HP unveils Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web: "world's first web-connected printer"
By Ross Miller 
posted Jun 22nd 2009 1:17PM
posted Jun 22nd 2009 1:17PM
Update: We just had a chance to try the printer / Touchsmart for ourselves. First off, surprise, the screen is capacitive touch, and it works well -- but only one finger at a time. We asked a rep about multitouch and were told that while technically feasible, it's not gonna be supported at this time. The widgets are created with a combination of HTML5 and Java, and much to our surprise, video streaming has been implemented. The Monsters vs. Aliens trailer we saw was decent resolution, but really, it's not a place where we need pristine quality. More screens in the gallery below.
HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web
Overview
HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web is the world's first Web connected home
printer. Powered by touch and empowered by the Web, this sleek device provides quick,
simple touchscreen access to important, useful and personal online content.(1) With the
largest LCD touchscreen of any all-in-one inkjet printer (4.33-inches), the HP TouchSmart
Web control panel conveniently connects users to the Web(1) via pre-loaded HP apps.
Part of an entirely new Web-based printing platform, these apps enable easy printing of
maps, coupons, movie tickets, recipes and more from partners including Google,
DreamWorks Animation, Fandango and Coupons.com, among others.
Users can also connect to Snapfish and directly from the HP Photosmart Premium with
TouchSmart Web, which saves time and enables customers to archive or print photos
from the site like never before... just touch, print and go.(2) People additionally can
access projects from the HP Creative Studio.
A versatile printing solution with print, fax, copy and scan functionality, the HP
Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web is perfect for multi-tasking households –
meeting all their high-quality home printing needs in one premium product, from laserquality
text to lab-quality photos. With a full range of wired and wireless connectivity
options, this printer provides the freedom and flexibility to print directly from Wi-Fi
enabled PCs, Bluetooth®-enabled devices, the iPhone™ and the iPod touch™ using HP
iPrint Photo.(3)
This ENERGY STAR-qualified all-in-one helps users save paper with automatic two-sided
printing and reduces packaging waste by using an innovative, reusable bag.
Key Features and Benefits
• Customize the HP TouchSmart Web screen with a variety of Apps(1) and add new
ones simply by touching "Get More" right on the screen. Current partners include:
o Google Maps for printing maps
o Fandango for movie tickets
o Snapfish for accessing and printing photo albums
o Google Calendar for viewing and printing personal calendars
o USA TODAY for the latest news
o DreamWorks Animation for movie trailers and family printables such as
coloring pages
o Coupons.com for printing coupons and recipes
o Nickelodeon for activities kids can enjoy based on the network's
characters
o Weathernews Inc. for up-to-date weather information
o Web Sudoku for printing puzzles
• Download new apps as they become available on the HP Apps Studio, to suit a
variety of interests and needs.
• Create and share apps to customize the printing experience starting in late 2009.
• Quickly print fun and useful templates such as fax cover sheets, calendars, notebook
paper and games such as Sudoku, with the convenient Quick Forms button.(1)
• Use the HP TouchSmart Web control panel to edit and print photos, send faxes, scan
documents and make copies, in addition to printing from the Web.(1)
• Easily drag and drop photos to a desktop icon from virtually anywhere – folders,
applications, e-mail and websites – for printing with the HP Photo Print Gadget.(4)
• Prevent common printing mistakes and save paper by ensuring that prints are loaded
correctly and that settings are optimized for image quality and print speed with HP
Auto Sense technology.(5)
• Simply touch one button for wireless set-up-making adding the printer to a home
network easier than ever.(6)
• Print borderless 4 x 6-inch photos stored on an iPhone or iPod touch using HP iPrint
Photo, the first photo printing application of its kind(3)-available for free in the Apple
App Store.
• Directly print from a PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) – capture and print screens to show off as
proof of achievements.(7)
• ENERGY STAR® qualified – use less energy, save money and help reduce the
environmental impact of printing.
• Easily print web pages with HP Smart Web Printing(8) and save both ink and paper
by combining multiple web pages onto one printed page.
• Use Windows Live Photo Gallery to easily edit, store and print photos, make photo
cards, calendars and more.
