Portable Printer from HP

For the past several years, I have been frustrated when at my beach house on the Connecticut shore with not being able to print anything. Broadband internet access is fine, but sometimes you need to print something.

With summer coming and vacation time around the corner, I splurged on a portable printer from HP - the HP470b (“b” for “Battery”). It also comes in a standard and wireless model.

The printer is not as tiny as some of the older thermal printers were, but at 13.5" wide, 7.25" deep and only 3.25" high and less than 5 lbs, it is easily portable in a briefcase or shoulder bag. It advertises 22 ppm black and white and 18 ppm color, and up to 450 pages of black and white on a single battery charge.  The battery only takes about 4 hours to charge, so this is not a burden. It will also print photographs and supposedly can print photos directly from a camera, although I haven’t tried that yet, but the print quality is excellent.

So if this is something that has been nagging at you for a while, give it a try. About $270 from Amazon or other sources.