HP OfficeJet Pro 8610,Color All-in-One Wireless Printer with Mobile Printing, HP Instant Ink or Amazon Dash replenishment ready (A7F64A)

I have only had this printer one week, so i will edit the review if necessary in the future.I got it for home use (non-business), i would say i print several times a day on average, i do not often use color printing, i fax fairly regularly and occasionally scan (but this printer is easier to scan with so i will probably use it more).This is the most recent in a long list of HP inkjet printers I've had, most of them all in ones, going back to the 90s. They have all been long lasting until my previous one, the OfficeJet 6600. I loved that all in one, it met my needs perfectly, was well designed and included great features. A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of a print job without any previous symptoms, it suddenly died. It was a print head failure, according to HP. Unfortunately, it was only a couple months past 2 years old. On the other hand, it only cost about $114 including tax so not terribly painful. I remember not that long ago having to pay over $300 for an HP all in one, such as the OfficeJet 6500 i had, or the 6400. Those lasted a long time. Years and years.When i went to Staples to get a replacement a couple of weeks ago, i didn't like the size of the 8610 which i had gone there to get, and then i saw the 6830. Since i was happy with my 6000 printers i'd had before, and since it was a more compact size, and it cost the same as the 6600, about $114 including tax, i chose to get that one instead of the 8610, which cost $140 before tax at Staples.It was easy to set up and had new features the 6600 didn't have, and everything tested out ok, but then a few days later, it developed glitches with scanning and with faxing, to the point of not functional. I wanted to like that printer, i wanted it to work. But it was clearly too glitchy, i had not had those kinds of problems with previous printer/all in ones.So, i ordered the 8610 from Amazon with Prime to get it fast, and when it arrived, i returned the 6830 to Staples. The Staples price for the 8610 was $140 before tax. Amazon was $100, so no contest about that.It is clearly a more sturdy solid printer than the 6830, i can feel the difference, it has shown no glitchiness of any kind. It does everything i need reliably and fast, set up was fast and easy. All functions work well. The only remaining questions are about reliability, will it last. I like it so much though that i immediately bought a Canopy protection plan policy on Amazon for it, 3 years protection for about $6.50. It covers everything after the manufacturer's warranty expires at one year (or two with HP, i think), and if your printer breaks down, they quickly issue you an amazon gift card to buy another comparable printer. Hopefully that will get me quickly back in business if a print head fails again.i do not have any problem with the size of the 8610. It fits in the same snug spot where i have kept my other smaller printers, and i don't notice a difference, it was easy to get used to the change.The only things that, if i had it to do over, i would spend the extra $30 and get the 8620 (i didn't realize it had these differences) is that, one, the 8620 has a much larger display, which is useful to me, and two, the 8610 does not do two sided copies of two sided originals, i did not realize that. It does two sided copying but only of one sided input. But these are not deal breakers for me, i'm happy with the 8610 because it's solid and has worked perfectly out of the box, and i rarely use two sided printing. The larger display is important to me because i fax, but not that often--probably twice a month on average, 2-3 times a month, and having more room to punch the numbers would help---but i do not know if the 8620 has more roomy number spacing or it's just a larger display that can fit more on it. That may or may not be a difference that would matter to me.I don't take a star off for these things because the 8610 is a very low priced printer and wasn't advertised as having anything different than what it has. So far, it seems to be a very good value for the price.If i have any problems or any other new info about this printer, i will edit the review, but i am very happy with it so far, and could not say the same about the 6830.

This is a great "all-in-one-printer." And for this price (under $100), it's a steal! As a retired Microsoft MCSE and former IT Administrator for a small Midwest county, I have dealt with HP printers for over 30 years. I've worked on IBM Line printers and Selectric Wheel printers, DEC Chain printers, laser, ribbon, and thermal printers, but for the home/office, inkjet printers offer a great value. When my old HP OfficeJet All-In-One bit the dust after 18 good years of printing, scanning and copying, after due diligence, I settled on this model, the HP OfficeJet Pro 8610. While it came with a set-up CD-ROM, I simply plugged it in using the USB port on my iMAC (Yes, I made my living servicing Microsoft networks, but learned enough to have an Apple Mac at home) the printer downloaded the newest software drivers for OS X and I was good to go within 10 minutes. The HP software will want you to download and use their scanner software, but I found that Apple's OS X Preview app works just fine to scan in documents (in a PDF file format - if you want an OCR image you will need to secure a third-party app for your platform), and images are just as easy, in TIF, JPG, PNG, GIF as well as BIT Mapped. The unit has a large LCD instruction screen that makes it easy to operate manually, especially the copy function. It has a very convenient sheet feeder (something my old HP All-In-One did not have) for the copy function, and it works well with a pile of 12 pages, copied 4 times with collation. It will print a very reasonable JPG image on Glossy Photo Paper (although your local drugstore or big-box store is much cheaper if you want more than one copy). The paper tray also converts to handle envelopes every easily',Now, as with ALL inkjet printers, and especially with HP inkjets (they invented the inkjet medium waaaaay back in the 1980s), it has always been a question of the cost of the ink cartridges. They are outrageously expensive. And this printer uses four (4) separate cartridges; black, cyan, magenta and yellow. The JPG photo prints look great, but that's nearly $75 in inkjet cartridges. And HP is notorious for sending "starter" cartridges with new printers that are only good for a few pages before you have to buy new, full, HP cartridges. If the astronomical cost of inkjet cartridges is your main concern about a new printer, an HP printer is not for you. However, they may have got our message about holding us for ransom over the inkjet cartridges. A new program they call "Instant Ink" might be the answer. For a small monthly subscription fee, they will monitor the ink levels on the printer (of course an Internet connection either via ethernet or Wi-Fi is mandated for this service) and send you new ink a little before you need it. For my home/office printing needs, a less than $5 a month subscription fee is adequate. Seems like a bargain to me. And you have no idea how upset I got when I learned that each inkjet printer cartridge comes with a "hard wired" expiration date. So HP will not replace the unused, dried-up, never-before-opened, nonfunctioning ink cartridge stored on my shelf which I purchased at great expense so I could readily replace the cartridge in my printer and continue to print my project at 3 AM in the morning. It has an expiration date. Image that. I checked at the local OfficeMax and the new genuine HP ink cartridges they had for sale were all within 6 months of expiration. And of course, the printing software knows the cartridge is expired and won't load it in the printer. This frustration will never happen with the "Instant Ink" program.Now setting up the wireless printing via Wi-Wi is almost as easy as the wired version. Almost. The big thing is the putting in the SSID WPA2 key. This, of course, can be up to 128 bytes long. As long as you can remember your WPA2 key, no problem. After I put the printer (and you can rename it something that sounds like it's supposed to belong on your private Wi-Fi network) on my home Wi-Fi network, I then searched for it on my wife's Windows 10 laptop and set it up all from the Internet. In the Wi-Fi mode, this printer works just fine. There is even an option to give the printer it's own email address, so you can forward any email to it for printing. Nice. And printing from an Andriod or Apple phone is simple as well.This is a great home/office printer which originally cost nearly $300. It has almost every bell-and-whistle I know. At its present price, buy​ it.