HP - Smart Tank 6003 Wireless All-in-One AI-Enabled Cartridge-Free Supertank Inkjet Printer with 3 Years of Ink Included¹ - White

This The HP Smart Tank 6003 Wireless All-in-One Ai-Enabled Cartridge-Free Supertank inkjet printer with 3 years of Ink Included has everything I want from an all-in-one device. It copies, scans, prints, and faxes via the HP application. This is a device that you will want in your home, home office, small office, dorm, crafting area, students room, and so many other places. What is in the box? The HP Smart Tank 6003 Wireless All-in-One Ai-Enabled Cartridge-Free Supertank inkjet printer, power cord, color print head, black print head, 3 years of ink in bottles of black, yellow, magenta, and cyan, User Manual, Reference Guide Setup: Setup was not hard, but it took a few minutes. The thing to remember is to take off all the protective shipping materials and tape first. Plug in the device and then turn it on. In the User Manual there is a QR code to scan to download the HP App to your Smartphone, either from the Play Store for Android or the App Store for iOS. Once downloaded, the instructions on the app and in the User Manual will walk you through everything. On this printer, it has no ink cartridges. The tanks need filled with the bottles of ink. No need to worry though, it is not messy. HP has made the task easy and mess free! The HP app shows how to do each step from connecting to wireless to aligning and printing a test page at the end of setup. It is not hard in the least. This printer is Energy Star Certified. Details: There are two ways to connect to this printer wirelessly: Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. To use a wired connection requires a USB-B cable, which is not included. It holds 150 sheets of paper and can print 7 pages per minute in color. If you are printing photos or higher quality photos and images, the print speed may vary. The printer has a duplexer, so you can easily print on both sides of the paper without having to manually switch the piece of paper over. The scanner is a flatbed scanner and works great for scanning and copying. The paper chosen will help decide how vibrant the colors are when printed. This ink is bold and vibrant, but if printed on bright white paper that is a higher quality like the HP Premium 32 pounds Bright White 100 Brightness, the color will be the best, vs a paper that is a 94 brightness. It prints great and I am extremely impressed. The print resolution is: 1200 x 1200 in black and 4800 x 1200 in color. It copies in 600 x 600 for both black and color. The scanning resolution is up to 1200 x 1200. It supports duplex printing, but not duplex scanning. The paper types supported are a full list of inkjet type papers: plain paper, HP Photo Paper, HP Matte Brochure or Professional Paper, HP Glossy Brochure or Professional Paper, other matte and glossy photo and brochure papers. Paper sizes supported are Letter, Legal, Envelope, and an array of other sizes. The display screen is 2 inches and is not a touchscreen. HP App: The HP App is the gateway to goodness with this printer. Everything is in this application to setup, print, scan, copy, create with Printables, share, fax, email what you scan, and set up Remote printing. I like that I can use Printables to make my grandchildren things like coloring pages, award certificates, school practice worksheets, word puzzles, planner pages, calendar pages, greeting cards, and the possibilities are endless. The printer is not that big or heavy, which is fantastic for me. I like that I can pick it up and move it without having to ask anyone for help. The footprint is not that bad for an all-in-one. It is 7.82” H x 16.83” W x 14.33” D. It weighs 14.07 pounds. Summary. I think this HP Smart Tank 6003 Wireless All-in-One Ai-Enabled Cartridge Free Supertank Inkjet Printer with 3 years of ink included in White, is an excellent choice and I highly recommend it.

