By Elissa Lerma aka Punk Rock Mom | Leave A Comment
CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNER, JENNIFER B!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE GIVEAWAYS! YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT WE MIGHT SNAG FOR YA. 
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Sometimes you take a photo that you just have to print right that second. Not just print, but the photo is so awesome you must have a giant print of it.
Well here comes the new HP Photosmart B8550 to the rescue!
This printer has many cool features, but one of the best is the variety of sizes you can print. From a standard 4 x 6 inch photo to as large as 13 x 19 inch! That is a big picture! The variety of sizes is not just great for photos, but it is also handy for business projects like brochures, fliers, or like in my line of work, menus. This has made working from home a lot easier and more productive.
I may not be one, but I know that there are a lot of scrapbookers out there. The HP Photosmart B8550 Photo Printer also prints 12×12 inch sheets which fit into photo albums giving you the ability to completely design a scrapbooking page from background to photo placement!
This is just the tip of the iceberg on the projects this printer can help you complete. Making your own calendars and greeting cards has never been easier because the printer comes with ArcSoft Creations software that has templates for all sorts of projects!
The HP Photosmart B8550 makes getting photos from your camera onto photo paper even easier with the front facing multiple memory card slots, and 2.0 Hi-speed USB port. Just slip your memory card in the right slot or attach you camera directly to the printer. The photos appear right on the 2.4 inch color display screen.
So are you drooling over this printer yet? Do you got’s to got’s to have it? Well The HP Photosmart 8550 is very reasonably priced at $299, but today, Photo Bliss Readers, is your lucky day.
Yes! We are giving one of these bad boys away to one of you!
How To Enter:
Just leave a comment telling me what projects you would complete with this printer. I would love to hear all about your creative idea! Or just tell me how cool I am. I like that too.
For an extra entry, please “Tweet” this giveaway with a link to this post. In order to receive this entry, you must return here and leave a second comment linking the URL of your tweet.
You have until December 13th, 11:59PM CST to leave comments for entry. A winner will be randomly drawn and notified by email, as well as announced on this post. You must leave a valid email with your comment to win.
Elissa (aka Punk Rock Mom) is a blogger, wife, mother, knitter, photographer, HR Director, a Scorpio and all around cool person. You can follow the adventures of Punk Rock Dad, Punk Rock Mom and The Phi at Punk Rock Parents
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My daughter’s first year scrapbook has been on my to-do list for 16 months now! I’ve worked on it some, but this printer would be awesome to complete it. I’ve also been taking photos of my son’s artwork from his first year at preschool and I plan to do a photobook with a collection of all his projects from school. Much easier than keeping the actually projects. What a great giveaway!
This printer would absolutely change my attitude towards scrapbooking. Thanks for the GREAT giveaway! xoxo
I would put together the book of photos from my trip up Africa!
I would add spectacular color and graphics to the newsletter I print. I would also sneak some photos for the Grandparents off of it as well
This print would make working from home fun. Yea!!
This would be awesome for my scrapbooking!!! Please enter me.
This would be so awesome to print pictures for scrapbooking! Thanks for the chance.
My first baby is 2 months old, we are living 4300km from my family, I could send them pics using this printer.
ps, I think you’re very cool.
Great site!
I would love to make a my own calender. Make a scrapbook page would be so cool
Ooohh…would loooove to win this!
HI
I would love to enter to win this printer! We are a very artistic family, and love making photo collages and reducing and enlarging photos to use in our artwork
This is a great giveaway! Thanks so much for offering it!
Dana
d08@goldingers.com
Scrapbook, scrapbook, scrapbook. Oh, and I have relatives that don’t have internet, so I would love to send them a monthly letter with photos, but I never seem to get around to it. This printer would make that so much easier.
I’ve always wanted to try digital scrapbooking! This would be a great tool! Thanks for the giveaway!
Rachel (modernmommyhood-at-gmail-dot-com)
Having a nice photo printer would allow me to more easily enjoy all of the images of my family without them getting lost in the thousands of files on the pc. I’d do calendars and greeting cards and birthday invitations galore lol! Oh! And you are also very cool! hahah!
jessica@bellavalentinaphotography.com
I would do a calendar or memory books for my babies!
