Product Description
- Preview and edit with a 2.5-inch, flip-up color image display
- Built-in handle, easy to carry, weights only 3.3 pounds
- True-to-life 4-by-6 or 5-by-7-inch photos resist fading for generations
- On-board 1.5 GB internal memory stores hundreds of photos
- Connects to a TV to display a slide show, remote included
Box Includes: HP Photosmart 475 GoGo Photo Printer, HP 97 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge(14 ml), power module with cord, TV/video cable, Index card kit, Setup Poster, Registration Card, CD with HP Photo & Imaging software for Windows and Macintosh, user's guide
The HP Photosmart 475 GoGo Photo Printer stores photos and prints them, wothout needing to be connected to a computer. Not only can you print true-to-life 4 x 6"s, 5 x 7"s, and panoramas, you can take them along for convenient selection and printing on the go. Store up to 1,000 photos and print them wherever you travel. Organize photos automatically by date and event; Retrieve them via intuitive menus Do a slide show, complete with a remote control (included) by connecting to a TV Add decorative borders and frames in several colors, plus crop and zoom with the large (2.5), adjustable, flip-up color display Create vintage-style black and white with the HP Gray Photo Inkjet Cartridge (sold separately) Print frames from video clips or 4 x 12 panorama photos HP SureSupply4 keeps you aware of low toner and aids online ordering from nearby stock Print directly from most memory cards, flash drives(sold separately), and PictBridge-enabled cameras Wireless printing from camera phones and PDAs with the HP Bluetooth bt450 Wireless Printer Adapter (sold separately) Save photos straight to CDs (no PC needed) by connecting a CD burner (sold separately) Pack it up, take it away - At a compact 3.3 lbs. and with a built-in handle, it's easy to carry Uses C8766W, C9363W, C9368A ink cartridges
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SLOPPY INTERFACE & Poor Ergonomics
Rushed to market with a poor user interface!
HP ignored the long line of easy-to-use user interfaces from preceding product lines of their 130, 230, 245, 375 & even the same model year 385.
Insert a memory card into the slots and watch quickly to see how many photos are on the card, because it disappears quickly, never to be seen again ... very unlike it's predecessors and companion portable printers from HP.
The first photo that appears on the screen is the last one you took, but there's no way to find out where you are on the card as you flip back and forth among the photos on the card.
Zooming in and cropping a photo works great, until after you hit the print button ... the crop box remains on the screen giving you the impression that if you press the print button again you'll get a cropped photo ... Surprise! The printer then prints the entire uncropped photo.
Press the menu key, and go into "improve image" and then "photo brightness" ... using the left / right arrows, the brightening / darkening is circular, so you can go around and around from light to dark or dark to light ... something that you could not do with other HP portable printers. The catch ... you have to SAVE the photo before the printer allows you to print the 'brightened' / 'darkened' photo, something that the previous models of these portable printers didn't require.
The only way to use the handle is to make sure that the pop-up viewing screen is down...
Photos with a border are a challenge, especially when you're printing from the computer.. the printer doesn't feed the paper in far enough before the ink hits the page, resulting in a photo that's skewed to the left and not centered on the page.
Maybe the next version will fix all these mis-steps.
Ink Cartridge Alert
This is really about the ink cartrige needed for this printer. Under the Product Description for the HP 97 ink cartridge, it states that the cartridge is good for over 400 pictures; it's not, it's good for between 90 and 150 pictures. After much discussion with HP, they finally told me that it's only rated for about 150 color pictures. You'll be going through a lot of ink cartridges if you have a lot of photos (vacation pictures) to print like I did, and they're not cheap. I appreciate Amazon's feedback when I'm purchasing products, so I thought I should share. The printer itself is great though.
Great, easy to use portable photo printer
This printer does so many things so well and so easily. It is smaller and lighter and easier to use than the Epson printer. I compared the photos from the 475 and the Epson Deluxe and I liked the prints from the HP much, much better. The HP prints are much brighter and cleaner and clearer. I think the Epson prints look muddy, somewhat pale and grainy. The HP also prints 5x7s and 4x12 panorama photos which the Epson can't print.
However, you should decide for yourself. Everyone here tells you what they think. They want you to validate their decision. I say bring your memory card down to the store and print out a photo or two on this printer and the Epson and a Canon and a Sony for that matter. You can even try a Kodak. I think you will find what Consumer's Reports keeps finding. HP portable photo printers produce the best prints. But you can and should decide for yourself. All of the prints will look better than you expect and they will all look better than anything you can get from Wal*Mart or any quick print place. Anyway, when you have finished, you will know which printer is the easiest for you to use and produces the best looking prints.
Whatever you decide, you will end up with a printer that is fun to take to family events, parties, soccer games (with a battery), hockey games etc. You can print out pictures on the spot and use memory cards from anyone's camera. Try that with a Kodak printer. And when you mother says: "I want a picture of you and Mary, I never have any pictures of you and Mary", you can print one out on the spot. That is worth more than $200 any day.