulky, but that's to be expected with a printer of this type.
 Great Print quality May 18, 2010
This is the third HP photo printer I have owned and the second large format printer. I love HP's print quality. It is always fabulous. When compared side by side with Epson and Cannon (which I did) HP always comes out on top. That being said. This printer is very noisy and shakes the whole printer stand when it prints. You have to manually feed the "specialty" papers in which is a pain. The HP 8750 was designed much better but didn't have the individual inks which this one does. They would have done better combining the design of the 8750 with the ink system of the 8850. Can't say I LOVE it like I did my HP8750, but the finished print product is beautiful!
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 Always prints with a yellow cast Jan 29, 2010
I wanted to move up to a higher-level printer so I could print on fine-art papers at larger sizes than 8-1/2x11. Reviews for this printer were quite good (not just here at Amazon) and the price was good, so I bought it. I was very excited to make my first print but very disappointed when I saw the results. All prints exhibited a yellow color cast plus low saturation and print detail was not very good. I was comparing this to a much cheaper HP D7560 printer. The 7560 uses dye inks compared to pigment inks for the 8850, so from all I could learn on the net, I should expect the colors to be less vibrant but smoother. Less vibrant would be an understatement but they were definitely smoother (the 7560 is a 5-ink printer versus 8 inks for the 8850). But no matter what I did, I could not get rid of the yellow color cast.
I have a profiled monitor (6500K) and understand how to allow Photoshop (CS3) to manage colors. I had every thing set up correctly for printing and nothing I tried ever gave me acceptable results. I re-profiled my monitor multiple times and tried different white point settings - all to no avail. Colors on the prints never matched those on the monitor or even to the objects I'd photographed. About the closest I got to real-world colors was when I let the printer manage colors, but, of course that's not a true color-managed workflow and doesn't work when you want to use ICC profiles from other paper manufacturers. The color cast was not just a matter of the lighting I was using to view the photos - i used several different light sources. The colors were simply wrong and nothing I could do could make them right. I exchanged several emails with HP support and went through all their suggestions and they were unable to resolve the problem. It's sad that an $80 printer like the D7560 outperforms this much more expensive printer (of course, that printer has its limitations). Perhaps I got a bad copy, but after fooling with it for nearly two weeks, I'd had enough and returned it. I guess I'm going to have to look at a different brand.
I also discovered one other bug this morning. If you print on 4x6" HP Advanced Glossy and let the printer manage the colors, the prints will be entirely yellow! After some searching on the net, I discovered that this has been a bug for over a year and has never been addressed by HP. The problem can be resolved by choosing a generic paper type or allowing Photoshop to manage colors, but overall color quality is still very poor indeed.
One good thing I will say about it is that it seems to be economical with ink. I printed at least 50 8-1/2x11s at best quality in trying to get the thing to work and still had about 60% of most inks left. Of course, on the other hand, a full set of 8 cartridges is over $260.
If you choose to buy this printer and you care about the quality of the photos, I hope you get a better copy than I did.
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 Gotta take the bad with the good Jan 17, 2010
I'm a software developer who develops software for printers and while the hardware itself is certainly capable, HP's drivers are horrendous! I'll try to summarize in categories:
(1) Print quality - print quality is pretty good but this is a pigment printer and gloss differential (sometimes called bronzing) is a problem. This printer simply cannot print true glossy prints like the Epson R1900. That said, you can get very good semi-gloss prints. I've found that Canon Premium Photo Paper Semi Gloss works very well. The color gamut is also a bit more narrow than other printers that have different primary inks like red, green, or blue: the B8850 only has yellow, magenta, cyan, and then light cyan and light magenta. That's a bit "old school" these days and you can tell in the prints: they just aren't quite as vibrant as some of the competition.
