HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e Wireless Color All-in-One Printer with bonus 6 free months Instant Ink with HP+ (1K7K3A), Gray

After owning this printer for 3 years with very lite use, I am so excited that this printer has inspired me to take it out to a grassy field and go all "Office Space" on it! What an exciting opportunity!I wasn't thrilled that you more-or-less NEED to create an HP online account to use it, but whatever. And then every few months, you're auto-logged out and have to log back in .... but I can't remember my HP password, or even the email address I used to sign up for it! So that's all fun.... But otherwise, setup was pretty quick and easy. And it worked great for a few weeks.But working great is NOT what I expect from home printers. I expect them to be endless tests of my patience. I expect them to *make me work for it*, testing all of my knowledge as an IT person myself in order to get them to work. A few weeks later... this printer did exactly that and my expectations of what a home printer does were realized.I try to print, but it just sits there making noises for 20 minutes like two robots in congress. I hit 'cancel', but it gets stuck on 'cancelling' for another 40 minutes before I give up and power cycle it. Then it won't reconnect to Wi-Fi, so I have to set that back up. Then my computer can't find it, so I have to reinstall the printer. Then I have to log back in to the HP account and recover my password. Then I hit print, and the frisky robots go for round 2 for another 30 minutes. An hour or so later, I get my document.In addition to the hours of frustration and patience that I have given this thing, what I especially love is that every time my wife needs to print something I have more opportunities to test my patience! And when my kid needs to print something, even more of the same! What would I do without this printer? I guess I would live on easy street and would slip into a complacency and forget that the world is an unforgiving place that doesn't care about you.

I’m replacing my inkjet pro 8610 that I’ve had for almost 10 years. The print head died and for the cost of the part I opted for a new printer. The price has gone up and the quality of the product is not as good. With that said it does everything I need it to do.The set up was super easy. It connected to my network without having to go through a process. I did sign up for the HP+ to receive 6 mo of free ink. I’ll let you know how that goes in another review in a few months. I don’t necessarily like that hp wants you to be loyal to their ink when it’s so costly.I downloaded the hp 123 app with ease on my phone and am now able to print from my phone from anywhere. The convenience of that alone makes working from anywhere easy.I like the different functions of this printer. It’s a little smaller than my previous printer but I’m ok with at. If this one can las another 10 years I will be thrilled.

This is gonna be one of those “if I could give it a MINUS 5 stars, I would” kinda review. I’ve been a professional computer systems reviewer for 20 years, and this is the single most frustrating, time-wasting, money-wasting device I have ever used.This is supposedly an all-in-one printer: It scans, copies, faxes, prints, autofeeds documents, works via Ethernet or dual-band (2.4 and 5 GHz) WiFi from a desktop computer, laptop, phone, web or any other device that will talk to a printer and can be connected.I noticed recently that the price has dropped from $230 to $150. That could be because newer models are available…or it could simply be because HP is trying to unload a really rotten device.Pros of the HP OJ Pro 8020e seriesYou will save trees. The print experience with the HP OJ 8020e is so awful that I go out of my way to avoid printing anything. Literally.Cons (where do I begin…?)Installation is confusing, largely because HP spends quite a bit of time inveigling you into installing its smart printing app that strays dangerously close to malware. Its primary function appears to be talking you into signing up for “Instant Ink,” HP’s ink subscription service that sells you ink whether you want it or not, and then getting you to buy more. It monitors your activity and sends a lot of data back to the HP mothership, and—like most of HP’s “smart” functionality—is a real pain to stop.Installing a wireless smart device should be a no-brainer. Unbox, plug in the printer and power up, select a WiFi network and enter your password, then hit the print button. Ten minutes, max.Not this printer—it took FOUR HOURS of install-test-reinstall before it could print its first page. Even then, I would up sending the document to my Android phone and printing from there.The Ethernet connection was equally stubborn.I wound up resetting the printer six times until it could find the WiFi network. Along the way, I accidentally activated HP’s ink subscription program, which has caused even more headaches.Even than, the only way I can guarantee a print or scan is to shut down the printer, shut down my computer, and then restart. That gives me ONE immediate session to print or scan as much as possible before it goes offline again.If it actually does work, the print/scan is high-quality, but after six months with this foul beast I’ve never managed to get actual output in less than an hour.If you work from home (as many of us do these days), beware your company’s VPN: The HP apps will be shut out, and the printer won’t work. It also doesn’t seem to like Microsoft Teams. Best to save your printing until day’s end, then restart everything, do your print, and retire for the night.HP advertises its “six months of free ink,” but read the fine print before you sign up, and be very careful: Once the printer/your network thinks you’ve agreed to accept that free prize, you’ll be forced to use HP’s ink cartridges—at 2X the price—forever.Some HP printers allow you to disable “cartridge protection,” which allows the printer to reject any non-HP ink cartridge and simply refuse to print. The 8020e, and all “e-series” printers, however, do not, a practice I thought had been made illegal in the US, but apparently not.So, in addition to a poorly functioning printer, you’ll also be stuck spending $90 on a set of HP ink cartridges instead of $45.Now, I've nothing against HP ink, and I typically prefer to buy the printer manufacturer's own ink just to avoid hassles. But I don't want to be forced into it, and I also don't want to be forced to purchase more ink than I actually need, given how little I print these days.Supposedly you can rub an electrostatic rubber thingee across an ink cartridge’s microchip to get it to work…but that hasn’t worked for me.At this point, I'm looking for a cheap, non-HP printer that does NOT lock you into a bogus ink program and doesn't require hours of frustration just to get the WiFi actually connecting. I wish to blazes I hadn't given my old Epson printer away.

I have used Lexmark, HP, canon, Epson and Xerox printers. They each have their pros and cons. HPs tend to not survive beyond the third year. Cannons survive up to about four years. The rest all vary depending on circumstances. I’ve had this printer now for about a year or so. It’s a good printer. Set up is fairly easy, it was shipped well packaged, and the colors are vibrant. The ease of set up on a wireless network is extremely good. However, the only caveat I found was the ink. It is difficult to find ink that will work with this printer. Unless of course you purchase HP only ink - which is very expensive. If you’re looking for third-party cheaper ink, you will have a difficult time. They basically set it up so that the ink cartridges have a chip that must match what HP considers to be compatible ink. Without this chip, your ink will not work. The printer will not function. Otherwise, the printer performs as it should and though I would recommend this product, I would preface that recommendation with a warning about the Ink.