Comments on: HP teams with Google, Fandango for Web-connected touch-screen printer

HP on Monday introduced the HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web, believed to the world's first Web-connected printer with a touch screen.

[murrayw76]

Flaccid, huh? Are those big, glowing yellow Trojan 2Go commercials on the right having a subtle influence on Crave writing? :-)

[BigDirtyNoob]

LOL! Excellent comment there :D

[ssjimsing59]

This is cool. It makes my new system look obsolete.
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[Image-Expert]

The announcement by HP in that they have the first "Connected Touch screen printer" is a bit incorrect , since Xerox brought out the 5700 Printer in the 1980s. The 5700 coupled with the Xerox 150 network scanner preceded the MFPs (Multi Function Printers) by over two decades. The Xerox 5700's "Marketing Slogan" was "Touch to Begin".
Not much remains today of the Xerox 5700. The futuristic vision of Xerox was to falter with a history of corporate nearsightedness. The "Copierheads" in Rochester New York never had the boldness needed to realize what the engineers and scientists were creating on the west coast. See the documentary "Fumbling the Future" .

[nm5lj]

I've put off buying a new printer, thinking that new systems should be showing up pretty soon. Well, here ya go! Looking forward to a performance review on this. I hope the quality/speed are up to the $400 pricetag; double-sided printing/scanning, etc.

[DarkHawke]

Typical. I FINALLY pull the trigger on a new printer and boom! This happens. 'Course, this is also more than *twice* what my bran-spankin'-new Canon AIO will cost, and the idea of easily printing out web content is a dubious one at best. Wasn't two weeks ago when, after locking down some movie tickets on Fandango, I *almost* went to print them, but then I read the fine print. Turns out I could just bring my credit card to the theater, jam it in one of many automated ticket machines and pop out my tickets on THEIR dime, not mine! Kinda kills all the cool (if there ever was any) in "printing your own tickets," huh? Might as well get SOME convenience/savings for the effin' service charge!

[transparentman]

tell me why I need a touch screen on a printer again? I just want a printer to do something simple. Print. There are copiers out there already out there for ages that have touch screen capacities.

just give me something simple. Why pay more for touch screen capacities.

[LibertyNews]

This is why HP copied the http://www.Feedjournal.com and created http://www.Tabbloid.com in order to set up a platform for people to receive personalized newspapers. I hope they will open up the platform to competition to the likes of Feedjournal.com. My Question is can you email daily PDF documents to the printer that will printout automatically? If so, it would support lots of content, instead of limiting the stream to HP approved content providers.

For example; I could have http://www.Libertynewsprint.com edition PDF emailed to the printer and automatically printed it out daily if I liked? now that would be useful (and be good for the ink manufacturers) Does it staple too?

~J

[ravi-hp]

Hi J,

We plan on providing "Set up and print any RSS" feature to this printer at some point soon. PDF in-box and automatically printing are great suggestions, thank you. Also, we will have a SDK available that can be used to write a App for Feedjournal or Tabbloid or any other convenient RSS service.

-Ravi

[LibertyNews]

AWSOME! You guys a really paying attention. Keep up the good work! Lots of companies forget that innovation isn't institutional, doesn't seem to be the case with HP.

Thanks Ravi,

P.S.

Could you email Jonas over at the Feedjournal a link to the Software Development Kit.

Regards,

~J

[alexacker]

I don't get using a printer to connect to the web to print out stuff like coupons. Why wouldn't you just use your computer, as you would anyway, and just print? I know why... manufacturers need to differentiate themselves to get you to at their product vs. the competition. I have an Epson Artisan 800 which is touch screen and wireless and does everything perfectly. And, no, it doesn't have internet access but neither does my fridge and I'm perfectly fine with that.

[kenfldude]

My wife would not know how to use the computer to print out coupons and this is fine with me. I'm sure she's not the only one either. I surely wouldn't let my 4 yr. old granddaughter get online and print a coloring book page. The point I'm trying to make is...HP you are genius. This app driven machine is a work of art. It's easy to use,fun, and great quality. It sure took alot of pressure off me as far as letting others on my pc for medial tasks. Keep up the good work and keep those apps coming.