HP’s calling it revolutionary, but we’ll just call it easier. Sometimes correcting and printing your pictures can be a real timesink — between uploading from your camera, going into Photoshop to correct problem areas and then resizing for printing, you can spend hours going through your vacation shots just to get a satisfying stack of photos in your hands. If you’re a big fan of simplifying, the HP Photosmart A826 Home Phone Center may be the printer for you.
Sporting a 7″ touch screen, you can manage and print your images straight from memory cards for a final print without borders to trim in multiple sizes (4×6, 5×7, wallet, and panorama).
The printer acts as a digital photo frame — as images appear, you can select them to print or edit with the touch of the stylus/your finger and even work some photo wizardry.
HP’s a big fan of photo features and they’ve pulled no punches with Photosmart; built in tools let you add captions, design greeting cards, add borders, graphics, frames and effects, even remove red eye and — no joke — “slim” your subjects (if the camera adds ten pounds, HP can remove twenty). When your images are ready to go, the unit is able to print without smudging or smearing with lab-quality printing that resists fading; it can even print wirelessly from Bluetooth-enabled devices if you want a more permanent version of your cell phone pics.
At $249.99 it’s not the cheapest printer on the block, but it’s definitely easy enough for your mom to figure out — and she’ll get a lot more scrapbooking done because of it.
