WORTHLESS! Buy HP or Canon.
937504
My heroic effort to finish a Sociology paper before class has failed, thanks to this printer. So, instead of going and facing my professor empty-handed, I will write this review.

If you can afford to use this printer, you can afford to buy a better printer.

This printer will:
-Quit on you for no reason, right when you need it the most. It has singlehandedly cost me at least 2 letter grades in my college career.
-Print with horrible vertical lines brand new out of the box, unless you run an exhaustive battery of tests and calibrations (see below).
-Cost you $10-15 for each (very low capacity) printer cartridges. ALL FOUR are required at ALL TIMES to do anything at all.
-Survive being dropped on the floor numerous times when it becomes apparent that it serves no Earthly purpose other than to make money for Epson.

This printer will not:
-Scan a document to your computer unless all 4 ink cartridges are full and installed.
-Print anything unless all 4 ink cartridges are full and installed. There is no way to print in only black or to synthesize black out of the other 3 cartridges unless you already have all the inks anyway. In that case, what's the point?
-Even use the memory card slot if a single ink cartridge is empty! You literally have to have all ink in order to do mundane tasks which have nothing to do with ink!
-Be reliable. It will quit at the worst possible time, guaranteed.
-Do a good job, even in optimal operating conditions. It jams, takes in paper crooked, and is loud enough to wake the dead.

I took this printer as a freebie with a new MacBook pro, based on the recommendation of the Apple sales rep. I could've chosen an HP instead, and you should too. Words cannot describe how bad this printer is.
3130250
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PRINTER. I really don't understand why HP would sell a lemon like this product; if you were to buy this printer, you would never again even consider the HP brand.

It has all kinds of paper loading problems. And then, spontanously, it is now saying that I have installed the wrong color ink cartridge (even though I have the cartridge the printer came with, which I hardly ever use, and was working perfectly as recently as a week ago).

Get a Brother or a Cannon and save yourself a lot of grief. This printer sucks.
1403060
Owned it's predecessor as well.  It lasted a year before I tossed it as worthless.  This one lasted about 6 mos.  I'm giving a second star because Canon was good enough to send me a replacement Printhead.  Hopefully that will remedy the poor printing performance I'm getting.  It would seem the culprit was that I fell victim to Canon's defensives against non proprietary ink.  Can you blame me?  I just spent $133 for one full set of "official Canon " ink cartridges for this printer.  2x the current prince of the printer itself.  Off brand "compatible" cartridges were under $2 per cartridge compared to Canon's $20 per cartridge.  I'm hoping the XL cartridges contain more then 2x the ink of of the starter cartridges that come with the printer or I should have just purchased 2 new printers instead.  Would have been cheaper.  The off brand ink produced just as nice of a print as the Canon cartridges until they ruined the printhead of course.  So shame on Canon for 1) the massively overpriced ink,  2) the printer design that requires it, 3) not making it extremely clear and impossible to miss that you will ruin the printhead if you don't use Canon ink.  I'm making some assumptions here based on research and the Canon rep I spoke with.  I'm assuming I'll get more use out of this printer with the new head and only using Canon ink.  Time will tell.
493155
I have not one, two, but three of these pieces of junk and have finally learned my lesson.  The first one was DOA out of the box.  The second one developed a USB connection problem within one month.  And now the third one flashes continuously "check cartridges" and I have put brand new ones in there.  It won't even scan or copy when it thinks you have printing issues.  You're just locked up with a bunch of flashing lights.  Don't waste your time with this thing.  I'm definitely going to try a canon next.
3757135
Useless right out of the box.  A well known and documented issue: "pick motor stalled" (see HP's own forums) prevented initial setup as the machine was unable to pull even the first sheet of paper from either tray.  Spent over an hour performing various exercises per HP tech support which concluded with the tech admitting that this problem was all too common.  Her advice was to package this one up, send it back and don't even bother with another of the same model but suggested the 6700 instead.

There was a time when "HP" represented the utmost in quality and reliability, but that hasn't been the case for quite some time.  This is the final experience I intend to have voluntarily with any HP product.
4722568
I wouldn't even give this printer one star if the option was there.  I just bought all new cartridges and have used half of them trying to get it to print.  Have run dozens of head cleaners and still nothing.  I don't feel too bad about the printer cause I got it fairly cheap but I'm upset over the expense of my cartridges.  My suggestion to anyone looking at these....stay as far away as you can....buy a printer that has the printhead in the ink cartridge...at least then all you are out is the price of one cartridge, not the whole printer....I'm going back to my faithful HP's or just might give the Canon's a shot.
247997
I had an old HP Deskjet 840C (I think it was or 842) and it still ran after TWELVE years!!! Very dependable. Never, EVER a single problem.

