HP - ENVY Pro 6455 Wireless All-In-One Instant Ink-Ready Inkjet Printer - White

The HP Envy Pro 6455 Wireless All In One (AIO) Inkjet Printer is great for home office productivity. You can even get Ink sent to your house automatically if you wish. Here are the features: • Setup/App Unfortunately this was the hard part for me. I downloaded the HP app and tried to setup the printer from HP easy setup. I couldn’t get the HP printer to setup wirelessly. I tried the networks and passwords and never came up with a match. I made sure that the HP printer was matched with the Smart phone HP app on the same network. I kept getting a message that I needed to update firmware and a missing driver. It was no small task to get these 2 things working with the HP printer. After a lot of trial and error, I was finally to setup the HP Envy Pro 6455 with a USB Type B to USB Type A cable (not included). I was happy just to be connected now. The other ways you can connect are through Dual Band WiFi, Bluetooth and USB (that is what I did). • Printing Printing was easy and less time consuming than the setup. The printed paper came out beautiful and sharp. The inkjet printers are known for their speed and clarity in printing. The HP Envy Pro 6455 was no different. I copied and pasted different bits of notes to a Word document. I had no issues or troubles at all. The HP printer even has an auto two sided printing feature to save on paper. • Ink Cartridges HP ink No. 67 black and No. 67 color are the ink cartridges that were supplied. I had to lift up the flatbed scanner and underneath for the ink to be installed. This was a very simple task of peeling off of tape and inserting the ink cartridge longer end first. There is a black top for black ink and purple top for color ink. Make sure your printer in on! ISO (International Standards Organization) rates the color per minute at 7 pages and in black at 10 pages. These speeds help you stay on task with your printing projects. • Copy/Scan After printing a test page, the HP printer told me to scan it. So I placed the print page (Printside down) on the scanner. It worked quickly and printed out the test page for aligning and ink saturation. Copying pages was a breeze as from printing several pages to scanning to copy a page. No problem or issues there. The flatbed scanner resolution is up to 1200 x 1200 dpi while the color resolution is up to 4800 x 4800 dpi. I scanned in a color picture and printed it off on glossy paper. It turned out really well. I have included the pics in my photos. Another feauture which is very helpful is borderless printing. There is no need to cut off the edges if there is not any! • Auto Document Paper Feeder At the bottom of the HP printer is located a paper tray. Slide out the tray to add 100 pages of paper to the printer. You can also add paper to the top of the HP printer. Place the paper in the upper tray and it will go through the paper feeder to be printed on. • Control Panel There are several ways to run the HP printer from the control panel. There are 7 icons that guide you to do what you want with the printer. The symbols are: Information, Cancel, Resume, Copy, Power, Wireless Setup and ADF Error. There are instructions on how to use the control panel in the manual on the HP website. Overall this is a great HP printer for copying, scanning, printing, the HP app and high capacity paper tray. The pages print fast in color or B&W. I am overall happy with the HP ENVY Pro 6455 AIO printer, but disappointed I couldn’t get the app to run.

In my daily work, I work with several brands of printers. I have HP Envy 4520 for long time now with no issues at all. Its doing the job amazingly and every day. HP also doing great job on their instant ink program. Having it on all my HP printers and no complains at all. Very thoughtful and wisely priced. Back to this Envy Pro 6455: It is a newer model with the same high quality product and accurate printing. Setting it up was very easy using the phone app (I did it using iOS and repeated it with Android). iOS seems to get it easier but both did the job. After installing the printer and connecting it to the WiFi, it is ready to work... It is fairly quite and smooth printing and scanning. HP honestly did great on that. The Envy Pro 6455 has minimalist interface which honestly not really appreciated (by me at least) I like when they have the comprehensive LCD for more access and stand alone functionalities. This printer would require the use of a smart phone device to do the job properly. Scanner glass is well placed. Scanning paper feeder is working nice. in the 2 days usage, I never had a jam. It seems to do the job properly. I had the printer installed in a farther corner of the office (reasonably away from wifi router) and it was able to connect without issues. Phone app interface is really easy to use and working fairly fine. I have all the HP printers linked and I can monitor them all. It even alerts about low paper before you run out. Back to Instant Ink, HP is offering the starting program for about $3 a month for 50 pages with unused rollover up to 100 pages. After that you pay about $1 per 10 pages when you go over. All that while offering high (HP original) Ink and after sale support in case the cartridge have issues (it happened once in the 3 years). HP offers free 24 months of mobile fax with this Envy Pro 6455. It might be something some people like to have. I tried to mess around it and it looks like you can only send faxes but can't receive. It would definitely be more useful if it works both ways. Any way, it is a service that you might need one day. Some institutes still use fax only to send documents... I would recommend this for daily usage. Good for printing small to average quantity of pages daily. Good and fast WiFi link connection. Fast scanning to computer and relatively quite printing. Fashionable lights and minimalist control (LCD would be better).