(2) Paper handling - paper handling is a bit different from other inkjet models. The main tray pulls out the front and you load the paper in the tray upside down and put the tray back in. For this reason, you'll need plenty of desk space in FRONT of the printer, not just side to side. The specialty media tray is nice, but I find that the driver has a bug that always complains that the tray is in the closed position even after you've just opened it and loaded paper, forcing you to click "continue" before every print. Not a big deal since you can only load one sheet at a time anyway, but there are other issues as well. Sometimes the paper isn't "detected" properly and it complains that there is no media in the tray (when you've just loaded it). All this makes it a bit of a pain to load specialty (large) sheets. If you are someone who prints test prints like one 4x6 on an 8.5 x 11 page, then reload and print another 4x6 test print on the same page, be aware that there is a light sensor in the printer that can be fooled by this: if you print anything at the left/top edge of the paper, the printer will insist that no paper is loaded. Just another kink to work through when working with this printer. It's just not as easy to use as other models. The work around is to print your test prints from right to left on the page, leaving the top/left blank as long as you can.
(3) Color - There are some serious bugs in the print driver related to color. The B8850 simply cannot run in "application managed color" mode on 4x6 paper with "HP Advanced Photo Paper" selected: you'll get a mustard yellow print. This is a known bug that has been around since 2008, so I have to assume HP has no intention of fixing it. It's really surprising they can sell printers given the number of major bugs that exist in their drivers. On the positive side, there are usually workarounds. The workaround for the color management bug is to select "fiber gloss" or "other" paper since the paper type seems to elicit the bug. Of course, you'll then need to create your own ICC profiles to be sure you are getting correct color.
(4) Other bugs - There are other bugs in the driver as well. If you go to the "Advanced" section and change "Advanced Printing Features" from "Enabled" to "Disabled" (something you should be able to do), you'll get no print at all. The printer will start, load the page, and just sit. Some other less problematic bugs also exist such as the rulers being totally inaccurate when using the "preview before printing" option: often the rulers will show something like a 26 x 38 print size when the print is actually 13 x 19, and so on. Be on the lookout for strange stumbling blocks like this that can take some time to step around. The driver is a real pain to negotiate due to the number of bugs present.
Bottom line: this is a good pigment printer that will create long lasting prints. If you can stomach all the driver bugs and workarounds, it can be a good addition to your digital photography arsenal. Just be warned, it may take a few days and a lot of prints to get this thing working properly in a real color managed workflow. Also be warned that if you want true glossy prints with that "wet" look, better get something like an Epson R1900 that has a gloss optimizer ink.
Mike
 One month and gorgeous prints so far Jan 13, 2010
After one month of use I am very pleased with all aspects of this printer.... haven't run enough prints to need to replace any of the 8 ink cartridges yet (~ $32 each) so can't comment on ink usage. But the main criterion for a photo printer should be the quality of the prints and so far I am blown away.
It performs a self calibration so, when combined with a calibrated LCD monitor and PhotoShop Elements 8, what I see on my screen is what I see in my prints (I also use HP's recommended paper). You can also download (from HP) color calibration files for many non-HP papers so I assume you will achieve similarly good results with these papers.
Set up was a snap (although a little time consuming since you install 4 print heads and 8 ink cartridges) and you had the choice of following the printed set up guide or the animated video guide on the driver CD.
As has been noted before, the printer is large and heavy, although not out of line with other large format printers. If you are going to use any "specialty" papers - that is, heavy weight papers that can't/shouldn't go through the regular C-shaped paper path - you need to leave space in back of the printer equal to the length of your paper since the printer moves your flat sheet of paper from the front tray out the back though a slot.
Using the specialty paper tray is a little quirky and changing papers in the main tray is a little pain, neither issues being show-stoppers.
The printer is relatively noisy, so if you are doing a lot of printing in an office environment that might be a problem. Also, HP recommends leaving the printer plugged in (turned off is okay) to a live outlet at all times since it goes through some sort of self check and maintenance once a day.
So, unless the printer fails or I find outrageous ink usage, I'm a happy camper.
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