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HP PhotoSmart 8250 Inkjet Printer

HP PhotoSmart 8250 Inkjet Printer
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Product Description: HP PhotoSmart 8250

The HP Photosmart 8250 Photo Printer is the world's fastest photo printer and the ultimate personal home printer for beautiful photos and crisp text at blazing speeds. Its six individual ink cartridges are designed to save ink and money - ideal for high-volume home printing.

Product Specification: HP PhotoSmart 8250

Printer Type:Photo printer
Printer Technology:Ink-jet
Black Print Speed:32 ppm
Color Print speed:31 ppm
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User Reviews: HP PhotoSmart 8250

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    A decent purchase

    By sumit  Nov 19, 2005 | 9 out of 11 found this HP PhotoSmart 8250 review helpful

    Pros: Speed, 6 ink cart, nice LCD screen,connectivity "options"

    Cons: grainy prints, no USB cable included, tedious installation

    Oki just picked up this printer about a week back and so far i must say im not impressed too much.. heres the take: INSTALLATION: for starters... noUSB cable.. ok ok i have a extra cable for my speedstream lying around but ull have to shell about 5...$ on a usb cable.. right out of the box... not exactly a good thing.. and the manual was sparse and low quality software installation is good but boring.. 600MB to be precise.. so it can take a while... CONNECTIVITY: bluetooth supported, no pc required, pictbridge, mem slot drives... BUILT/STYLE.. heavy n large.. not too good a thing.. looks are alright, the lcd screen is of good quality SETUP: set calibration ( approx 5 mins) at startup..whole process is automatic PRINTS: this is the main thing so here goes.. TEXT: black.. i was NOT IMPRESSED i had an ancient 870 cxi deskjet lying around and it gave far sharper and more laser like results. Too much bleeding and feathering.. and the black did not seem saturated en Read more Less

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    Poor Quality Control

    By Jordan  May 1, 2006 | 5 out of 6 found this HP PhotoSmart 8250 review helpful

    Pros: Nice features

    Cons: Slow, doesn't work well, uses too much ink

    The HP Photosmart 8250 is like a facade. It looks nice, but that's about it. I've had one for five months. In that time, HP has replaced it once and the new model has the same problems as the old one! Problems: It uses too much ink.... I use about 1 black ink cartridge per week, even though I print less than half of the 480 pages that HP claims a cartridge will last. Also, it uses almost none of the light blue and light brown inks. It constantly goes into maintenance mode. The printer has an annoying habit of moving into maintenance mode on a frequent basis. Paper handling is terrible! The printer continually thinks it's out of paper even when it's not. It's slow. Not nearly as fast as advertised. The Photosmart 8250 has some nice features and is attractive looking, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Read more Less

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Pro Reviews: HP PhotoSmart 8250

  • PC World

    HP Photosmart 8250

    This full-featured printer is fast and well designed, but print quality falls short of other models.The silver-colored, $200 Photosmart 8250 marks a departure for HP printers. For one, cartridges for previous models contained up to three inks, whereas the 8250's six cartridges contain just one ink each. Also, the older cartridges incorporate a print head, but the 8250's cartridges don't have built-in nozzles because the printer has a permanent print head. In contrast, the $149 HP Photosmart 8050, which we also tested this month, uses multi-ink cartridges. Read more

  • Macworld

    HP Photosmart 8250

    The Photosmart 8250 is a big printer for HP. Not big in size, but big because this desktop photo inkjet is the first product to include its new scalable printing technology. Read more

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