Review on HP Wireless Printing Replenishment K7R96A by Alexandergraham Visoro

TL;DR: Overall this is a solid printer. It's easy to set up, the print quality is good (if nothing special) and the available features are numerous and fairly user-friendly. My only concerns are the photo tray slides too loosely, no rear paper guide, slow print speeds, and low yield from the tri-color cartridges. ------ I've been using HP Photosmart printers at home for a while. So when my C6280 failed after 10 years, I had no problems with another HP. What I needed most was a printer connected to my home network so I could print from all my home devices as the C6280 was a shared printer, an ADF for large scans/copies and a dedicated photo paper tray. Support for small-scale photo printing without reconfiguring the main trial. This printer can do all that and more. This printer deserves a lot of attention for its connectivity. My setup experience was very easy. I connected it to the wall, went to the side from the phone and after 10-15 minutes everything worked. Just as easily connected all my other devices in about 3-5 minutes each. The only device I had problems with was an older Lumia 2520 on Windows RT. This device was unable to run the installer from the website, which came as no surprise to me given the ARM-based operating system. However, I got the printer to talk to the Lumia by installing the HP Photosmart PCL3 Class Generic Driver that was already on the device. His printer has some really handy connected and cloud-based features that I look forward to trying out in the coming weeks. Print quality is pretty good for a home printer. Some of the photos I printed left a lot to be desired in terms of quality. Some of the darker photos looked a bit stomach-saturated, and some of the lighter ones looked a bit washed out. But I work in a print shop with equipment that is orders of magnitude more expensive, so I guess I'm being picky. The scans/copies I've made so far look pretty good and the HP app makes it very easy to get them from any device you want. I really like being able to load a stack of papers into the ADF (like I can at work) and let go. There haven't been any traffic jams yet. The input trays are located directly below the output tray. A dedicated tray for 4x5, 4x6, and 5x7 photo paper is located just above the main tray, which holds up to legal-size paper and envelopes (8.5 x 14 inches). Easy to access and download. To load paper larger than A4, the front of the paper tray must be lowered by releasing the lever. The first of two complaints is that there isn't a rear rail for either tray. The paper just dangles in the tray. The printer told me several times that it was out of paper because the paper shifted when I reinstalled the tray. Especially in the photo paper tray. Which brings me to complaint number two: sometimes I have to catch the photo paper tray. It slides on easily but is so loose that sometimes it doesn't come out with the main compartment. This is a minor inconvenience. Print speed was about the same as the C6280 I'm replacing. To be honest, given the age difference between the two printers, that's a bit disappointing. It's not "too slow" by any means, but it's not very fast either. The big difference for me was that the ink cure time was much better on this machine. Glossy photos dry when removed from the device. The C6280 tended to leave some wet ink on heavily coated glossy photos. This printer even supports the fax function. Bonus, of course, but I'll probably never use it. Finally, I'm not sure I'm a big fan of the tri-color cartridge as you should replace it as soon as you run out of any of the three colors managed by HP. to magically stuff that tiny cartridge in since the output appears quite small (165 color sheets for normal and 415 for XL). I've found that specialized CMYK cartridges in smaller printers with the features this one has are becoming increasingly difficult to find on the side of more expensive printers like Epson Ecotanks. HP, I'd like to see an ENVY Photo/Photosmart printer with separate color cartridges if that means getting more prints from one cartridge and with good quality. But given how much we actually print in-house, this shouldn't be a huge issue for us. The time will show.