• Enjoy convenient and responsible ink cartridge recycling at no additional cost
through HP Planet Partners.(9)
• Identify features that reduce environmental impact with the HP Eco Highlights label.
• Replace each cartridge separately when it's needed with individual inks.
• Original HP inks: Print photos with enhanced detail using dual-drop volume
technology that delivers an extremely small drop size.
Technical Specifications
• Print Specifications(10)
o Print speeds of up to 33 pages per minute (ppm) black and up to 32 ppm color;
4 x 6-inch photos as fast as 18 seconds
• Scan Specifications
o 4800 x 9600-dpi optical resolution scanning(11)
o 48-bit color scanning
• Copy Specifications
o Up to 33 copies-per-minute (cpm) in black and up to 32 cpm in color(10)
o Up to 4800 x 1200 dpi black copying with 1200 scan dpi
o Up to 4800 optimized dpi color copying
• Fax specifications
o Store up to 60 phone numbers
• Dimensions/Weight
o 17.99 inches (w) x 19.33 inches (d) x 7.76 inches (h)
o 16.53 lbs.
• Support/Connectivity
o Pictbridge
o USB High-speed 2.0, 802.11 b/g/n wireless, Ethernet and Bluetooth
o Microsoft® Windows Vista™ or XP SP1 or higher; Mac OS X v10.4, v10.5 or
v10.6
o Windows 7 ready. Some features may not be available.(12) For more information
go to www.hp.com/go/windows7.
o HP products are backed by HP Total Care-service options in and out of
warranty plus access to 24/7 real-time award-wining chat support and e-mail
response in about an hour.
o Enhanced support services include an exclusive toll-free number featuring trained
experts and one-year repair with "Next Business Day Turnaround," including
brand new units for the first 30 days after purchase. More information is
available at www.hp.com/support.
Original HP Printing Supplies(13)
• HP 564 Black Photosmart Ink Cartridge: $11.99
• HP 564 Photo Black, Yellow, Cyan and Magenta Photosmart Ink Cartridges: $9.99
each
• HP 564XL Black Photosmart Ink Cartridge: $34.99(14)
• HP 564XL Photo Black, Yellow, Cyan and Magenta Photosmart Ink Cartridges:
$17.99(14) each
• HP Advanced Photo Paper (50 sheets, 8.5 x 11-inch): $21.99(14)
• Everyday printing papers with the ColorLok logo. Available in all regions.
Pricing and Availability
Target U.S. street price of $399.99.(13)
Expected to be available for purchase September 2009 in North America.
- 1 Requires an internet connection to the printer.
- 2 Requires a Snapfish.com account and an internet connection to the printer.
- 3 Using HP iPrint Photo software. Free download available from Apple's App Store, details at
- www.hp.com/go/iPrintphoto
- 4 Requires Windows Vista™
- 5 When using HP Advanced Photo Paper.
- 6 Requires a WPS router with an integrated push-button. Wireless performance depends on physical
- environment and distance from access point.
- 7 Printing screen captures is only available on games that support this feature.
- 8 For Windows only. Requires Internet Explorer 6.0 – 8.0.
- 9 HP ink cartridges return and recycling is available in 41 countries and territories around the world; see
- www.hp.com/recycle for details.
- 10 After first page. More information about print speeds is available at www.hp.com/go/inkjetprinter.
- 11 Maximum resolution may be limited by PC system and scan size.
- 12 Does not support Windows XP Professional x64.
- 13 Estimated U.S. street price. Actual price may vary.
- 14 Not included, please purchase separately.
doe's it print ?
You can imagine someone hacking your printer and sending you spam printouts while draining your ink!
Isn't that already happening via fax spam? (not that anyone uses fax anymore :P)
Wow, that's actually pretty impressive!
That's what she said.
very cool
Impressive? $400 for a consumer quality printer with a touchscreen? This thing is a huge waste of money..
great printer i'm in search of a new one so maybe this one could be the one
iPhone killer?
+2
No seriously...I really cracked up reading that because that thought was in my head, LMAO
Yes. And clearly Engadget is biased against it. Could they have found a more unflattering picture of it? I'm sure they tried.
I remember that article.
