HP PhotoSmart A626 User Manual

							Figure 2-2 Internal battery compartment
LabelDescription
1Battery compartment cover: Open this cover on the bottom of the
printer to insert the optional HP Photosmart Internal Battery.
2Internal battery: The HP Photosmart Internal Battery. You must
purchase the battery separately.
3Internal battery compartment: Insert the optional HP Photosmart
Internal Battery here.
4Battery compartment button: Slide this button to release the
compartment cover.
Control panel buttons and indicator lights
Figure 2-3 Control panel and indicator lights
LabelDescription
1On: Press to turn the printer on or off.
2Status light: Flashing if there is an error or if some user action is
required.
3Battery light: Solid if the optional battery is charged, flashing if the
battery is charging.
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							The touch screen and stylus
This section describes how to use the touch screen and stylus to interact with the printer.
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Use the touch screen
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Use the stylus
Use the touch screen
Use your fingers on the touch screen for most operations, such as photo navigation,
printing, making selections in the printer menus, or touching the onscreen buttons in the
quick touch frame that borders the photo viewing area of the touch screen. The printer
chirps once for each button press. You can change the volume of the sounds or turn them
off in the Preferences menu. You can also use the stylus for these activities, but it is
designed primarily for drawing and entering captions through the touch screen keyboard.
For more information, see “
Get creative” on page 27.
NOTE:The quick touch frame buttons are displayed only when the printer is turned
on.
Figure 2-4 Quick touch frame
LabelDescription
1Printer menu: Touch to access the printer menu.
2Cancel: Press to stop a print action.
3Arrows: Touch to navigate through photos or Get Creative menus.
4Back: Press Back to step back one menu screen at a time.
5Print: Touch to print the current photo or selected photos.
The printer status bar also appears on the top of most screens. The information available
on it varies according to what screen you are viewing. Touch it to open the printer status
dialog box which displays detailed information on the following:
• How many photos are being printed and how much time remains for the print job.
• How much charge remains in the optional battery.
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							Table 2-1 Printer status bar icons
Printer status iconDescription
Ink level: Indicates the amount of ink estimated to be remaining in
the print cartridge.
Estimated time remaining: Indicates estimated print time remaining
in the print queue.
Battery status: Indicates how much charge remains on the optional
printer battery, if installed.
Number of copies selected: Displays the number of photos selected
for printing.
Photo icons appear on photos and video clips in thumbnail and 1-up views. Some icons
show the status of a photo or video clip. Others can affect the photo or video clip when
touched.
Table 2-2 Photo icons
Photo iconDescription
Print status: Indicates the photo is printing.
Copies: Touch in 1-up view to change the number of copies to be
printed.
Selection box: Touch to select or deselect a photo or frame of a
video.
Rotate: Touch in 1-up view to rotate the photo 90 degrees clockwise
for each press of the icon.
Red-eye: Indicates a photo in 1-up view that has red-eye removed.
The icon flashes on a photo undergoing red-eye removal.
Video: Indicates a video clip. Touch to play the video clip.
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							Related topics
“
View estimated ink levels” on page 54
Use the stylus
Use the stylus to draw on a photo or to enter a caption for a photo through the touch
screen keyboard. For more information, see “
Get creative” on page 27.
NOTE:If the printer is set to a language that does not use the roman alphabet, the
printer displays the English keyboard.
CAUTION:To prevent damage to the touch screen, never use any sharp objects or
any device other than the stylus that comes with the printer or an approved
replacement.
There are two stylus storage areas on the printer: a slot that stores the stylus until you
need to use it and a hole where you can rest the stylus and keep it handy.
Figure 2-5 Stylus storage areas
LabelDescription
1Stylus well: Place the stylus here to keep it handy while you work
with your photos.
2Stylus storage slot: Securely store the stylus here when moving the
printer or between sessions.
Printer menus
The printer menus contain many features for printing photos, changing print settings, and
more. The menus, when opened, overlay the current photo on the screen.
