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PC Magazine have published a review of the HP Photosmart B8550 Photo Printer. 'The B8550 is aimed at a different kind of user than the B9180 and B8850 are. Both of those printers are designed for serious amateur photographers and even professionals—as suggested by the word "Pro" in their names. The B8550 is much more of a high-end consumer printer. Instead of pigment-based inks for photos, which both of HP's more expensive models employ, the B8550 uses dye-based inks with shorter lifetimes (100 years behind glass, for example, compared with 200 years for the inks in both Photosmart Pro printers). And instead of being designed to print on a range of fine art papers, it's essentially limited to using HP's Advanced photo paper. Within those limits, however, it prints gorgeous output at large size.'