HP PhotoSmart A717 User Manual

Memory cardHow to insert the memory card
Memory Stick●Angled corner is on the left
●Metal contacts face down
●If you are using a Memory Stick Duo
™ or Memory Stick PRO
Duo™ card, attach the adapter that came with the card before you
insert the card into the printer
xD-Picture Card●Curved side of card points toward you
●Metal contacts face down
Remove a memory card
CautionDo not pull out the memory card while the memory card light is flashing.
A flashing light means the printer or computer is accessing...

Save photos from a memory card to the internal printer storage
If you have previously saved a photo to the internal storage, but then deleted it from the
internal storage, you may want to save it again. Follow these steps:
To save photos from a memory card to the internal printer storage
1. Insert a memory card and select photos to transfer. For information on viewing and
selecting photos, see Select multiple photos.
2. Press Save.
3. Select Organize & Save, and then press OK.
4. Select Save to printer,...

To view photosDo this
Folder view1. Insert a memory card or view photos
on the internal printer storage. The
photos are displayed in:
–Folders: by month
–Albums: groups of photos within
a month
2. Use the 4-way arrow button to
navigate through the folders and
albums.
– To navigate through the albums,
press 
 or . When you reach
the last album in the folder, the
focus automatically moves to the
first album in the next folder.
– To navigate from one folder to
another, press 
. The focus
moves to the folder...

Select multiple photos
If you want to print more than one photo, or delete a group of photos all at once, you
need to select the photos. When you select a photo, a check mark appears in the lower
left corner of the photo on the screen, and the photo is selected.
To select several photos
1. Insert a memory card or view photos on the internal printer storage.
2. Use the 4-way arrow button to navigate through the folders and photos, and highlight
a photo to print.
3. Press OK to select each photo you want...

NoteWhen borderless printing is turned off, all pages print with a narrow white
border around the outside edges of the paper. To turn on borderless printing, see
the “Borderless” option in Preferences.
Print your photos
You can print digital photos that are stored on a memory card or the internal printer
storage. You can print photos you have selected on the printer or photos you have
selected on the camera (Digital Print Order Format, or DPOF). Printing from a memory
card requires no computer and does...

Chapter 4
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5Creative projects
This section contains the following topics:
●Print panoramic photos
●Print photo stickers
●Print passport photos
●Print CD/DVD labels
●Print a selected frame from a video clip
●Improve the quality of your photos
●Crop a photo
●Add a decorative frame
●Add clipart
●Add a greeting
●Add a color effect
●Add the date and time to your prints
●Set print quality
●Assign keywords and view photos in groups
●Create and view slide shows
●View a slide show on a TV
●E-mail or upload your photos using...

To create panoramic photos
Stitch several photos together
➔Use image editing software, such as HP Photosmart Premier, to stitch
overlapping photos together to form a 10 x 30 cm (4 x 12 inch) photo.
(Alternatively, some digital cameras can stitch several shots together into one
photo before saving the photo to a memory card.) Then save the photo to a
memory card and use the steps below to turn on panoramic mode, or print
directly from the computer. Panoramic mode prints the selected photo with a
3:1...

9. Press Print.
10. When you are finished printing panoramic photos, turn off panoramic mode to
continue printing with a normal 3:2 aspect ratio. To turn off panoramic mode, repeat
steps 2 through 5, and then select Off and press OK.
Print photo stickers
You can purchase HP Self-Adhesive Photo paper to print full-size 10 x 15 cm 
(4 x 6 inches) photos on adhesive paper. To print on this media, you simply print the
same way you would print on a regular piece of 10 x 15 cm  (4 x 6 inches) photo paper.
If...

Print CD/DVD labels
To print CD/DVD labels
1. Insert a memory card or view photos on the internal printer storage.
2. Press Menu.
3. Select Edit photos, and then press OK.
4. Select Specialty printing projects, and then press OK.
5. Select CD Tattoo, and then press OK.
6. Load CD/DVD label media.
7. Select one or more photos, and then press OK.
8.
When the overlay area of the CD label is displayed on the screen, press 
 to
activate the Zoom/Pan feature.
9. Use the 4-way arrow button to position the label...