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More…The HP Officejet H470 Mobile Printer targets people who travel a lot yet need to print reports, photos, and brochures straight from a notebook, camera, or phone.
HP H470wbt Mobile
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | Yes |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 50 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 0 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 50 |
| Duplex printing | No |
General Features
| PostScript Type | None |
| Printer Emulation Type | PCL |
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| PictBridge compatible | Yes |
| Printer languages supported | pcl3 |
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Pros
High-quality text and photo printing
Prints from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cards
Cons
Erratic paper feed
Slow performance
Bottom Line
This travel-friendly inkjet is good for on-the-go printing, but it may be too slow for in-office use.
HP Officejet H470wbt Mobile Inkjet Printer
H470wbt Mobile Review, by Paul Jasper April 28, 2008
We tested the H470wbt model ($350), which adds a rechargeable battery and a Bluetooth wireless adapter to the entry-level $224 unit. It weighs just 5 pounds with the battery attached, but the H470wbt is a bit bulky at 13.4 by 6.45 by 3.25 inches, so it may work better in your car than in your carry-on. (If you often work from your car, you may want to spend another $80 on a vehicle power adapter.)
I was stunned at how easily the H470wbt printed photos from my Palm Treo via the Bluetooth adapter, which plugs into a recessed USB port. The optional 802.11g print adapter ($80) fits into the same slot but was slightly trickier to configure. I had to follow the instructions carefully and use a wired USB connection for configuration before my notebook could print over Wi-Fi.
The H470 also has a single SD media card slot and a PictBridge port, which let you automatically print photos that you select using your digital camera's Digital Print Order Format feature.
In our quality tests, the H470 produced text documents full of finely formed characters. We noticed some banding and diagonal interference patterns in our challenging line art test, however. On plain paper, photos looked grainy and washed out. But when we replaced the dedicated black cartridge with an optional photo-color cartridge (giving six inks in total), the H470 printed superb images on photo paper. We saw bright, excellent colors and sharp detail. The only flaws we could spot were slight roller marks on the surface of the pictures.
For the quantities you're likely to print on the go, the H470 performs adequately. It was a little slower than HP's desktop printers in our speed tests, and fell far short of the fastest models among our Top 10 Inkjets chart. Text printed at a tolerable 7.1 pages per minute, but color graphics on plain paper came out at a mediocre 2.2 ppm. Our test photo took a pedestrian 2 minutes to print on letter-size glossy paper.
Though it offers desktop-quality printing from a wide variety of devices, the H470 is hampered by slow performance. Still, mobile users will find it a worthy competitor to Canon's portable Pixma iP90v.
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 17.77 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 23.05 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 20.78 |
| Color Output Quality | Fair |
| Color Photo Quality | Superior |
| Copy Output Quality | n/a |
| Copy Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Glossy Output Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Fair |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 25.7 |
| Overall Scan Quality | n/a |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 119.69 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 109.75 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 109.75 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 2.2 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 0.5 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 2.9 |
| Tested Lineart Speed (ppm) | 3.4 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 7.1 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page Word Document | 46.2 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 46.2 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 59.78 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 59.78 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for HP H470wbt Mobile
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Reviewed by: sawman
Duration of ownership: 10 Days
Strengths: good output
Weaknesses: No longer has IF port which I need, is twice the size and weight and slower than the canon ip90v, and online sales insisted I needed a bt card when it actually takes a usb dongle.
Overall: I returned it, the bt card, and the $80 case I'd purchased from them. I love my Canon IP-90V. HP lost my longtime loyalty on that deal.
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