HP OfficeJet 7612 Wide Format All-in-One Printer with Wireless & Mobile Printing, HP Instant Ink or Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready (G1X85A)

Wow! The package deposited on my front porch by FedEx was really big, and heavy. It came double-boxed (display box by manufacturer inside of perfectly fitted plain brown shipping box.) Unpacking it, I never saw so many protective films and blue tabs to pull off. This thing was very well secured for shipping.The machine itself is significantly smaller and lighter than the box it came in, as the box had considerable cushion space inside. I think half the weight of the shipped package is in the boxes and packing. Still, the printer footprint itself is large enough to take up half a large desk top. I decided to put the boxes back together, turn them upside down, and use the box as a table for the printer. Sure, it is an ugly table, but it beats losing half a desktop or conference table. And I can always put a throw over the box to improve its appearance.I already have an HP OfficeJet 7000 wide format printer, which the 7612 will replace. The reason I upgraded was because the 7000 just prints, and I wanted the wide format scanner of the 7612. What I get in addition is a printer that does e-print, prints from my smart phone, prints from the cloud, prints over WiFi, and prints on the Ethernet -- all simultaneously - you don't have to set one and forego the others . And it also prints on both sides, has a document feeder. and also sends and receives faxes, though I seldom have need for fax anymore.The kicker for the purchase was the sale price -- near the same I paid for the 7000 -- which is one hell of a good deal, especially as the 7000 is two generations back.The 7612 also comes with the rear attachment to do duplex (both sides) printing automatically. That was an unexpected (and pleasant) surprise. No need to handle the paper manually anymore. it also comes with a starter set of ink cartridges - separate cartridge for each ink color --HP 932/932XL BlackHP 933/933XL YellowHP 933/933XL CyanHP 933/933XL MagentaThe ink is expensive, but not as expensive as some other brands. You get a reasonable supply for the price. The XL cartridge provides extra ink.Setup was fairly straightforward and easy, and the instructions are good. I don't think the professional setup option for an extra $50+ is necessary at all (but then I am an engineer and would never dream of calling in a technician :) ). Picking the printer off the floor and putting it on a table or desk is about the hardest thing you will have to do. I'm pushing 75, and it wasn't a struggle for me. Then you pop in all the things that are packed separately: the duplex attachment, and the paper trays, and you are almost done.Then plug the power pak into the printer, and the wall plug into a power source (I plug into my UPS surge protector outlet), an press the ON button. If you are on ethernet, then hook the printer up to your hub, and it can access the internet and upgrade its firmware automatically. If you are wireless, then you have a few more steps to go through first.Once you power it up, Swing the control display screen up so you can read it standing up, and it starts a self-diagnosis. Stand by it, because it is going to ask you some questions (I answered YES to all of them.) When it starts looking for the ink cartridges, swing the top up to access the inside, and the ink tray will come out of its nest and park so you can insert the cartridges. A little panel swings down so you load them. Pay attention to put the colors in the right slots. Swing the little panel back in place, close the machine.Put some paper in the feed tray, and it will then start a process of automatically aligning the printheads, and print out a test sheet. All the paper that the 7612 can print on fit completely in the expandable feeder tray. No need to hand-feed large paper stock. The only con is that you can only store one size paper at a time in the tray. But for the price you pay for the printer, that is a minor inconvenience, as you would have to pay several hundred dollars more for a printer with multiple feed trays.Now it is time to insert the enclosed CD into your PC and load in some drivers so your PC can access the printer. (I then go into my PC's control panel and set the printer as the default, as I have multiple printers to choose from.) If you are wireless, you will probably have to enter the password to your wireless network, so have it ready.Then print something to prove your done.A final word about HP --- Most of my computer related equipment is HP brand. I have had very good luck with HP. I am also reasonably close to an HP-authorized repair shop if need be for warranty service, or for the rare occurrence of an out-of-warranty repair, I recommend this product (if it meets your needs) and I would buy it again.EDIT: (3 FEb2018) Its going on two years now, and not one single problem with this machine. I remain very pleased with it.

