Customer Reviews

HP A636 Compact Photo Printer

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This is a great printer with lots of fun features, but the ink is far to expensive to use for your everyday printing needs. I estimate that the prints cost me about $1.20 per print. I can take my SD card to the corner drug store and have them printed for less than half that amount. If I had known the ink was so expensive, I never would have purchased this printer. Next time I will do my homework. If you just want to use this for special prints here and there, then buy it. If you are an avid printer like me... forget this printer.

After purchasing and returning a few HP Photo printers, this is the first model that actually worked. Be warned though, if you remove the print cartridge for any reason while it is still full, the printer electronically marks it as "used" and it will not print with that cartridge again. HP has decided that preventing customers from using refillable cartridges is more important than happy customers.

I received this printer for Christmas and absolutely love it. It is compact and very easy to use. The picture quality is amazing and there are so many fun features to add to your photos. I like how I can use multiple media devices to upload my pictures. This printer is not designed to print your family vacation album, meaning loads of pictures at a time. But if you have a couple of shots you want printed out for a frame or to send to friends/relatives this is a perfect printer. We buy the paper at office max and often they have a buy one get one free sale. We buy the ink online because we often find great deals compared to the stores. They are a little pricy which is why we gave it 4 and not 5 stars. Also great for scrap booking. Print and create pictures in minutes, no need to run to the store everytime you want pictures printed out. Thanks HP!

Best Printer Out There and Best price on Amazon.
Pictures are excellent!
Get the paper in the combo pack, with both ink and paper, it will save you money.

I love this printer. It works really well. Its super easy to find ink and photo paper for it as well. Its definitely cheaper to purchase the combo pack of ink and paper. You can even get it at Walmart. Definitely worth the money if you like to take pictures.

I got this printer so that my kids could print photos for their scrapbooking projects. It was easy to use right out of the box and produces great photos. They have so much fun using the special features to edit the photos. The stylus included makes editing the photos (writing captions, decorations) very fun.
I would definitely recommned this printer.

I got this little gem for Christmas, and I love it. I hear a lot of talk about the ink cartridges, but I have to say, the starter cartridge that came with it, printed about 15 pics. My daughter had the foresight to tuck an extra one in my stoocking, so I'm still printing away! It does print lab quality photos. They look fabulous. So many frames, clip art, design options...the possibilities are endless. I'm having a blast with it. Because of it's portability, I took it to work, (I'm a neonatal intensive care RN) and took pics of a set of twins we had for the mother.
I jazzed them up a little...making a pink baby frame for the girl, and a blue one for the boy, then I used the text, and printed out their names and date of birth. The mother loved them! Everyone was impressed!
Keep up the good work HP!

I bought this printer to replace an old HP, a display model bought off the floor at Office Depot 4?? years ago. The old printer and cartridges easily printed 100+ pix with no loss of quality--but, it finally died. I really like the large view screen, editing choices and print quality of the A636, however it came with just a starter cartridge that only printed 2 test sheets, 1 good pix and then ran out of blue ink. Somewhere it should be stated that you should immediately buy cartridges, and a USB cable also not included. Also read the reviews of the 110 ink cartridge-I didn't and probably would not have selected this printer based on the really poor amount of prints I'm going to get. All of my printers, laser and photo quality, are Hewlett-Packard products, and this is the first one I'm not totally happy with. Printer itself gets an A, but the ink cartridge gets an F.

This printer worked great. We did have to buy the extended cartridge but the results at our fundraising party were great

Never could get beyond the set up---won't calibrate. Eternal online help with hp, has resulted in me having this for months with all the given paper used up still trying to calibrate. Now that I see how much I'll spend in ink, I am hoping to unload this worthless item somewhere.

BTW---should be a 0 star rating.