Then 2 years ago, I bought my first laptop, a MacBook Pro and I was offered a wireless printer for a discounted price. Cool! I had always wanted a scanner with my printer!
Right off the bat, I had problems. The second time I went to print, the paper got stuck and then wouldn't print at all. I had to call HP and we troubleshooted for over TWO hours. The support guy had me uninstall and reinstall and reinstall one more time. He couldn't get it to work, so they sent me another one of the same model even though I asked them if I could upgrade. They said I couldn't until the second one didn't work. So, in the last year, I have gotten it to work SOMETIMES. Usually, I had to try different methods to get it to print at all. (The scanning part always worked though, which was nice.)

Fast forward to today, when I'm trying to get it to print a job application that is due by tomorrow night. I tried for 30 minutes to get it to print. Restarted both the printer and the laptop. NOTHING has changed since I last got it to print a few months ago.

I caved and called HP support AGAIN to see what the problem is. Now, even though I've only printed maybe 5-10 times with this printer, it is now out of warranty, so it's $24.95 to troubleshoot, BUT it's refundable if they can't get it to work (they don't reveal that part until later). I agree.

One hour on the dot, later... nothing works. She's walked me through a hard reset, ink level check (both at 60%), printer alignment test, printing reports, but the printer just spits out blank page after blank page. Finally she says there is nothing more she can do. It is broken. Great.

So, she gives me upgrade options. I choose to pass and do some research online before I commit to yet another crappy printer.

This is just extremely disappointing as I had such great luck with HP in the past and this was the best they could do for me. ;-(
This printer has been atrocious from the start and has wasted 3 hours of my life on phone support and much more frustration alone.

DO NOT BUY this printer if you want to keep your sanity. As soon as I finish this review, in the dumpster it's going. I'm moving in 6 days, so I guess that's one good thing... I don't have to lug it 1340 miles with me!!! Still frustrating though!!!!!! ;-(

Guess I'm going to have to try to apply for open that job while at work tomorrow and hope I don't get fired before my last day!!! Ridiculous to be put in this position.

Not sure I'll ever go back to HP again after this experience. ;-(
388102
I have owned several Canon printers, and this one is a piece of junk. This printer will suck out your ink every time you turn it on. When you turn the printer on it sounds like it does when it cleans the print heads which drain the ink from the tanks. This causes a print job to take forever because the printer goes through this atrocious warm up period. This happens regardless of whether the printer has been turned off for a few days, or left powered on while connected to the computer. And yes, I always correctly shut the printer off via the power button rather than just unplugging it while it's on.

I called Canon days after buying the printer and they assured me that all of this behavior for the printer is normal.

Save your money and buy elsewhere.

Also the wireless printer feature is confusing to get working on a mac, and you have to plug the printer into the computer via usb to initially set things up. I don't think you have to do that with an HP printer. I feel that a wireless printer should be able to placed in range of a wireless router and entering the SSID and network password directly from the printer (I believe this is how HP printers work)

Overall, only buy this if you're able to spend $80.00 filling up the thing with ink every few weeks.

Also, I do not print much and have never printed a photo from this thing. Most of what I print is a mixture of text and light graphics, and I print in normal mode and not high quality.

My last Canon printer was a Pixma MP760 and it worked beautifully and did not exhibit any of these problems (it wasn't wireless though).
4117946
This printer died when I upgraded to Windows 10. The print function still works but it no longer scans. I went to the Canon website and used the latest drivers (6/13/2015) and is still doesn't work. If you read the specs you will see that Windows 10 is specifically excluded.

