Hewlett Packard H470 Portable Printer

Over the last few years, almost all of the large computer manufacturers have been working hard to provide consumers with a new generation of portable printers, which can provide the very highest quality photographs and documents. Apart from the quality, which of course is of paramount importance, customers are looking for printers which are truly portable, and can be easily carried around when on the move, so they needed to be small and lightweight. This, on the whole, has been successfully achieved, together with a perfect retention of quality. But before you buy, make sure you know what functions you require from your printer as each make and model will provide you with a different set.

A company which has worked hard and earned a reputation for producing the very best in high quality computers and peripherals is Hewlett-Packard (HP). They continue to push hard to create new products so that they can further expand their range of printers, and the HP470 portable printer is one innovation where they really excelled. This printer has been widely lauded as the best portable printer that HP has ever made, with rave reviews online and in the computer press. When you see how much they have packed into this petite printer you'll understand why.

The HP470 weighs 4.5 pounds which makes it extremely convenient for people on the move all day, such as travelling salespeople or photographers for example. It is not much bigger than an ordinary college notebook, which adds to its charm, with dimensions measuring 13.4 x 6.4 x 3.2 inches. The printer is supplied with its AC cord and options of a battery charger and a car cigarette lighter adapter for power when you're away from the office. If you need to be able to send data to the printer from your laptop, there is the option of Bluetooth or WiFi, but the adapters need to be bought separately.

The H470 portable printer has many of the features you might expect out of a larger desk printer, as it has a tray which can accommodate 50 sheets of paper, and which is foldable. It's print rate is fairly good too, with a black and white rate of 22 pages per minute and a color rate of 18 pages per minute. And just to show that the portability of this portable printer has not had an impact on print quality, it can print at a resolution of 1200 by 1200 dpi in black and white, or 4800 dpi in color.

Apart from being a portable printer, the H470 is also a photo printer and can perform like the best of them, and that means it can connect straight to a digital camera via USB cable, and print photos without the need for a computer to do any image processing first. It is not surprising then that the HP470 portable has been praised widely for its abilities.