HP PhotoSmart 8150 Inkjet Printer

Bought this printer about year and a half ago. Was working fine, I was happy with the purchase. Until....Replacing color cartridge. Upon removing the old color cartridge I noticed in the cradle there was thin metal clip/spring that didn't look quite right. Mind you, this was on removing the empty. No abuse, no forcing a new color cartridge. The little thin plastic clip that held in the metal clip/spring in place must have broken during printing with the old color cartridge. I never found it. Looking at the black cartridge cradle. It's thin plastic clip is approximately 2 millimeters thick. Obviously not thick enough to hold the limited stress put on it by the metal clip/spring. Clearly a design flaw as you can gather from the number of other reviewers with exactly the same problem. I've contacted HP and they agreed to escalate the issue. I'm expecting, or hoping, to receive a call from them within the next couple of days. Not sure of the response I'll get. But if a handful of customer took the time to write here. There must be a significantly greater amount that just gave up. Stay away from this printer, it seems to last just long enough to pass warranty. Now I'm left with a slow gray-scale printing color printer. With a fancy LED displaying "Cartridge Failed".

I loved this printer until a couple of days ago. It printed excellent photos, and I've never had any problems with it since I bought it about 2 years ago. The next day after printing a beautiful set of pictures, I turned it on and the display window read, "Cartridge Service Station is Stuck" and it won't do a thing. After chatting on line to an HP rep. He says it's hardware problem and of course there's no servicing it.

With any problem the HP photoSmart 8150 inkjet printer are the best..please try it.

Awesome Printer and very fast. Great bonus having card reader, and LCD that is built in. I tend to favor the HP Products and the cartridges are not extremely expensive either.

I've had it for a couple of years now atleast. No problems so far. Great photos.