HP Photosmart 385 Compact Photo Printer (Q6387A#ABA)
The ultra-light and portable HP Photosmart 385 Photo Printer lets users conveniently print true-to-life 4 x 6-inch photos almost anywhere imaginable - parties, reunions, sporting events, family gatherings, or on vacation. This compact and stylish printer weighs less than three pounds and the flip-up 2.5-inch image display allows users to add frames or make edits to photos - all without aPC. Users can print a variety of different sized photos without a computer directly from memory cards, PictBridge-enabled cameras, camera phones and other Bluetooth enabled devices using the optional HP Bluetooth Wireless Printer Adapter.
HP Photosmart 385 Compact Photo Printer (Q6387A#ABA) Accessories
 HP Premium Photo Paper, Glossy (Q1990A, 4x6, 100 Sheets)
HP No. 95 Tri-Color Ink Cartridge (C8766W)
HP Q3424A#B1H Photosmart Carrying Case
HP 95 Tri-Color Inkjet Print Cartridge with Vivera Inks (C8766WN#140)
HP PHOTOSMART PRINTER B Internal Battery for HP Compact Photo Printers
HP 110 Tri-Color Inkjet Print Cartridge (CB304AN#140)
HP 95 Series Premium Pack
HP Premium Plus High-gloss 4 x 6 Inch Borderless Photo Paper 100 Sheets (Q6565A)
HP Photosmart 475 Compact Photo Printer (Q7011A#ABA)
HP No. 97 Tri-Color Ink Cartridge (C9363WN)
HP Photosmart 385 Compact Photo Printer (Q6387A#ABA) Reviews
Prints from this printer seem to have uneven drying of the ink, which is sometimes distracting if looking at the photo from different angles. This is a very good printer for the type it is. This 'problem' is easily corrected by framing the photo or putting it in a book with a gloss sheet over it. I have now seen a Thermal Film Transfer Printer which gives more of a 'developed' look but has lower Picture Quality.
HP Service was absolutely worthless. Update 5/4/2007:. Another HP printer connected to the printer prints the picture fine. BTW, I compared a print from this printer to a print from another HP all-in-one deskjet printer. It doesn't print it either. Then the printer printed it fine.
The only suggestion I got was to "change the power source". If I fix the image on my computer, copy the image to a CF card, and use the card print the image, the printer complains "Cannot display this photo". While I was extremely skeptical, I did try a different source and as I expected, nothing changed. There is a free software on the Internet called jhead.exe using which I could copy EXIF data from another image to the problematic image. I really don't want to connect this printer to my computer.
I don't see any advantage to this printer (other than portability). The lady at the support told me to try another power source. The quality of this printer is barely better than the regular printer. I found that the images edited using the software are missing some EXIF information (X and Y resolution) and that is causing this printer to fail on those images. All pictures are in simple JPEG format.
no more hp photo printers for me. and as usual, the windows xp sw drivers are awful. 180 mbytes. the power supply also died, and i had to replace it at high expense. give me a break. after a couple months of low usage,. it now jams all the time.
and no simple/small drivers available. what a piece of junk. and no linux drivers available. and now i have this jam problem. this printer is junk.
Then I went to use it for the first time in a few months and all it would flash was a error message. I called, but they wanted me to pay just to TALK to someone about the problem. I got this printer last year as a present. Okay is anyone else seeing a problem here. The printer worked well at the time, although it ate up A LOT of ink. I don't recommend any HP products.this company obviously does not stand by their products and instead I recomend Lexmark.they do. So, instead I got online and talked to a person there about the problem and all she could tell me is that it was a software problem and that I could trade it for a newer model but it would cost me a $100.
They wanted $59 to fix the problem. While the printer does make great pictures I don't see how paper jamming in the printer would be a software issue. We have probably printed about 40 pictures on it total. We called technical support and they said that it was a "software" problem and that the printer's warranty for software issues is only 90 days. We bought our photosmart printer about eight months ago and it recently started having paper jam problems. The problem go so bad it would not print anymore.
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