HP Smart Tank Plus 651 Wireless All-in-One Printer, Ink Tank Printer-for-Home Use, up to 2 Years of Ink in Bottles, Auto Document Feeder, Mobile Print, Scan, Copy, Fax (7XV38A)

Don’t let negative reviews deter you
Let me address a few of the complaints others had in their poor reviews. 1. The printer seems cheap and flimsy. [No, it’s your typical inkjet quality printer in this price range. Great for home use. Maybe not great for public/commercial use.] 2. There’s no paper tray. [Correct, there’s a rear, angled, paper “rack”, which is very typical for this style printer. This isn’t a $4000 laser printer from 1997.] 3. You have to insert two print heads. [Yeah, so what. They are as easy to install as an ink cartridge. They easily snap into place. You do it once, and you’re done.] 4. It’s complicated to set up. [Actually, the instructions were so easy to follow I was shocked. I expected at least one or two issues, but they never materialized.] So…I’ve used it for a few days, and so far, it’s exactly what I expected. I’ve owned various printers over the last 40 years. I buy one and use it until it dies. This is a standard quality inkjet printer, and my first “ink tank” printer, which is pretty cool, and hopefully will save me money. From experience, I expect this to last 3-7 years. We’ll see.

HP stands for Hardly Practical…..
Trying to keep this simple but this is just not a good printer.The good: not much.The plastic used and construction are cheap. Feels flimsy.Trying to install the print heads is simply a pain. You have to use a flashlight to try to see where to install both cartridges, then you have to somehow hold these cartridges while making your hand flatter then a sheet of paper to fit them into a space designed not to allow your hand to fit into while praying you don’t break the flimsy plastic.The print quality was really good…for a few prints until a paper jam screwed up the whole printer. It took two sheets of standard paper instead of one and all of a sudden an error message, on the very tiny screen, keeps saying to reinstall the specified print head cartridge, but it doesn’t say or specify which one. So, reinstalled both and it refuses to print. Now it says the print head cartridges need replacing- after less than 20 prints.HP engineered this thing to be very hard to install and set up, very hard to install the print heads cartridges, very unusable, and their software requirements are the most invasive I have ever seen. You seem to have more privacy rights with malware than with the HP software. It runs only on a wireless setting, so no printer cable connection allowed. Setting up the wifi is very tricky and can only be set up on a 2.4 ghz wifi system. So, if you don’t know if your system has a 2.4 or is a 5 ghz system, might want to check that out before buying this. Many routers have both, but you need to know how to set those up, which brings the ease of use into question. This isn’t made for someone who doesn’t have the knowledge base to troubleshoot whether or not their router supports a 2.4 ghz or 5 GHz, or has dual bands in which to connect to, just something to think about. If you are asking yourself what a 2.4 or 5 GHz router is, ask yourself why should you have to bother with router settings in order to print a picture of your dog. Next, if you decide to buy this, be sure to set the WiFi up correctly from the get-go. When I set this up it identified my router in the settings, so I connected it. Unfortunately it defaulted to 5ghz and therefore would not connect to my computer. After having to troubleshoot, I found the HP site of no use, so off to Google I went. Came across a site saying it has to be a 2.4 connection so I tried setting it up on my 2.4 but it still wouldn’t connect. Long story short- took 30 minutes to reset the entire printer, remove the printer from the computer, reinstall the printer, and finally got it to work. So complicated.It does have some good features though, but not many. The fact that it has the ink bottles is good, and they are not difficult to fill so that part HP did right. One other thing that is perhaps the most fantastic part of the printer is…This is the only printer I have seen with handles on the plastic wrapping it comes shipped in so getting it out of the box is very easy. However, keep in mind you will need to keep this plastic wrapping and box….because you will probably have to send it back like I am doing.

So easy to use and prints labels perfectly!
A breeze to install on my eero 3 router. I make a lot of labels for my hobby and wanted them to look as close to professionally rendered as possible. I tested the printer first on my toughest designs on transparent labels. I am so impressed with the quality of the prints. No fussing at all. I loaded a single sheet into the paper feed and it came out perfect. No alignment adjustments were needed and the colors were vibrant and lively.There are so many things to like about this printer. Ink levels are visible on the front & easy to refill. Print heads insert easily. The control panel is light up and is a touch screen. Paper is loaded in a chute on the back so its a chinch to fill. It can copy multiple pages loaded on the top. I can print from my phone or my HP laptop.This is a game changer for my home hobby. I wasn’t expecting the transparent labels to be as simple as placing the label sheet into the paper feed and pressing print but that’s all there was to it. It’s exactly what I needed. You have the option to print at 300, 600, and 900 DPI, too.

Very light, not as robust as you may expect for the prices and for an HP product.The assembly is not as tight and it gives you the impression that there are some loose screws in a few spots.Slower than most printers.Not sure about the ink claims yet. Time will tell.Definitely not impressed for the money invested.

This printer was very easy to set up and connected immediately to the Internet without any help. The instructions were complete and even filling the ink tanks was easy and no mess. I would recommend it to anyone.