The upgrade to the HP 7150 Photosmart was a no-brainer. I did anguish over whether to go with the Canon i850, as I have worked in consumer electronics for the past 6 years, so I know my way around printers, and know the Canon's rep for quality.

Anyway, the printer was incredibly easy to set up and get running! I set it up for max quality and photo ink, and the first photo was STUNNING! I noticed a few peculiarities that bothered me, though:

- Prints were coming out curled at 4x6 AND 8.5x11. I want my prints to come out as flat as the paper they're printed on.
- In my opinion, the printer is WAY too noisy for my taste. My wife and I work opposite shifts, so I have to print the occasional job while she's asleep --- well, WAS asleep!

Overall, I love the 4x6 paper tray, and the HP name. I'm sorry to say, though, I will be returning the 7150 in exchange for a Canon i850. I will miss my nice, quiet 722C(the printer I'm replacing) - hopefully, the Canon won't let me down...

Excellent Photos at half price of other printers (Rating: 4.00)
Review : Recently I have purchased this Printer and being a perfectionist
as well as a Computer Tech I will relate my findings. About a year ago I got into Digital Imaging, and purchased a Nikon
Coolpix 995 camera and was using the Lexmark 3200 with Photo
Cartridge to print out my pictures.This printer allways printed well but was slow as sin and noisey.
So I started to research all possible resources online for input on purchasing a new higher quality Photo Printer.
The Cannon S900 was my intial choice due to it's excellent quality prints, but it had problems printing text documents,and
the Print Head/Nozzels were not user replaceable,which means if you do alot of printing they will eventually wear out and degrade print quality.On the other hand if used it to little the nozzles tend to clog up meaning an expensive trip to the repair shop for Printer Head replacement if the printer cannot be cleaned thruthe nozzle cleaning function in the software.

The new improved HP Photoprinters as well as the Deskjet 5550
have regained their six colors for printing buy using a Photo
Cartridge which can be swaped with a Black ink Catridge for accurate text printing.Also the HP Printers have the nozzles built into the Ink Cartridges, meaning if they cannot be cleaned when clogged up you can simply purchase a new Cartridge
which will resolve the problem as well as getting better print quality via the new nozzles.
Unless you would want to print direct from the printer without a computer, which you can do in the 7350 and the 7550 via thier
Card readers, and thier Printout Previews mode, and dont forget the giant size 1.5 inch color LCD Monitor built into the 7550 which obviouslly cannot show much detail.(I would rather veiw the photos on my 19 inch monitor and adjust them if need be thru software.Also all three Photsmart printers can print directly from Some newer HP Digital Cameras from the front USB connection.
The 7150 has the same Excellent print quality as the two more expensive units without the expensive options as mentioned above.The only faults found on my printer are a touchy 4X6inch
Photo paper holder,hard to load just right, and on some 4X6 Borderless prints the printer does not stop printing at the end of the photo and paper does not release.This problem if found is fixed by updating the Drivers from HP website.
Definitely do not pass up checking out this printer,the results are gorgeous.Puts my Lexmark to shame.

HP 7150 (Rating: 3.00)
Review : My HP 7150 prints nice photographs. The quality is very good, but I have had a lot of difficulty getting 4x6 sizes of paper to feed properly.

Also, business letters are important to me and I can't get envelopes to feed properly.

It has been frustrating not having availability of free customer service.

I will probably replace this unit with an Epson in the near future.

See my earlier review (Rating: 5.00)
Review :

I reviewed this product on October 19th, last year. It has been six months now, and the printer is still operating flawlessly. It feeds well, prints great color pictures, and I am completely pleased with it.

If only HP would make one a little faster, with the same quality.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre

author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books

stylish, stunning, very reliable (Rating: 5.00)
Review : I had a canon s520 but i sold it because it went bad and I needed to replace the head which costed more than the printer. I'm glad i got the photosmart 7150. its so much better. the prints come out soo good on 4x6 using the photo tank. also i found out hp ink tanks come with heads on them so you'll get a good printing everytime. the ink tanks might cost a bit more but if you put your quality in the settings to like "draft" or "everyday" printing then you'll save a lot of money. go buy this!! its very affordable too.

Excellant Printer (Rating: 5.00)
Review : This is my third HP and the results just keep getting better. The 7150 is stylish and well designed. The printer has a 4 x 6 photo tray that allows 20 sheets of photo paper to be loaded and printed in a batch mode directly from HP's excellant photo printing / album layout software. Even with the 20 sheets of 4 x 6 paper loaded you can still print on regular paper via a lower paper tray. Prints using the photo color cartridge are stunning. I have to say I sold my Epson 820 in no time flat and even made my Canon friend blush when he saw how incredible the prints are. As always the big advantage to HP is the quality. These printers don't jam, don't need head cleaning and don't require tweaking to get the results you see on screen.

Beyond All Expectations! (Rating: 5.00)
Review : Put the old camera & film in the attic for nostalgia sake! Get a 2 MP digital or higher and print your photos with this printer! The 4"x6" tray is a plus for album & framed prints and the 8x10 tray is fine for multiple prints on one page (called albums). I use desktop publishing programs to create collages of pictures as well. The photo print quality of the HP is magnificent! People who see my photos cannot believe a printer produced them with such vivid color and clarity. I have made "memories" CD's using my cdwriter and imported background music for the "slide shows". The HP software does it all - follow the directions. User friendly and the ink goes a long way! Don't pass on this one - I paid ... only 3 months ago and it's worth much more -it's on sale so run for it! Print only what you like and you will LOVE what you print!