You wouldn’t know it from the model number, but the HP Photosmart A516 Compact Photo Printer ($99.99 direct) is a direct descendant of last year’s HP Photosmart 385 GoGo Printer. HP has changed its naming scheme, but the resemblance was obvious the instant I opened the box. The ink jet-based A516 has the same miniature-toaster shape as the 385—big enough to hold two slices.

And it shares key features with its older sibling, including similar print speed, high-quality output, and the ability to print at sizes up to 4- by 12-inch panoramas. But the A516 brings something new to the party, in the form of nearly waterproof output. And it offers more features than I generally expect to see for this price.

PcMag reviewd this printer and here are some of their impressions: To begin with, the A516 can print from most memory cards as well as PictBridge cameras and computers. And its built-in LCD lets you preview photos on memory cards. Granted, the LCD is only 1.5 inches, and it’s at a fixed angle, so you may have to move the printer (or your head) to see it well; but it’s still a big improvement over not having an LCD at all, which is what you usually get (or don’t get) at this price.

The A516 does not include a kiosk-style menu to let you crop or edit as the 385 did, but the LCD and front-panel buttons let you choose which photos to print from a memory card, whether to print multiple copies, and whether to print one, two, four, or more photos per page.

Of course, the single-most-important issue for a photo printer is output quality. And the good news is that every photo I printed with the A516—including indoor and outdoor shots, closeups of faces, landscapes, snowscapes, and more—qualified as true photo quality. I saw some minor flaws on close inspection, including a slight loss of detail in bright areas on some photos, but the overall quality was easily a match for photos you’ll get from your local drugstore or other typical consumer photo labs.

Although the photos will show a water stain if you let a drop of water dry on the surface, they didn’t smudge at all when I held them under running water and rubbed them, even immediately after printing. They should have no trouble standing up to handling on a hot, humid day. For the moment, at least, that’s worth a few extra cents per photo. And the total package still offers enough to earn the HP Photosmart A516 the Editors’ Choice for low-cost photo printers.