Customer Reviews

HP A526 Photosmart Compact Photo Printer

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The photo clarity is very good. It is also light and easy to carry. I feel that they could put a full cartridge in the package and also the cable to connect to the computer. It does a good job and I would buy it again.

I bought this product on sale and am very happy with it. I have an all-in-one that does pictures but it is to much of a bother to set-up the tray every time I want to print pictures. The A526 prints directly from the memory card. The pictures look great! I am very impressed with the quality of the prints. Great alternative to driving to a print shop or waiting for the mail!Good product!Good price.

This printer makes pretty good prints, as long as you get them to the printer exactly how you want them to be printed. There are no photo editing options on this printer, except for the red-eye repair function (which has yet to work once for me.)

I also just realized that only the SD card slot will read cards. I tried an XD memory card and four different USB flash drives and got "memory card error" for all of them. In order to print pictures from my new camera, I have to transfer them to my computer and then to an SD card. Annoying.

Overall, I think this printer would be great for a teenager just wanting to share pictures with friends, but not really good for adults who want a higher quality picture and the ability to edit the picture before it prints.

All I can say is this is really a terrible printer. Printed about a half dozen pictures -quality so-so. Couldn't figure out why then the pictures started printing very poor quality with a weird whitish color overlaying the pictures.

Just bought this on sale and am pleased with the quality of the prints. I had a kodak printer in the past and had planned on buying another to replace my broken one but couldn't beat the price I found this for.

However, I agree with the person who said they could have included the wire to connect it to a PC. But when I need a quick picture printed it comes in handy.


I AM having problems using a thumb drive with it but am not sure if it's the thumb drive itself or the printer.

This printer is ok if you are printing photos with light backgrounds, but if the background in the photo is dark the printer makes it darker. Seems to darken everything up, and there is no way to adjust the brightness that I can see. The instructions that it comes with are not great, and I found little support for it online. I do like that it's compact and easy to use, just wish the photo quality was a little bit better.

This printer has NO options what so ever, you can't even zoom or crop or adjust any colors in the slightest. Also the print quality is substandard even on top quality expensive photopaper. The edges are not sharp on details in photos and the colors are very muted and blur together. I got this on sale today and it's going back tomorrow! They claim to be 1hr photo "lab" quality prints but you end up with blurry odd colored photos. It's a shame I usually love HP products but this one is a dud, get a higher quality printer than this one. If you like your blue sky blue, and your fire trucks brightly colored don't get this model printer. :( I was dissapointed.

I just got this printer yesterday, and I can't get it to work. The red light won't stop flashing. HELP plz....

TIA
Diane