This section contains the following topics:
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How to use the printer menus
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The menus
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							How to use the printer menus
The printer menus contain many features for printing photos, changing print settings, and
more.
LabelDescription
1Menu name: The name of the current menu.
2Menu option: The options available in the current menu.
3Menu scroll arrows: Touch to scroll through menus or menu options.
TIP:The printer menus contain many useful commands and options, but common
functions, such as printing, are usually available by touching an icon on the quick
touch frame.
To use the printer menus
1.Touch the Menu icon on the quick touch frame to open the printer menus, and then
press the scroll arrows to navigate through the menus.
2.Touch a menu name to open the options under the menu. Menu options that are not
accessible are dimmed. The current menu option is indicated by a check mark.
3.Touch an option to open it or to perform the operation it indicates.
4.To exit a menu, touch the 
 icon on the quick touch frame.
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							The menus
Specialty Printing Projects
Some printer functions may be unavailable and grayed out in the printer menus when a
selected specialty printing project mode is turned on.
•Panoramic photos: Touch to turn panoramic printing On or Off (default). Touch
On to print all selected photos with a 3:1 aspect ratio; load 10 x 30 cm (4 x 12 inches)
paper before printing. When a photo is selected, a green bounding box shows the
area to be printed. Touch Off to print with a normal 3:2 aspect ratio.
•Photo stickers: Touch to turn sticker printing On or Off (default). Touch On to print
one photo 16 times per page, and then load special sticker media. Touch Off to print
using 1-up mode.
•Passport photos: Touch to turn passport photo mode On or Off (default). A separate
page is printed for each selected photo (in the passport photo size that is chosen),
and each printed page contains the number of photos of the selected size that will fit
on the page.
•CD/DVD tattoo: Touch to turn CD/DVD tattoo mode On or Off (default).
Print options
•Print All: Touch to print all the still photos in the camera, one borderless photo per
page.
•Print Index Page: Touch to print an index of all photos, 24 photos per page.
Slide show
•Start Slide Show: Touch to start a slide show.
•Slide Show Settings: Touch to set slide show preferences. You can choose Loop,
Duration between images, Transitions, and Random.
Tools
•Bluetooth
•Device address: Some devices with Bluetooth wireless technology require you
to enter the address of the device they are trying to locate. This menu option
shows the printer address.
•Device name: You can select a name for the printer that appears on other devices
with Bluetooth wireless technology when they locate the printer.
•Passkey: When the Bluetooth Security level of the printer is set to High, you
must enter a passkey to make the printer available to other Bluetooth devices.
The default passkey is 0000.
•Visibility: Select Visible to all (default) or Not visible. When Visibility is set to
Not visible
, only devices that know the printer address can print to it.
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							•Security level: Select Low (default) or High. The Low setting does not require
users of other devices with Bluetooth wireless technology to enter the printer
passkey. High requires users of other devices with Bluetooth wireless technology
to enter the printer passkey.
•Reset Bluetooth options: Select to reset all items in the Bluetooth menu to their
default values.
•Photosmart Share (Instant Share): Touch to share photos on an inserted memory
card with family and friends. The printer must be connected to a computer and the
printer software must be installed on the computer.
•Test & Sample Pages
•Print test page: Touch to print a test page containing information about the printer
that can help in troubleshooting problems.
•Print sample page: Touch to print a sample page useful for checking the print
quality of the printer.
Cartridge
•Align cartridge: Touch to align the print cartridge, which ensures high print quality
prints. Do this if colors in the printouts are misaligned, or if the alignment page does
not print correctly when you install a new print cartridge.
•Clean cartridge: Touch to clean the print cartridge. After cleaning, you will be asked
if you want to continue to second-level cleaning (touch Yes or No), and if you touch
Yes another cleaning cycle is completed. Next you will be asked if you want to
continue to third-level cleaning (touch Yes or No).