And I tweeted about it hehe!
http://twitter.com/BellaValentina
jessica@bellavalentinaphotography.com
I would work on my wedding scrapbook. My album is 12×15 so I can use the larger photos. This would be perfect.
Actually, I’d give it to my mom, because she’s really into scrapbooking, or scrapping, as the kids say nowadays
I’m sure she’d love a new printer to make her cute books with. And I wouldn’t mind the fact that’d she’d use it to finish the scrapbook she’s making me 
Here’s my tweet! http://twitter.com/ginerator
I love printing out photos and keeping them in album to look at and share. It would be great if I could print them at home!
I am not very creative so I would just use it to print the hundred of digital pics that I have on disc. I would love to look at those pics again. And, I think you are really really cool for having such a great giveaway!
Finish scrapbooks – and actually start some too!
I would definitely use this to rescue my pictures from my hard drive! I would also LOVE to make a scrapbook for my daughter & my baby-on-the-way!
I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/Jenidvm/status/1049204111
These printers are wonderful for family newsletters and big travel pictures. I’d love to print some of my travel photos bigger than 8×10.
I have about forty billion pictures from this year that we keep meaning to print but with our rickety old printer, the job seems overwhelming so I’d tackle this first!!
This would be great for scrapbooking projects.
p.s. You are so cool!!
My kids will be receiving those little digital cameras for as a Christmas present, and this would allow them (and myself) to create collages for friends and family taken by the budding photographers! Thank you for helping make this giveaway happen!
Oh, the things I could print!
First off, calendars. Second, photo pages.
Third, I have some pics that I would like to print bigger ….
Oh the things I could print! The extra size above and beyond 8×10 would be fantastic. I could print portraits, flyers with a border and stuff, scrapbook pages, a calendar… gee whiz. The list could go on all day!
I have been wanting to do a framed photo wall of my kids feet and hands to put above my bathtub. This has been the plan for the past two years….just haven’t found the time to get it done! This would be perfect to inspire me to knock one project off my list!
How awesome! I’m a scrapbooker and it’s so frustrating to get a great idea and have to wait for prints from the developer…or get prints and discover you’d like a different size. I could have so much fun with this!
Wow, AWESOME printer! How did you know I needed one?
lol
Man, I have so many projects on hold right now… I could scrapbook my photos instead of having to pay an arm and a leg to get them through the net, I have a bunch of ideas for printables, and I could send photo gifts to my grandma in Alaska – she’s holed up for the winter and going crazy.
Thanks for the giveaway!
(Oh, and you are SUPER cool!)
Lindsey
I love making cards from the computer with pictures of the kids on them!
I want to print pictures for friends and family of the kids.
I would love to cover my daughter’s wall with pictures of her from birth up for her 15th birthday this year.
You can never send too many pics to the grandparents!
I’d like to be able to print my wedding pictures!!
I would use this printer to make copies of all those photos the grandparents keep asking me for. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I’ve been wanting to print up some digital scrapbook pages of my daughters wedding and put them in frames. This would be great for that!
You realize that you pretty much spelled out all my recent arguments (with my sub-conscience) about why I need to buy a new photoprinter, even though the other printer I have works just fine? See, it’s the “instant photos, not plugging into pc, memory card slot, usp plug-in, preview display screen, etc. etc.” oh man…I have to have it.
Projects I’d complete with it? Let’s see, there are all those empty picture frames around my house right now that could use filling. And the empty photo albums. And then there’s the fact that I love to give personalized photo gifts to everyone, for everything.
Please pick me!
I twittered it too: http://twitter.com/CandidK/status/1049363941
See? I really want it. lol
In a couple weeks, I will be receiving a disc with nearly 600 pictures from our wedding and after-party. A dear, lovely friend who is far craftier than I has offered to help me with my wedding scrapbook, as her gift to us. This printer would certainly help me accomplish that much more economically!