This is my second inkjet that has refillable tanks. This one is a little different as it still has a cartridge that the tanks send ink into for printing. My other one does not have this and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. I'm thinking that this is probably a good thing just in case the print head gets clogged you can just swap it out for a new cartridge. I did not see anything about expire dates so I do not think HP can stop printing if your ink expires. Setup was pretty straight forward but I used the HP app since it was already installed on my HP desktop. The computer found the printer on my wifi, added it to the computer, and I was ready to print, copy, etc. I followed the instructions to add the print cartridge and fill the tanks with ink. The process took about 5 minutes. The screen on the printer is small and shows essential information, I'm thinking HP is assuming you will use the controls in the HP software on your computer. The printer has a couple of buttons on top for wifi (solid blue means connected), information button, a paper eject button, cancel, color copy (green button), black and white copy, and power. I thought one would be to scan to a PC, but that is not the case and you can only do a print copy. If you want to do a scan you have to open the HP software and go through the steps. This printer prints color or black and white pretty quickly. The output looks great for my needs of general office printing. I did a test print of a photo on regular paper, and it looks pretty good, but I would buy a dedicated photo printer if you planning to print lots of pictures. This works fine for a quick print where super high quality is not needed. When using the scanner, I notice that it's a little slower than my other scanner. Its not painfully slow, but if I was scanning a lot of papers I would look at something that has an auto feeder on top as this one you have to manually change out the page. The HP software app however allows for you to create a PDF with multiple pages of scans. So even though you are limited to one page at a time the software does allow for multiple documents to be scanned as one large PDF. There are other features that are built into the app such as free printables like calendars, birthday photo props, etc. So great for a family with kids that can print out, cut out, color, and be creative. I have not played with to many other features as I purpose have this for scanning and printing basic documents. This so far has been a good little printer that works every time without issue. I'm glad HP is offering refillable ink tanks instead having to buy a cartridge that dries up or worse expires. My other tankless scanner printer has been going strong for over year, and I do not see why this HP wouldn't be able to last a long time!

We homeschool and run a small business on a budget and, up until this point, have gone back and forth between a black laser printer and a color inkjet. During the school year I print a large quantity of black-and-white documents for my children, and when business is booming I print a lot in color. A multi-color laser printer was too expensive to maintain, and the supplies were costly. As more and more manufacturers lock you into proprietary inkjet cartridges, the options were to buy the expensive OEM cartridges or roll the dice on generic ones that wouldn’t always work. And more often than not when they do, the quality is poor. And no matter which cartridge was used, the print volume was limited, which increased the expense. I had apprehensions about tank printers in general. I know it’s a great idea, but I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop, and I could discover the gimmick behind them since the profit point is generally the cost of the cartridges. Plus I was concerned about spillage and the print head life. I was pleasantly surprised to find the ink bottles have a stopper on them and fit into a receptacle to fill the tanks. Inserting the bottles pops the stopper out, and the tank fills with no chance of spilling. There are external view windows to confirm the ink supply, and you can track that via the app. Genuine HP ink is available at a very reasonable price, as well as generic options. Standard printer ink cartridges for most printers supply enough ink at 5% coverage for about 300 black-and-white pages and 200 color. This tank printer is estimated to be able to print 8,800 color pages in standard mode and 9,600 pages in draft. The black cartridge is estimated to print 6,000 pages in standard mode and 7,600 in draft. A refill of all inks costs less than the price of a color and black-and-white cartridge in my search for pricing. The print heads are stated to last for “the life of the printer," which we all know may vary. And will all inkjet printers, my assumption is that based on usage or non-usage they could dry up and clog. If that does happen, the cost to replace one is about the cost of one ink cartridge. If the printer is used regularly, this should not occur. The print speed is good for both color and black and white, and the duplex function works great. There are controls directly on the printer for basic functions, and just about option and functions are also available through the HP app. While the printer takes up very little space, it still allows for a paper tray that holds at least 3x as much as my last printer and you don’t need to open a drawer to see if you’re running low on paper.