People was complaining the Zune HD pic was unflattering, LOL
This site gives me good laughs
definitely kills the iphone....unlike the iphone this thing ACTUALLY can print money.
I am looking for the the iphone 3G P ("P" is for printer) soon, Apple better step it up.
So it's a fax machine?
HAR HAR HAR
But I digress...
This seems really nice though. I was hoping they was meaning like the printer would be hooked up through the internet...and through a connection you could print from anywhere. Like consider this...
You're walking around...see something nice like. You take a picture and tell your wifey you want to go there for a nice lil date.
You choose the option to print said picture along with it being geotagged. It corresponds to that...and prints a map also.
My description isn't the best...but you get what I'm saying?
Just the ability to print from anywhere, at anytime, straight from your phone. Especially with us having full browsers now and not just WAP ones
I seriously hope you don't teach children English. As for the restaurant, most people would MMS, unless they own an iPhone.
Shut up samboini.
I agree with your idea, thats what i thought when i heard internet connected printer
=| I could type to prove how literate I am...but that would be a waste of time.
So on to the comment. You can not print from a MMS. That's the main point. Cutting down search time.
Just simply send a request through the network. Information arrives to the printer. Map is printed, picture is printed, maybe even some coupons (but I doubt a nice restaurant has coupons lol)
It would be just another way to simplify things.
You could have pictures already waiting for gathering before you get home.
Main point...this does have potential if put to good use and marketed right.
but there isn't clear use for that... now days printers print pages in matter of seconds... so yeah... you will save whole 20 SECONDS... that will be in a ads... I though of that to.. but later it didn't make sense to me...
Hey...every second counts, LOL
But that's why I said if put to good use.
But in the end, I doubt it will ever happen. So it's just endless rambling right now.
You know, I'm pretty sure a little bash script under a computer connected to a printer and the internet could do the trick. Here's what I'm thinking (and this is all under Linux, too)::
1. Send the picture and the GPS coordinates to a page (with a PHP backend probably) hosted on your computers web server.
2. The script would then save the picture and hold the coordinates in variables. You'd probably have your start address be the one of your home, so it should be saved into a variable already.
3. The script would then connect with a google maps URL with those location variables already put in, and probably another variable for the print-page style. The page could be saved.
4. Then the PHP script would use CUPS to print the image and the directions.
There could be different but similar ways, too. :]
Time to hack via the internet connected printer and print lots and lots of Goatse photos for some poor family?
Sadly, this was the first thing to come to my mind as well.
Ditto
You know, I am personally Done with HP for my home printers. They can give them away, the damn ink cartridges are so damn expensive and IMO a joke for capicity. Also... Really, do I need 150mb drivers for one printer; apparently I do :O
Every time I go up to that printer it is out of some color; and me being the typical father; I get pissed because I rarely use it.
Never, ever again.... It's going to the curb for free pickup when I pick up that Samsung Wifi black one.
On a positive note** my office 8mp and 5si are workhorses, and the toner lasts forever. Weighs about 150 lbs, but it is built like and runs like a Tank!!
It doesn't matter what printer you get, ink is going to be expensive. And for the price, the new photosmart printers that use the 564 cartridges are pretty economical on ink for a photo printer. If you want the best ink consumption on an inkjet, get an HP Officejet 8500 series. They have better cost per page than laser. But just because your kids are using your ink constantly, don't blame the printer for being bad on ink.
HP by far makes the best home printer, closely followed by Canon, then Epson and Brother both suck. They are the WORST printers ever, only ahead of those Kodak pieces of crap. Yeah the ink is cheap, but if the image quality sucks and it is not reliable, who cares?
Engadget, please note that the linked HP article actually says "HP Introduces World’s First Web-connected Home Printer". "Home" is the crtical difference here as there are many web connected devices out there by other companies which have been intended for the workplace.
Some things shouldnt be connected to the interwebs, I dont want to waste all my ink cause my printer got hacked, those things are expensive!
Then hack a server and print through here.
I think the risk to be hacked via such machine is barely less than a webserver.
I worked on a project like this over 10 years ago, but the company eventually killed the idea. Shame, because it was pretty damn useful.
do not put 'computer' with too much function in a device, just connect that device to your computer.