A photobook and scrapbook af the our first baby when he gets here!! And I would love to document these last few months of waiting!
my twitter….http://twitter.com/jkburleson/status/1049421665
My husband is thinking about starting his own snow plowing business this winter, I could make some great brochures and fliers! Not to mention printing out pictures of our children..I usually have my digital prints developed at the store so this would save us money and time.
Oh and you’re totally cool, too.
I tweeted
http://twitter.com/auntiethesis/status/1049428873
Oh how I would love a nice printer!! I have gotten SO far behind on printing any pictures. Not to mention when my kids have projects that require printing, they don’t look so nice on my cheap printer!!!
…..oh and I agree! YOU ROCK!!
~Tidymom
Well, I could actually do projects now if I had this pretty baby! I do some scrap book projects but my printer is not so good so this would be the ticket and would be a very nice Birthday/Christmas gift to me….hoorah
I’m a scrapbooker, so I’d always be printing large photos to include on my pages. I print a lot of 8X12 photos that I want emphasized…this would so help me do it.
Have a wonderful day. You are awesome!
Leslie
Who’s my favorite Punk Rock Mom!!
I would work on printing pictures for my baby’s scrapbook. Thanks for the chance!
This would be great! I would actually give it to my sister-in-law who spends all year putting together 20-25 scrapbook calendars for the family. She spends so much money on getting pictures printed this could help her keep the cost down.
She is also going to be doing a continuous baby scrapbook for my new little girl and also for her new little great nephew.
Oh my goodness!! I would love to win this!! I would use it alot, I heart scrapbooking and really need a good photo printer!
Wow! That is a cool machine. I would definitely make my holiday cards on this and my kids photo books. How much fun to play with this machine. You are cool. Thanks.
I would to have a printer like this…maybe I would finish all my started projects.
I would print off the four years of photos on my hard drive that I have been too lazy to take 30 minutes away to get printed…oh, the downfalls of living in small town America. This kind of printer could solve all of that though
I might finally get caught up on my kids’ scrapbooks!
Holy crap! I think I’m in love! Please don’t tell my husband!!
I totally need this printer! I’ve recently gotten into the whole digital scrapbooking scene!
I would love this printer. I am an Air Force wife and we are living in Germany for the next three years. So far I have not found anywhere to get photos printed. It would be great to be able to do it at home and have indemand photos!
You can tell when I went digital with my photography because my kids’ photo albums abruptly end… My poor 4 year old has pictures from her birth and that’s it. I’d love a good photo printer to fill in the last four years!
I have been wanting a large-format printer forever!!! I’ve recently switched to digital scrapbooking, but I hate having to send my pages off to be printed. I would LOVE the instant gratification of being able to print them out myself as soon as I finish them. That would be so awesome!!!
ohh I see hours and hours of scrapbooking, puppy pics, friend pics, concert pics, life pics, and even a few gifts here and there… I could be entertained for hours and spread joy for eternity with this nifty little photo printer! consider me entered… now I’m off to tweet on twitter…
oh, and not to mention… cool is not even the word to describe you…lol… I’m gonna go with super fantastic!
Thanks~!
and here’s my tweet… http://twitter.com/CeruleanBleu
I would immediately print some up-to-date pics of my son for his grandparents!
Thanks for the chance to win
Pick me please!!!
I would start using this for digital scrapbooking the day it arrived! This looks awesome!
lisaaanne29@hotmail.com
You are cool! And I’m a sucker for product reviews like this – especially on products that can make scrapbooking easier.
I have so many photos sitting on my hard drive (seriously — my daughter was born in August 2004, and we took over a thousand pictures of her in November 2004 alone! I would love to finally get copies of these prints, because I rarely look at them on the computer. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest.
At some point in my life I will make one wall in each one of my kids rooms a collage of pictures of them from all stages of life from random pictures I’ve taken of them. The pictures would be big, small, different shapes, different angles, and colors. This photo printer would help me get on my way…
Ohhh.. I have so many pictures just sitting on my camera and computer. This might actually get me to print them out and actually enjoy them!!!
I just wanted to tell you how cool you are! Really…I mean it!
