First Web Printer.......

HP has been hooked on touch base systems and devices. With HP tablets, HP TouchSmart Desktops, to even HP TouchSmart Printers, HP is looking for away to get ahead of the competition with physical contact with devices. The new product that is out there is a printer called, HP PhotoSmart Premium TouchSmart WEB All-in-One. Thats right it's a long title, but did you notice the word WEB? It caught my eye when I was searching for something to discuss with the class on my topic of choice for this week. Apparently this is the first printer to print Web contents like coupons, maps, movie tickets, and puzzles right from the Printer without a computer. I'm starting to notice that HP devices are getting more advance to where the devices are becoming their own foundation without the need for a computer.

The HP PhotoSmart Premium TouchSmart Web All-in-One has a nice 4.33" touchscreen CGD(Color Graphics Display) with TouchSmart Control Panel display. With print resolutions 9600X2400 optimized dpi color and print speed of 32ppm(color)/33ppm (black). It takes all memory card sticks even SDHC. It has self built in Photo Brightening and adaptive lighting, along with the Smart Focus and Red-eye Removal, so you will not have to do hardly any adjustment. It can scan and copy as well as print without the need for a computer. It has a outer USB port, for any mass storage devices with USB connector. It has self build Ethernet, WiFi 802.11n, and Bluetooth. All around this printer is really built to be use as a single device as well as an attached printer to a computer. It also has a application feature built in, you can even download apps. from the internet onto the printer to allow more usages of your printer.

This devices uses Snapfish.com for accessing the content through the web without using a computer. It uses a feature called Save Time that gives direct access, to upload your photos, editing them, and use Snapfish.com to print them. Being the first device to access the web and print content from it is a opening to another path of direction in technology. People are trying to find more reasons to separate devices from computers to be more independent we will soon not need a computer anymore. Everything will be just that, a computer. If this is a good idea or not, it is to early to tell. Each market place would like to see their component to be the next big thing, but sometimes getting bigger is not necessarily better.

Here is a short video of the printer by CNET technology.

As you can see CNET did not give too good of a review about this printer.

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