Customer Rating: 
Summary: THIS PRINTER IS THE WORST
Comment: THIS PRINTER IS THE WORST.. After the second day it stops working.. lost time and money.. no worth it !!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing gem!
Comment: This little portable was our economical Christmas gift this year and we love it. The photos are amazing and true to color and it is so easy to print off of the memory stick.We bought the battery and case and anticipate a lot of fun at parties and family get togethers!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product
Comment: This is a great product. I bought it for my wife on her birthday, amazing quality!! The settings are so detailed, you can selcet your paper type and the printer will actually print differently for the paper type you are using. The selection of photo sizes is great. Overall amazing product! The only reason that I didn't give it a 5....it won't make me coffee in the morning.
Customer Rating:
Summary: HP A616 Photosmart Compact Photo Printer
Comment: I am somewhat disappointed that the printer is not a stand alone portable.
My previous portable printer was capable of enhansing photos and I find that this one does not have that capablility. I am having a problem with the quality of the prints and will have to contact HP as the blue sky and the gray concrete has a reddish hue and I do not know if it is a problem with the printer or the ink cartridge, but I will contact HP to solve this problem. Photos can only be enhanced when the printer is connected to the PC. I feel that this is a negative feature of this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what I expected
Comment: I just bought this printer and it wasn't what I expected. I had an Epson Picturemate that I liked quite a lot, but it died after about a year and a half. I thought I would go back to HP and get an upgrade to at least as good quality, better reliability, and 5x7 photos to boot.
Setup was easy and I was printing from Mac iPhoto in about 20 minutes. But unfortunately the first photo that I tried to print was taken in difficult lighting conditions. Nonetheless it looks good on the screen and there is lots of interesting green and brown vegetation in dark areas of the picture. On the screen it looks good, but on the printer the dark areas of vegetation just washed together into mostly black. I tried aligning again, full cleaning procedure, and online tech support. The Tech had me try moving the photo back to a memory card. That actually helped for some reason and I get some detail in the dark vegetation, but now the green clothing is washed out.
I tried the sample photo from HP and it looks great. I tried another photo and it looks good - brighter than the original with reds enhanced from the original. I kind of liked the original authentic colors but I could get used to these enhanced ones.
I'm disappointed that this printer doesn't reproduce faithfully the pictures on my computer. But it does seem to produce pictures taken with good lighting with a vivid quality that I hope I'll grow to love. And I do like being able to print 5x7's at home, and I also like to be able to purchase ink and paper separately which one cannot do with the PictureMate.
Summary: THIS PRINTER IS THE WORST
Comment: THIS PRINTER IS THE WORST.. After the second day it stops working.. lost time and money.. no worth it !!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazing gem!
Comment: This little portable was our economical Christmas gift this year and we love it. The photos are amazing and true to color and it is so easy to print off of the memory stick.We bought the battery and case and anticipate a lot of fun at parties and family get togethers!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Product
Comment: This is a great product. I bought it for my wife on her birthday, amazing quality!! The settings are so detailed, you can selcet your paper type and the printer will actually print differently for the paper type you are using. The selection of photo sizes is great. Overall amazing product! The only reason that I didn't give it a 5....it won't make me coffee in the morning.
Customer Rating:
Summary: HP A616 Photosmart Compact Photo Printer
Comment: I am somewhat disappointed that the printer is not a stand alone portable.
My previous portable printer was capable of enhansing photos and I find that this one does not have that capablility. I am having a problem with the quality of the prints and will have to contact HP as the blue sky and the gray concrete has a reddish hue and I do not know if it is a problem with the printer or the ink cartridge, but I will contact HP to solve this problem. Photos can only be enhanced when the printer is connected to the PC. I feel that this is a negative feature of this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not what I expected
Comment: I just bought this printer and it wasn't what I expected. I had an Epson Picturemate that I liked quite a lot, but it died after about a year and a half. I thought I would go back to HP and get an upgrade to at least as good quality, better reliability, and 5x7 photos to boot.
Setup was easy and I was printing from Mac iPhoto in about 20 minutes. But unfortunately the first photo that I tried to print was taken in difficult lighting conditions. Nonetheless it looks good on the screen and there is lots of interesting green and brown vegetation in dark areas of the picture. On the screen it looks good, but on the printer the dark areas of vegetation just washed together into mostly black. I tried aligning again, full cleaning procedure, and online tech support. The Tech had me try moving the photo back to a memory card. That actually helped for some reason and I get some detail in the dark vegetation, but now the green clothing is washed out.
I tried the sample photo from HP and it looks great. I tried another photo and it looks good - brighter than the original with reds enhanced from the original. I kind of liked the original authentic colors but I could get used to these enhanced ones.
I'm disappointed that this printer doesn't reproduce faithfully the pictures on my computer. But it does seem to produce pictures taken with good lighting with a vivid quality that I hope I'll grow to love. And I do like being able to print 5x7's at home, and I also like to be able to purchase ink and paper separately which one cannot do with the PictureMate.