HP A716 Photosmart Compact Photo Printer

This was a printer that I looked forward to having again. I had one in the past and took it to many parties until I lost it. When it arrived, I noticed the manufacturing date of 2006 of this new one. I returned it.

This little HP printer makes the most unbelievable 4X6 and 5X7 prints on HPs glossy Advanced Photo Paper. I am amazed each time I make a print. I generally work with a large format Epson Stylus Pro 4000 which contains 8 inks. That HP has found a way to get results like this with just three colors, is remarkable. The pictures are tack sharp, the color is accurate, the image is flawless. You feel you are looking at a print done the old fashioned way by a quality lab. I like the fact that each time you replace the ink cartridge you are automatically replacing the print heads as they are an integral part of the cartridge itslef. This should make clogging quite rare. I have just gone through my first cartridge and not one problem. As pointed out by others, the per-print price may be a little higher, but it is so much fun and so effortless to use, that the HP A716 is a winner in my book.

I paid a high price and now have to pay $40.00 for ink. Seller did not note the ink expired in 2007, but added a note to the box that we may have to buy ink if cartridge doesnt work. I feel he misled his add. He knew ink was expired and should have informed buyers. I purchased the printer to replace the one I lost and loved! Im very happy with the product, just not happy with the seller.

I use this printer to print passport photos. The quality of the prints is very good. However, when I need to turn the printer on it usually requires more than one attempt. On First attempt it will usually crash during its start up process. The only way to fix this is to unplug the unit and plug it back in. This may work, or it may give you an error message that requires you to repeat the process. The third attempt usually does the trick, but the entire process is slow and causes delay. I will replace this printer when I find a more reliable one.

This picture printer is great. I picked up the case to keep it stored when not in use. Does not take up much room. Easy to use. I like how I can pull the memory card from the camera and insert it into the printer and print easily. It has so many options that I am still learning. Very nice.

I have not yet advanced to anything beyond auto on my digital camera; but within minutes of starting to print pictures using this photo printer, I was able to crop, enlarge, and brighten. I have printed over 300 pictures since receiving this printer, and I love it! It is so easy to use, and it prints an extremely sharp picture. I would highly recommend this printer.

I purchased this photo printer to print picture of new newborn and Im glad I got it. This HP printer prints awesome photos on their high quality photo paper. Most people think I got the photos developed at a commercial photo store. This model also allows you to store your picture on an internal hard drive plus it can output the photos to a television via A/V cables. The only reason why I gave this model four stars instead of five is because I think HP could have done a better job in the software bundle that comes with the printer. In addition this printer constantly causes my PC to hang while booting up so I have to remember to disconnect it everytime I restart or shutdown. Im not the only one have this problem either. My father-in-law and cousin both purchased this same model and are having the same problems. We only connect the printer when we need to use it. Other than that its a solid photo printer!

This product works in a fair way but its too slow in printing. The quality of the image on the photo is good.

The photo that accompanies this product description doesnt really show how tiny this printer is. Imagine a 1 liter bottle on its side. I narrowed my choices down to this printer or a small Epson photo printer. This one won because it prints 6x8 as well as 4x6. The brick power supply is fine for a stationary location but I bought the optional battery so I can carry it around (great carrying handle) to use on other computers or connected to the TV with one fewer cable to connect. With the battery, you can put this in your lap, scroll through photos saved internally (4 GB on internal memory accessed by USB) or from one of several flash memory (camera card) slots. When you see a picture you like you can mark it and then batch print all marked images. It knows the difference between landscape and portrait and prints without being told. You can connect a video cable from the A716 to your TVs video input and watch an automatic slideshow or scroll through manually. It comes with a remote control! As with watching on the clear LCD screen, you can print immediately or mark for batch printing. I found it took a little bit of time for me to understand the user interface. It uses a concept I wasnt familiar with. After playing with it, I get it and its fine. PC Magazine says that prints cost [...] cents each. I use Costco Kirkland photo paper and bought multiple ink cartridges from an Amazon merchant at a big discount. I have not figure out what the final costs are. The convenience over using a drug store or on-line printer is great. Basically you prepare your photos for printing and then print directly from your computer as you always have, or download the images into the printer or to a flash memory card to plug into it. Most other printers use CPU cycles so this printer will not slow you down. As it prints, it gives a progress report in terms of photos printed and how much time is left. Very nice. My old printer would do wacky things when printing to boarderless photo paper. It would lob off a tiny bit of the side and bottom of the photo and then stretch the remainder out to fit. If you sent a picture that wasnt the right aspect ratio it would make some idiotic decisions. With the A716, you have complete control. It takes up about 20% of the space of the old printer. The engineering and finish of this product is outstanding. Update: 9 months later This printer locks up about once a month. I pull the power cord out to reset it. But if you have the battery in place, you have to pull the cord and remove the battery. I really havent found much use for this as a portable print anywhere printer. It works very well as a computer-attached printer. I do NOT use any of the HP software. I have a 4x6 bulletin boarde with many pictures printed on this printer. They look great! Bottom line: a very good printer.

This printer was not working so I returned it to see what was the problem. It wasnt able to be fixed so I think the rest of the money should be returned.