The entire printer arrives taped everywhere to prevent any trays or doors opening and being potentially damaged. The power cord and ink cartridges are tucked under the top printer tray feed area. You simply pull straight up on the handles, and the printer comes easily out of the box so that you can set it on a flat surface, roll the sides of the bag down around the printer and then grab the printer itself for easy placement in its permanent location. Then, the printer itself is contained inside a very strong, clear plastic bag which has handles cut into the plastic. The printer is nestled inside four separate pieces of styrofoam, two of which you simply pull straight up on to remove from the box after you open it. Unpacking was a pleasure, despite me being 50 years old with several herniated disks and no assistance available at the time that I opened the box. When the black ran out I did before and after of the ink display to see the loss for swapping the black cartridge (no printing at all between the 2 shots below)- note the loss of color ink after replacing the black. Reading other notes on the net the printer uses chip technology to reject 3rd party ink you might be inclined to use since the branded "pricey" cartridges perform so poorly. I always use Epson ink for the theoretical quality and consistency. The new cartridges I bought were Epson brand 802 and were the only new cartridges ever in the printer. The initial cartridge plus changing them had printed 299 pages (138 of those color) and 3 of the 4 new cartridges are significantly lower than 80% with no printing at all. (see image, you can guess what one I replaced last) I replace cartridge #4 (the last one) and after it finishes cartridge #4 is full, #3 is 60%,#2 is a bit over 50% and cartridge #1 is 50%. Now 1 is down 20%, 2 is down 10% and 3 is full. I replace #3 and it does its thing and empties cartridge #4. Now a 3rd cartridge was empty and the first one I replace is down 10%. So I put in new cartridge #2 and it did its thing. After changing cartridge #1 and the printer doing the things it does when you put in a new cartridge another one was empty. This thing guzzles ink! The first time my cartridges were getting low I replaced the one that ran out. Other times it prints half on one sheet and then the "front page" is halfway down so the top is printed on the "back" page and the bottom is at the top of the "front" page. Some of the time the one that gets printed on is the "front" page and there is a blank behind it.
Mine has issues pulling multiple pieces of paper when printing. It was easy to setup, does decent scanning and printing.
The HP laser was a great printer but the picture print was not good enough for the kids school homework. I bought this after comparing the image printout color and quality with other ink jets and a color HP laser.
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