There appears to be a sort of unwritten law which says wide carriage printers are used by graphics professionals, who pooh-pooh any of the light-hearted fripperies of their standard carriage counterparts. These are Real People, who don’t need memory card slots, LCD displays or PictBridge sockets. Thank goodness HP realises the truth; that graphics professionals are more likely to be using digital cameras than most of the rest of us and are just as likely to want to print pictures from them, only bigger.

TrustedReview made a review of this printer and here are some of their conclusions: The HP Photosmart 8750 Professional can print at widths up to A3+, but also down to 15 x 10cm. It uses HP’s classic design where paper is loaded into a feed tray at the front, performs a 180 degree turn, is printed on and feeds out to a secondary tray directly above the first. In this case, to save desk space, the feed tray is extendable. If you’re feeding A4 paper, it pulls out just a bit, but if you need to print A3+ you pull it out all the way. The output tray telescopes, so you can adjust its length to match.

The conclusion is that the HP Photosmart 8750 Professional is a very versatile printer, which can handle a wide variety of sizes and types of media. It produces very good print at reasonable costs and, unlike most of its main competitors, provides useful facilities for quick photo prints from cards and cameras. At the price, it has a lot going for it.