Review on 🖨️ HP Tango Wireless Printer – Mobile Remote Printing, Scanning, Copying, HP Instant Ink, Compatible with Alexa (2RY54A) by Gary Generale

GOOD: This printer seems to have been designed for a very specific target group and if you belong to that target group, you probably very much love this printer . It's the first mobile printer for home use that lets you easily use your phone for all your printing needs, whether it's printing a shipping label, some photos from film, or "scanning" and printing a document with your phone's camera. Being able to press print on your boarding pass or concert tickets from your phone is great, no need to find a laptop, sign up via email etc etc etc. Printing still works great from laptops and desktops, but this is nothing new . on this front. One of the coolest everyday uses so far has been coloring book pages for our little one. He says "I want to color a train" and we google "train coloring book page", choose a page, press print and he goes off to color the races. Having a Canon Pixma multifunction printer that is over 5 years old, I have no complaints about the print speed or the quality of the Tango. Everything comes out clear. The photo print looked great for printing some photos of kids in a frame for grandma and the like. And the small form factor is excellent (see photo). THE BAD: (Read if your tango goes offline once a day). As with all printers, there always seems to be one thing to fix. Our printer went offline every 24 hours. Turns out my Netgear R6400 router has a fixed DHCP lease time of 24 hours, and Tango doesn't seem to be able to renew the lease itself (at least for my router), so my router has im Essentially unplugged the printer. Network every 24 hours and I had to cycle Tango off and on again and it would reconnect normally. The solution was very simple, I just had to go into my router and set a reserved IP address for Tango outside of my DHCP target range, then go into Tango settings and set it as a manual IP address. The connection is now stable because the reserved IP addresses are independent of the rental period. Other routers may allow you to change the lease time, so that's an option as well. But this issue was worth deducting a star. I can see how a less tech savvy person would be extremely frustrated with this issue as there is nothing helpful in manual or online searches on the subject at the moment. I think HP should have included an Ethernet port to provide an additional wired connection as a fallback for people having wireless connection issues, but personally for me it wasn't a deal breaker. As a primary computing device, the Tango is great, it's made for you. But like any printer, you may need to troubleshoot a few issues to keep things running smoothly.