Yeah, yeah, every office has at least one old-timer who looooves to point out the irony that computers—though they once promised a paperless future—ushered in an era that is unprecedentedly rich in printed matter. “Remember how they used to say we wouldn’t have paper files anymore?” he’ll ask anyone careless enough to pay attention. ”’Everything will be on the computer,’ they said! Well, it seems like all we do now is just print everything out!”

Yeah, that truly was the big, shocking twist at the end of last century, O. Henry, my Henry. Pardon us while we climb back into our skins out of which this development surprised us.

Look, it’s not exactly a secret: people dig documents. Documents, documents, documents! Photos, charts, hard copies of IM convos! Give us more! We want to carry them around in our pants like Sandy Berger! If you’re an expanding documentphile like us, the HP Photosmart 8150 is your kind of high-performance photo printer.

With six judiciously selected ink colors and up to 4800-optimized dpi, the 8150 spits out stunning color and monochrome prints. Its 2.5-inch color LCD preview screen makes editing, previewing and printing photos as easy as the Highlights hidden picture puzzle. You can even make color corrections with features like red-eye reduction.

You don’t even need a PC! Direct photo printing is simple with the 8150’s digital camera memory card slots. Preview what you’re getting with the color LCD or the HP Photo Proof Sheet. And versatile? This thing is two parts Oscar Robertson, two parts Meryl Streep and one part Swiss Army Knife. It prints everything from professional quality, fade-resistant photos to plain old, everyday laser-quality black text.

You can even freeze and print frames from digital videos. That’s a document you wouldn’t have even imagined before computers! Man, this sonuvagun is going to drive our curmudgeonly coworker nuts.

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