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HP Announces New Printers, Printing Technology

July 17, 2008

PALO ALTO, Calif. - HP announced new printers and printer technology that enable users to add creative touches to images and produce stunning photos and vivid documents, just like the pros.

Highlights of the announcement include:

• Two stylish, compact and portable photo printers: one that boasts more than 300 creative features and the largest touchscreen available on any portable photo printer, and another that includes an adjustable display and prints photos up to 5 x 7 inches - the only printer at its price to offer photos of this size.
• A new five-ink printing system that achieves the print quality previously only offered by HP's six-ink systems while giving consumers better control over costs by requiring fewer cartridges to manage.
• A home printer that enables printing from the web and features the five-ink printing system to deliver enhanced image quality and permanence, increased versatility and convenience, and the value of individual ink cartridges.

The HP Photosmart A630 and A530 Compact Photo Printers are expected to be available in August priced at $149 and $99, respectively.

Debuting in the HP Photosmart D5460 Printer, HP's new five-ink printing technology gives customers more control over their ink cartridge costs while delivering high-quality output for brilliant photos and quickly prints everyday documents.

The printing system includes a single dual-drop-volume printhead that delivers an extremely small drop size, allowing users to print finely detailed images and graphics with smooth transitions.

The five-ink system includes four HP 564 dye-ink cartridges in cyan, magenta, yellow and photo black for vivid color and black-and-white lab-quality photos. The fifth cartridge contains black pigment ink for laser-quality black text on plain paper and enhanced document quality when printing on ColorLok paper.

With five individual ink cartridges, customers get the right ink combination for each printing project, from photos to presentations. Priced at $9.99 each, the new HP 564 ink cartridges allow customers to replace each ink cartridge separately as needed.

Customers wanting even fewer cartridge changes and a better value for frequent printing can choose high-capacity HP 564XL ink cartridges, which offer three times more black printed pages and two times more color printed pages, for a 40 percent savings on color printing compared with standard Original HP ink cartridges.

The HP 564 Photo Value Pack offers customers increased savings with 150 sheets of 4 x 6-inch HP Advanced Photo Paper and four HP 564 ink cartridges filled with HP Vivera inks in cyan, magenta, yellow and photo black, all in one box. Priced at $35.99, the HP 564 Photo Value Pack creates prints for as little as $0.24 per photo.

The HP Photosmart D5460 printer's long-lasting, dual-drop-volume printhead introduces a new use for recycled plastic. The printhead uses 55 percent recycled polyethylene terephthalate (RPET) plastic, which is derived from Original HP ink cartridges collected from customers through the HP Planet Partners return and recycling program and other sources, such as water bottles. HP offers easy recycling of HP 564 cartridges at no extra charge through Planet Partners, available for inkjet supplies in 42 countries and territories around the world. HP ensures that all HP print cartridges collected through Planet Partners are recycled responsibly - never sending them to a landfill.

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