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Paper jams, bloated driver, shutdowns
To begin, the software installation is a headache. I had trouble installing it even though I work in IT. Why do you need a 40MB - 200MB driver that requires you to turn off your Anti-virus during installation?! The printer jams often and will sometimes shutdown while printing. While I think HP business grade printers are great, this consumer grade printer is junk.

In the immortal works of Monty Python
RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY.

When and if it works, it looks great.

I wish I could rate this at NO stars because of the paper jam or out of paper issue. I guess it's come to the point where we have to beg, plead and pray just to get something to work as advertised. I purchased this a Wal-Mart for $50, so I would bet that American manufacturers are thinking that "if they only spend 50 bucks, what did they expect?" "They should have paid more so it will work."

there are better choices. ink guzzler and poor paper handler
Pick something else, please. I have had this printer for two and a half years. It sucks up two or three pieces of paper at a time very frequently. Forget double sided printing. I replaced my print cartridge two or three weeks ago and have printed maybe 60 pages and just got a message that my ink cartridge is almost empty. I buy hp replacement cartridges, not off brands. I do little printing and have spent much more on ink than I did the printer. The jams are ridiculous. It mishandles paper on average 50% of the time. I am shopping for a replacement just to save the headache of dealing with this printer.

inkjet problems
I have to say I've never had the paper feed problem that everyone else here complains about, and I've had my printer for well over a year. I came here, though, on a google search to try to find out why the color inkjet just never NEVER works. I don't use this often, but I was excited to have a color printer. I think the only decent color picture I made with this printer may have been the first one. Since then I've replaced the inkjets (expensive!), and clean them repeatedly just to get them to print, but they're always stripey, making the color printer (especially for photographs) essentially useless, making me wish I'd sprung a few extra bucks for a printer that might have worked better.

As for b&w printing, scanning, and copying, I've had no problems.

One word: Garbage
I have been using this printer for over a year. This is a very loud and inefficient printer. It can't even print doc well. I use top quality paper and this does not help. It is a particularly voracious ink eater as well. Stay away from it, even if they give it to you .. It is huge.