Choose your Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printers
By Imanuel Henry

Sometimes it is confusing when you need the best and the most suitable printer for your home. There are many types and series out there with many different features. Below are the kinds of printer from Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer with its type for each. Hopefully will be your brief guidance for choosing the best and the most suitable HP Photosmart Printers.
Desktop Printer – D7960
The desktop printer is used for ease of printing that will produce awesome printed photo and everyday printing. The featured product for its type which we will discuss is the HP Photosmart D7960.
This Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printers are designed for Mac and Windows user and provided 2 USB ports, 4 memory card slots, 2.5-inch LCD for editing and previewing, duplexing accessory, and versatile paper handling for about 100-sheets paper or 20-sheets 4×6-inch photo paper. You will get print output up to 21 ppm or similar with printing 4×6-inch photo for about 90 seconds in high-quality print result (4800 optimized dpi).
It has 4 ink cartridges – 56 (black for documents), 57 (tri-color cyan, magenta, and yellow), 58(photo ink with photo cyan and magenta), and 59(black for black and white photos). It will give you true natural gray and impressive black-and-white print. But in the other hand, having 4 ink cartridges will cost you more.
Compact Printer – A826
Compact printer is suitable for you who want to get high-quality print result anywhere anytime. The Hewlett Packard Photo Printers released the A826 the odd looking compact printer, I guess, in blue-white color. This printer is suitable for your portability.
It has largest previewing and editing screen, 7-inch, with touch screen ability. And you can print 4×6-inch photo in 39 seconds. The user friendly menu is ease you to custom the photo or you can use the stylus and make hand-writing to the photo before printing. It will be great personalized greeting cards to send.
This Buy HP Photosmart Printer appear as stand-alone printer with 128MB RAM, 150Mb free space, supported up to 5×7 memory card compatibility, with 10.4 x 9.6 x 10.8 dimension for about 5.8 pounds. But please do not stack up the photos because you have to dry the ink first.
All-in-One Printer – HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Inkjet Printer
The all-in-one printer is a compact device that will allow you to print, scan, copy, and fax with only one printer. You have no need to invest in other devices like scanner, copier, or fax machine.
The new all-in-one printer from HP is the HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Inkjet Printer. You can use it for printing, scanning, copying, or faxing high-quality photo and daily documents with this multifunction printer.
Other benefits you can get are the wireless networking supported with this printer, so you can use the printer anywhere in your home. If you want to save the paper cost choose the duplex printing option.
But probably, you have to be patient while pressing the button from this printer. The responds can be said as slow and producing sounds that not quite enough.
Professional Printer – B8550
You will want something that suits for your pro as professional such giving gallery-quality printing up to 13 x 19-inch. This printer is not the best choice for you when you just want to print snapshot photo and never print large format printing.
The featured product for this type is Photosmart B8550. This Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printers offer varied printing options. You can preview and edit the photo with 2.4-inch LCD display, reducing red-eye will feel so easy with only pushing one button, and there are four LED indicators to let you know if there is something that need your attention. If you feel the 2.4-inch display is too small, perhaps you can preview and edit with your computer,
The printing speed is also considerable; you can print 32 pages for B&W and 31 pages for color per minute. But if you care for borderless aspect, try it before you buy. Some reviews said that it can be a problem if you print borderless. There are crops for about a quarter of an inch off each edge.
Conclusion
There are four kinds of printer which HP Printers offered. The example for each kind hopefully will help you out to find the most suitable printer for you. The most expensive may be not the most suitable printer for you. Hope you will find your best printer.

Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer – Large Format Printer
By Imanuel Henry