Help
Help tips appear on the printer screen whenever you begin an Edit Photo or Get Creative
operation, such as cropping a photo or adding a frame. Follow the instructions on the
printer. If you turn this feature off, you can turn it back on by setting the Reset Help Tips
preference to Yes in Preferences.
•Photo printing tips: Touch to read the top ten printing tips.
•Printer features: Touch to see information about printer features.
•Print from imaging devices: Touch to see information about printing from imaging
devices.
•Get Creative tips: Touch to see information about the Get Creative aspects of the
printer.
•Printing specialty projects: Touch to see information on printing specialty projects.
•Troubleshooting and maintenance: Touch to see information on troubleshooting
and maintenance.
•Getting assistance: Touch to read how to obtain help with the printer.
Preferences
•Sound: Touch to change the sound volume to High, Medium (default), Low, or
Off.
•Reset Help Tips: Touch Yes to reset the help tips, if they have been turned off.
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Photo Fix: Touch to turn Photo Fix enhancements On (default) or Off.
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							•Print quality: Touch to change the print quality. Choose between Best, Normal, or
Fast Normal print quality.
•Paper type: Touch to change the type of paper on which to print. Choose between
HP Advanced, HP Premium, Other, Plain, or Other, Photo. HP recommends using
HP Advanced Photo Paper for best results. If you are printing on non-HP paper or
other media, choose Other so that the printer sets itself appropriately.
•Date/time: Touch to show a date/time stamp on your printed photos. Touch Date/
time, Date only, or Off (default).
•Colorspace: Touch to choose a colorspace (a three-dimensional mathematical
model for organizing color). The colorspace you select affects the colors in your
printed photos. Select Adobe RGB, sRGB, or Auto-select (default). The Auto-
select default tells the printer to use the Adobe RGB colorspace, if available. The
printer defaults to sRGB if Adobe RGB is not available.
•Borderless: Touch to turn borderless printing On (default) or Off. When borderless
printing is turned off, all pages print with a narrow white border around the outside
edges of the paper.
•Demo Mode: Touch to turn Demo Mode On or Off (default). When Demo Mode is
on, the printer displays sample images a user can edit and print. If no interaction with
the demo takes place within two minutes, a slideshow starts with information about
printer features.
•Restore defaults: Touch to restore printer defaults: Yes or No (default). Touching
Yes restores the original factory preferences.
•Language: Touch to change the language used on the printer screen.
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							3 Paper basics
Learn how to choose the right paper for your print job and how to load it into the input
tray for printing.
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Choose the best paper for the job
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Load your paper
Choose the best paper for the job
Use HP Advanced Photo Paper. It is especially designed to work with the inks in your
printer to create beautiful photos. Other photo papers will produce inferior results.
For a list of available HP-designed inkjet paper, or to purchase supplies, go to:
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www.hpshopping.com (U.S.)
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www.hpshopping.ca (Canada)
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www.hp.com/eur/hpoptions (Europe)
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www.hp.com (All other countries/regions)
The printer is set by default to print the best quality photos on HP Advanced Photo Paper.
If you print on a different type of paper, be sure to change the paper type. For information
on changing the paper type in the printer menu, see “
Load your paper” on page 19. For
information on changing the paper type when printing from a computer, see “
Change the
print settings for the print job” on page 43.
Load your paper
Paper loading tips:
• You can print on photo paper, index cards, L-size cards, A-6 cards, or panoramic
paper.
• Before loading paper, slide out the paper-width guide to make room for the paper.
• Load only one type and size of paper at a time. Do not mix paper types or sizes in
the input tray.
• Do not load more than 20 sheets of photo paper.
• Do not load more than 10 sheets of 10 x 30 cm (4 x 12 inches) photo paper for
panoramic printing. Loading more than ten sheets can cause paper feed problems.
• If you are using tabbed paper, load the paper so the tab feeds in last.
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