I would LOVE one of these – I am a photography student, and would love to be able to actually print some of the photos I take. Plus, with three kids and far-flung relatives, being able to easily and economically send photos would make many people happy, including me!
And, of course, photo crafts would be awesome!
And here is my tweet ->
http://twitter.com/tinakeightley/status/1049743925
This would be great. I would use it to work on finishing my daughter and son’s life books and work on my other son’s baby book.
You know, I have sooooo many pictures on my hard drive.. I would love to start actually printing them out and getting them into scrapbooks and photo albums. So that is what I would do first with this amazing printer! yes yes!
Oh and you are way cool and really pretty!
I’m a scrapbookin’ mama who is always waiting until the last minute to upload, prep, and get my photo’s printed from a company. How sweet would it be to just print at home.
You are cool.
I don’t know you. But, you are cool.
I’d love it for my scrapbooking!
I’d love to make a photo collage for my kid’s room!
tweet tweet
http://twitter.com/valerie2350/status/1049919946
I NEED THIS!
I would print lists, schedules, and even photos.
omigod, perhaps i would actually PRINT some of the many photos that are clogging up my computer hard drive and that really really deserve to be on the wall!!!!!!!
Oooo where do I begin!? I can actually print photos that don’t look like photo copies! Woo hoo! And print some of the thousands of pix I have on my computer. Such a cool printer…I’m adding it to my Dream board
Thank you for the opportunity! jmrolfsen(at)gmail(dot)com
I would use the printer to print pictures for the new baby that we will have in our family. My mother is so excited and it will be her first granchild!!
I could totally use a photo printer! I want start making all kinds of photo things for my parents that live sooo far away from their only grandchildren!
I would definitely use one of these for my scrapbooking. I’d love to get into digital scrapbooking and save space and money on buying all the other supplies.
But I can also see making a large photo of my kids to hang as art in my living room. Or as gifts for the grandparents.
Aww shucks, why not =) Consider me entered.
I design greeting cards, invitations, RSVPs, etc. in my spare time and on the side. THIS is my true passion. Would love to do this for a living. I’d love to play with this printer and apply it to my craft. Thanks for the opportunity.
I just shared this on Facebook and Twitter. Hope it goes to a nice home… if I’m picked, draw again. We are all set here!
You are so cool and I would love to create a wall collage with all of my cool photos :~)
Cassandra[at]SimplyFearless.com
Okie dokie I tweeted this at http://twitter.com/simplycassandra/status/1050155309
OH I need recued. I have a daughter in two sports and can’t keep up with the photos.
hi! i will print all of our awesome healthy kids menus for Healthy Kids Choice, Inc.
I take a lot of pictures…I’d love to add cards or postcards or something to my Etsy shop!
And reTweeted!
http://twitter.com/omshantihand/status/1050159675
i would love to print scrapbook pages with THAT!!!
Wow! Thank you for the chance to win!
Does a “shout out” on a blog count for a second chance?
i don’t “tweet”.
I would finish my nieces album from the first year of her life. She is 3 years old now and it is about time I finish this book! The pages are all done, I just need to get the photos in there. This printer would help!
What a terrific printer-wow I could use it for those incredible scrapbook pages with large photos I am too cheap to have printed elsewhere! I also would love to do a wall of family photos in the 12×12 size.
You are totally awesome by the way!
well, if a “shout out” on my blog counts as a second entry, then here it is!
If not, well, maybe someone i know will win!!
http://dreamerindenim.blogspot.com/2008/12/chance-to-win.html
well, if a “shout out” on my blog counts as a second entry, then here it is!
If not, well, maybe someone i know will win!!
I would print out all those pictures I have on my hard drive that are taking up space and pass them out to friends and family. I also digital scrapbook. This would be soooo handy! Thanks so much!
I would use it to re print all of my family photos in black and white. I am using them to complete my home decor project.
Tweeted this here
http://twitter.com/beauteousdesign
I’ve only owned one printer in my lifetime. It’s eight years old. It doesn’t work. These Photosmart printers keep popping up in front of me. Maybe the world is trying to tell me something.
