Because of its name HP’s Photosmart 8750 Professional Photo Printer leads you to believe that it’s a device dedicated to the professional photographers out there. In reality the printer is situated more in between professional photography printing and amateur printing and its target market is the advanced amateur photographer that wants a close to professional photo quality device.



Like many other photo dedicated devices, Photosmart 8750 offers a lot of versatility when it comes to the device you’re printing from. Its user will be able to print directly from memory cards (the printer supports CompactFlash, Microdrive, Secure Digital, MMC, Memory Stick and xD memory cards), a digital camera (through the PictBridge port), USB via computer or wirelessly (through an optional Bluetooth adapter). If you decide to take a look along the back side of the Photosmart 8750 you’ll discover Ethernet. By simply connecting it to your router (or switch) you’ll be able to use the printer in a workgroup and all the users will be able to access both the printer and the memory card slots.

The Photosmart 8750 makes use of three distinct ink cartridges that include HP Vivera inks. The special Vivera inks are designed to produce brilliant colors that replicate real life colors as much as possible. They provide exceptional resistance throughout time if combined with HP’s special Premium Plus Photo paper. As for the actual inks included with the printer, you’ll get a HP101 photo inkjet, HP 102 gray photo inkjet and a tri-color HP97. This offers the user high quality nine-ink color printing and realistic photographs. For regular text printing you can replace the HP 102 with a black-only optional cartridge. The HP inkjet cartridges feature both the ink and the printhead. Each time you purchase a new one you’ll also get a brand new inkjet.

As opposed to other professional photo printers, you won’t discover a large color LCD on its control panel, but a monochrome one that can’t be used for previewing imagery, but just for navigation and settings. But to help you out, the printer has a ‘thumbnail index sheet’ feature that allows you to pick the images you want to print without the help of a PC. This can be done by selecting the assigned number of the image from the index sheet.

What makes this printer come very close to being a professional device is a smart driver that supports Adobe RGB, sRGB and controls ink saturation, brightness or tone. While it may seem relatively bulky and takes up quite a bit of desk space, it does allow the printing of larger format photographs (up to 13 by 19 inches borderless prints).

The printer is relatively easy to use, has a wide variety of media card slots as well as built in networking and is a pretty good option for a user that loves photography and would like to purchase a nearly professional photo printer that produces vibrant, time-resistant prints.