Customer Rating: 
Summary: Works great... Sort of
Comment: Well this product we purchased in Dec. of 2005. It worked great, photo quality prints every time... Then about a month ago two small plastic clips that hold in a metal wire that is crucial to the print cartridge functioning broke off.
That little wire can do its job if it is pressed back into place but will fall out of place when replacing cartridges and perhaps during use. We have not throughly tested it yet.
Bottom line, a great little printer that could... Before it's gentle little parts broke.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Less then 2 years moderate usage and now it's only printing in black backup mode!
Comment: This HP Photosmart 8150 Printer worked fine with only moderate use for about 1.75 years but now the flimsy Tri-color Ink Cartridge holder no longer properly detects any new Tri-color Ink cartridges detecting every new Tri-color cartridge as being bad.
Less than 2 years of moderate use at best and it only prints in black back up mode now which makes this once great photo printer absolutely useless.
*Word to the wise, if you buy this over priced, older, discontinued model HP Photosmart 8150 Printer new, you had better get the 2 or 3 year replacement, next day exchange extended warranty with it! It will malfunction before it's two years old almost guaranteed!
Customer Rating:
Summary: You get what you pay for
Comment: Not a terribly bad printer, with fairly good photo quality. However, the paper does jam frequently with both plain and photo papers. Sometimes the printer does not recognize the photo tray when placed into position.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Small part broke off from tri-color cartridge holder
Comment: A small plastic part broke off from the tri-color cartridge holder, and now the little metal wire in that cartridge holder area no longer is in the correct position. When I put a tri-color cartridge in, the printer says the color cartridge is bad. The printer now will only print with the black or photo cartridge in--but either way the prints come out black and white. I really loved this printer until this happened. I was concerned about the cheap feel of the cartridge holders and the snap down latch on the cartridges--but I thought it would be ok since it was made by HP. I am going to miss this printer (I am still upset that it broke!) and I was careful with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flimsy as advertised...
Comment: As others have specified, things are flimsy. I've had this printer now for 389 days. And as the tech support person I talked to this evening, there is only a 365 day warranty...
As others have said, it was the color cartridge that is no longer being recognized.
I love(d) this printer... Decent software. Extremely happy with the prints. But after finding out that my "photo" printer is essentially now just a really fast (and that isn't really true with it in ink-backup mode) text printer, I'm not really thrilled with it anymore.
Hopefully there's someone on eBay ready to buy the ink that I just dropped a gold mine on trying to debug this problem tonight...
Summary: Works great... Sort of
Comment: Well this product we purchased in Dec. of 2005. It worked great, photo quality prints every time... Then about a month ago two small plastic clips that hold in a metal wire that is crucial to the print cartridge functioning broke off.
That little wire can do its job if it is pressed back into place but will fall out of place when replacing cartridges and perhaps during use. We have not throughly tested it yet.
Bottom line, a great little printer that could... Before it's gentle little parts broke.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Less then 2 years moderate usage and now it's only printing in black backup mode!
Comment: This HP Photosmart 8150 Printer worked fine with only moderate use for about 1.75 years but now the flimsy Tri-color Ink Cartridge holder no longer properly detects any new Tri-color Ink cartridges detecting every new Tri-color cartridge as being bad.
Less than 2 years of moderate use at best and it only prints in black back up mode now which makes this once great photo printer absolutely useless.
*Word to the wise, if you buy this over priced, older, discontinued model HP Photosmart 8150 Printer new, you had better get the 2 or 3 year replacement, next day exchange extended warranty with it! It will malfunction before it's two years old almost guaranteed!
Customer Rating:
Summary: You get what you pay for
Comment: Not a terribly bad printer, with fairly good photo quality. However, the paper does jam frequently with both plain and photo papers. Sometimes the printer does not recognize the photo tray when placed into position.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Small part broke off from tri-color cartridge holder
Comment: A small plastic part broke off from the tri-color cartridge holder, and now the little metal wire in that cartridge holder area no longer is in the correct position. When I put a tri-color cartridge in, the printer says the color cartridge is bad. The printer now will only print with the black or photo cartridge in--but either way the prints come out black and white. I really loved this printer until this happened. I was concerned about the cheap feel of the cartridge holders and the snap down latch on the cartridges--but I thought it would be ok since it was made by HP. I am going to miss this printer (I am still upset that it broke!) and I was careful with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Flimsy as advertised...
Comment: As others have specified, things are flimsy. I've had this printer now for 389 days. And as the tech support person I talked to this evening, there is only a 365 day warranty...
As others have said, it was the color cartridge that is no longer being recognized.
I love(d) this printer... Decent software. Extremely happy with the prints. But after finding out that my "photo" printer is essentially now just a really fast (and that isn't really true with it in ink-backup mode) text printer, I'm not really thrilled with it anymore.
Hopefully there's someone on eBay ready to buy the ink that I just dropped a gold mine on trying to debug this problem tonight...