HP Envy 110 e-All-in-One Printer (Brown)

I really like the idea that it has apps to print from. It is small and clean. I can print from my iPad, have a fax number without a land line to send and receive. Great so far.

Picked one of these printers up because I wanted a printer in my family room, where I do most of my computer work. Most of what I looked at seemed to be a few metal parts and lots of cheap plastic. When I picked up the HP Envy printer, I immediately felt the difference. Heavy and solid construction. The looks of the printer are unlike any other I have seen. It looks more like a DVD player than a printer. It fits into my living area, while other printers looked like office equipment - not what I wanted in my family room. Unboxing the unit showed that the packaging was high quality and the printer had its own bag keeping it safe from scratches. Hookup consisted of plugging in the electric cable and turning the printer on. From there, the printer guided me through the setup, including telling me when to insert the ink cartridges and how to set up the wireless connection. The only thing I needed to have was my network security password, as I have a secured Wi-fi network. Connected to the network 1st time after I keyed in the password. Installing the software on my computer was quick and easy. No surprises, but HP does load their installation with a bunch of junk you probably dont want. Just deselect anything you dont want installed. Everything works fine. Usual good quality prints and scans. The printer found some firmware updates and asked me if I wanted them installed. I did and they went in without any problem. Same for an update to the computer software for the printer. This printer uses two ink cartridges - black and a color. I like this approach as the cartridge design has the print heads in the cartridge. Change inks and you get a new print head each time. I have used several other brands of ink jet printers that have permanent print heads as part of the printer. These always tend to clog for me, over time. With the HP cartridge design used here, I have never had bad prints, or clogged print heads on the other Photo printer I have from HP. Ive also used HP inkjets at work for years and they just print - day in and day out. Some find a benefit to having separate ink cartridges for each color. Ive had two printers with this arrangement and found that I was replacing the various colors at about the same time. The extra parts just amounted to extra things that could go wrong, and added cost. The HP Envy printer has some neat features like the touch screen and the retractable paper catcher. While neat features, they seem to be likely problem areas down the road (after the mfg warranty expires), so I bought an extended warranty on the printer - giving me 4 years of coverage. Hope this printer works long term as good as it looks out of the box. HP did a great design job, integrating an office device into a home environment.

Great! Use it all the time. First wireless printer we ever bought! Wish it had a regular fax along with E-Fax, but I guess thats why its called wireless!

The design of this printer is beautiful; its the nicest looking printer Ive seen. Unfortunately, for actually printing it is the worst printer we have owned. There are numerous issues with printing from OS X Lion, many of which HP seems to be aware of as they have been commented on in the HP support forums for many months. Example issues: - Printer loses connection with the Mac (this appears to be an issue with both OS X Snow Leopard and with Lion). HPs solution is uninstall the printer and reinstall it, which does resolve the issue UNTIL the next time you go to print, and once again you have to uninstall and reinstall the printer. - Changing simple options on the print dialog (e.g. print in black & white only) results in about 80% of the page printing, and then the printer hangs with an unintelligible alpha-numeric error message that HP support doesnt even seem to be able to figure out - By default the printer ships enabling automatic updates to the printer firmware if the printer is connected to the Internet. A potentially very nice feature, which unfortunately for a fair number of users results in the printer freezing up partially through the update. Only way to get this resolved is to ship the printer back to HP. We were hoping that when the replacement printer arrived, the other issues would have been resolved. Unfortunately, this new printer suffers from the same issues. HP support did recommend that we turn off the automatic printer updates. Oddly, about the only thing that works reliably on this printer is printing from iPad and iPhone! Just today after trying to print the same doc from the Mac to the HP four times with no success, I switched and printed it from the iPad. It worked fine. My advice is avoid HP if you have a Mac.

I admired the design of the original Envy 100 but held off on buying one. I just went ahead with the updated 110 model this past weekend. The printer was a breeze to set up. My PC established an ad hoc wi-fi network with it and securely transmitted at my primary home networks info securely to the printer itself and then switched both back to my regular wi-fi network (802.11g with WPA2). After that completed, the printer just worked without requiring any configuration on the printer itself. Printing from my laptop or from my iPhone works perfectly. Earlier reviews had talked about the tray and panel not closing properly - that all seems to be working fine for me. The printer is almost silent in its operation. Its so sleek and stylish that it looks perfectly in place sitting on an side table in my living room. I havent used the e-fax feature yet but am glad to have it. For the occasional sending or receiving of faxes, being able to do so without a land line is a welcome feature. It costs a bit more but the design and operation are superior to the inexpensive options, in my opinion.

item did not work. I returned it and was told that the serial number did not match the serial number on the product. I am still waiting for it to be returned to me, as they are not reimbursing me.

I have owned this for several years now. Never a problem printing, copying or scanning. Looks like a fine piece of equipment on my desk. It does so much more than print, copy and scan, but I have no use for the other functions. You can fax from it, and it communicates with iPhone and iPad well. To be honest, I really dont avail myself of all its features. If you are like me, you might want to forgo the bells and whistles. Also, even on the most efficient settings, it uses a lot of ink. The ink is not refillable so be prepared to buy new ones each time. It also doesnt do well unless you are buying the genuine HP ink.

Pros - A great printer for the price black text good, color - so so - scans as it should, faxing a little laborious to set up and get going and some e fax number at the end of the internet to use. Setup was easy and it worked great. I figured I had a winner. Have owned it 2 years with no problems - except Cons - Ink. This is my biggest beef. I started using after market recyclable ink which is cheaper and works just great. What happens is that a window pops up and says that the ink is not compatible with the printer and that your out of ink. Rather than check anything inside this window I just x-ed the window and closed it. Ergo - my daughter shows up and wants to print something, the box pops up and she clicks the OK section rather than close the box. Now - the printer will not align itself, it will not print in color and the black text is not as good as it once was. In my opinion this is a little bit of manufactured supplied malware purposely designed and installed to have the effect of what I just described. In other words its a bit of self destruct so that they can sell more printers and ink. Now shopping for another printer, I suspect that HP is not the only manufacturer doing this.

Works great. Looks good. Buy it. You wont be sorry.

I had an Epson printer before this that printed better quality photos, but it ate through ink like crazy and the print quality worsened dramatically over time. I have owned this machine for about a year. I dont think it would print high enough quality photos from it that you would frame them and hang them, but how often do you really do that? Our family, not too often. What this printer does do however is, so far, print pretty reliably regular household printing. It has a number of pretty good features: Its quiet; you can print from your iPhone and iPad (nice); its simple as pie to set up on your home wifi; as an HP, pretty sure everything out there has a driver for it; and, its easy enough to scan. Over all, its a very solid printer. Further, I have the brown color and its pretty good looking. Why is it all of our electronics gray and black anyhow? The brown looks pretty good in the home office. I also dont think the ink bill is too bad, an opinion I have not always had of HP. Just buy the XL size and the genuine ink. I bought the refurbished ones to try to save money, the printer recognized it, complained on refused to print with them- seriously! Anyhow, that was a waste, but I like the machine enough to forgive it. (HP Envy 100 e All-in-One Printer)