Customer Rating: 
Summary: Frustrating Cartridge Problems
Comment: This printer was very nice for the first month we owned it - nice pictures with the photo printing cartridge. Then, we had the first cartridge "failure" and it has been downhill since. Nearly brand new cartridges fail, producing horrible prints and wasting large amounts of money. All of our attempts to get help from HP did not solve the problem and now we don't even bother trying to fix the failed print cartridges. They still work, just make awful looking print outs with lines through them. I don't feel like throwing away another 30 bucks just to have the nearly full cartridge fail in a couple of weeks! Remember when HP was a sign of a quality printer? I'm starting to forget too!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely flawless!! An Excellent companion to your Digital Camera!!
Comment: We have owned HP 7760 printer for over a year, and it has been absolutely flawless!! Very easy to use, with surreal print quality...it works even without your PC!! Great companion to your Digital Camera!! Highly recommended!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Printer, Superb Price
Comment: This printer was given as a gift two years ago, but would not work with my Windows 95 PC; however, this year I upgraded to a new Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9843LL/A (1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) so I pulled the HP Photosmart 7760 out of the box and gave it a try. Installation was straightforward, though I did have to "modify" the USB cable -- which, inexplicably, you must purchase separately -- to make it fit into the printer side of the connection. Otherwise the printer was up and running within minutes.
For standard B&W printing this printer is superb, there have been no hangups, stalls or other problems during the seven months I've been using it. The text is crisp and clear, and it prints quickly too.
The first time I tried to print photos I was horrified: arguably the worst photos ever. They were grainy, the colors were thin and blurred, and there were alternating stripes of lighter and darker shading running vertically across the page.
Then I . . . ah . . . read the directions. Ahem.
First I switched to the HP Model C6658AN No. 58 Photo Inkjet Cartridge, followed by a switch to HP Photo paper, and last I used the HP Image Zone software to do the printing.
Result? With no editing, the photos came out beautiful. I mean gorgeous. The colors are rich, deep and crystal clear. A jpeg of the Orion Nebula shows the central stars as hard pinpoints, surrounded by subtle variations of pink, blue, and orange. Orange! A picture of my dog -- taken with five year old Hewlett Packard PhotoSmart 315 2MP Digital Camera -- shows more detail, more acurate color, and more color variation than I ever thought such a camera (or dog) was capable of.
This is a very good printer. For the price, it is a wonderful printer. Well worth the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: MY PHOTOS LOOK TERRIBLE!!!
Comment: We have had our hp Photosmart 7760 for just 7 months and already my photos look TERRIBLE!!! The blues are turning green, the flesh tones are fading to white and the entire photo takes on a sickening yellow tone.
I AM BITTERLY DISPPOINTED!!! The pictures are SO BAD that it is NOT WORTH spending the money for the ink and the photo paper.
HP's solution was to use PhotoShop to add a Sepia Tone to the pictures -- YEAH, RIGHT -- then I'll have YELLOWISH-BROWN PICTURES!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Store Quality Pics
Comment: We bought this printer after a Salesperson gave it a high recommendation. We were told that the pictures would look like store bought photos. After hooking it up and loading the software we started printing. We were extremely dissapointed! Our pictures were VERY grainy. We tried switching the print option to best instead of normal, which helped but our pictures were still not perfect. The colors looked washed out, even though we were using the HP paper. Also, when we printed borderless pictures it wouldn't print to the end of the paper. We still had a finger width border on the left side(or sometimes it was on the right hand side?!). Maybe this can be fixed, but the software is difficult to understand and we were unable to figure it out. The best pictures were the ones we printed with the border, but it makes the picture small with a LARGE white border. Not exactly store quality! We are returning this printer to buy a more expensive (and hopefully better)one!
Summary: Frustrating Cartridge Problems
Comment: This printer was very nice for the first month we owned it - nice pictures with the photo printing cartridge. Then, we had the first cartridge "failure" and it has been downhill since. Nearly brand new cartridges fail, producing horrible prints and wasting large amounts of money. All of our attempts to get help from HP did not solve the problem and now we don't even bother trying to fix the failed print cartridges. They still work, just make awful looking print outs with lines through them. I don't feel like throwing away another 30 bucks just to have the nearly full cartridge fail in a couple of weeks! Remember when HP was a sign of a quality printer? I'm starting to forget too!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely flawless!! An Excellent companion to your Digital Camera!!
Comment: We have owned HP 7760 printer for over a year, and it has been absolutely flawless!! Very easy to use, with surreal print quality...it works even without your PC!! Great companion to your Digital Camera!! Highly recommended!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent Printer, Superb Price
Comment: This printer was given as a gift two years ago, but would not work with my Windows 95 PC; however, this year I upgraded to a new Apple iMac G5 Desktop with 17" M9843LL/A (1.8 GHz PowerPC G5, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) so I pulled the HP Photosmart 7760 out of the box and gave it a try. Installation was straightforward, though I did have to "modify" the USB cable -- which, inexplicably, you must purchase separately -- to make it fit into the printer side of the connection. Otherwise the printer was up and running within minutes.
For standard B&W printing this printer is superb, there have been no hangups, stalls or other problems during the seven months I've been using it. The text is crisp and clear, and it prints quickly too.
The first time I tried to print photos I was horrified: arguably the worst photos ever. They were grainy, the colors were thin and blurred, and there were alternating stripes of lighter and darker shading running vertically across the page.
Then I . . . ah . . . read the directions. Ahem.
First I switched to the HP Model C6658AN No. 58 Photo Inkjet Cartridge, followed by a switch to HP Photo paper, and last I used the HP Image Zone software to do the printing.
Result? With no editing, the photos came out beautiful. I mean gorgeous. The colors are rich, deep and crystal clear. A jpeg of the Orion Nebula shows the central stars as hard pinpoints, surrounded by subtle variations of pink, blue, and orange. Orange! A picture of my dog -- taken with five year old Hewlett Packard PhotoSmart 315 2MP Digital Camera -- shows more detail, more acurate color, and more color variation than I ever thought such a camera (or dog) was capable of.
This is a very good printer. For the price, it is a wonderful printer. Well worth the price.
Customer Rating:
Summary: MY PHOTOS LOOK TERRIBLE!!!
Comment: We have had our hp Photosmart 7760 for just 7 months and already my photos look TERRIBLE!!! The blues are turning green, the flesh tones are fading to white and the entire photo takes on a sickening yellow tone.
I AM BITTERLY DISPPOINTED!!! The pictures are SO BAD that it is NOT WORTH spending the money for the ink and the photo paper.
HP's solution was to use PhotoShop to add a Sepia Tone to the pictures -- YEAH, RIGHT -- then I'll have YELLOWISH-BROWN PICTURES!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not Store Quality Pics
Comment: We bought this printer after a Salesperson gave it a high recommendation. We were told that the pictures would look like store bought photos. After hooking it up and loading the software we started printing. We were extremely dissapointed! Our pictures were VERY grainy. We tried switching the print option to best instead of normal, which helped but our pictures were still not perfect. The colors looked washed out, even though we were using the HP paper. Also, when we printed borderless pictures it wouldn't print to the end of the paper. We still had a finger width border on the left side(or sometimes it was on the right hand side?!). Maybe this can be fixed, but the software is difficult to understand and we were unable to figure it out. The best pictures were the ones we printed with the border, but it makes the picture small with a LARGE white border. Not exactly store quality! We are returning this printer to buy a more expensive (and hopefully better)one!