Hewlett Packard Photosmart A826 InkJet Printer

I find this to be an amazing and fairly compact photo printer. It has a lot of features that allow you to manipulate the photos without the use of photography software. I also like that it is self contained and does not require the use of a computer. Most importantly however, is that I get a photo store quality without the price or the inconvenience.

This photo printer does exactly what it promised. Beautiful photos. It was received very quickly. Excellent service. THANKS!

Easy and fun to use! Recommend it for the young and young at heart! You can add text or fun artwork too.

Bought it but never received it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi,
I have owned many portable printers in the past, and this one is so superior and does so much more. The quality of the photos is almost as good as Office Max's Kodak machine and it does text and 5X7's also!!! The other printers I had that were small only printed 4X6's. It also does frames, editing, and is very easy to use. My girlfriend bought one & brought it to a scrapbooking crop to show everyone and I was sold. I bought mine the next day and I love it!!
Jill Alexander, Vail, AZ

I like it because it fun and creative and produces excellent picture quality! Easy enough for kids to use. I would like to see some additional software added to it like some picture frames and decorations, clip art, etc. But other than that, I love it:-)
Worth the money. Fantastic for Scrapbooking and card making.
~Sherri~

So easy to use. The pic look so great. Cost less per pic then stores. I strongly reccommend it to anyone. Can not say a bad thing about it.

This printer is awsome. Prints fantastic pictures. Love all the extra things this printer can do. Buy one you will love it.

I bought this about a month ago. I was immediately impressed with the features and how it looked. We recently had a new granddaughter, and now we can take pictures of her, crop them, rotate and print them immediately. It takes dual sizes of paper. I am totally pleased with this printer. It is also portable. The only thing I need to find is a carrying case for it. According to HP, there isn't one made. That is my ONLY complaint. Buy this you won't regret it.

What a great machine, I can print out he pictures so fast and the extra features make them wonderful. I have a day care soooo it makes it great to be able to give my parnets special moments to keep forever. LOVE IT!!!!!!

I item shipped on time and works fine. I am very happy with this transation. I suggest doing business with this seller..........

I got the Hewlett Packard Photosmart A826 InkJet Printer for a Christmas present for my daughter. It's so cool I want one for myself. The quality of the pictures are just as good as taking them to a photo center. It prints quickly and quietly. The pictures are dry as soon as it's finished printing. This printer has a lot of features. It has a touch screen, you can "draw" on your picture or write a caption. You can edit your picture right on the printer. Change the picture to Black and white or sepia. You don't have to have it hooked up to you computer. When your not using it you can have a slideshow of you pictures. Lastly the ink is reasonably priced!

This was purchased as a Christmas gift as a companion present to a Canon camera I also purchased for my wife. With very easy out of the box setup and a highly intuitive user interface, you can get productive with this printer and start printing your digital images in minutes. If you're into quickly churning out prints for photo albums or scrapbooks, this printer deserves serious consideration. There are some limited editing functions built-in, so you can nearly bypass any computer requirements and go straight from capture to printing if you like. I found the red-eye correction to be somewhat hit-or-miss, as it could not always detect the red-eye in the subject unless they were directly facing the camera with eyes wide open. the red-eye correction was much less successful on sublects at an angle to the lens, or squinting slightly. Still, the majoriy of the prints it turned out were surprisingly good; about on par with what you'd get from a 60 min. lab. It's too soon to comment on how economical it is to use, though I can report that the color ink cartridge goes for about $18-20 online, and a package of 100 sheets of 4X6 glossy photo paper will set you back about $13. Whether the ink will last through an entire package of paper remains to be seen.

My wife is into scrap booking. We couldn't decide between this printer or the Canon Selphy ES30 and eventually bought both.

As far as print quality, they are very close, but I would give a slight edge to the A826. The Canon does win out in cost by almost a penny a picture if you buy the value packs for each. Both claim the ink/film is fade resistant for many,many years.

HP definitely has the edge in print flexibility with options of 4X6, 5X7, plus a 4X12 panoramic, all borderless. The Canon is limited to 4X6.

As far as being stand alone printers with photo editing capability, I would rate them about equal. Both contain similar, but very basic features, such as brightness, cropping, b&w, sepia, red eye removal, etc. The HP gets a plus for for its 7" screen vs 3.5" for the Selphy, and the selphy gets a plus for cuteness and the fact it has a carrying handle making it slightly more portable than the A826

When it comes to special effects (borders, inserting clip art or text) that is where the differences lie. I feel the Canon has more special effects (my wife loves the faded borders and pinhole effects) but I believe you are limited to just one effect per picture. The HP allows you to have multiple effects (e.g. clip art, text, and border) on the same picture.

Bottom line, if you are just looking for a stand alone printer with some basic photo editing capability, you can't go wrong with either one. If you are a scrap booker who attends parties, but don't want to drag around your laptop computer you will be happy with either, but envious of the other and probably wind up with both like we did.