I asked Santa to make my life simpler…I got HP
I’ll go ahead and get this right out of the way now.
Should you ever need it, Hewlett-Packard has an awesome tech support team.
Ask for Gary, he’s nice.
*sigh*
BlogHer asked me if I’d like to do this review for the HP Photosmart All-In-One printer and I said, “Yeah!”
Then I found out I got to give one away…and I said “OH heck YEAH!”
“Oh, by the way, it’s a wireless printer.” I nearly died on the spot.
A wireless printer! In my happy, clammy little hands. It was almost too good to believe.
Because me and wires? We has a history.
It ain’t a pretty one.
I have cords from one end of my house to the other, straggling between rooms and around desks. With the sheer volume of electronics we power and network and recharge, my house is veritable MAZE of cords and wires. It’s a borderline safety hazard and drives me absolutely wild.
Do you see this? (And no, I’m not talking about my dusty file cabinet, thankyouverymuch!)
That one cord out the back of this printer is for power and that’s it. No more. NADA. ZILCH.
A beautiful thing.
Setting up this printer took all of ten minutes…and four of it was wrestling it out of the box. Nice job on the safe packaging there, HP. It does have USB hookup for those without a wireless router, but it was as simple as giving the printer the WEP password from the back of the router and the printer said, “RAWRR, look at what I can do!”
This is where I ran into issues…because, well, I’m ME. I spent the better part of the afternoon on the phone with tech support, where I developed a lasting friendship with Gary, trying to figure out why my shiny new printer would print from anything and everything BUT my laptop. After many hours of plugging, unplugging, rebooting and playing with cartridges it turned out to be a faulty disc with bad installation software.
Once the fix was made, I started having some fun with it!
From my living room.
I’m going to just go ahead and say that again for you…FROM my living room! Nowhere near the printer and without a single cord spanning the distance. *le sigh*
When they say “lab quality” printing, they aren’t kidding. You COULD NOT get better pictures from any photo development center…and most assuredly not as quickly or conveniently.
I might or might not have gone a little overboard.
But, clearly, you have never experienced this kind of technological goodness or you’d be going overboard as well.
OH wait! That’s right…you COULD!
Because thanks to the awesomeness that is HP and BlogHer, I get to give away one of these rock-on fabulous printers to one of you.
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ON TO THE GIVEAWAY!!
I am going to give you LOTS of chances to enter this contest!
1. Leave a comment below and tell me one awesome way this printer will make your life an easier place.
2. Leave a link to your post about this contest on your own blog.
3. Leave the link showing me you Twittered about this contest
4. Leave a link to a photo showing me your WORST cord/wire situation
Do any or all of the above and you get an entry to the contest for each one.
The contest will begin at 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, January 28th, and will end Tuesday, February 3rd at 11:59 p.m (PST). Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct.
Rules:
- No duplicate comments.
- This giveaway is open to U.S. residents.
- Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
- You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
**Check out HP’s site for more information about their wireless printer products.
**You also have 7 more chances to win this same printer through BlogHer and 7 other awesome bloggers!
