The included remote control even lets you navigate through your pictures, as well as select, edit, and print the photos you see on your television screen. It also prints wirelessly and comes with a composite cable that allows you to view your photos on a TV. The printer features card slots to support most of the popular types of camera memory cards and offers a PictBridge USB port for connecting and printing directly from your digital camera. When I saved photos from a memory card to the internal hard drive, I could see them on my Mac when connected to it via USB, as the drive mounted automatically on my Mac’s desktop. You could also use this drive to either maintain a backup copy of your photos, or as a portable “greatest hits” version of your photo library. It’s easy to see how handy an on-board drive would be for people who don’t want to involve computers in their photo printing workflow. The Photosmart A716 is HP’s top-of-the-line portable photo printer: It has all the bells and whistles, such as a large 2.5-inch color LCD and an internal 4GB hard drive for easy photo storage. But if you want the best quality, it will take a little under two minutes-which is on the slower side of the portable photo printers we’ve tested. The Photosmart A716 claims to print a photo in about 38 seconds. Neither of the prints looks as good as prints from the Epson PictureMate PM280 Flash ( ), though, which are as saturated as the Premium Plus prints, but without the bronzing. But when viewed next to Premium Plus paper, there is clearly a difference. Without other photos to compare to, the Advanced photo prints look perfectly acceptable, even good. The downsides to the Premium Plus paper are that it doesn’t dry as fast as the Advanced photo paper, the prints exhibit some bronzing (a metallic sheen viewable at an angle), especially in dark areas of photographs, and the paper is more expensive. Prints using the Premium Plus paper are much more saturated and guaranteed to last longer than the Advanced photo prints. That title belongs to the Premium Plus line of photo paper. However, the Advanced photo paper is not HP’s best quality paper. Advanced photo prints are quick drying, water resistant, and smudge-proof. The printer ships with a trial pack of HP’s Advanced photo paper, and most of the speed and durability claims by HP refer to tests performed with this paper.
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