My printer is only a couple years old and now its a brick. Shame on Canon for not updating their drivers. I'll never buy another Canon product.
4421985
From the moment I got this camera, I hated it!  The photos mostly come out blurry. Every so often I may get a clear photo but that's few and far between! It automatically shuts off (to save battery life) but way to soon. Turning it back on takes up those precious seconds to get that great shot.  I'm not sure if I just don't understand how to use the camera, even though I've read the instructions, or if it's the camera itself.  Either way, my old HP worked much better than this camera!  Don't waste your money.
271904
The first day I printed with this printer, the images come out blurry. I scan documents with it and comes out blurry. This is my 7th HP printer in the last 2 years and they always have problems. Purchased a Canon and no problems. I can't even return this printer now. Sometimes it's not worth buying from Amazon because they make the return process so difficult! Bought new Canon from Staples, at least when I return something there's never a problem.
115602
Horrible printer!  I work in IT and I specialize in troubleshooting stuff.  The wireless on this POS does not connect to standard wireless, N type or G type or even AC!  IT does not connect to NFC on your phone.  The "software" from cannon is garbage.  It doesn't even actually install... I unzips, runs, fails, and leaves you with nothing to actually run again, cuz it temp installs in appdata and auto-deletes... this printer was $40 and was radically overpriced!  I am SEVERELY disappointed with this product.  I will not be buying another Canon printer and probably not another Canon product.
1171211
I had a work related injury so the state, in an attempt at getting me set up to operate some home based business obtained a Canon multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax machine that absolutely DRINKS ink. I seldom use the printer and thank goodness because with the few pages I have printed I am already getting a "low on ink" message. STAY AWAY FROM CANON PRINTERS is all I can say. Hell, two refills and you have paid for more than the price of the damned printer!! The printer companies are SCREWING us and I sure wish there was something we could do about it. The Canon replaced an aged HP multifunction unit that was only slightly less thirsty than this gawdawful Canon.........I wish there was a Department of Printers at the state level that one could write to and demand that the price of printer ink be brought back to Earth. I mean, how much does a printer cartridge actually cost some Chinese slave laborer to make anyway? And why do I have to pay $50 to replace the black and color cartridge on my printer? Someone is getting about a 500% markup on the sale of their product line and its not just Canon!! "I'm tired as hell and I'm not taking it any longer!!!!"
4817426
HP 470 is a piece of crap.  I fought with it for over a year!  It is difficult to install or diagnose.  It takes forever to decide if it wants to print (or not).  If it does print, it's slow.  Totally stops printing when it thinks any one of the colors or black is low - I should have the option to keep printing; not be overruled by a stupid machine!  It doesn't like refilled cartridges.  Never did get wireless to work.
2659268
This printer is really bad. The printer constantly will not print. Takes 15 minutes of turn off/on, resetting PC setting, etc. Also makes it difficult to print when the ink is low, even though there is enough ink to print another dozen or so pages out. Epson is greedy and always trying to get you to buy more ink when you don't need so to max profits. Not sure Canon or HP are any better, all are greedy and do the same stuff.
4957470
I purchased this printer for my daughter-in-law, and it's been one big fustration!  They use HP laptops - Win 7 machines that are under 2 years old.  They have in-home wireless.  This printer will NOT communicate with thier laptops.  The error codes refer to Win 7 64 software not being supported & to contact the vendor?  Canon does not have a fix that they are admitting to - they're blaming HP.  HP refers us back to Canon.  We have updated the available drivers - no good.  This morning she attached a printer USB cord to just skip the wireless aspect - still no good.

THAT said, I have seen this printer work, which is why I purchased it - it prints beautiful pics!
1657060
This printer replaced an old Canon because I thought I wanted to be able to scan and copy. I didn't buy another Canon because the print heads wore out rather quickly.

At least the Canon worked. I've had this for 3 months and the scanning virtually never worked properly. Not the hardware, but the software. HP seems to think that it's perfectly reasonable to ship a 300 MB cluster of buggy software apps that are not needed just to shove their products onto our computers. After hours of troubleshooting with their friendly agents I still cant' scan without either 1)Windows error messages or 2)having absolutely NOTHING happen. I'm running this on the exotic and seldom-encountered Windows XP SP2 on a Dell laptop. I'm an IT manager, and this absolutely fails the "Dad" test in that my father could not possibly set this up himself. (He was able to set up the Canon that I bought him for Christmas).

Plus: Print quality is decent, both black & white and color, as well as photos.

Minus: Copying is as slow as refrigerated molasses. Scanning doesn't work. Rather than letting you install a little bit of software that works they practically ship you a new operating system that's slow and buggy.

HP, you fooled me once and you will not fool me again.

UPDATE: I bought a new Vista computer and had exactly the same problmes. HP blamed it on compatibility issues with Vista and I had to remind them that I previously had the same problems on XP. After a year, and many hours of doing worthless things with their customer support team (they might as well have had me chant and sprinkle water around the house because it was so ineffective), HP finally replaced the printer with a different model. It installed easily and has caused no problems since. It's clear from my experience that the 6310 software was defective, but HP prefers to blame the operating system (no matter which one you have). While they eventually did come through I feel that they were trying to cover up a defective product by trying to place the blame everywhere else (their customer, Microsoft, my router, etc.)