HP - Smart Tank 7603 Wireless All-in-One AI-Enabled Cartridge-Free Supertank Inkjet Printer w/ Fax and 3 Yrs of Ink Included¹ - White

HP has always been my favorite and this 7603 printer does not disappoint. Decent print speed and it has all of the features like copy, scan, print and fax. Plus it has the smart ink tank which saves on ink costs. This was easy to set up and get running. HP software is also very good.

Very fast and no internet issues at all. I will another one for my office

This printer is a superb choice if quality and cost per page is important to you. The HP 7603 Smart Tank Wireless All-in-One Printer is a very reliable, feature-rich but inexpensive, easy to use device which will economically and quietly print large quantities of documents at an excellent quality level. HP Inc. is the personal computer and printer unit spun off from the original Hewlett-Packard company. (The remaining units became Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and are focused on the corporate market.) Hewlett-Packard was founded in 1939, operating out of a garage in Palo Alto and was the original Silicon Valley tech company. It designed and built precision instruments, then created its first minicomputers in 1966. These were followed by programmable calculators, including the famous HP-80 handheld calculator. In 1984 HP introduced its first desktop inkjet and laser printers. HP developed its own personal computers then merged with Compaq in 2002. Today HP is the second-largest personal computer manufacturer (after Lenovo.) The HP Imaging and Printing Group is the leading provider in the world for personal printers, scanners and supplies. Here are the key features of this great multifunction printer: • HP 7603 Smart Tank All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer/Copier/Scanner/FAX (Model ST 7603/9B5D1A#B1H) • 3 inch LCD touch control screen • Connectivity: Self-healing Wireless (802.11b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth, USB, Ethernet 10/100 • Ink capacity/page yield: Black 90 ml = approx. 6,000 pages, Cyan/Yellow/Magenta 70 ml each = approx. 8,000 pages • Print resolution: up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (color), 1200 x 1200 dpi (b&w) • ISO print speed: 15 ppm (Black), 9 ppm (Color) • Automatic document feeder capacity: 35 sheets • Automatic duplex (two-sided) printing • HP AI scanning/printing system • Multi-page printing on a single sheet – up to 16 pages/images per side • ISO duplex print speed: 6.5 ppm (Black), 4.5 ppm (Color) • Paper capacity: 250 sheets in lower tray, up to 30 envelopes • Output tray capacity: 100 sheets • Paper sizes: Adjustable down to 3.5” width, Letter, A4, Legal, #10 envelopes • Duty cycle: Up to 6,000 pages/month • Scan function: up to 1200 x 1200 resolution, 8.5” x 11.7” flatbed (A4 paper size) • Copy function: up to 99 copies, 600 x 600 resolution, reduce/enlarge (25% to 400%), borderless, duplex • USB port on front • Full function HP Smart app for PC, Mac and smart phones • Dimensions: 16.8 inch Wide x 14.3 inch Deep x 9.5 inch Tall • Weight: 17.0 pounds • One year parts and labor warranty • Extended 2 year and 3 year next business day exchange service available First impression: elegantly sculpted in a beautiful combination of arctic white, grey and slate with alternating colors and right angles that make the HP 7603 seem smaller than it is. It has a compact footprint (just 16.8” x 14.3”) and stands just 9.5” tall. HP cleverly designed the sheet feeder to fold flat when not in use, minimizing both the height and the width of the printer. The power cord has no bulky transformer on it so it adds to the clean look. Overall you will be pleased to share your home or your office with this attractive unit, especially since it is very quiet. Wirelessly connected, it can be located in any convenient space – it does not need to be next to the PC it is serving - ideal for homes and small offices since you can also use this great device as a supplemental copier. Setting up this printer is quite easy. HP protects the printer during shipping with tape around key parts, but all of the tape is bright blue and very easy to remove. The quick setup instructions are well-written and you could just read them. But an even easier method is to download the HP Smart app to your phone. Attach the power cord to the printer, turn it on and add some paper to the tray. Then just obey the illustrated step-by-step instructions in the app. Filling the printer ink tanks is color-coded and seems foolproof. Once ink is loaded, snap the print heads into position and an automatic alignment process will be conducted. The HP Smart app will connect the printer to your wireless network. This was the easiest step in the setup process. The printer will automatically join the WiFi network to which your smart phone is connected. At that point the printer will be accessible to any computer or phone on that network. There are also two alternates to wireless connections: attaching an Ethernet cable to your router or using a USB cable to your PC. If at any point in the setup you need assistance, HP has prepared excellent videos to explain the process. If you have a Windows PC just go to Settings, then Devices and select Add Printer. The HP 7603 printer will be discovered and the driver automatically downloaded. Any computer on your network should be able to access all of the printer features with the HP Smart app - a superbly designed software suite, containing easy-to-follow printing, scanning, copying, faxing and photo printing controls. The HP 7603 has a large (250 sheet) paper capacity in the lower paper drawer. It loads easily and is adjustable for multiple paper sizes. To print envelopes you must remove the paper and adjust the paper guides to the width of the envelope. If you want to use legal-size paper, the end of the paper tray extends to accommodate the longer paper stock. Print quality is really excellent, even in the economy (standard) mode. In the higher quality (business document) mode the print quality matches most laser printers I have used. The printer driver provides nice printing options like 2 on 1, 4 on 1 and up to 16 on 1 (number of page images on a single sheet of paper), borderless, scaled, fit-to-page, booklet and others. The most useful option is the automatic duplexing (two-sided printing) which it manages without drama. HP has introduced “AI Printing” with this generation of printers. This is useful for condensing the printout of articles from web pages (eliminating ads and large white spaces on the page). This works pretty well but I noticed that the resolution of images was reduced. Photo printing quality is quite good and will satisfy most purposes. This printer’s color capability will be best used in printing business documents (graphs, multi-colored text, PowerPoint slide copies, etc.) and it does a nice job on such tasks. The printing speed is not equal to that of a laser printer but certainly acceptable at about 15 pages/minute (black) and about 9 pages/minute for color documents (speeds confirmed by my own testing.) For home use/small offices this is more than adequate. (If you want really outstanding photo printing quality you should invest in a dedicated photo printer with more than three ink colors.) Scanning, at resolutions up to 1200 x 2400 dpi, can be managed from the HP Smart app which will scan to a PDF, stich large documents together and facilitate OCR, among other features. Unlike most printers today, the HP 7603 includes a FAX function. This used to be a standard feature twenty-five years ago for “all-in-one” printers but with the dominance of email today it has become rare. However, there are still times when a FAX is useful (e.g., some government offices require a FAX for some functions.) I had no problem attaching the printer to my VOIP phone system and then sending out a test FAX. I didn’t test reception. The controls on the printer are all found in a bright, touch-sensitive LCD screen which brings up a menu of selections. This is a nice improvement over the old, physical buttons and hard-to-read greyscale LCD screen on the previous generation of HP printers. However, I think most users would be better served by using the HP Smart app on their computer rather than the on-printer controls. I tested each feature of the HP 7603 and all worked flawlessly. The unit seems very solid and I expect that it will work for years without complaint, given its HP heritage. The most important feature of the HP 7603 is its massive ink tanks. It holds 90 ml of black ink and a total of 210 ml of color ink (70 ml each of cyan, yellow and magenta). Those ink tanks will print about 6,000 sheets of black ink documents and about 8,000 sheets of color documents. If you print ten pages a day that initial ink supply will last you nearly four years! The best part is the incredibly low cost of the ink. The refills for the ink tanks are far less expensive than replacement cartridges. The cost comparison to standard ink cartridges is amazing. A typical replacement inkjet cartridge for other printers costs $30 to $40 and will print 220-350 pages at an ink cost per page of about $0.09. The ink cost per page of the HP Smart Tank system is about $0.004 – less than 5% of the cost of a standard inkjet printer! And the ink levels are backlit so you can see it at a glance! With a traditional inkjet printer you probably minimize your printing to avoid costly ink cartridge replacements. This HP 7603 will free you to print much more readily since you have a cost per page lower than almost any other printing device on the market. Those savings are due to the fact that you are not replacing the print head, as you must with each new ink cartridge, and the elimination of the plastic cartridge body cost. The ecological benefit of eliminating this waste is a nice bonus. And having a large supply of ink will eliminate that dreaded emergency trip to the all-night office supply store to replace an empty cartridge when you need to print a document for an early morning meeting! One caution: Be sure to print at least one page in black ink and one color copy each month to keep the ink lines from potentially drying out from lack of use. In summary, the HP Smart Tank 7603 All-in-One Inkjet Printer/Copier/Scanner/FAX is flawless. I give this great device a full five stars and my unqualified endorsement. You won’t regret this purchase!

