It's decided, portable photo printers and digital cameras are now buddies. Some users would rather just get home with their digi cams, upload photos to their computer, share them on the Internet and store them on Cds/DVDs/USB sticks. But there's just something about photos printed on paper that makes them special, in a way more valuable. It's probably that you can touch them, see them, add them to albums and share them with special people.

While you can do that through e-mail or web albums, for the passionate photographer it's just not the same. This is why, I guess, photo printers have become so popular; especially portable ones that you can take along anywhere. For some photographers nothing is better in the world than sitting under a tree shooting a perfect picture of the sun going down and being able to print it right there and then.

The HP Photosmart A620 includes quite a few nice and interesting features. This portable photo printer does much more than print photos on the go. You'll be provided with a whole bunch of features to edit them as well. A function called scribble allows the user to draw on a photo by using the included stylus.

You can obviously customize the line thickness as well as the caller and at the simple touch of the erase button you can remove whatever you don't like from what you drew. Caption will allow you to add a title to the photo (and users can select from 6 colors and 5 possible fonts). The clip art feature turns your photo into exactly what the name suggests, a clip art.

With the help of 'album' you can select your favorite photos and transform them into an album page while 'design gallery' will allow you to use different effects on a photo including black & white, sepia, antique or other. As usual, you'll also be getting frames, with a ton of categories to chose from. To work with all this you'll get a 4.8 inch touch screen that's great for previewing pictures as well.

Installing the hp a620 photo printers is easy. You'll just have to run the software installer. If you want to use the printer with your home PC you'll have to get yourself an USB cable (since it's not included) and connect the two devices. Since the printer offers compatibility for multiple memory cards (including CompactFlash Type I and II, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Secure MultiMediaCard, xD-Picture Card, Mini SD ) you can also print directly off a card as well.

The HP Photosmart A620 fortunately doesn't limit you to just one size of media, like many other portable printers on the market. Its user will be able to print photos in 4 by 6, 4 by 8, 4 by 12 (panorama) or 5 by 7 inch paper. You may find better models on the market at the current time, but the HP photo printers A620 remain a good choice for the photo enthusiast.