HP Smart Tank Plus 555 All-in-One Wireless Inkjet Printer
Good reliable and cost…
30/11/2022 10:26
The setup of the printer went smoothly, and was well explained. I was slightly worried about filling up the ink after several catastrophes whilst refilling ink cartridges on previous printers many years ago, however I shouldn't have worried, filling them was easy and completely mess free!
Which leads me to the ink, I was so surprised at how big the containers of ink were that are included as standard with this printer, they are the full sized bottles, and with the black you get 2 bottles, so I've got a spare black already waiting for when the printer start to get low (which I'm not expecting for a long time).
Usually I'd get 21ml of ink in a black cartridge, but this came with 270ml of black ink in the box!
One reservation was that there is a user replaceable print head that you insert whilst installing, however I've not been able to find how long they expect this to last whilst in use. I wish they would give a heads up on how my many prints, or amount of time to expect it to last.
The first major negative is that straight out of the box it made a high pitch noise, this meant that for the first few days I needed to turn it on and off as and when I needed to use it as I was unable to work next to it due to this noise whilst it was on (not printing, just on).
After looking online I found other people with this issue and discovered that by going into settings and turning on quiet mode stopped this noise, however I believe this makes the printer slower in printing, whilst isn't ideal.
I have printed a variety of documents I would normally print, including documents, templates, pictures and colouring sheets for my children.
Everything has come out well, pictures had a good contrast and crispness for a home printed picture. Documents were clear and professional looking (especially important for invoices which I often print). Templates were accurate and to the correct scale, which is essential for my work and Items printed to amuse the children (colouring in and activity sheets) were quick to print, and importantly cheap, as the ink costs usually make me cautious of printing too much usually.
I have included a few prints of some pictures below, printed on normal everyday printer paper, but it has also handled card and printable stickers well.
Overall a good printer, excellent value for money, just looses 1 star for the high pitch noise I experienced before finding the setting.
Hifromkatie
Redruth , Spojené království
Age: 35
Gender: Female