The HP - Smart Tank 7603 Wireless All-in-One AI-Enabled Cartridge-Free Printer was just what I wanted to try. Not only am I a person that needs to print in my professional capacity as a CPA, I print for personal reasons all the time. Unlike my 30 something children that do not see the need to print, I am 67 and often print. So, in today's day and time where the cost of technical items such as computers and printers has come down dramatically making the technology more affordable, the cost of ink is ridiculously high overriding the lower cost of printer use. Yes, all the manufacturers have monthly paid subscriptions based on projected page use, but has turned into a racket in my opinion, too. I started some of those subscriptions a couple of years ago on 2 of my prior HPs, but HP has recently increased the monthly cost on those, and I am not a happy camper about that. The printer and its accessories arrived well packed and labelled, with both brief setup and reference guides. In this configuration, there is the ADF printer, power cord, black, blue, yellow and magenta bottles of ink, and 2 printheads that all must be installed. Also, for reasons of safe shipping, blue tape, some cardboard, and white packing must be removed in and around both the outside and inside of the printer. Using the HP Print Service app, already loaded on my android phone used for prior setups, this printer's setup was easy peasy-no stress, no mess. Just the way I like it-no issues connecting to my Wi-Fi, no problems communicating between the telephone app and the LED screen on the printer, no anxiety, no wasted time and seamless loading on the computers and smartphone already connected to this network. Personally, I always choose an auto document feeder, ADF, that makes life so much easier for all the printing and/or scanning tasks. Also, the quality of print is excellent, scanning is easy, the input paper tray can be filled with 250 pages of paper, the Wi-fi is self-healing and will reconnect if knocked off somehow, print speeds are acceptable, the touch panel is easy to read, even with 67-year-old eyes, and in my opinion, there is nothing not to like. However, the bottom line for me is that HP has purported, based on 240 pages of production a month and how much ink is used per page, that the ink for this Smart Tank 7603 is supposed to last up to 3 years. I definitely recommend this printer.

