Photosmart 8750 ink carts & paper types

I need to know the appropriate combination of ink cartridges to use for the best quality color photo printing. I also would like to know the best paper type to use for printing 12x12 photo-quality scrapbook pages. I could print on 13x19 and cut them to 12x12 if that's the best solution. I have done some research, including reading, calling for support, and an on-line chat support, but haven't been able to get the info I need. Thanks for the help.

There are several combinations you could use: in the "orange" slot you can use the 99 photo cartridge or the 101 blue cartrdige. They are similar, both contain light magenta and light cyan for photo printing. The 99 has photo black, the 101 has a deep blue which increases the gamut available. The 97 color cartridge will be used in the "green" slot. It has cyan, magenta and yellow inks. In the "black" slot you can use the 96 black cartridge which has pigmented black ink (not used on glossy photo paper) or the 100/102 photo gray cartridges. The 100/102 cartridges contain light gray, gray and photo black inks. The quality for the 100 and 102 are the same, the 102 has more ink than the 100.
Given the above the "best" for photos would be the 101, 97 and 100/102 cartridges. If you will be printing on matte paper and want crisp black text for captions the 101, 97 and 96 cartridges would be the best choice.
I will leave the paper suggestions for others, that is not my area of expertise.
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Welcome to the forums @swashington007
If I understand correctly, you are looking to print in black ink only from your Photosmart 7520. I have located a very helpful thread by my colleague @MissTeriLynn that I would like you to see, read and try. If her post does not cover a certain concern of yours, please feel free to write me back and I will do my best to help you!
Click here to begin: Photosmart 7520 print in black and white?
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Welcome to the HP Forums ButchG,
I see by your post that when printing with the photo gray cartridge the black cartridge will indicate that it has failed.
I can help you with this issue.
I would do a power reset to see if that will resolve the issue.
With the printer still turned on, disconnect the power cable from the back of the printer, if the printer has external power module with a detachable power cord disconnect it for 15 seconds and then reconnect it.
Hold down the power button for 10 seconds to drain the power.
Then disconnect the power cable from the wall outlet.
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Hi @supermac,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I see that your HP Photosmart 8750 is not registering your new 102 ink cartridge. I am sorry to hear this, but happy to help!
I would recommend to go through this guide, 'Cartridge Failed' or 'Cartridge Not Compatible' Error Message.
If the guide does not resolve your issue, please call our phone support at 800-474-6836 for further options. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get the support number for your region. Country-language selector.
Hope this helps!
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11/22/07 2:20:22 PM Adobe Photoshop CS3[2548] * _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0xb66c840 of class NSCFNumber autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Stack: (0x9631c178 0x9624a0f8 0x29d21c8 0x29d2864 0x29d1320 0x29d15bc 0x29d0cec 0x29d0b08 0xce4370 0xce4484 0xce55b8 0xce5db0 0x7f3490 0x7f54d8 0x8fb23c 0x2bd684 0x2bdb00 0x370c 0x3410)
11/22/07 2:20:22 PM Adobe Photoshop CS3[2548] * _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0xa832c50 of class NSCFNumber autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Stack: (0x9631c178 0x9624a0f8 0x29d2240 0x29d2864 0x29d1320 0x29d15bc 0x29d0cec 0x29d0b08 0xce4370 0xce4484 0xce55b8 0xce5db0 0x7f3490 0x7f54d8 0x8fb23c 0x2bd684 0x2bdb00 0x370c 0x3410)
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11/22/07 2:22:52 PM Adobe Crash Reporter[2601] Process Id:
11/22/07 2:22:52 PM Adobe Crash Reporter[2601] 2548
11/22/07 2:22:52 PM [0x0-0xeb0eb].com.adobe.Photoshop[2548] 2007-11-22 14:22:52.079 Adobe Crash Reporter[2601:10b] Process Id:
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Hp 7510 not putting ink on paper

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Hello Rancher1405,
Welcome to the HP Forums.
I see that you are having an issue with blank pages when attempting to print.
I have a few steps that we can try to troubleshoot this issue.
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Hi phibei!
Thank you for posting.
I have done some research on your post.
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The printer will put droplets of ink on the page based on what it detects the media is (for printers with "Automatic" as a paper type) or the specified media in the driver.
If you select plain paper, draft and print on photo paper it would use the same amount of ink as if you put in plain paper. The results are likely to be very very poor if you do that, for several reasons:
The pigmented black ink is not compatible with photo paper, it will not dry properly. When photo media is selected the printer will not use the pigmentd black ink even to print text, it will mix color to make black.
It takes much more ink to give proper photo settings on photo paper as compared to plain paper. Using plain paper draft settings is likely to result in an unusable photo paper page, ruining a $1 sheet of photo paper to save a $0.20 worth of ink - not a good tradeoff.
If you plan to print a lot of photo's you might consider a printer that uses the HP Ink advantage subscription service. This service is based on pages printed, and they count photo pages the same as plain paper, even though a full page photo may use 10x or more the ink of a plain paper text page.
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