Like print one of the thousands of pictures you’ve taken?
OMGoshness, I have been waiting for a printer like you for a long long time. I am so excited to see everything you can do. You sound amazing! In my family I am know as “OMG here comes Tia Mary with her camera”,lol. I love to take pictures of everything because I think every picture has a memory behind it. I have been scrapping for 20 some odd years and I am always fiddling with sizing my pictures to fit my pages. OMG, my friends will be jealous to hear that I have one (once I win it…lol). I love making memoralble gifts for my family and friends. OMG! I hope I win this giveaway!
I would be working on baby announcements (and pictures) of my soon to be great niece or nephew. I am so anxious to get busy on pictures of the little angel.
Gosh, you are cool.
http://twitter.com/Dnay
i am currently 467 days into my project365. ooops, i just couldn’t stop. i would love to easily bring some of the photos in to the non-digital world.
The first thing that I would do is to print some of my digital images for the birthmom’s of my children. I love giving them photos and haven’t done that near enough lately. After that I’d probably print a few for the local youth community theater where I was the other night taking photos. I’m not a professional photographer, I just like to play one on the internet. Have a great Holiday
What an awesome giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity!
I would love to be able to work on my children’s scrapbooks and finish at least up to the point of where they are now. My last page of my daughter was when she was in kindergarten and she is in 8th grade now.
I twittered – http://twitter.com/sweetslady/status/1050577183
Scrapbooking here I come, this would make it so much easier than going to CVS to print my pictures. Awesome gift.
How neat!!! I would make a wedding scrapbook after our upcoming wedding!!! And I was thinking about making a photobook as a suprise gift for a special someone…
I’ve been wanting a large(er) format printer for a very long time, but they have really been expensive. I’ve been trying to get my photos out there for people to see, and besides putting them on my photo gallery, I have been displaying them at our local public library and various offices around town. I’ve only been able to print out good 8×10 photos, but I would absolutely LOVE to be able to do larger because that means my photos can be seen in a larger format.
I’ve also thought about doing huge posters using smaller printed photos, but it’s just more difficult the smaller you have to print. I also need to make a sample book of my photos so I can ‘show them off’ and hopefully do something I love as a hobby and get paid for it! The large format is ideal for this.
Twitter post: http://twitter.com/blakebritton/statuses/1050685213
Honestly, we just need a printer, since ours is broke.
But I would love to have a good photo printing printer for all those pics of our daughter that I have yet to print out.
I have 4 month-old twins. I probably have more pictures of them than my oldest because I know so much more about photography now. But I haven’t printed a single picture! It’s time I put pictures of my babies around the house too.
I have been wanting to learn more about digital scrapbooking, I’m sure this printer would help me out with that. Thanks for the chance to win!
I just ‘tweeted’ for another chance to win. Thanks. http://twitter.com/alas3lads/status/1051290276
i have a bunch of photo ornaments i want to try to make. printing the photos myself would save time and money.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE this. My biggest dream is to continue learning to photograph children and families so I could do it full time professionally. I would use the printer to further my learning and share more of my pictures with family and friends and for scrapbooking and for my husbands business brochures and and and and….
THANK YOU!!!!
I would use this printer for my scrapbook pages and for the oodles of pictures that I would love to print out. I’m always working on some kind of paper craft and this would be perfect!
My tweet
http://twitter.com/charissasw/status/1051497413
I am an amatuer photographer, always trying to hone my skills. One thing I’ve found that really helps me is to print enlarged prints of my favs and framing them. They inspire me to keep trying. This printer would certainly make that doable. I’m also a scrapbooker who is dipping into digital design. Being able to print 12×12 pages – that would be cool!!!!
This would be awesome to help document the lives of the four kids living with us; they deserve a record of happy/happier times.
I could use this for working on a scrapbook of my 40th birthday party back in November! Thanks for offering such a great giveaway!
I would love to be able to create scrapbook pages and to print photos quickly-I am an instant gratification type person!!
