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HP Photosmart 7760 Color Inkjet Printer (HP (Hewlett-Packard)-Q3015A)
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | No |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 3 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 370 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 50 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 120 |
| Duplex printing | No |
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| Parallel Port | No |
| Serial Port | No |
| USB 1.1 | Yes |
| USB 2.0 | Yes |
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Printed very detailed photos. Text and gray-scale photos were on a par with printouts from the more expensive Photosmart 7960.
Hewlett-Packard Photosmart 7760
Photosmart 7760 Color Inkjet Printer (HP (Hewlett-Packard)-Q3015A) Review, by Dan Littman June 22, 2004
HP's Photosmart 7760 delivers great photo quality and is moderately priced. In addition, it's well-equipped to print photos from memory cards or directly from a digital camera.
The control panel's 1.8-inch LCD displays either photos or menu commands, and the flash-memory card slots on the front of the printer read all common media-card formats. You can connect an HP digital camera to the USB 2.0 port beside the card slots. From the LCD's menus, you select the images to print and the quality, size, and number of copies. Also, you can rotate pictures, add simple frames, date- and time-stamp them, and tweak color and contrast. The LCD can display tiny thumbnails of nine images at a time from the cards.
Glossy photos earned a rating of Outstanding, with fine detail, smooth textures, and accurate color. Gray-scale photos printed with HP's new photo-gray ink conveyed remarkable contrast and realism. But there are a couple of gotchas to be aware of. First, the 7760 can use four different ink cartridges, but only two can be loaded at a time. The three-color cartridge always stays in the printer; but depending on whether you're printing ordinary black text, color photos, or gray-scale photos, you'll use a different cartridge in the second well. If you print a wide range of materials, you'll find yourself swapping cartridges fairly often. You'll have to pay more to get the complete set of inks, too: The printer comes with only the three-color and photo inks; the cartridge for ordinary black costs $20 extra, and the gray cartridge costs $25 extra. The 7760's cost per page on plain paper are competitive, however. In ink consumption tests, the cost of printing a page of color plus black was 12.5 cents, slightly higher than the average of 11.9 cents per page for the five photo printers we tested. The cost of black-only pages from the 7760 significantly exceeded that of the average photo printer--4.2 cents per page versus 3.3 cents per page.
The paper output tray is sandwiched so tightly on top of the paper input tray that to add paper you pretty much have to slide the input tray out. And a fold-out extension flap for the output-support tray seems quite flimsy. Though the trays lack an envelope bypass, you can keep 4-by-6-inch snapshot sheets ready to print in a little well between the two trays; a lever easily slides the sheets into or out of the paper path.
Like many photo-oriented inkjets, the 7760 doesn't deliver top quality on other kinds of print jobs. Black text on ordinary paper looked clean enough but somewhat grayish. On ordinary paper, color prints lacked detail, especially in highlights and shadows; colors seemed washed out, and transitions between shades looked rough. (Higher-quality inkjet paper significantly improved results for all of those document types.) If you occasionally need to use the 7760 to print text, you'll find it fast enough, at 4.6 pages per minute (more than 1.5 ppm faster than the average of recent photo inkjets). In case you want to save paper on long text documents or want to produce pages for booklets, the 7760 supports an $80 duplexer option; you can opt for a second, 250-sheet paper tray, as well.
HP's idiot-proof driver installation routine loads HP Photo & Imaging. A console common to all HP imaging hardware, this program provides access to various imaging applications. You also get HP Memories Disc Creator, for producing photo albums on CD, and HP Photo Printing, which provides basic photo tune-up features such as sharpening and color correction.
Upshot: The 7760 prints terrific color and black-and-white glossy photos, making it a good choice for users who don't mind swapping ink cartridges frequently.
Dan Littman
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Reviewed by: doucompute
Strengths: decent prints
Weaknesses: Failed to operate after 1 year with little use and plugged into surge protector
Overall: This is the third hp printer I have purchased. It will be the last. I had this printer for 1 year and 8 days and it sits on top of the other hp Photosmart printers that also failed within a year. I purchased this unit at Walmart for $179.00 because my other hp failed and needed to print a contract that day. I liked the idea of card reader and the lcd screen. Now I'm after a printer that I will not have to replace once a year. The inks are extremely expensive in comparison to Canons or Epsons inks. The reason for this is there are three colors in one tank so when one color is out you have to discard it. You never get the use out of all the ink your paying for. Stick with printers that you replace the color that goes out (separate ink tanks). Customer support does pick-up fast but when they do nothing for you 8 days out of warranty-what good does fast support do!! They said they would give me a deal on a new printer?? Lets just say in 2.5 years I gave them $600.00 on what I believed to be a quality product..If they sent me a free printer I would send it back!! Junk is Junk!! I usually make my purchases towards the top of the line late model units.. and spend the money figuring it will be a better built unit?! If any of their units last mich longer than a year it certainly wasnt these 3 hp's. Keep in mind that these units had very limited use as well.. I could maybe deal with it better if it was a work horse.. This unit was lucky if it printed more than 75 pages!!!!!!!! If you are in the market for a printer I have done plenty of research this time. I have read 100's of reviews on photo printers. From professional and from users of people who have had operation for in excess of a year.. Everyone loves their printer at first so those were not taken in consideration.. The models That I would recommend for photo printers are as follows: Canon IP8500- and the Canon I9900 for wide carriage for large 13x19 prints these units don't have card readers or bling but they are 8 color printers or The Epson r800 and wide carriage R1800 also prints directly on cddvd. The people who own these units are extremely pleased.. Todays products are not tested well and I'm considering hp to be at the top of the pile.. I will purchase the I9900 today they are considered to be a workhorse with no ink clogs and turns on when the button is pushed. These units again were well taken care of and plugged into surge protectors....
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Reviewed by: clroob
Strengths: Makes perfect color photos!
Weaknesses: The High price of the ink.
Overall: This printer is very easy to set up. HP has always had the best printers, as far as I am concerned. The pictures it prints out have perfect crisp colors and the black text is clean and crisp also. I would definitely buy this printer again. But I do wish the ink wasn't so expensive. My last printer was a HP 812C and I loved it, but unfortunetly it finally died on me, and I wanted to buy another just like it, but couldn't find one.
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Reviewed by: glenva2003
Strengths: Printer itself is inexpensive
Weaknesses: Too expensive to keep
Overall: I bought this printer when it?s on sale. It?s almost free after a few rebates. So I?m happy with whatever it offers. Actually the printing quality is excellent. However, I know I wouldn?t keep it too long since it?s very costly to buy the inks.
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Reviewed by: zshen
Strengths: High photo quality; fast speed
Weaknesses: ink expensive
Overall: I bought this photosmart printer about eight months ago. It was a very nice printer for photos. The quality is pretty good. For the price I paid, it?s well worth it. However, as with all photo printers, the ink costs too much. I stopped using it after the ink ran out.
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Reviewed by: jasonngan
Strengths: Nice LCD screen so that I don't really need a computer in order to print my pictures.Nice, rich color with Premium photo plus glossy paper
Weaknesses: Tray is too small and it only takes about 20 card at a time.it takes little time to dry
Overall: Compared with printers of its kind, I will definitely pick HP 7760. It is easy to use. It prints high quality paper. It is quiet. Its price is affordable.
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