HP Smart -Tank 7001 Wireless All-in-One Cartridge-free Ink -Tank Printer, up to 2 years of ink included, mobile print, scan, copy (28B49A)

Only had this printer for a short time, but here are my observations. It was very easy to set it up. I just pushed one button to connect and in no time it was connected and operational. Filling the ink reservoirs was just as easy. Printed the test page and it was aligned. Sent the link to my daughter and she connected just as easily. I can now cancel the HP ink program, which was better than buying the cartridges at retail outlets; but still kind of costly. Buying the bottled ink is going to be even better than the other 2 alternatives. I test printed a photo on HP photo paper - it was even better quality than my old HP 7200. Paper tray holds about 1/2 a ream of paper. Since my printer is hidden in a pull out compartment on my desk, I don't have to pull it out for re-stocking. The only downside I see is the speed of printing. No doubt it is a little slower than other printers, but the plusses far outweigh the only minus I've encountered. Edit - Just found a way to speed up the printing speed in the settings menu. It now prints as fast or faster than my old HP Envy printer.

So far so good. Set up could be easier. App could be better in control of what's printing.

WARNING: this review is honest but it is not favorable. If you skip to its end, you'll find the good point(s?) I bring up.Before I discuss the printer, here is the background. I've been a professional computer geek (sys admin, as well as serious coder and architect) for over 30 years and happily used HP printers for almost all of that. Over the years I have actually spent my own, non-tax-deductible$$$ to buy and use either 5 or 6 HP Printers (my first was an LJ 4 back in 1993 and it ran beautifully until it finally died in 2015 .. and a usable lifespan of anywhere near 22 for years like a device like that is unusually good. In those 22 years I printed just under 100,000 pages and I was so satisfied that I immediately bought an HP 501DNe to replace it). I've also bought and used 5 different HP inkjet printers in that same time span, and the only problems I had with all but one of them had to do with the scandalous price of ink cartridges. (the other one was a lemon, and I have reviewed elsewhere on Amazon).So I really like HP printers and after the first LJ4, I have bought them without hesitation. And I have had problems only with the last one (a 9018e which I suspect got dropped in shipping before I ever got its - and I won' let its behavior influence my feelings ont he subjects).So it was no surprise that I received an HP Smart Tank 7001 to replace the last inkjet (before consigning it to the scrap heap.)It WAS a major surprise when the printer arrived: my wife had been looking at the printers I was considering and bought it for me as a "surprise" present. (I only wish she'd told me ... or at least not used my card). [more on that later...]Fortunately for me, a friend bought the same printer a few days before I did, and as I am the person which most of my friends believe can make *any* computer product or peripheral work flawlessly (they're wrong, but they still think that). So when my friend, call him "Dave" called me and asked if I could come over to see why he couldn't get his printer to work - and offered pizza as a reward - I went over on a Saturday morning to see what was the problem. Luckily I took my toolbox and a small multiple "gadgets" with me, and when I got to Dave's house, he even met me in the driveway in case I needed help getting everything inside his house.I will leave out the lurid details, but he had two problems. FIrst his phone had a horrible time connecting with the printer (first warning) second while we were doing the setup the Wi-Fi connection dropped over and over (hmmm.) That was suspicious since hs phone can talk to his computer (on the second floor of Dave's house where his computer equipment lives) without dropping (distance about 40 feet through floors and walls). However even though the 7001 was only about 6 feet from his computer, it dropped many times (I lost count at 23) while I trying to hjelp him ((second warning).We finally got it working and changed over to a USB interface. Sadly since the wi-fi in this printer is unreliable, he won't be able to share the printer with his wife and daughters, and he was not a happy camper about that (I know that long USB cables are available, but they wanted to us Wi-Fi so that they could be anywhere int he house and print.While I was working on Dave's printer installation I had time to inspect the printer physically and I was VERY disappointed in what HP had done. I think someone else reviewed the printer and mentioned the problems with the paper tray. HP went from a good design (which might reasonably cost about a dollar per unit over what the cheaper and less reliable tray they opted for. Also Dave had often used the built-ocr conversion his previous HP inkjet printer. That's because one of his daughters is "visually challenged" or as she likes to put it, "... as the proverbial bat."Overall this printer simply feels "cheaper" and less sturdy than any of the HP printers I have owned, and that is a sad situation. I suppose the real problem is the bean-counters got rid of the engineers and the new guys just couldn't match up to the standards which their predecessors had used to make HP the most reliable printers that I've ever used.As I said this printer is a lightweight - and doing away with a direct ethernet conneciton ruined it for me as well. (Over the yjears I've used PC's, Sun and HP workstations, and first Unix (SVR4) and noe Linux computers with my HP printers, and they were always quite agnostic about what OSes were connect to them. I don't know whjether these new models will still do that and I had no way to find out.I also WILL not have a way to find out any time in the foreseeable future. After spending almost 18 hours with that printer (over 2 days), and after feeling how flimsey and "cheap" the printer felt (and hearing one set of strange noises the first two times (only the first two) the printer was turned on and went through its "boot up sequence" I returned it without ever opening it.I will buy another printer from Amazon in the near future (my friend got his at a large chain-store and saved about 40 cents somehow) and it may well be another HP.HOWEVER before I buy it I will find a friend who had that particular model and go see how he/she likes or dislikes it, and I will get to see how well it performs ... all before I lay down my own cash (OK, credit card) to buy it for my self.Based on my expeience with Dave's 7001, I cannot recommend this printer to anyone who wants a reliable and easy-to-set-up printer. The advantage of being cartridge-free notwithstanding (even at a discount cartridge prices are obscene IMHO) , what good is a cheaply made, unreliable, finicky printer to the end user.If HP is planning to build the the future of their "small home office" line of printers on something like this, it is a sad state of affairs. They cannot count on users' brand loyalty to keep a line of reduced-feature printers which also have reduced ability to communicate in first place when those users have to replace their older (but probably still working very well) printers.And FWIW I hate this review. The only good thing I have to say about this printer is that:a) tank-type ink-jet printers (or all-in-one's) are cheaper to operate than their cartridge-type"relatives." andb) The printer's USB interface seems to work very well.

I typically do not purchase anything HP. After my Epson, went out on me, I tried an HP Tango that belonged to my daughter. I loved the quality versus Epson. So I searched for an HP Tango and it has been discontinued. I came across this HP 7001 series and thought I would give it a try.Setting it up with the instruction booklet in hand was not complicated. Then I had to download the app to my phone to complete installation. Still not too bad. Connectivity to my WiFi was easy. I wanted to scan something, but I couldn’t find a scan button on it like my Epson has. I became a little frustrated because it wasn’t clear where to scan. So I had to google it and found out that you have to download the app on the computer and scan documents through there. Once I figured it out, it was a breeze. You can scan and email your document so simply. The picture quality is so perfect. I am hoping it will last for years and be a good value for the money. Two years worth of ink came with it. Hoping it truly last two years.

great printer.lots of functions.easy to set up

Great printer! I ordered a new cabinet for my home office and my current printer was too big. It doesn’t have the automatic feed that my other one has so be aware of that if you use that option a lot. This was my first experience with filling ink holders. I appreciate that it was easy to do and there is a display on the front of the printer that lets me know how much ink I have left! I ordered extra ink and it was SO MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE than the cartridges I used with my other printer!!The prints are clean and sharp. I’m very happy with my purchase and it fits perfectly in my new cabinet