HPOfficeJet 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.

I’m really happy with my HP OfficeJet. The setup was quick and connecting to my devices was incredibly easy. It’s a big upgrade from my old DeskJet—faster, smoother, and much more reliable for everyday printing. I’m also a big fan of the ink subscription—it’s great knowing I’ll never have to worry about running out of ink. It does take up a little more space than my old printer, but that actually makes it feel more solid and “beefy.” The shipping box did arrive with something spilled on it, but the printer itself was packaged perfectly in a protective plastic bag, so nothing inside was contaminated. Definitely worth the switch!

I have never wanted to run over a piece of technology with a truck as much as I do with this printer. The print quality and speed are ideal for home use, WHEN it works, but that's only been about 50 percent of the time I've owned it.I was looking forward to using this printer with an instant ink subscription (advertised as being included for a few months for free), as I've used that with past hp printers I've owned. Unfortunately, I was NEVER able to redeem the free months of instant ink because the printer wouldn't allow me to set up and connect it to my wifi when I first received it. I spent literal hours on the phone with hp support, which resulted in exactly NO actual help. They ultimately told me that because my internet connection was a mobile hotspot that it was too unstable to support the printer. Ironically, my other hp printer always ran exclusively on the same mobile hotspot and there is a tower a mile down the road from my call carrier, meaning I always have 5 bars of 5G on my cell service so unstable connection is definitely NOT the issue.At some point, the printer decided to connect using a concoction of multiple cell phones, each with a specific set of bluetooth, mobile hotspot, wifi, and the very stupid hp "smart" app. It worked for months flawlessly. At times I had my mobile hotspot turned off and it would reconnect with no issue at all. Printed great (though photo quality always looks a bit off color-wise to me). I paid for instant ink for months and everything ran smoothly.Then, for no apparent reason, I'd go to use the printer one day and the touchscreen would just say "cartridge cannot be used until printer is enrolled in HP instant ink" ...even though the instant ink subscription was still very much current and active. IF the printer would connect to the internet, it would have registered that information, however, there is NO way to exit that message screen to get it to connect to the internet again. No back button, no home button, nothing at all on the touchscreen. HP support recommended turning the printer off, unplugging it, and trying again. Spent hours trying and just received the same message. This happens every few months. I then go weeks, or months without use of the printer before it randomly begins working again, only to have the same problem several weeks down the road.I finally gave up on the instant ink and purchased genuine hp ink for the printer, to the tune of $80 or something ridiculous since the error message seemed related to the ink subscription, hoping that I could then at least get it to connect to the internet and function again. Incredibly, after installing the brand new cartridges and restarting everything yet again, the printer printed out an alignment page but showed a message that it couldn't scan it properly so setup wasn't complete. It then showed a screen that I need to go to 123.hp com to complete setup...which takes me to a page that requires downloading hp smart to my phone (it's already there) then the hp smart app gives me setup options for adding a new printer or setting one up that's already connected to the internet. But since this one is STILL NOT in wifi connection mode (and again, not giving ANY way to do that from the printer) the app can't find the printer, won't connect using wifi direct printing, won't offer me any other options from the app OR the printer screen.So, now it's Christmas. I'm trying to print a photo of my daughter's dog for a memorial ornament she requested after he died this year and I've spent 4 hours over the past 2 days just trying to print this ONE photo because my $170 printer is, in fact, just a giant, obnoxious paper weight. I've spent an additional $80 on ink, despite still actively paying for instant ink (and having entire, brand new cartridges from instant ink sitting right beside my printer) and this thing won't connect to my perfectly functional internet because it WON'T EVEN GIVE ME A WIFI CONNECTION OPTION.Could not be more frustrated and disappointed in this product. Print speed and quality is entirely irrelevant if the printer doesn't even give you a way to access the internet connection setup screen and therefore, literally will not function in any capacity.