HP PhotoSmart Pro B8850 User Manual

HP Photosmart Pro B8850 Photo Printer

Outstanding photo and fine-art printing for the serious photographer.

Professional photo quality

Now you can easily produce archival, professional photos at home or in-studio. Eight individual pigment-based HP Vivera inks give you precise, wide-ranging colors for lifelike portraits and brilliant landscapes. True neutral grays and deep blacks ensure stunning black-and-white photos.

Count on exceptional fade-resistance—archivalquality prints resist fading under glass for 200-plus years, using HP Advanced Photo Paper. photos are ready to handle immediately and resist water, smudges, and humidity.

HP color management tools fully support Adobe RGB, sRGB, and ICC profiles for greater color control. Basic color calibration automatically adjusts the print settings to maintain accuracy and ensures consistent color reproduction print after print.

You’ll find this printer to be a quick and efficient solution for creating eye-catching marketing materials and presentations in-house.

Display permanence rating by Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. or HP Image Permanence Lab using select HP Vivera

pigment inks. For details, visit www.hp.com/go/printpermanence

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Reliable

HP’s inks, media, and printing technology are all designed and tested to work together for precise color, image uniformity, and detail. High-capacity, individual ink cartridges enable more affordable printing with fewer interruptions. Minimize waste with Electrostatic Drop Detection, an efficient, selfmonitoring system that keeps the printer in top condition by cleaning only the individual print nozzles that require it.

Easy to use

An HP DreamColor product, the HP Photosmart Pro B8850 helps you effortlessly achieve prints that match your creative vision. See 4 by 6 inch photos in as fast as 10 seconds (13 by 19 inch photos in as fast as 90 seconds).

The printer is compatible with Adobe Photoshop® CS3 for easy management and streamlined printing. The HP Photosmart ProPrint plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS2 automatically synchronizes CS2 and the printer driver for a single user interface.

An interactive, animated setup wizard ensures easy installation. The HP Solution Center provides one-button access to tools such as ICC profiles or the ability to add contrasts, textures and effects.

HP Photosmart Pro B8850 Photo Printer

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1 Three control panel

buttons

2 Attention light and eight

ink level indicators

3 Power button

4 Top door for access to

printheads

5 Single-sheet specialty

media tray (closed)

6 Ink cartridge door

7 50-sheet output tray

8 200-sheet input tray

9 Rear paper slot

10 USB port

11 Rear access door

12 Rear door releases

13 Power cord connection

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Key technologies

HP Vivera pigment inks offer outstanding image quality and fade resistance on a wide variety of photo and fine art media, along with water resistance on a range of HP creative and specialty media. HP’s proprietary Electrosteric Encapsulation Technology optimizes the pigment chemistry and ink properties for stability and performance to ensure brilliant colors, outstanding print permanence, and excellent gloss uniformity, for reliable, accurate, and consistent printing.

HP’s 8-ink printing system includes four HP 70 Printheads, each printing two colors of ink with 1,056 nozzles per color. The system features HP Vivera pigment inks in five colors and three blacks. (No black ink swapping or feed line flushing which results in wasted ink.) These inks deliver an exceptionally broad color gamut for photographic and graphics art applications, superb neutral tones, and deep blacks on matte, glossy, semi-gloss, and fine art papers.

HP’s New Electrostatic Drop Detection (NEDD) printhead management system closely monitors all 8,448 print nozzles to minimize cleaning cycles and keep your printer in top working condition. When necessary, these cycles clean only the individual nozzles that require it, in order to minimize ink waste. The result is consistently beautiful and economical professional-quality pigment prints.

The product’s built-in densitometer automatically calibrates printer color with a factory calibrated sensor. The 4-color LED sensor measures color density and automatically adjusts the printer. You can easily calibrate the printer using the print driver software. This feature allows you to confidently create prints that accurately reflect your monitor and your vision.

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