I bought this printer on July 1, 2016. It arrived on July 6, 2016. Today, August 23, 2016, Amazon is sending UPS to pick it up and take in back.This review is in three parts: Story, Good, and Bad.The Story is first. We have used another manufacturers printers for 20-25 years, but the current one after several years of service was dying. Since we had good experiences in the past with HP we decided to look at their product line and see if they had what we needed. We wanted to print Letter size to 11" x 17" posters. We wanted to print photographs of various sizes. We wanted to print on card stock or on Avery business cards. Our last printer was an all-in-one. We wanted to print, scan, and copy. Fax was not important. We had ADF and two sided automatic printing of printing, which is sometimes called duplex printing. The HP OfficeJet 7612 Wide Format All-In-One fit that list so I went to the store front of a national chain and ordered one for me to pickup. It arrived. I took it home. It would not turn on. HP Support agreed it was a problem and offered me two unsatisfactory time delaying solutions with one of them involving my credit card. I said no thank you and three hours after I picked it up, I returned it to the store front of a national chain for a full refund.I decided that since I was running out of ink on the old printer, I needed to new one fast. Lemons happen sometimes. HP was given the benefit of the doubt, and I ordered one from Amazon. With Amazon Prime, it came fast. It was unpacked quickly. It turned on. It was set up on our home wireless network quickly. It printed. Some problems were noted over the next week or two. They are covered under the Bad part. Eventually, it was determined that it could not be fixed, and HP offered to send me a refurbished, certified unit. I called Amazon, and they said it was still eligible for return for a full refund. I was done with HP OfficeJet 7612s. UPS is scheduled to pick it up today.What was good? It did print letter, legal, and 11x17 plain paper and did a good job on single sided printing. It printed on card stock and business card paper. It printed photographs. The quality across the board was good. It is big and heavy, but then it has to be if is going to print, scan, and copy large paper sizes. For just letter sized work and photographs up to 8x10, it is overkill. It was bought for the 11x17 so it had to be big.What was bad?It kept saying the printer was off line. It was not consistent. Sometimes it would be on line for days. Other times it went off line after each print job. If you have computers, iPads, and iPhones scattered across the house, walking over to he printer to turn if off and then on so it will be on-line does not cut it for a wireless printer. I looked at HP Support. I learned that a lot of people across a lot of printers have this problem. HP Support had a multi-page, multi-step generic printer how to handle tutorial. Obviously, HP has a problem. I finally Googled their 1-800 number because if it is on their website it is hidden. HP Support did a remote access to my computer. They went it to a device driver and hardcoded the printer's IP address in one of the screens. It eliminated the off line printer problem. Of course, if the wireless network or computer get reconfigured, this may fail again. Interestingly, this was only done to one computer, which is on most of the time. Other computers, iPads, and iPhones stopped encountering the off line printer problem. I do not know if the computer that had the hard coded IP address in it was turned off whether or not the off line printer problem would resurface.I noted that some times my margins when I printed were changed. I did an alignment. It helped in that the problem was know centered. If the margins were changed, it was like they were all changed the same amount. Using Google, I found that a lot of HP 7612 users were having margin problems. The fixes were workarounds and not fixes. HP Support did not seem to be doing very well with the problem. Finally, I saw someone say the margins were only changed when two sided printing was done. Sure enough, the margins were WYSIWYG when I printed a file single sided. When the same document was printed two sided or duplex, margins were increased roughly 25% and all text and pictures shrunk to fit in the remaining space. I Googled for the HP 1-800 number again. HP Support did remote access and looked at all sorts of things. They actually suggested in set narrower margins to compensate for the expansion. I pointed out that type would have to be set bigger as well. It was not a solution. I was not trying to get an immediate print job to print more or less usable. I was trying to make it WYSIWYG. I went through 3 different HP Support people. The first one dropped my call a minute into it. The second one hung in 1 1/2 hours. This person uninstalled the HP software and then reinstalled it. The restart after the reinstall collided with Microsoft Windows Updates in queue. She said she would call back in an hour. An hour and three quarters later I called and got a third person. After a while he said a case manager would get back to me. This was Friday night. Monday morning, the HP Support's Case Manager called. She did the remote access thing and basically repeated what other HP Support personnel had done. She said that the hardware had a problem. They would ship a certified printer to me. I said that I would talk to Amazon.Amazon deserves 5 stars. They are taking the printer back.I can not recommend the HP OfficeJet 7612 to anyone. The off line printer problem can be addressed, but it does look like a problem across their printer product line. The duplex printing is broken. Anyone who things it is a hardware problem may do so, but the data is going to the printer as electronics through the air. The printer is interpreting it and putting in on the page. It looks like software to me. I don't see how a new piece of hardware is going to fix what I believe to be bad software. Based on the information in their own forum, this problem is pretty bad. If you are printing single sided large pieces for the most part, you can live with it. If you are really multi-functional you can't.

I'm a musician and am trying to move away from stacks of books to a digitized music library. The problem is that much of my piano music is printed on pages bigger than 8 1/2 x 11. So I was looking for a decent multifunction device that I could use to scan my music and add to a library such as MusicReader.I just purchased the 7612. The first book I scanned was 9 x 12. I just selected custom page size on the scan menu, and created PDF files. The pdf scans produced were perfect. The one disadvantage, assuming that you are scanning through the feeder rather than the flatbed, is that double sided scanning requires that you run the paper through the scanner twice. The scanning software will automatically put the pages in order, but you still have to run the pages through twice. That's a minor price to pay compared to the low cost of the printer.I also was making large size copies of music for my wife to use in the church choir. In order to save paper, I printed them as double sided 11 x 17 copies. (Scan to PDF. Print from Adobe Reader with 11 x 17 as the paper size and "Fit" as the option.) The double sided option worked just fine.