What Is HP Instant Share?

HP Instant Share allows easier sharing of photos.

HP Instant Share is a feature accompanying many HP (Hewlett Packard) devices, such as printers and scanners. With HP Instant Share, photos are shared with a single click of the mouse, allowing the user to send their images to friends and family fast.

HP Instant Share Technology

With the storing of photos on HP servers, users simply email low-resolution thumbnails to friends and family. The recipients then click on the thumbnails and access the original images from the HP servers. This makes emailing faster, because the low-resolution thumbnail images are quicker to upload and download.

Things HP Instant Share Does

By sending images through HP Instant Share, the recipients are able to enlarge photos, forward to other friends and family, reply to the sender's email, print the photos on their own printers as well as order prints from HP Instant Share. Saving the photos to computers and harddrives is also an option for recipients.

Compared to Kodak Easy Share

HP Instant Share accommodates both PC and Internet usage. It does not attach the photos to the emails sent, but rather embeds the thumbnail links, reducing the trouble of downloading large photo attachments for recipients. Kodak Easy Share is only a PC-based program and only accommodates sending photos as large attachments.

References

• HP Instant Share Technology FAQs