HP PhotoSmart 8150 Inkjet Printer

Great Deal HP PhotoSmart 8150 Inkjet Printer

I was given this printer in 2006 when my dad upgraded to a PhotoSmart C6180. He used it mostly for mixed printing, photos and documents. This replaced a DeskJet 980. The 8150 was used at home for schoolwork, documents, and some photos. I found it a wonderfully capable machine and enjoyed direct printing via PictBridge and through the media card reader.

I took it to work for a large printing project. The 8150 drank 12 black cartridges and 32 color cartridges as it churned out hundreds of full-bleed, duplex pages. It was racing 3 OfficeJet 7680s and a tight deadline. It did fairly well, but the stress of the deadline and a couple of technical glitches were really too much to handle.

My only complaint when using the 8150: sometimes it would grab two or more pages at a time. This was bad when doing duplex proofs or printing checks. The only solution was to print a page at a time and manually feed it the correct pages. Not so fun for unattended print jobs. I never had a paper jam, but sometimes if the paper input was too full it wouldn't pick up paper at all. No complaint with that, I just pull some paper out and it works.

I used the printer at home with an HP desktop PC and shared it to laptops through the home wireless network. It worked well, but I wanted to get rid of the desktop and needed a way to connect it. I added an HP BT500 Bluetooth adapter to it last summer. HP TotalCare recommended I use the out of production BT300, but the only one I could find was 0. The BT500 worked perfectly for months and was less than . Printing an image from a cell phone was amazing, and finally getting the .

Then the printer started crashing. The LCD would display a green screen with a power button icon and the code: 880B7418. HP TotalCare blamed the BT500, which I removed and made the printer happy again. For a few weeks we were back to printing with a direct USB connection. Now the 8150 is wireless again, connecting through a NetGear ReadyNAS/print server.

All was well until last month when it crashed again when printing from an SD card. Total Care said the printer has faulty hardware and should be retired. As long as I use the printer without any front panel connections (USB/PictBridge or card reader), it is fine.

I think it is a great printer, but beware if you are looking for a deal on a used one. Print a test image from a flash card, or plug in a USB Bluetooth adapter to see if you get a crash.

The longevity of this product is sad, I still have a DeskJet 895cse that works like new. I'm looking forward to a new AIO from HP and hope it lasts longer than the 8150 did.

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List Price : $219.00

Sale Price : $219.00

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HP PhotoSmart 8150 Inkjet Printer Features

• Up to 4,800 x 1,200 optimized dpi color, 1,200 x 1,200 dpi black
• Up to 20 ppm black and color speed, 4-by-6 photo as fast as 27 seconds
• 2.5-inch LCD to rotate, crop, zoom, and remove red-eye before printing
• Frame-by-frame printing of digital video
• USB interface, slots for digital-camera memory cards; PC/Mac

HP PhotoSmart 8150 Inkjet Printer Overviews

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