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Digital Camera manufacturers are increasingly seeing the opportunities for digital imaging to go beyond the sale of digital cameras and have increasingly been moving into the digital photo printer market. As a result packages like the HP Photosmart 428 Photo Studio will become more and more commonplace - combining printer, camera and docking station into the one purchase.
HP Photosmart 428 News Release: HP today announced the launch of the HP Photosmart 428 Portable Photo Studio, a three-in-one solution offering the ultimate photo simplicity with printer, docking station and camera. Featuring a high quality HP 5.2 megapixel (MP) camera and compact photo printer with built in camera dock, this package is the perfect travelling companion – enabling users to print their photos on the go or at home.
This integrated three-in-one system makes taking and printing photos simpler than ever before. The HP Photosmart 428 Portable Photo Studio, offers users a simple photography solution, in which every component is designed to work together perfectly, providing everything needed to create beautiful photos almost anywhere.
The camera itself, the 5.2 MP HP Photosmart M517 Digital Camera, provides impressive performance with 24x total zoom (3x optical, 8x digital). It also boasts a selection of HP Real Life technologies including HP Red-eye Removal and HP’s Adaptive Lighting system, which brings detail out of the shadows in dark or badly lit photos.
The camera features a large 5.0 cm (2 inch) colour LCD screen for easy viewing of images, both indoors and out. Once the photos have been taken, the camera can be placed in the printer’s built-in dock where users can select, edit, zoom and crop their images by utilising the bank of on-printer controls. Simultaneously to this, users can recharge the camera’s battery, ensuring that it is always ready to capture great photos.
At the heart of the HP Photosmart 428 Portable Photo Studio is the printer itself.
Small, sturdy and light enough to be carried anywhere with its integrated handle, it uses HP Vivera Inks to produce beautiful, long-lasting 10 x 15 cm colour photos. An optional grey photo cartridge can be temporarily installed to produce striking black & white prints.
The small, lightweight camera easily fits into a handbag or jacket pocket, and the compact photo printer is easy to carry around via its handle. The optional rechargeable printer battery provides enough power to print up to 75 photos anywhere, any time. Whether it is on the beach, train or at home in the kitchen, the HP Photosmart 428 Portable Photo Studio gives you the flexibility to click, print and present your photos immediately, hassle-free.
When at home users can connect the HP Photosmart 428 Portable Photo Studio to their PC or Mac in seconds, enabling access to the HP Image Zone Photo and Imaging Software. Using HP Instant Share software it is simple to email images straight from the camera to family and friends. Additionally users can connect the printer to a TV for easy viewing of photos as a slideshow, allowing users, using the ultra-slim remote control, to send favourite photos to print without interrupting the show.
The HP Photosmart 428 Compact Photo Printer comes with an HP 343 Tri-Colour Inkjet Print Cartridge with HP Vivera Inks, which means that even on the move you can print vivid, rich photos that will resist fading for generations . Frequent users can choose the HP 344 Tri-Colour Inkjet Print Cartridge, enabling them to share more prints with friends and family. Keen photographers will benefit from the HP Photo Pack for photo printing from €0.30 per photo.2 Alternatively, for a change of mood, users can insert the optional HP 100 Grey Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge, to produce striking black and white photos.
HP’s Premium Plus Photo Paper offers outstanding image quality and a choice of high-gloss or satin-matt finish for the look and feel of a traditional photo.
Whether users desire vivid borderless snapshots in 10 x 15 cm or 10 x 30 cm panorama, or artistic black and white images, with HP Premium Plus Photo Paper they can achieve outstanding image quality time and again.
The HP Photosmart 428 Portable Photo Studio is available at a recommended retail price of €329 (actual prices may vary).
Posted by Darren in our HP category on July 14, 2005