HP A526 – fast photo printer with a decent price

If you’re looking for a digital photo printer faster and smarter than the Canon CP 760, then the HP A526 might be your choice.

It’s true that this HP A526 photo printer is not at all as good looking or as compact (it measures 227×116x137,4 mm). Personally, I don’t like its design, but it has some extras, that deserve to be noticed.

HP A526 - an ugly printer, but faast

First of all, it has a thermal inkjet printing technology. This means a faster printing process. A 4×6 inch picture will be printed in 39 seconds on draft print mode and in 50 seconds on normal print mode. At first sight, there’s no difference between this and the 80 seconds of the Canon printer, but if you have for example, 50 pictures to print, you’ll spend 25 more minutes.

Another advantage for ink jet printing, is that you can use more paper types, and HP has been taking care of that, producing all kinds of paper, and you’ll also find consumables everywhere. And these consumables will be cheaper too.

Another big advantage of HP Q8351A printer is that comes with a multi-format card reader, extremely useful if you want to skip the cable connecting phase. At this price, you even have a little 6,1 cm LCD, where you can see pictures before printing them.

All these extra features come with an increased price. But the HP A526 is still affordable, as it will cost around $139 on Amazon and can be at your door in just a couple of days.

Tags: photos, printer