Smart photos

Advantages: ease of use, good spec
Disadvantages: not that good in low light, heavy on batteries

...cameras will struggle in these conditions I guess. It also isn't that great indoors with many images being too dark. I suspect that this is because the light meter isn't too accurate, and it selects the f8.0 aperture when f2.8 would be more appropriate. Being able to set the exposure manually would be useful, although realistically that is never going to happen with this type of point and shoot camera. The LCD screen is good, although it can sometimes be a bit difficult to see what is on it in bright conditions. The camera eats batteries ! With ordinary alkaline batteries you can only take about 25-30 photos before the batteries are getting very low. The batteries seem to regenerate themselves to some extent while the camera has been turned off however, and a handy tip is to compose your photos and work put what to take with the camera off...

gshughes 21.03.2003 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart D7160 - one year of use

Advantages: Easy to use. Good colour reproduction. Easy to change inkjets.
Disadvantages: Must use 100 gsm paper or else printer constantly jams or damages output

...I bought this printer because I was fed up forking out lots of money for ink jet cartridges which would run out of one colour and mean that the rest of the ink was unused. So in December 2007 I purchased the HP PhotoSmart D7160. This printer has individual inkjet cartridges for each colour. However in January 2008 the printer just packed up and would not work. I contacted Hewlett Packard and explained that I had no idea why it would not work. They were very helpful, non-judgemental and identified the problem (technical and beyond my ken) and arranged for me to send the printer back. The carrier collected it and replaced it with a brand new printer. It worked like a dream. The aftersales service cannot be faulted. I use the printer for making leaflets and printing photgraphs. This means I tend to use a lot of blue and black...

Vic352 23.02.2009 · Read review
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Quality Photos and Documents - Smart!

Advantages: Prints good quality photos whilst also good as a home office printer
Disadvantages: Cartridges are quite expensive for the unit

...Its all very well having a digital camera, but the hardest thing is finding something at a decent price that will print them with decent quality without having to buy something specifically for the job! That was my philosophy until I found this printer. The HP Photosmart 7850. Let's start with the brand. Hewlett Packard have always, to me, been THE make of quality, consistent printers. I still use on another computer an old deskjet and it serves me as well as it did when it was brand new. The 7850 is no exception. Its space saving with the paper being loaded at the front of the unit - a common feature of HP printers, it prints quickly and quietly without problems or malfunctions, and the most important thing, the quality of the results are superb. What sets apart the Photosmart 7850 from most inkjet printers are its photo...

wot_bout_meee 07.03.2007 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart R967 10MP Digital Camera Review

Advantages: Sooo Many Features
Disadvantages: Battery problems

...I have also run into problems with it. Lately the battery life is weak though I keep purchasing brand new batteries. That makes me think that the problem may have something to do with the charger which has also been replaced before once. The delay between taking pictures is awful in comparison to other cameras. I guess I just had high expectations for this digital camera and it simply did not deliver. Here is a link to my personal photo album all of the pictures here were taken with this camera. http://picasaweb.google.com/rachelheffern...

Rachel1919 18.07.2009 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart 7762

Advantages: Excellent Quality and Very Fast in Draft Mode
Disadvantages: Slightly heavy on Ink

...managed to understand what the eMail button on the control panel is capable of (auto attaching a photo from a card into your eMail program, or office document, of your choice) Other features of note are - the 6x4" photo paper input tray (so far unused by ourselves) We have printed on A4 photo paper -a small supply being included in the box we purchased. and a small LCD screen that lets you manage your photos directly on the printer via one of the 4* integrated digital camera card readers, or the data port to which the camera can be connected directly. * The following cards are supported - Compact Flash/IBM Microdrive SmartMedia /xD-Picture Card MultiMediaCard / Secure Digital and Sony Memory Stick Unlucky not to have one of those?!! then connect via the Direct input port. Performance is splendid with print quality being...