I would love to just print off some of the photos on my computer. I love taking pictures, but rarely get around to printing them. Also, I am new here, but I already know that you are the coolest!!
I would probably use it most to print pictures to scrap and hang in frames. I would also print calendars and photo cards.
I have an autistic son who loves to take pictures. I can just imagine his joy if he could print them off as well!
Oh, I was just caressing one of these today! There might have been a bit of drooling as well.
I would love to be able to print at home and tweek my colors to get the photo just right. Plus my 5 year old son loves to hold photos in his hands – not just look at them on the computer.
-K
I would love to be able to hang some of my own artwork on these walls!
Well, I still haven’t made our wedding album (we got married a YEAR ago!), so I’d do that. And we have a baby on the way, so I’d probably scrap that too. Plus, my husband is serving overseas right now and I’d love love LOVE to be able to print pictures of the new baby to send him.
I am going digital after years of traditional scrapbooking. I would start printing out layouts as well as enlargements. I love photos all over the house.
You are so cool when I got to this page I had to turn up the heat in the house! And among my many projects this would help me with the collage I am making of election 08 memories.
My best friend just informed me that she is fully expecting a scrapbook from me for her birthday. One which I have NOT started. This printer would make my life super easy peasy. NEED IT!!!!!
If I won, I’d actually give it to my parents so that they could print up pictures of my kids. I know they miss them and having pictures that change out, easily, would be awesome!
I have to admit I would use it mostly to print photos of my children and the fun photos I take on our outings of plants and people. I can’t imagine being able to print a frame-able sized photo at home.
With this? I’d print out all those photos I keep meaning to, but not getting around to. Do more work on my ongoing scrapbook (5+ years working on it now. Yeah). Finally make prints for my parents…
Ohhhh – I would love this! Been trying to keep up on scrapbooking for the children (I am only 5 years behind – lol).
Great blog! You take awesome pictures!
Thanks
I would probably complete my current project with it… a 2009 family calendar.
This printer would make my scrapbooking so much easier! My son is now 4 months old and we have so many memories already that we want to preserve. This would help me do that!
What a FAB machine! I love the 12×12 function!
I would LOVE to have one of these! One of my New Year’s resolutions is to learn Digital Scrapbooking, and I could use this to print out 12 x 12′s. It’s really hard to find a good printer that goes to that size.
This would be great for scrapbook layouts and craft projects!
This printer is awesome! I’d use it to print a calendar for family members and I need to print up birth announcements for my soon to be born son.
OMGOSH I NEEEEEEEEED this! lol I have a 19 month old and I only have photos developed from her birth to around 3 months old! I’m horrible!! I’m too scared to find out how much its going to cost me to print out all the other photos so I keep putting it off! lol
This is a FABULOUS giveaway and you are FABULOUS for throwing it!
~melody~
I tweeted about the giveaway here: http://twitter.com/Pennies/status/1055819414
Thanks again for the chance to win!
~melody~
Have a ton of pictures but horrible about getting them printed. This would be awesome!!!
ooooooooh drooling big time… I can print my digi scrap pages 12×12… ooooooooh. Please tell me international bloggers can enter!?!?! I’m only on the other side of the world.. way down in Aus.
I tweeted this too…
http://twitter.com/katepickle
thanks for such a great giveaway!
OOOH, this would be a great gift to give the scrapbooking grandma!!!! Pick me, Pick me!!!
I am a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator and teach rubber stamping and scrapbooking. I am constantly printing out pictures for my classes and scrapbook pages.
This printer would be ideal for me and my scrappin’ buddies.
Please enter me, please oh please!!!!
I have hundreds of digital photos I’ve taken of the kids the past 3 years and just haven’t had the money to have them printed. I would love to print them and frame some, scrap the others and send send some to relatives across the country who haven’t seen the kids in 4 years now.
How wonderful! I’d actually print pictures out and not just leave them on the computer. I’ve got such cute kids (as all moms do) and I’d love the larger size of pictures of them to hang on my wall.
I love making gifts and the majority of them include pictures. The one problem I have is that I am bad about getting my pictures printed. If I had this, I could easily complete my gifts.