A few weeks ago I wrote about keeping my grandma in the loop with the HP Printing Mailbox. Well, it arrived this past week and my father got it setup for my grandma this afternoon. I setup the Presto service online so it was ready to go by the time my dad plugged in the printer.
The sign-up process was very easy to understand and took about 15 minutes. I spent a few more minutes yesterday adding approved users to her friends list so she can receive email from them. Any email address first has to be approved so that her mailbox doesn’t fill up with spam. It’s a very basic “whitelist” that will be easy to manage.
I haven’t seen the printer itself but my dad said it’s nice looking and very quiet. It’s set to dial in three times a day, download and print whatever it finds. I tested sending an email with an attached picture of my kids and it worked flawlessly.
So far so good. The real test will be to see if she’s still excited about it a few months from now. But the out of box experience thus far has been very positive. The only confusion arose when, during the sign-up process, I was told that the printer unit wouldn’t work until it was plugged in and printed out a “security code” which I then would enter into the account information on the website. My dad plugged in the printer and a security code never printed. But it’s printing properly so I guess nothing else is needed.
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