HP PhotoSmart 7550 Inkjet Printer

Worked good but was not very durable. Broke down and had to replace it with another printer.

1. Whenever printing Photo paper every picture comes out green, but when printing standard copy type paper it prints fine. The ONLY way to trick it is to put a peace of regular paper on top of the photo paper and ask it to print 2 copies. No - taking it off Auto paper does not work. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the driver many times and it does not help. Actually it did once fix it for one print job and that was it. I even got a whole new computer and it's still the same.
Also, no matter what computer it's hooked up to the computer does not recognize that it's connected but it does print.. Strange!! I've been battling this since 2003 and i'm so tired of it. I'd get rid of it but i still have spare ink cartridges from almost never using it (i have a B&W lazer i use all the time) so i stay with the miserable thing. Don't buy it and *definitely don't buy a used one* from anyone.

Can't believe it will move the cartridge while cartridge clamp & cover is open. Almost broke itself!

This printer is excellent. My father died and I used the printer
to print photos for an album. The pictures came out perfect. I have found this to be an excellent printer for everything.

This was one of my faves but coincidentally, just after the warranty expired, all three printer cartridge holders (plastic holders where one snapped the cartridge in) broke off completely rendering the printer useless. But boy, it was a great printer while it lasted -- which, in my case seemed all too short and highly disappointing! Equally disappointing are the current ads for sale of this printer... Shame on the people/business today, STILL selling (or trying to sell) this printer for $299.00 and over $300! HP discontinued this model LONG AGO and by today's comparisons, does not print anywhere near as fast nor uses the Vivera inks that the newer models of today do -- although the prints would be very nice looking, nonetheless. Unfortunately, this printer does not have the photo gray option either.

I am only writing this b/c I happened to see this model printer here and was surprised to see it still for sale. Being as attached to this printer that I was, I had a fleeting thought to purchase another, though I was more curious in the current sales. I don't need another printer now... Then I saw the steep pricing and felt that is just way out of line and is my feeling this printer should not sell for over $65!! Man! The three-hundred dollar range is what it sold for originally and has by far been surpassed with better quality, making these prices now - unjustified! This printer cannot possibly command a same value this late in time and is ludicrous to ask for that. Additionally, I gave only 3 stars b/c of the cartridge holders, given that all three broke at once! How odd, but now I see that others had that happen as well, and was possibly a defect/weakness of the design.

I'd like to add a note about the ink cartridges when using a refillable and/or un-brand... None that I ever tried were good enough for photo's, but documents, yes. Re-filling a cartridge yourself proved difficult and messy. Places like CartridgeWorld just could not get it right, saying that HP ink was their most challenging ink to replicate and that certainly showed true in the printed photo's, being as none came out anywhere near keepers (green and odd colors) and Office Depot HP refill brand is considerably better, but not vibrant and with somewhat of a dull appearance lacking depth and detail... So why bother using these inks for photo prints when you'll spend more for mistakes!

My experience with this printer is that it was indeed among the best of its day. Too bad for me that the cartridge holders didn't stay in place!