The Officejet H470 is compact and only slightly smaller than a normal desktop printer, measuring 3.25 inches high, 13.4 inches wide, and 6.45 inches deep and weighs about 4.5 pounds. The Officejet H470 is portable enough to fit into a carry-on bag or a briefcase which enable you to carry the printer on a particular place.
The Officejet H470 printer has most of the necessary ports, like PictBridge USB, standard USB, and a SD/miniSD/MMC slot, but lacks the older model’s Compact Flash port. The H470 uses two cheap ink cartridges, one for black ink and another tri-color cartridge. HP offers one compatible black inkjet cartridge that will reportedly produce 500 prints for $19.99, averaging 3.9 cents per page. The color cartridge comes in regular (330 prints) and high capacity (600 prints) for $24.99 and $34.99, averaging 7.5 cents or 5.8 cents per page, respectively. These costs are well within the average price and yield for desktop inkjet printers
Within the driver settings, HP offers a feature called RLT, {Real Life Technologies} that supposedly helps printed images look more like real life. This option of the printer is useful in portraits. The H470 printer can print 5.51 pages of black text per minute, one full page faster per minute over its predecessor. The 4×6-inch test pictures printed from this printer is smooth, but the colors are flat and lacked saturation, casting a gray shadow over the images.