Customer Rating:  
Summary: Make sure to buy the ink in bulk
Comment: Exactly that! BUY THE INK IN BULK! When you get down to one ink cartridge go out and get 10 more. Don't bother going to a retailer that gives you credit for bringing in your empty ink; they will tell you that they can't be redeemed because they are not empty. The cartridges get gummed up, even though the computer says ink levels are fine, that might be the reason why they stop working prematurely.
Besides the ink issues, the drivers are very hard to install, but that is the case for many printers, and not HP specific, the canon I just bought was not vey smooth either. Windows XP handled the set up just fine.
On the bright side, it is very fast when printing black and white, and the colors are very bright and the quality is great. The price is great for what it can do.b
Customer Rating:
Summary: Highly unreliable
Comment: Works wonderfully when it works: fast and crisp printing. Giving it two stars for the times the printer worked, HP's stellar cartridge delivery service, and decent looks.
But constant paper jams guarantee make it unusual that I get anything printed in less than two tries. To make matters worse, the paper jams to not stop the printing process, spraying the printer internals with ink. The ink smears on the following pages or my hands. This happens with two or three different brands of paper and with included and pre-installed drivers on Mac OS X and Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Instead of a simple printer driver, included software installs a whole printing and imaging system including a bastardized photo manager and several utilities that duplicate services provided by the operating system. Paper handling mechanism is flimsy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Use Plain Paper ONLY
Comment: This product is the WORST at printing on anything but plain paper. Forget card stock and labels -- it won't feed the sheet(s) right and it'll start printing above the form! I've wasted I don't know how many sheets of business card stock and label stock on this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great litttle printer
Comment: After much research, I finally decided upon this particular model. It doesn't use much ink, which would have been a pet peeve, and you don't even need directions to hook it up and use. I give this one a five star rating! You won't be sorry you bought it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A JAMMER
Comment: I got this printer because of the sleek, spiffy look...but I should have realized NO ONE is impressed by the shininess of your printer, and what's more, this one jams 40X more than my last printer, a Canon. I constantly find myself ripping pages out of the printer and hoping I'm not damaging the printer permanently. Anyway, wouldn't recommend it. It jams.
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