HP has been continually expanding their Smart Tank printers for the past few years, and the 7603 All-in-One is likely the best one yet. In homes and small office environments, it’s hard to find a printer that checks all the boxes. For anyone who uses their printer as a multi-function device, you’ll be familiar with needing to scan a few multi-page documents, duplex printing, sending large print jobs, or scanning documents to a network share or email. Most consumer grade printers are going to struggle with handling those jobs quickly and efficiently, especially if they do not have an automatic document feeder (ADF) for scan jobs. When you pair daily multi-function printer (MFP) needs with the cost of toner and ink cartridges, it makes the math rather difficult. This is where feature-rich tank printers, such as the Smart Tank 7603, really start to show their value. DESIGN It’s hard to complain about an office printer that does everything as it should in a reasonable footprint. Most people will find that this is either a small size upgrade to their basic printer, or a more compact version of their current MFP. Whether you choose the basalt or white colorways, the 7603, this device should fit into almost any office space without attracting too much attention. Please note: There is an LED light above the print output tray that I have been unable to turn off due to keeping the device in Power Saving Mode when it is not in use. Some folks may find this annoying, especially in home environments. FEATURES/SPECS The paper tray fits 250 pages and the output tray fits 100 sheets, so capacity is not an issue on this model. The ADF tray is located at the very top of the device and can fit 35 sheets, which I would keep in mind if you plan to do a lot of scanning with this device. One important feature of this machine is its connectivity options. The 7603 has dual-band Wi-Fi and ethernet connectivity options onboard, along with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct, which means you can send jobs to this printer from any device with ease. The printer can crank out up to 15 pages per minute of black ink pages or up to 9 pages per minute with color printing, and in my testing, these numbers are reasonably accurate. There is a 3inch touchscreen that you can use to browse around you printer or configure settings with. Note: If you are an advanced user or using this in an office setting, most advances settings will be available to configure in the Embedded Web Server. I recommend setting up your device this way instead of on the touch screen. EXPERIENCE Setting up the printer wasn’t difficult, but it did have a hiccup when I was setting it up using the HP app on my Google Pixel. Luckily, HP’s app detected that the printer wasn’t fully set up and gave me the option to continue where I left off, which I have to applaud HP for. I was able to connect the printer to my Wi-Fi network quickly and easily. However, when I made changes to the networking on the printer – such as turning off Bluetooth or setting a static IP address – the Wi-Fi would stop working, even after restarting the device. To fix this, turn off the Wi-Fi feature and turn it back on. It should reconnect to your wireless network. Another note: If the touchscreen is ever unresponsive when you attempt to select a menu option, scroll past the option, scroll back to it, and select it again. I’ve been using this device to scan documents to my network shares and my personal email and the efficiency gains have been huge. If you are planning on purchasing this device, be sure to make the most out of the ADF and its scanning features. This is where I found the most value in this device, and I’m sure most business-minded users will feel the same. FINAL THOUGHTS The HP Smart Tank 7603 is doing a lot of things right. It has the right features, capacity, aesthetics, and functionality for most home or small office environments. While I did run into a few software glitches, I was able to fix them with some troubleshooting as mentioned earlier in this review. Regardless, the printer has been rock solid ever since I completed setting it up and connected it to my network via ethernet. Because of that, I absolutely recommend this device, and I hope to see HP fix these few software bugs in the near future.