HP Envy Photo 7155 All-in-One Photo Printer with Wireless Printing, Instant Ink, Works with Alexa (K7G93A)

So far, I'm really happy with this printer. The print quality is good. I was easily able to print to it from my Macbook, a Dell laptop, an HP laptop, and from both my wife and my iPhones. I printed a photo directly from an iPhone - it was really easy to do and the print quality on the 4x6 photo paper (that it has a separate tray for) was outstanding. I scanned a photo as a *.jpg file and a legal pleading as a *.pdf file, and both digital files looked great. The touchscreen works fine and is easy to read, but aside from using the "Copy" button to copy/print something on the scanner, I doubt I'll use it much. Most of my print jobs will come from a computer (or even my phone). There wasn't a user manual, or even a remotely helpful "quick start" guide - but it was so easy, I didn't even bother to go online and download the user manual until well after I started using the printer, and I frankly haven't even looked at it yet. There's a piece of paper included with directions to go to a website to download drivers - I had no problems following the directions once on the website to download the drivers for my Macbook and the HP laptop . . . I tried to print something from my Dell laptop before installing the driver - the Dell found the printer on its own, and I was able to print from it without installing a driver. You also should download the HP Smart App and install it on your devices. This app gives you access to various functions of the printer (e.g., scan, print, fax, print photo, etc.) and there's a nice image depicting your the ink level in the Black and Tri-color cartridges. I'm not sure if it is going to take a lot of ink - I've only had it up and running for about a week, and I haven't used it extensively. I'm still using the small cartridges that come with the printer and there's about 3/4ths ink left in both cartridges. I suspect it will guzzle ink, but the cartridges are standard and appear to be readily available on Amazon (I bought a couple along with the printer) and it won't get high-volume use at my house. They encourage you to sign up for some "Instant Ink" deal where they automatically send you cartridges on a schedule you establish, but I declined that option. So far, the ONLY thing about it that I'm not happy with is it doesn't have a auto-document feeder. If you need to make a copy of a 10 page report, you have to copy each individual page. I was aware it didn't have this feature when I bought it (they don't hide that if you read the product description) but I still wish it had it! The printer looks great, it's compact, it's light . . . because it doesn't physically connect to your computer (the connection is via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) you can easily move it to a different room if you want. It seems to me this is a really fantastic printer for the price. It's perfect for home and home-office use.

Set up was really simple, you just have to follow the directions on the screen and continue the setup on your cellphone or computer. The printer came with the 2 cartridges of ink already. For some reason my black one was damaged or something because it would not print even though it said it was full. I tried everything on the support website and it still wouldn’t work. It was very inconvenient....but during set up you get the option to sign up for instant ink. You get 4 months free if you sign up right then. So that’s what I did...I’ll probably cancel after that though because it looks expensive, especially if you don’t keep track of how much you print. Anyway, I got some new ink in the mail a week later which was pretty cool because I didn’t even request it or do anything. The printer has been working very well since I changed the cartridges. It also comes with a small sample of glossy 4x6 photo paper. I’ve printed a few pictures already and it works great. The print quality of regular documents is very good, also. I like that it has a little tray to put in the paper. It holds a good amount so you don’t have to keep refilling it often. The printer is wireless but you do have the option of a wired connection, you just need to buy the cable because it’s not included. It has a lot of features my favorite being that you can scan to your email as well as print wirelessly from your phone wherever you are in the house. Overall, I’m happy with my purchase.

I will preface this review with my background... I have worked in IT for 20 years, and have done more printer installs than I can count. While this definitely was not the biggest install headache that I have encountered, it also was not the easiest... Total time to get the printer operational on my home network was 1 hour, 10 minutes. The printer ships with no software, and no true quick start guide... Which I am fine with: provided that the downloaded install software from HP's website is easy to access and installs everything, problem-free (did not turn out to be the case). I needed to install the printer on 1 Windows 7 PC, 2 Windows 10 PC's, and 1 android smartphone. The Windows 7 install went SMOOTH AS GLASS. Everything connected, downloaded, and installed 100%, just as advertised, with no problems, and took no more than 10 minutes . The Windows 10 installs were a different story... One of the PC's kept hanging while in the HP "Easy" Connect software. This usually would occur while trying to identify the printer on the network; however my network connection was fine, and I could access everything including the internet with no problems. Finally, after battling with it for a while, the software does give you the option to skip the identification process, and just download the drivers. Despite multiple warnings that the printer may not work properly, etc... This route eventually did get me connected, with everything working fine. On the other Windows 10 PC, the network identification (after a couple tries) did properly work; however the driver download inexplicably bombed out with just 7% to go... Apparently, the HP easy app download gives you no way the resume the broken download, so I was forced to start over. After another strange issue during download, I resorted to copying/pasting the Win 10 driver from the 1st Windows 10 PC, and installing it manually onto the 2nd PC... This got everything working on that machine. The smartphone install required an app download, and a settings change for the printer app (went pretty smooth). Then, while I was in the process of creating an HP account login, the app hung right when I clicked the "Create account" button... This left me unsure of whether the account was actually created, or if the install had completed on the phone... The answers turned out to be yes and yes, but I only figured that out later during one of the PC installs, when I re-entered the account info. HP has some work to do on its Easy connect software, particularly on the Win 10 side of things. After the installs were complete, the printer was up and running with no problems. I thought that it printed both text and photos relatively quickly with good quality. On the scanning side of things, the software is flexible, allowing you multiple format options. Nice features and apps on the printer itself, including Google Drive printing which will come in handy. I'd recommend this printer provided that you have some base technical knowledge, and the patience to work through issues during installation.

After 7 years of owning this printer I'm looking to update my setup and can't find a better all around solution than this model. The newer model (7255e) seems to be a little larger and not any better, though since its amazingly being sold for $50 less than this one, I guess I'll give it a try...

Inexpensive and does the job. Easy to hook up with wifi.