Pros: - Sleek clean design. I love how it matches our furniture. - ADF for scanner - Instant Ink program - HP Smart app is easy to use and monitor Cons: - No screen but you can do everything else on the app - initial set up required app download This printer is replacing my aging HP PhotoSmart 7520. It was hands down the best printer ever made. HP Envy Pro 6455 is a good solid printer for everyday printing and a piece of technology that doesn't have to look like a sore thumb in the study room.

The digital renaissance spurred by digital cameras in the early 2000's created the D.I.Y home printing phenomena. As cameras became more advance, printers and ink continued to be expensive. So much that cartridges continue to be a home office manager's budget nightmare. Honestly, I was reluctant at first in obtaining a new printer since the expense cost associated with cartridge printers continue to baffle me. Enter the HP Smart program with Insta Ink, an innovative experiment to keep customers from buying new printers and to share the printing costs through a membership program that allows for the manufacture to know your printing needs thru real time automation. While noble, there are opportunities with HP ENVY 6455. I am going to focus this review on my experience in printing photos only. My first impression when taking it out of the box was favorable. The printer is not too tall and bulky as most scanner printers in the market. This is a low profile scanner. I utilized there HP Smart app, both thru my new Dell laptop and also thru two different smart phones (android and iPhone), and photo paper. I must say that was the easiest app to setup and use. The quality of print output thru my wife's Samsung phone was surprising better than from my laptop, however, her phone did not offer a photo size in the menu options menu, this is a key opportunity for HP's smart app developer's. When printing from my laptop, I was able to choose the size of my photo size print. However, the results from printing from my laptop was disappointing. There were subtle vertical cartridge streaks. Is there a thing? I’ll include an image from an upload of what I mean by vertical lines. That brings me to the only positive thing on this ENVY 6455. The scanner works. It facilitated the opportunity to share with you the vertical streaks. Wow! Not happy with the printing results, but the scanning was amazing. You’ll get to see my disappointment on the poor photo quality. I bought in to the digital renaissance in hopes to be more efficient with my hard copy output in photo printing, however new printers such as ENVY 6455 are built on old cartridge engineering. I get that HP is wanting to gain a foothold with their automation service model, however, that comes at the consumer cost by surrendering more of our privacy and wallet upfront for convenience. Not sure if I’d like to return for seconds when I did not obtain satisfactory printing results in the first place from ENVY 6455. It does beg the question, why have printers continue to be the most replaceable hardware in computer peripherals? I believe now is the best time for consumers to ask for a better printing experience through a complete relook on quality output and not get suckered into a monthly fee service for ink. It’s twenty years in the making. Let the new renaissance begin.

Easy set up. Responds fast and prints very well. I like the size, not too big or bulky. It’s not too loud and has cool color lighting.

Set up ok but don’t bother with the auto ink purchase. After multiple times on the phone and online trying to set it up, frustration prevailed. I will just go buy it at the store. Prints fast but jams frequently. Okay quality. Nice feature that it talks to you and chimes.

I had gotten this printer because my HP Officejet Pro 7612 Wide format died suddenly (print head issues) and needed a replacement while I get my printer fixed. I went to my local best buy and saw that this was all they had in stock and everything else was on back order for about a week or so. So I had no other choice and decided to buy it. I'm not a fan of ink used in this device (HP 67 to be exact). The tri-color is one cartridge and then black for the other. They have given me problem with an early printer I had from HP. I feel this one might do the same. I've printed a few documents and a few photos so far and they are pretty decent not flashy or such. The color of the printer is nice but there is no screen. I kinda like the led light bar it has in the front. The setup sucks you have to have a smart phone and download the HP smart Application (available on the Apple App store and Google Play Store) and make sure you have a reliable wireless connection (Wi-Fi). It's not possible to setup through a computer connection it must be setup first by mobile phone.

I have owned, tested, or used so many printers in my life that it is hard to get worked up for "Another printer". However, after playing with the Envy 6455 Pro I find it quite charming. The app download for my phone as well as the installation of the driver app on my computer were both quick and easy. The scan to feature HP offers is top of the line and for a free device it rivals other top paid editors that are available. The print quality is perfect with crisp coloring and sharp detail. I will say this unit prints slower than its predecessor the 5500 but again it does print much cleaner. Long short, this is a great little printer, but I think this is a great little printer for the "Right" user. If you are looking to print volumes and volumes of pages, then I might suggest the 9000 series. I think this one would be great for a student or occasional use printer. The one thing that is what I referred to as the “Charming” aspect, is the general ambiance it the unit provides. I was wowed by the ambient lighting and cute little chimes of this envy and this is what makes me envision it in a dorm room or kitchen desk. They also removed the touch screens that have become common place and opted for simplicity. I know this is a bit retro in thought, but I think the touch screens tend to be too small and hard to navigate. Again, I have several printers laying around but for our home and the quantity of printing needs we actually have I made this jewel our everyday go to. In addition, I found another novel showcase on the Windows 10 app Play & Learn that takes you to HP’s website and has a wonderful selection of things you can print. From learning resources to cool builds like the home-made planetarium we are working on now. I am a fan of this unit and it this one fits your print needs, I highly recommend.