The Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart 1218xi color printer is ideal for photo-quality print tasks. It produces sensational color documents at high speeds, thanks to HP's exclusive PhotoREt III color layering technology. The 1218xi can print black text at up to 17 pages per minute and blazes through color documents at 13 ppm with up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi resolution on photo paper.
The PhotoSmart 1218xi features "beam and print" wireless printing from a wide range of digital cameras, PDAs, notebook computers, cellular phones, and other mobile devices. Its point-and-print functionality set this printer apart from other brands' similarly priced models.
The 1218xi has a 100-sheet tray, 16 MB RAM, and up to a 5,000-page-per-month print capacity, so it's robust enough to handle your most challenging print tasks.
The HP 1218xi makes your job easier with direct connect "walk up and print" access, compatible with most digital cameras. It supports CompactFlash Type I and II and SmartMedia memory cards. It's compatible with Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, and Macintosh 8.6 applications.
The HP 1218xi comes with a power cord, reference guide, setup guide, software CD-ROM, sample paper, and all the print cartridges you need to set up shop. It also has a one-year limited warranty. --Megan Dugan
Product Description:
HP PhotoSmart photo printer is designed to bring low-cost, photographic-quality image printing to the home environment. The HP PhotoSmart photo printer enables importing personal photographs for manipulation and inclusion in various forms of documents and can output them economically without sacrificing the quality of the original image. The most frequent uses of the HP PhotoSmart photo printer include photo enlargement, cropping, red-eye elimination, scratch removal, replication of snapshots, and the creation of greeting cards and other novelties. These uses require the support of a wide variety of media sizes. The HP PhotoSmart photo printer writing system uses tri-chamber ink cartridges. The cartridges are fired in a multipass print mode, allowing any combination of the six different inks to be delivered at varying intensities. The versatile HP PhotoSmart 1218 photo printer offers the ability to print directly from a digital camera, PC or Macintosh computers, palmtops, and other mobile devices. Any way you print, you can count on fast printing speeds and timesaving features such as memory card slots, infrared printing, and media sensing for productive and brilliant photo-quality results. The HP PhotoSmart 1218 printer includes automatic two-sided printing and optional networking features.