HP has released the Deskjet Series as a part of Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer. This printer is for printing in larger format. There are four kinds purpose of this large format printer, such for:
- Large Format Graphic Printers
- Large Format Multifunction Printers
- Large Format Production and Department Printer
- Large Format Technical Workgroup or Personal Printer
Below is one type for each.
Graphic Printers – HP Designjet 130
This Designjet is ideal for small studios and graphic professionals that need high quality large-format printing for both mono and color. This printer can print postcard image, full-color pages, and banner-sized images.
This Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer is a six printheads with individual ink cartridges, having print speed up to 4 minutes per page for B size that will give rich color depth and fade resistant photo images. The driver can support both for Mac and Windows printing.
Types from this series are 130, 130r, 130nr. Basically, they share similar specification. The differences are the 130r and 130nr can print up to 24in x 50 ft but the 130nr having printer server capability and higher prices for sure.
Multifunction Printers – HP Designjet 4520
Better you choose the HP Designjet 4520 if you want high-quality large-format graphic, maps, presentations, or poster from one great device which enabling you to print, copy and scan.
This printer is big enough with 84 x 75 x 30 inches dimension and weight at 611.2 pounds. But this big size also give you excellent lines and images because the printheads enabling 0.1% accuracy. Other benefit from this Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer is the cost controls features so you can get more efficient use and management which lead to bigger cost effective.
Production and Department Printer – HP Designjet Z6100
This HP Photosmart Printers is wider printer than the 4520’ for 104 x 28 x 52 dimension but lighter for 563 pounds. It delivers faster print speed with excellent image quality and durability. Other strength value is the embedded spectrophotometer and Original HP Vivera pigment inks that will enabling you to get fade resistant and accurate every time you print.
Types from this series are Z6100-42in (Q6651C), Z6100-60in (Q6652C), Z6100ps-42in (Q6653C), and Z6100ps-60in (Q6654C). The ps series are giving support for Adobe PDF and Postscript 3 and offers Direct File Submission of HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, TIFF, JPEG, EPS PDF and PostScript files.
The 60in model will take double cost than the 42in. The 42in model price is $8,495.00 for the Z6100 and $11,495 for the Z6100ps. And the 60in price is $16,000 for the Z6100 and $18,995 for the Z6100ps.
Technical Workgroup or Personal Printer – HP Designjet 510
The Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer Designjet 510 is an ideal choice for standalone printer in small studio, technical users in small workgroups (for GIS, AEC, MCAD, and GPP) that need large format CAD-drawings in fast speed and high quality.
This printer has 2400 x 1200 dpi resolution which will give high-quality output especially for CAD drawings. And when you need to process complex files, you will get it in ease way because of the 160MB of memory.
There are two models of this Hewlett Packard Photosmart Printer series, 24in and 42in. Both of them weight at 136.7 pounds. The 24in is pricing at $2,095 and the 42in for $3,195.
Conclusion
The Hewlett Packard Photosmart D7560 Printer has been classified in order to fulfill the basic needs of large format printing. Each of them has its own dimension, weight, and feature which hopefully meet your requirement.

Let’s Choosing HP Photo Printers
By Imanuel Henry

Many HP Photo Printers use the no: 57 and 58 cartridges before HP Vivera released. Now, mostly new HP Photo Printers use Vivera ink Set. These cartridges offered fade resistance with excellent quality. Then what the plus point from Vivera ink set so that it used nowadays?
The result for prints displayed under glass is claimed for up to 108 years with Vivera ink. This claim is difficult to prove, but giving confidence of excellent stability. This longevity is greater than the old ink, which is good for about 70 years.
Use the HP Premium Plus Photo Paper can make the result being the best. The price is cheaper but the paper halves the figure but still good in average quality with HP Premium. All HP Printers work well with HP’s own paper or other brand like Kodak photo paper. But in other side, the HP paper is absorbing ink in different way from other papers. What makes HP can work well with others paper, and also the opposite it is true.
Other thing you should consider is the fact affected in running cost. We need more budget in HP ink and paper to get the excellent quality. Fact that most of HP printers have print head built for each cartridge makes it more expensive to run. That is why you should range extra budget for get extra quality.
The new one from HP Compact Photo Printers that completed all your documenting needs is HP Photosmart Premium Fax All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Fax, and Copier. This machine is designed to give everything in your home or office from only through single devices. Let’s take a closer look with this HP.
What will we get if we buy this HP PhotoSmart Premium? First, the connectivity. This device is completed with wireless, Bluetooth, and Ethernet. You can enjoy the freedom of printing in anywhere you are through your mobile phone, PDA, or computer.
Second, cost effective. This printer will be reduced the cost of energy and paper. It is use ENERGY STAR that qualified all-in-one, and you can reduce the paper with two-sided printing and paper-saving option. The paper-saving option can print up to 4 documents on a single page. That means 50% – 75% you can save from paper cost.
And last, is the quality. The photo printing quality is excellent although this is all-in-one printer. With one touch button you can get lab-quality reprints, and as told before, with using HP Photo Paper, you will get Print lab-quality snapshots in your hand. And don’t forget the ability to print CD/DVD.
Summary
HP always increases its quality to fulfill the market needs. The HP Photo Inkjet Printers are qualified to be a complete single device which consider as one of the best brand in printing industries. It is not only a photo printer as the HP Photosmart Premium All-in-One Printer has Scanner, Fax, and Copier. You can fax or scan in easy way. The Color LCD Automatic Document Feeder can be used for two-side scan, copy and fax. This device also can be standalone device, you can print and send-receive fax without PC.