I got this to get out from under cartridge prices. That's the entire reason ink tank printers exist, and on that core job, this one pays off exactly as advertised. Using HP's own ink, I'm running about a penny a page. Advertised third-party ink is $0.003. Put that next to what a set of cartridges costs and the math stops being close. I mainly use this for printing programs, flyers, and other 20-30 page jobs for a non-profit I’m involved in. It’s nice and quiet for the times I need to print for home as well. It’s small and quiet, so I can put it on a shelf when not using it. The print quality holds up its end. Pages come out bright and vibrant. This isn't the washed-out look you might brace for from a budget-ink machine. Color work looks good enough that I'm not saving it for somewhere else. Speed is decent. Color was measured at 8 pages per minute for a mixed graphics flyer with lots of color. Double sided was closer to 4 pages / minute as the machine needs to wait for ink to dry. A few things I appreciate day to day. Automatic duplex printing is built in, so two-sided documents happen without me thinking about it. Great for programs! And the ink status is genuinely clear — you can see where you stand at a glance rather than getting a vague warning and then a dead page mid-job. On a tank printer that matters more than it sounds, because you're topping off rather than swapping a cartridge, and you want lead time. There’s a few minor nit picks, but they’re worth sharing: Setup requires you to create an HP account. Allegedly, it’s not required as there are instructions for setting it up “manually”. However, I could not figure them out based on the pictures alone. They really, really push you to use the app or their site. Once there, you can’t proceed without having an account. Then, you’re signing up with HP to get a printer you already paid for onto your own network. It's one hoop, but it's the kind of hoop that shouldn't be there. Paper handling is where this shows its price. The tray holds 100 sheets, which is fine for household volume and annoying the moment you have a real job to run — you'll be refilling. There's also no bypass tray, so heavier stock, card, or anything thicker than plain paper has nowhere to go. If you print on anything other than standard paper with any regularity, this will frustrate you. The scanner is flatbed only, with no automatic document feeder. Scanning one page is easy. Scanning twenty means lifting the lid twenty times. If you scan multi-page documents or double sided pages as part of your routine, that's the deal-breaker in this box. Bottom Line: If your reason for buying is cheap ink, this delivers on it about as directly as any printer I've used — a penny a page with HP ink, a fraction of that with third-party, bright output, and duplex printing thrown in. It's a strong fit for a household or small organization that prints plain paper documents and photos and scans a page here and there.

The Short: Amazing ink tank design, cleaver filling bottles, great printing app (using apple iOS) and excellent printing. Everything done wirelessly. My review: School is back in session. We currently have a B&W laser printer at the house. We need to step it up to a color printer to illustrate color graphs and pictures for the kids upcoming school work. We used to have those cartridge type bubble jet printer that always had dried out ink tanks when homework was due the next day. Enter this new HP 6003 cartridge free printer. At first thought was great, how much ink will I spill filling up these ink tanks. Boy was I wrong; filling the tanks with ink is worry and drip free! Unboxing: HP had a nice plastic bag with handles making pulling out the printer from the box a cinch. A lot of sustainable and recyclable packaging (minus the Styrofoam). Unboxing was effortless. Setup: I used the HP app to do the initial setup of ink and wifi. I did use the included manual to fill gaps that I missed in the app setup. The ink bottles were huge and have lot of printing capacity. Unscrew the ink cap, push down bottle onto the tank fill top, watch ink drain into the tank. Remove and continue to tanks are full and ink bottles are empty. (Don’t shake the ink or you get bubbles!!!) No spills and no mess. Next I connected the printer to my local wifi. Just like that I was setup and ready to print. Printing: I printed some pictures from my iphone 16. Super easy and print looked real good. The test print with text was crisp and colors solid. Scanning: Scanning was easy. I used the HP app on my iphone 16 and scanned some pictures I had. Image was transferred immediately to my phone. Perfect scanning. Printer Design: Printer design is solid. The color I have reminds me of the 1990s but if fits in. Power: I wasn’t sure if the printer has a sleep function or needs it. Not sure how much power it consumes while idle. I honestly just unplug it when I don’t use it. Ink Tanks: The ink tanks have a air tight seal on them. Hopefully this mean the tanks won’t dry out when not in use like ink cartridges. Credit HP for a great design on these tanks.