Ah yes, the words of Confuscious.
hmm.... internet and a printer, ohh the possibilities.
So when can we expect them to start sending SPAM to our web-enabled printer? Coupons? Ads? Once you've got widgets set up and access to the web, I'm sure someone will figure out a way to use it for advertising.
All Your Printers Are Bel.....
Ink cartridges. How much? What Red-$50, Green-$50, Blue-$50, Yellow-$50, Magenta-$50, Black-$50.
Only $400? Yea, Zing Ba Bing! Suckers!!
So this HP LaserJet I've had for so many years isn't the first 'web-connected' even though I can print over the Internet with it?
This looks interesting!
its a souped up fax machine
@ tigres.Everyone knows that you do not allow children access to printers as they will print every picture they can find of Spongebob and Hannah Montanan,just so you can discover them lying on the floor,under the couch, or being urinated on by Sparky the family dog 30 minutes later while you are on your way to Office Depot to buy more ink cartridges.
I've been through about six different HP printers in my life time and have used three different ones at work. Actaully im replacing my HP 6810 All-In-One series printer because it was breaking down on us. All the InkJet printer binge on ink. 90% of the time we would only use black and white prints but even then the other colors would run out. We were replacing colors every few months that we never used. And the printer wouldn't print anything (not even black and white prints) any one color was a close to being empty or had an error. It was almost comical. Our photo printer at work has the same issue. The All in one 6110 at work had to be replaced because we kept getting an unknown power error. I've known two other people with that printer and both them of got the same exact error. Dont even get me started on HP's god awful software. Its been awful for the last decade.
I think HPs have some of the best image quality in printing, but i dont think they are a practical solution printing photos. If someone wants a color printer, great there are plenty on the market, but if you want to print good color photos, just pay $.20 and print out your digital photos from Walgreens.
The sad thing is that I still think HP printers are quality even having most of the ones I've owned break on me in two years of minimal use.
This reminds me of when they combined TVs and Fridges. Limited market, expensive and impractical. It's interesting but it doesn't mean we need it.
ahahha i remember bestbuy promoting the hell out of the LG one that was 7000 dollars lol what a joke. and all the rich housewives were being convinced as to why they needed it.
@NOCknock
LOL.
True, oh so true.
No printer for YOU my son...
Awesome - now every printer will spitting out russian pr0n and v1agra ads.
smells like....FAIL
"world's first web-connected printer" ?
hey HP, no thanks that's a lot of words. I'll stick to fax thank you very much. Great job on inventing the fax machine... again.
Hey Engadget, you guys hear that they're coming out with a "portable computing unit with onboard monitor and built in keyboard and mouse"? Though I think their patents may have been leaked because I've seen some other vendors advertising for similar machines called laptops. Hope it works out for them.
And tons of people have been asking for a web connected printer...?
Here's an idea HP: Rebrand a web browser like Firefox as an "HP printer driver". Sell it for half the price of this printer to all the people who are too cheap to buy this printer, but too dumb to realize they don't need it. :-)
if you stream video, does it print out each frame for you to make a flipbook?
why de heck you need gps there? or what was that
Maybe if it wasn't an all-in-one....
I do not do those.
just testing
For the scanner part, can the 'fax' hook up to web offerings like eFax in order to lose the phone connection for a fax machine?
I bet the ink is $100000000
This is pretty epic, if not totally and mostly useless. I mean, maybe if my laptop or PC died and the only thing I could do was use this, it'd be awesome. (That or not needing to boot my laptop in the morning to print off things for classes), but, I can do that already with my current printer, just slide in a SD card, and it ha a screen, pick what to print from it, and, well, it'll print.
This is probably just for the 'wow' value that in 10 years will be included on every printer, and you'll look back 10 years and remember how jealous because your rich best friend got one, and then you remember how crappy they were back then and how you really didn't need it but MUST HAVE IT anyways.
I hate the print quality from HP printers and how little ink you get for your money but this is impressive, I admit
wow cool, a 21st century version of a fax machine.
That "other crowd" for whom this printer is supposedly made are not the people who would write custom apps for printers. Two or three college students might toy with one that gets installed in a computer lab, and my money says they find a zillion exploits that make this printer yet another Russian black market commodity :P