HP OfficeJet 8015e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer, 6 month Instant Ink trial included

I'm a regular household user (ok, also a teacher, but not the kind who prints All The Things) but had an old Officejet because of a crazy black Friday deal back when black Friday deals were crazy. It died of old age and I thought I'd downgrade because budget. But I just couldn't go back to regular printers. I returned two out of frustration before deciding to just pay a little more and go back to Officejet, it's only been a couple of weeks but so far I don't think I'll have any regrets.Pros:+ Seems to be on sale often so it's not terribly more expensive than lower end printers.+ The print quality is very good. I'm getting a drop of those light horizontal lines, but just a bit, and I bet they could be ironed out if I had time to sit around with settings or something. But overall I'm much happier than I was with the other printers I tried, text is sharper and colors are more true.+ Paper tray is closed. I hate that all the new expensive printers these days have the paper sticking up from the back open to the elements. I can only assume their paper feeders get gummed up with dust pretty fast, and the papers themselves can't be too happy. The paper tray on this printer is great.+ It's not noisy, relative to others.+ HP Smart app is great, easy to use, has a nice set of functions.+ Had no issues with setup.+ So far seems to be picking up jobs just fine from my phone and laptop.Cons:- I really don't like the boxy design. I'm putting function over form but I really don't like it. And the front panel seems a bit flimsy, it's not the most important piece but my old Officejet didn't have a front panel that opened and I don't really see the point of this one as you need to lift the top to get inside anyway.- would love to have a paper bypass tray. Like if you want to print one envelope, it would be great to have a place to just feed that in rather than remove your whole paper stack, change the size in the tray, print your envelope, and then put all the paper back.- like I said before, I'm getting a drop of banding (is that what it's called? Tiny horizontal gaps?) When printing chunks of color. I'm not sure if this is fixable and the print quality is still the best I've seen in this price range, but it's a flaw.- the touch screen could be a little more responsive- That's... Really it so far. I had a lot more complaints with every other printer I tried.Neutral:~ Let's talk about instant ink. Many reviews had issues with this. They seem to not understand how the program works. It's not that complicated. No, you don't get six months worth of ink in the box with the printer. They will send the ink to your home as needed over six months if you sign up and give them your address. I haven't gotten to the end of the trial yet so I don't know if they actually brick your printer if you try to use generic ink, but they were very explicit about you agreeing not to do that when signing up. I have no issue with this because I did some math and I believe the instant ink actually is a better deal than even generic ink is. My old printer accepted generics (after an initial period of reluctance) and it wasn't all that exciting. And with subscription ink I won't need to worry about waste when the printer decides to clean the printheads (my old one did that a lot)I do think it feels scammy for them to make you commit at the outset to never use other ink for the life of the printer (what?!) But at the same time I'm comfortable with what they're offering. I'll be annoyed if they raise the prices though, and I think if they're making you commit upon purchase then they in turn should commit to grandfathering you into the ink prices as of the time of the commitment.~ Several times I've sent a print job from my phone, got an error message on my phone, while the job printed just fine. So it's good that the job printed fine, but it's weird and annoying that my phone thinks it didn't, and now I have an error notification sitting there, and if I'm not near the printer I don't know whether or not it actually printed or if I need to retry. I'll have to figure out how to make that stop. Maybe I'll need to uninstall and reinstall the phone app or something. Overall a very minor hiccup compared to the issues I had with other printers.

Overall, I would say this printer is a solid one for its price.The paper tray takes some getting used to. (Push the buttons on both sides of the top of the computer's paper tray, and pull that off first. Then pull the paper tray out. Install the paper. Push the paper tray back in. To put the top of the tray back on, push the buttons, and slide it back on.)HP's instructions on how to install ink is missing one piece of the puzzle: there is a "button" on the left-hand side of the lid that needs to be pushed to open the cover to get to the ink cartridges area. (DO NOT FORCE OPEN THE LID, OR YOU WILL BREAK IT.) I would suggest using the eraser end of a pencil or a pen that has not been pushed open for writing (hope that make sense) to push down on the button. Push down and open the lid. Otherwise, you are going to have to push really hard with your finger.But, the one thing that was very frustrating for me was printing envelopes within Word. For example, I use #10 envelopes (generally referred to as business envelopes). I have used the mailing/envelopes feature within Word for many many years, and so I know what I am doing. Nevertheless, the print on the envelopes kept coming out with hashy-wiggley odd printing. A postal carrier could never read it.After getting nowhere with HP Support, I decided to launch the HP Smart application that comes with the printer and resides on the computer. I did so and just had a look around. I noticed that the automatic hardware updates was not turned on. I turned it on, and began to test again.Long story short, the printing of envelopes from Word was successful. If you have a similar problem, you might want to try this. However, after you have turned on the automatic hardware updates, wait for a few minutes (let's say five minutes). Next, turn your printer off and then turn your computer off. Wait for 30 seconds. Turn your PRINTER on, then, after waiting a minute for the printer to be fully up and running, turn on your computer.This process helped me. If you experience the above, I hope this helps you as well.Again, I find the printer to be overall fine in printing letters, scanning documents, and printing photos. People have mentioned something about it making clicking noises when not in use. I have no idea what they are talking about. My HP OfficeJet 8015e printer is very quiet. And, though it does not have the paper capacity of my much older and much bigger printer, I find that the amount of paper that I can put into the printer at a time is sufficient...and, most important, as I have grown older, the printer is not heavy.I hope this review helps you.