HP PhotoSmart 325 Compact Photo Printer

affordable printer that prints a very good quality shot. i have particularly enjoyed working with black and white cartridges. a good buy indeed

It works great

Printer has proven to be EXCELLENT as far as I have used it. Won it in a contest, so Im not complaining. ;) I have printed out some pictures and find the quality to be EXCELLENT. The speed of printing is also fast and the printer prints BORDERLESS photos (which is a handy feature). As with any product there are a few cons. 1) Printer is a PHOTO printer. That means you wont be printing out an 8X10s; you can only print 4X6 photos (but Im expecting you know this already..) 2)Cable to hook to PC is *not* included. If you want to transfer pictures from your computer, dont expect to get a cable with your printer. The cable is sold separately. However, a flash/USB drive will work perfectly.. Just plug the USB drive into your computer, stick the pictures on it, then plug the USB drive into your printer. --------- The printer can recognize MANY different formats, SD cards, USB input devices (photo iPod, flash drive, etc..) Which is very convenient. It can also view the pictures straight from your camera (make sure its compatible, most are..) If youre looking to just print photos and want a light-weight and portable printer, this is the item for you!

I highly recommend this printer. I did plenty of research and came to the conclusion that this printer offers the best features for the price. The other HP model (HP 375) offers a photo preview screen but costs more. I saw a retail store rep print the same image on HP and Epson printers and the HP printers usually were faster with equal or better photo quality. My family has used this printer for a month now and it is so much fun. Great job HP!

I got an hp325 for Christmas. I took pictures of the family opening presents with my Canon A70 and printed them out before breakfast. Quality is great. Took camera and printer to a meeting, took pictures and printed them. Everybody was amazed at the quality and very idea that I could print pictures right at the table. Havent tried installing in computer. Why bother? I can download from card to computer with card reader. Love the portability. Getting our son one for his birthday.

I sent this back. Heres why: The printer appeared to be like most HP printers, quality and easy to setup. Not as easy as it should have been, as the photo paper feeds from the back, and spits out the front. Additionally, things are changing at HP and while Id never own one of their laptops, Ive been brand loyal to them for their printers since the late 1980s. Their laser printers seem to last forever and Ive never had one quit on me, even after years of service. I give or sell them when I no longer need them, rather than trash/recycle them. The last one, I donated to a local charity b/c I needed a network printer. (With a family, the number of devices that need to print add up.) Ditto their ink jets and photo printers. They last forever, too. However, HP has decided that when they discontinue to produce a printer, they want to force their customers to upgrade. In our home/home office, we use both Mac Os 10.11.2 El Capitan and Windows 10 on the PCs. I couldnt obtain the drivers for either for this printer. Thats how they gotcha. You cannot upgrade the drivers so you must get another, more expensive printer, to stay current. I purchased this to upgrade my still-working, but old Photosmart 7150. That photo printer is awesome as it can print 8x10s as well as the smaller 4x6s. Sadly, there are no drivers for this printer for the 7150 either. Im keeping the Photosmart 7150 since it still works and I have one old PC I built that runs Windows 7. At least I have something that can use it. That PC has been in storage and Ive brought it back into service, specifically for that reason. Crazy, right? I do not like how HP has forced me to upgrade. I also ordered ink for it and thats going back, too. I order so much from Amazon and I dont return much, but this was a true disappointment. Lesson learned: Never buy a printer that is manufacturer discontinued. Save your money and try and buy the latest and greatest so it will last the longest. After this experience, I ordered a Polaroid photo printer from Apple. Too bad Amazon didnt have those. Another gripe on modern ink jets from many manufacturers. I have a home office. Therefore, I already own a fax, and two different types of scanners, plus a laser printer. I just needed an inkjet printer to print photos and photos only. All the photo printers on the market, it seems, are three-in-ones. Even though they are relatively inexpensive, I dont want to buy what I do not need. At our beach home, a three-in-one was perfect. Here, just plain useless. Used to, such three-in-one printers did none of the fax/scan/copy/print very well. Not so anymore. However, Id like the choice to just buy a plain old photo printer without all the add ons. I have a nice HP Laserjet networked printer in the home office. I hope I dont have to upgrade it in the near future! When purchasing any brand of ink jet printer these days, buyer beware.

The printer does not accept all sim cards. And I have a lot of photos I wanted to print on that card!!

We have one of these at my workplace. It was too slow (1 min per pic) and we needed a faster one. We have gone thru 2 expensive printer and we are back to using this one. Why? the other printers, if not used often will get clogged printhead. cleaning the printhead did not help, needed to buy new printheads. This little printer sat under my desk when they retired it for over a year. Turned it on one day, when our expensive printer would not work, and it printed beautiful pictures. I was sure it would not work, the printheads would be clogged, but it is the most dependable printer I have seen. So I bought myself one for home. Kind of expensive so I went searching on Amazon and found a brand new one for 55.00. So if you are looking for a quality photo printer, HP Photosmart is the best buy.

I was strongly considering buying this printer - until I saw my friends prints she made with it. Im usually a fan of HP but I really feel they took a step backwards with the photosmart series. The only real drawback to this printer is the fact that it only uses a tri-color cartridge. Yup, there is only cyan, magenta, and yellow. No black! The way this printer makes black (or shades of grey for that matter) is by combining all 3 colors to form a composite black. This causes the prints to seem washed out and lacking dark contrast (not to mention using a large amount of ink). If you have any sort of darkness, shading, or greys in there, they will be represented poorly. Dont believe me? Go to a local store, ask to see the examples, and compare it to other printers.

I cannot recommend HP to anybody anymore. The company introduced regional coding, which means printer cartridges from one region cannot be used in another. For most this is probably not an issue, for those busily traveling around it is. Also, it is an issue of principle, its bad enough for DVD, but printer cartridges? HP has introduced this rather secretely and if you dont read the box cover etc very carefully, you may not notice. The main issue is in Europe. I got caught out. I bought a 3 catridges overseas - I could not use them on my HP printer. I asked for a refund, HP Email Support (US) was nice but ineffective. HP Customer Support (Europe) was snotty and very rude. I think HP does not care about its customers and this cost me over US$75, almost 50% of my printer (my sixth and last HP). Dont buy HP.