HP Deskjet 2630 All-in-One Printer, Instant Ink with 2 Months Trial

What a great little Printer/scanner/copier for the office and the 3 month free instant ink becomes 5 months when you use the codes gGFLP and FREEINK. For the price this Printer is cheaper than a set of Cartridges on my old Noisy Canon. Its easy to set up, just plug in and set up the printer, install ink cartridges, download the software from HP then initially plug in the USB cable so it recognises the Printer via the PC. Its all seamless and tells you its found the printer and then at the end you can download the software and drivers with ether basic or full options. Once you have the printer recognised on the Network then all other PCs Laptops etc will recognise it without a USB cable as long as you download the software, There is a useful HP App for Apple or Android and that just recognises it as well. The Printer is fairly quiet and very compact, Nice colour accent as well, Its typical plastic but for the price its all reasonable quality and works well. This is the 2nd HP printer we have with the Free Ink and for the initial period its worth maxing out the pages a month as its easy to change anytime to lesser and on our home one I reduced it after the free trial to 100 pages a month. The HP instant ink website gives you all the details right down to daily usage and even produces VAT invoices. Just bear in mind that if you cancel the Instant Ink later on the the cartridges they have sent you will not work and you will need to buy normal ones. The delivery is fast and efficient and they send you a set soon after you register so you have a spare set in the drawer and wont suddenly run out! I am quite an HP fan with their desktops in the office as well and another printer that lasted over 10 year! They are always reliable and well priced. The ink method might not suit everyone if you are a sporadic occasional printer but for most its great and for Photo enthusiasts or students its so cheap to print as you have the ability to print hundreds of A4 Colour Pages or photos every month for nothing for 5 months - The system is purely priced per sheet regardless of ink use so even when paying its only 2.7p per print. Hope that helps in a decision :-) I have has some poor experiences over the years with non brand cartridges and this avoids that risk.

After moving house, I was looking for an all-in-one printer/scanner/photocopier that would save on space whilst providing all the functionality within one, plus it had to be wireless for ease of printing.I managed to purchase this printer in the Black Friday Sale and got it at a fraction of the price - it was cheaper than John Lewis' price in their BF Sale, so I was very pleased.After reading through many reviews for this printer, I was sceptical on the installation instructions - however, when the printer arrived, installation took 20 mins, it was quite simple. I use PCs everyday and whilst I am not an IT guru, I can say that if you are comfortable with clicking install and typing in your WiFi password etc, set up will be fine.Setting up the HP App on my phone was easy and as long as the Bluetooth and WiFi is on, I can send anything I want from my phone or PC straight to the printer. It provides good quality printing and is very quick and efficient - I only use this for home office use - i.e. no photographic prints.The printer and App alerts you when the printer ink gets low which is a bonus - so no more waiting for something to print only to find that it hasn't printed! There is a setting where you can have your ink sent to your home when it gets low, but I prefer to buy the ink online as it works out more cost effective.The only con is - when you replace the ink, the printer wants to print a few test pages and you have to scan these in each time so the printer can be calibrated - annoying !I would recommend this printer to anyone looking to buy an all-in-one printer.

For the £29 special offer, this really was a no-brainer to buy. The set-up was pretty easy - about 15 mins to have up/running - but the first sign of oddity surfaced when the password you're sent to access the Instant Ink feature arrived with an accompanying note in German ! (I'm English and I live in France...)The niggles: Duplex printing - which would've been an important plus - is possible, but involves a lot of faffing around printing odd numbered pages and then even numbered ones. And as far as I can make out, the only way to scan a multiple-page document is via an app which is easy enough to download and use, but takes an age to fire-up. Then there's the fact that the printer will only wirelessly connect to a 2.4GHz network, so tough luck if you've got a dual band router like mine, which uses the 5GHz network as the default. No USB cable in the box - but you should - like me - be able to use the cable from your old printer. A power lead is supplied - and I should think so too. The paper feed - carefully ignored in all the marketing pix you'll see on Amazon and elsewhere - airbrushes over that there's an external gravity-fed paper feeder, that doesn't hold much.On the upside, the Instant Ink feature - if it does what it says on the box - could be a big money-saving plus. And it's very easy to access and set up, despite ordering the unit from Amazon UK and using the French ink service. The unit is neat, compact, and easy on the eye. It seems solid and well-built too. And so far it's basically worked just fine and holds onto a wireless connection really well. However I'm not that heavy a printer user, so if you are - esp if you print a lot of photos or illustrated documents - you might need something with a bit more oomph.Bottom line though is the really rock-bottom price and that it seems pretty good basic workhorse.