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HP Photosmart 8050 printer offers impressive photos without a PC. Supplies of inkjet cartridges at discount prices are listed for bargain printing.

HP PhotoSmart 8050 Review

The HP PhotoSmart 8050 is in fact a printer that can use four or six inks. Any time the black isn't used it will fit in it's special little place within the machine in a position to be quickly swapped with the photo cartridge. However this specific unit is much more than a common photo printer.

The 8050 printer is actually not really that small at 47x31x16cm with paper kept in the base. Should you open up the paper capturing tray this adds a further 12cm to the 31cm depth.

I determined that the software set up required around 6000MB of hard disc space.

The back features two inputs designed for the power and also USB leads. Lift up a lid on top of the device and it conceals a special container intended for smaller media (4x6inch with and without tabs, 15x10cm as well as A6 Hagaki sizes) all the other controls are upon the front face of the device.

The left side contains the on/off button on top of external connections for USB pen/stick drive as well as four card slots. The paper storage and delivery mechanism dominate the central area of the unit with the right side having a 4x3cm TFT display screen for the purpose of instructions as well as showing images any time printing direct without the involvement of a Computer. There are a total amount of 12 buttons below and to the right of this display in order to manage what and how stuff are printed in this fashion.

Even though it is feasible to print black (text) pages while using the colour and photo cartridges inserted the expense will end up being bigger as several colours will be mixed to create a black plus the printing will end up being slower. Printing a 200 word document produced 12PPM as well as the more typical 1500 word document arrived at near to 9PPM. The end result was also more grey than black which is actually out of the ordinary for HP. Using the black cartridge loaded these numbers were, 20PPM with respect to the 200 word document as well as 16PPM with regard to the 1500 word offering and even on 'fast draft' the output was indeed absolutely black.

Whenever printing from a card or a pen/stick drive you may look at images on the TFT display but it's also possible to print a proof sheet and then mark in a dark pen in a tiny rectangle which specifically to print and even exactly what layout to make use of. At this point you feed the sheet back to the printer facedown with the top of the sheet first and when you pick 'scan proof sheet' out of the menu it's scanned. As soon as scanned it next requires you to put in paper, click ok and subsequently your page or pages of photos within the chosen size are printed.

The photo proof sheet can print anywhere up to 20 thumbnails - four lines of five - for each sheet. In reality the edit option of the device allows plenty of choices only normally offered by software, even though it is merely a simple function the automated red eye removal is excellent. Assembling the print possibilities, edit and tools features on the printer provide you with more functionality compared with photo treatment programs. This unit may also print by way of Bluetooth.

But now the only factor not truly gone into, printing A4 or four images at 9x13cm borderless requires around 250 seconds a page regardless, although this is not really quick considering that quite a few models are capable of doing so in under 180 seconds it is still quite satisfactory. The primary requirements for me any time printing photo images isn't speed but quality and the latter is good using the HP PhotoSmart 8050 printer cartridges.

For anybody who must print direct from cards or pen/stick drives without using a Computer I doubt you will need to look any further.