DaveLloyd180 19.08.2004 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart Pro B9180

Advantages: Printer quality will lost for many many years
Disadvantages: please check my Drawbacks list with this printer:

...I had brought this printer particularly to print my beautiful photos. Based on my experience the photos quality is simply superb. I have stuck few A3 size (bigger scenery photos) photos on my room walls without any laminations, already few months ago and I'm cleaning dust with cloth once in a while but still the photo print quality is very good, not seen even small shading on the print. I never had seen this kind of print quality in my life time. I recommend this printer to buy for printing photos. Drawbacks with this printer: • It takes hell a lot of time to initialize the printer (minimum 15 to 20 minutes) by this time your 5 to 10% of ink cartridge will become empty. • It consumes too much of ink and ink bags are sky high price. • After a few months the whole printer with full of aerosol ( full of ink) •...

my_user 08.10.2008 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart M425

Advantages: Takes great photos
Disadvantages: Batteries

...I have had this camera for a little over a year. This wasn't my first digital camera, but was my first with an optical zoom. I don't claim to be much of a whiz with using different settings, but over the past couple of months I have tried the various different techniques and setting the camera has to offer. I bought this for around £150 and it was bundled with the associated printer which I thought was a pretty descent price at the time. You don't get a lot of paper with the package, which is a shame because to get the best quality prints you really do need to use the HP photo paper, and that can be anything from £7.99, depending on the quality you buy. For the most part I went with a cheaper option, you can get some very good printer paper from pound shops, etc and the quality is just as good. Hardware: The camera itself is small...

undermyskin 17.03.2008 · Read review
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HP PhotoSmart 8450 user review

Advantages: Excellent Build Quality, Great Colour Definition
Disadvantages: Large Footprint, costly Ink cartridges, only a 4x6 size option

...the correct cartridge into the right chamber. The printer now asks for a sheet of paper & prints out a calibrating head alignment chart. The cartridges are HP 348, 344, 100 & 339. The cartridges are smaller than the previous series, wether they take less ink is pure conjecture but I bet they do !! HP supply combined colour cartridges. This is primarily due to each cartridge having a built in print head, so you get a new print head each time you replace the cartridge (no more blocked nozzles). The disadvantage is higher cartridge cost. So what does it print like ? I set the Colour Management setting to ColorSmart RGB, for an A4 print on HP Premium Plus Glossy paper, of a colour portrait shot of my wife (Aww). This produced an A4 print with neutral colours & excellent saturation. There is no doubt that the grey cartridge (Photo...

tentheagle1 09.01.2007 (07.01.2008) · Read review
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fantastic photo printing

Advantages: photos
Disadvantages: cost of ink

...HP are one of the leading printer manufactures in the UK at the moment, this is simple because their printers not only offer great quality of print but they also offer anyone printers for any needs which targets the whole of the printer market out there. The HP PhotoSmart D7360 touch screen is an quite large 86mm in size. This offers the ability to view photos on a great quality colour screen and the ability to even edit them too before you press that print button. The touch screen offers many buttons to change the pictures appearance and layout and there is still 7 actual buttons for various things on the printer itself. The screen folds up and down for easy storage and so that it doesn’t get damaged when its not in use. On the right hand side of the buttons and the screen are the memory card slots. There’s four card...

techno_man_37 08.03.2008 · Read review
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Fuzzy photos - a thing of the past

Advantages: Read op
Disadvantages: Read op

...CompactFlash Types I & II, MultiMediaCards, Secure Digital, SmartMedia, Sony Memory Sticks, and xD-Picture Cards, so I have no worries about compatibility - simply slip a digital camera memory card into the compatible card slot, choose the images, quantities and sizes you want to print using the convenient buttons and print. The 145 has a built in two line monochrome LCD on its top panel, which improves navigation and easily guides me through each task, but unfortunately, I can't preview photos on it. To see what's on my memory card, I need to print an index sheet - a minor hassle. Unfortunately the 145 offers no additional photo-editing functions. ~ Features ~ The Photosmart 145 handles most image adjustments through the included software or the printer drivers. The software package consists of HP's standard photo and image oriented...

mysteryshopper2 17.03.2004 · Read review
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