HP PhotoSmart 7350 Inkjet Printer

Good printer except I have to unplug it from the power source and "reboot" the printer to get it to be recognized by the Windows XP machine. Real pain. Black ink cartridge is a little low in capacity.

I bought an HP Photosmart 7350. Installed the drivers exactly as it said in the manual. Printed a photo.It was superb.Great photo quality.But soon ...my ordeal with the printer was to begin!The printer started giving me so much hassle as I have never expirienced before.
I found out that once I shut down the PC and restarted it, it was not possible to establish connection between the PC and the printer. The printer would not turn ON. I had to pull the USB cable out sometimes to establish connection. Sometimes that too wouldn't work. I had to pull the power cable out and put it back in to re-establish connection. All in all, it was a pain to turn the printer on. Now, that you have turned it ON doesn't mean you can print! The print job goes through with no errors, but nothing is printed out. There is no error produced. So, what is happening?
Now that the printer is turned ON, there is no way you can turn it OFF. Communication between PC and printer has failed again, that it is impossible to turn it OFF. Again, pulling the power chord or USB cable may do the trick.
I replaced the printer for another, thinking it must be a faulty printer. The second printer behaved just the same. I installed on a second PC. I changed the USB cable. Things did not improve. After 4 weeks of fretting and frowning, I returned the printer and bought a HP 5550 deskjet. It installed first time ( using USB port)and is working ever since with no problems.
I emailed HP with the HP 7350 printer problems. Even though I got quick replies from their Technical Support, they promised me that a representative in UK will call me(I am based in UK) and talk me through to getting the printer working. But to-date I have not heard from an HP representative.

I bought this printer two weeks ago and I've already went through four reams of photo paper with no problems whatsoever. The print quality is GREAT. From one foot away you can not tell the difference between photo printed from this printer and one done by your local photo lab. Of course there is a small amount of pixellation, a very small amount, and in some cases none. Unless your willing to spend four digits for a printer your going to get that with all of them. Installation is easy and fast, and the new print cartridges, (although a little on the pricy side) make the difference because of the 7 colors. I see some people trashing this printer and I don't know why, maybe they got a lemon, it happens sometimes, or maybe they are working with a not so great cammera. Some of the people trashing it have obviously owned every HP printer available, usually two or three of each model, because the same folks ... every HP devise on this site. Come on folks, get off the "I've got nothing better to do than to ... brands I don't like" thing. I'm not a big HP fan, (had lots of trouble with their cammera's), but this printer changed my mind.

This printer produces astonishing photo-quality prints when using the optional photo-ink cartridge. Print time is appreciably low and color reproduction is astoundingly good. I especially like 4x6 borderless, color prints!! It's also quiet compared to my old Epson 777 -- a printer that would guzzle ink and wake up family members when turned on.

The SmartMEDIA receptacle was another plus for me. While it's not too much trouble to plug my digital camera into the computer, I kind of liked not having to do this.

The only down points:
* Printing really good color photos requires changing out the black ink cartridge; vice-versa for everyday printing. A minor inconvenience, but still an inconvenience -- a third cartridge receptacle would be nice so as to leave the user a little more hands-free!
* You have to load the paper "just so." There's not too much room for "play"; you have to make sure that paper is firmly placed in the tray or there may be a misfeed. That's one advantage that I could say I had with the Epson -- loading paper was gravity-fed, not horizontal. However, I have not experienced problems as stated in the negative reviews after the 1st day I got the printer.

This printer is very slow....even on normal documents with the black ink cartridge and on normal settings. However, the photos do come out amazing! The only problem I've had with it is that it says it doesn't recognize the "left ink cartridge" and the printer tells me to replace it even though it's brand new and an HP brand #57 cartridge. I've done everything to fix the problem including buying another cartridge and it still doesn't work. I ended up just taking out the color cartridge and printing with the photo one which is a waste, but oh well.