The HP Photosmart 8750 Professional photo printer seems to target size-conscious consumers. It uses nine ink primaries to print borderless sheets as large as 13×19 inches
The HP Photosmart 8750 Professional comes in a relatively attractive brown-and-metallic-gray plastic case. The 8750 does fill a serious chunk of desk space, about 25 inches square when loaded with 13×19-inch sheets. The paper holder and output trays telescope out to handle letter-size or larger sheets. In the rear, the Photosmart 8750 offers USB 2.0 for connection to a PC and an Ethernet port for network installation. Up front, there’s a USB 1.1 port for HP’s Bluetooth option or for direct connection to any PictBridge-compatible camera or USB flash drives. Four uncovered slots accept Compact Flash I/II, SD/MMC, Memory Stick, and xD-Picture cards for direct printing.
The HP driver interface, despite its many options, balances helpful shortcuts with full controls for tweaking color and output. Hardware controls are straightforward and simple. The HP Photosmart 8750 Professional uses nine dye-based primaries delivered in three tricolor cartridges. It contains standard tricolor of cyan, magenta, and yellow; a Blue Photo cartridge with light cyan, light magenta, and blue; and a Photo Gray cartridge that includes light gray, dark gray, and black.
The 8750 enhances the blue gamut by devoting one of the three cartridges to blue hues (blue, light cyan, and light magenta). This enables the printer to enhance blue tones in an image to a remarkable degree. Text printed using the graphics setting are exceptionally good.