HP ENVY 6055e Wireless Color Inkjet Printer, Print, scan, copy, Easy setup, Mobile printing, Best-for-home, 3 months of Instant Ink included,white

I needed a printer for the odd occasional use for a MacBook. I had an old envy 4500 that was about 10 years old that finally tanked. I read the reviews here and at first I was concerned but I decided to go for it because the other printers were way too much for the few print jobs I need to do.The printer was easy to set up, remove the packaging materials and turn it on. (I tend to not print out the alignment sheet because it burns through the color ink). The printer has a cycling glowing purple light and it sleeps in a low blue light with a green light on the side. I just turn the printer off when not in use. It has a button for color copies and a button for black and white copies. A cancel button, and an info button--no display, it's very basic.I purchased a USB printer cable also on Amazon and plugged the printer into my Mac (should work with Windows too). Note, once you plug into the printer cable, it seems that connecting to WiFi is disabled.From there, you can get to the printer's web page which lets you play with all the settings. I turned on web print and disabled blue tooth (which I believe is used by the HP app that I didn't install).That's it. I can still print remotely to the printer from the sofa via web print, or print directly from my plugged in Mac.I didn't install any apps, I didn't get the printer on WiFI to get it talking to HP, and I didn't subscriber to any ink subscription service.Super easy. I hope this is useful for someone to make an informed decision for their printing needs.I would recommend to a friend and I would purchase this again.

After carefully reviewing all the options on printers, I chose this one for its features and size. After 7 days (exactly), the printer started throwing an error that the ink cartridges that came with it were incompatible. This because I declined the 'HP Instant Ink' program. The lo-jack to monitor your ink and paper usage so they can continue to market to you rather than just buying new ink cartridges when you need them. Anyway - the factory installed cartridges are Instant Ink cartridges and whether they are empty or not, apparently after 7 days they stop working. So I had two options. Sign up for HP Instant Ink or buy 'regular' ink cartridges. I decided to play the HP Instant Ink game and followed the instructions to set that up. But the printer refused to print the required sheet with the code on it and after 45 minutes of restarts and frustration, I got on chat with HP, an enormous time waster.It took more than 2 hours to troubleshoot the machine, with 4-5 minute response time to every response I provided. Things like 'unplug it, wait 15 seconds and plug it back in'. So that takes approximately 30 seconds. 5 minutes later, I got my next instruction. After painfully sitting through this cycle with 'Mike', the machine started throwing a 'carriage stall' error. Eventually, after more groundbreaking solutions like 'turn it off and back on' and 'take the cardboard out of the carriage stall area' (yeah, on a printer I used without trouble for 7 days - THERE IS NO CARDBOARD IN IT), Mike deemed the machine unrepairable and offered to send a new one. I opted for this over sending it back to Amazon because I had already thrown away the packaging.So 6 days later the new printer comes. I have SOMEHOW signed up for Instant Ink with the original, now on its way back to HP, so I followed the install instructions very carefully, to make sure everything was coordinated. Seemed to work fine. At first.The printer has worked for about 4 days now. And several times a day, the HP 'Smart' App (which if I'm being honest is really not an appropriate name) tells me the printer is offline, or status unavailable, requiring a restart every time I go to use it. My computer hasn't gone to sleep, I'm actively using it, and the printer is 'offline'. Jobs stay in the print queue, stalled forever, until I unplug the printer - since there doesn't seem to be an actual power button.I refuse to call HP back again, because I don't have another 3 hours to waste for 5 minutes worth of guidance. At this point, I'm ready to send this thing back to HP and buy a Canon. But I'm without packaging and now the Instant Ink people have allegedly sent my first approved printer cartridge set. I'm in too deep. The print quality is fine. But that's pretty useless when it won't stay connected. I've tried to use the HP Smart App from my phone and more than 50% of the time I get a 'printer blocked' message.Seriously the worst printer I've ever had.

Reading previous reviewers' comments, I prepared to set up this printer with lots of headaches. The reality could not have been farther from the truth. I followed the included instructions to set up using a computer and was up and running in less than a half hour.When I tried to use the automatic wifi identifier, it did not work to find the password for my wifi, so that did not work. I backed up and manually input the wifi password and the rest was pretty much automatic. This printer is replacing an older HP printer, for which I had the automatic ink refill plan and the HP Smart software (app?) picked up all the information from the old printer and replaced the ink plan for this new machine.My first sample print was the alignment page, which worked properly and quickly. I then tested a few black print pages resulting in very sharp, clear print. Next, I sent a picture from my iPhone SE (2020). The picture formatted quickly and printed quickly and clearly although I was using plain paper.So, I am very happy with this printer. The setup went quickly and well, the printing is sharp and quick and the machine is the quietest printer I have ever owned -- and I've had plenty over the years.