Page 5 gives you access to the three following screens of maintenance options.

From here you can re-calibrate the print heads, clean the print heads, print a test page or diagnostic page.

This page is the same as the "popup" that comes up each time you get ready to print. Here you can see visually the amount of ink left in the cartridges and which type of cartridges you have in the printer.

The last page has options for Automatic Two-Sided Printing Module and displaying the Print Settings and Display Status Window (screen with the ink levels.)

Here's the Print Preview screen. I always enable the print preview option, it is your last chance to visually confirm that you have scaled the image properly and have selected the right media size. It can save you from wasting a piece of expensive photo paper because you had 4 x 6-inch media selected instead of 8.5 x 11-inch or vice-versa.

Mechanics & Performance

The Photosmart 7350 is a stylish looking, dark gray and silver colored printer that will easily fit into your computer workspace. Setup is straight forward and can be accomplished by following the steps outlined on the included big page of directions. You unwrap and install the two ink cartridges into carriage, then install the software, plug in the USB cable and then turn on the printer. Windows then loads the drivers or recognizes the new hardware and within a minute or two you're up and printing.

As packaged the Photosmart 7350 comes with two cartridges, the HP #57 (C6657A) tri-color and the HP #58 (C6658A) photo print cartridge. This gives you a 6-color photo printing system but there is no separate black ink, the printer mixes color to produce black. If you use the printer to produce regular documents you need to replace the #58 photo cartridge with the #56 black cartridge (sold separately) in the right stall.

HP supplies a "print cartridge protector" to keep fresh whichever cartridge is not being used. Just remember to replace the photo color cartridge before you print your next picture or else it won't be "photo quality."

One of the unique features of the Photosmart 7350 is a special photo paper tray for 4 x 6-inch photo paper. You do not have to remove the regular 8.5 x 11-inch paper from the lower tray before printing a 4 x 6-inch photo. Simply push the photo tray slider lever forward until it stops, the printer will automatically feed the 4 x 6-inch photo paper into the printer instead of the letter size paper. If the photo tray runs out of paper the printer -will- feed paper from the regular tray without warning you, so you need to keep an eye on the amount of paper if printing more than one picture.

Steve's Conclusion

Here's a scan of a "borderless" 4 x 6-inch print. As you can see, there is a unprinted margin of about 1/2-inch on the trailing paper edge. The printer can print the leading edge and the top and bottom edge full-bleed but it cannot print the trailing edge. The 4 x 6-inch HP Premium Plus Photo Glossy paper is micro-perforated so this unprinted "tab" is easily removed. If you use third-party 4 x 6-inch photo paper you will end up with less than a 4 x 6-inch size print and this margin will have to be cut off.

Here is a scan of an 8.5 x 11-inch print. No scan can really duplicate an inkjet photo print properly due to the scanner's light being reflected off of the layers of ink and the surface of the paper itself. But this should give you an idea of the quality of the 7350's prints, they are outstanding.

If you own or plan on owning one of HP's new digital cameras then you should consider the purchase of the Photosmart 7350 (or Photosmart 7550, 7150 or 130) printer for its direct connect capability. These printers work in concert with the cameras to produce the best possible images with the least effort on the user's part. Just plug the two together or insert the memory card, it's really that easy! And of course it can function as an all-purpose color and black-text printer when it's connected to your computer.