HP ENVY 6055 Wireless All-in-One Printer, Mobile Print, Scan & Copy, HP Instant Ink ready, Works with Alexa (5SE16A)

It's a printer and it prints. I bow before this printer's printing prowess. You might as well ask for a unicorn these days when you go printer hunting, because the last two printers I've owned wouldn't print. Yes, I know how to work a printer. But there are issues with certain Brother machines playing nicely with Macs, and if I'd had any hair left to pull out after the maelstrom that is 2020, I'd have pulled it out already with my last two machines.If you want a printer that can print in black and white and color, this is it.If you want a printer that can print double sided, this is it.If you want a printer that you can print from wirelessly and from your phone but also via USB if you feel like it, this is it.If you want a printer that can also scan and copy, this is it.If you want a printer that does not require printing a test page before every printing job, this is it.If you want a printer that your cat will attack for absolutely no reason except that she can not stand the blue light that's sometimes visible at night, and is wide enough for said cat to sit on and feel dominant over as if she won the blue light war, this is also it.If you want a printer that you can unplug because your toddler likes to drain your entire black cartridge by scanning a blank piece of paper and then printing it out as a full black 8.5X11 sheet, and when you plug it back in again after they go to bed so you can print out your time-sensitive project IT ACTUALLY CAN FIND THE WIFI by itself without you having to download a driver, uninstall the entire printer and then wait for an hour on hold with tech support, this is definitely it.Buy this printer, give them your money, give them more money and then make sacrifices of paper and ink to this printer for the gift of Just Printing that it gives to you. Throw your old machine into the nearby volcano that 2020 will undoubtedly randomly provide, and give thanks for the crops that grow and the sun that shines on this printer. It survives being unplugged, attacked by cats, printing entire sheets of only black ink, and power outages. And it still just connects to the internet and prints. By itself.I print from my phone. I print from my laptop wirelessly AND wired, if I want. I unplug it and sic my cat and toddler on it, and THEN plug it back in and print from my phone from in the shower with my phone in a waterproof bag while standing on my head, and it will still print. I print with only five sheets of paper in the tray, and I print double sided or in black and white. I also print double sided AND in black and white, just because I can. And you, my friend, can as well. Just buy this printer, and all this magic is yours. Yes, the cartridges are sometimes hard to find. Yes, the subscription ink thing feels scammy and ick, but just buy the cartridges off here or from Staples or something, and it's all good because it PRINTS.Cue Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.

Here's the short version of my review:Impressed so far. All in all, I wouldn't hesitate to buy this little guy again, it does everything I need and it's reliable and looks very sleek next to my desk.~The longer version:The lack of a screen can be a touch cumbersome upon initial WiFi network setup, you really need the app on your phone to do it, but after that it's great.WiFi printing works great and rather quickly once set up properly. Full sized glass on top for copying/scanning, which works very nice. Print quality is great for text and colors. I've printed enough to go through the first set of inks it came with. I haven't tried high-def pictures, this is only for text documents, charts, and other standard printing in my house.The app is handy and fairly easy to navigate. Not perfect, but what app ever is perfect?Has a nice gentle blue glow on the paper tray when all is well (not as bright as my pic makes it appear, it's gentle). Has a nice red X button that lights up when printing in case you need to cancel. The blue WiFi icon stays lit as long as it's connected. Has a handy fold-out paper catch when printing so papers don't fall on the floor, but it folds up out of the way nicely as shown in my pic.The setup 'manual' comes with some cheat codes for setup and such since there's no screen ("press and hold this button for 3 seconds to do this", that kinda thing).Ink replacement is easy, if you ever replaced ink before this is similar to many HPs, they just sorta plug in.~Instant Ink:I went ahead with the trial for Instant Ink and so far I really like the process. It's auto-renew. Think cell phone minutes. For a fairly low monthly price (you decide how may pages you think you'll print in a month) your printer tells HP when the ink is low and they mail you new cartridge(s) before you run out. Includes a prepaid box & label to mail your old ones back.Remains to be seen if Instant Ink is something I stick with. Like any subscription you have to wonder what's the best deal, will I pay monthly and not actually be using as much as I'm paying for, or will I get overages (but in all fairness they make those situations easy too)....or is this actually cheaper than the old order-when-I'm-out process...I am in the process of figuring all that out right now, but $5-10/month isn't bad in my book since I do a fair amount of work-at-home printing and I don't have to wait w/ dry cartridges for Amazon to deliver my new ones because I forgot to order them in time, or drive to Staples.So to restate my initial sentence, I'd buy this again. This little guy serves me well, was affordable, and looks very sleek in my home office, yet isn't so small that it feels like a toy. Nowhere near as big & bulky as the old brown HP all-in-one I used to have. In other words- darn near perfect!