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HP PhotoSmart 8100
 
Color inkjet printer, max. 4800x1200 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended Driver: hplip (Home page)
Generic Instructions: CUPS, no spooler
 

Miscellaneous

Printer supports direct text printing with the 'us-ascii' charset.

Comments

It has ports on the side for inserting SmartMedia, CompactFlash, IBM Microdrive, SD, or Sony Memory Stick digital "film" and has a color LCD panel which displays your photos (as a digital camera does) so that you can select pictures to print easily. This way one can use the device as a digital photo lab without PC.

It has a USB port on its front side to directly connect a digital camera (HP only).

Border-less (full bleed) printing on paper sizes up to Oufuku-Hagaki is supported with the HPLIP driver.

Best output quality reachable with the HPLIP driver (printer compatible to HP DeskJet 990C), especially the 1200-dpi high resolution mode gives excellent photo quality.

To get all functionality of this printer working under Linux, especially also the non-printing features, like scanning, printer status, maintenance, and photo download from memory cards, use the HPLIP driver package from HP.

When used with HP's HPLIP driver, this printer auto-detects the paper type and ink cartridge type and does appropriate dithering and colour adjustment internally, controlled by the hardware. So even when Ghostscript with the HPLIP driver only renders the image with 300 or 600 dpi, the higher resolutions are used for the internal dithering. So if you insert photo paper, the printer will print in photo quality, no paper type choice in the driver's options is needed. There is also a special high resolution mode where the image is rendered in 1200 dpi and interpolated to 4800x1200 dpi by the hardware, without paper detection, intended for photo paper only.

Current border-less (full bleed) support is 3-sided for paper sizes Oufuku-Hagaki or smaller. The HPIJS team is currently evaluating 4-sided large paper size (A4/Letter) or smaller full bleed support and expect to address this issue in a future release. This printer supports an optional duplex unit (probably supported by the HPLIP, "cdj970", and "pcl3" drivers).

When the black and/or the photo cartridge is not installed the printer does not stop working, it switches automatically to a 6-, 4-, or even 3-ink process and goes on printing, but slower and in an appropriately lower quality. High-quality black and white prints with optional hp 59 gray photo inkjet cartridge.

Consumables/Refills: Refill: 1 black, 1 photo, 1 color cartridge. Optional hp 59 gray photo inkjet cartridge

Drivers

The following driver(s) are known to drive this printer:

Recommended driver:

 
hplip  (driver home page)
 
HP's driver suite for printers and multi-function devices
Supplier: Hewlett-Packard (this printer's manufacturer)
License: MIT/BSD/GPL (free software)
User support:HPLIP support and bug tracking system (voluntary)
Max. rendering resolution: 1200x1200dpi   Color output   Type: CUPS Raster
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