HP Smart Tank 5000 Wireless All-in-One Ink Tank Printer, Scanner, Copier with 2 years of ink included, Best-for-home, Refillable, AI-enabled (5D1B6A)

I got this printer for college and for my small business and it’s a good one. The price was decent, easy set up, looks nice, the ink is refillable, and the color prints turn out well. My full page color print took about 10 seconds. Only thing that I get a bit frustrated with is connectivity. It’s constantly back off line in between uses and I have to troubleshoot. I have an HP PC and the apps so I don’t understand why it’s so finicky. It could be my Internet but all my other devices automatically connect if there is a brief interruption in Wi-Fi signal. So it may be a setting I haven’t figured just yet.

It usually does its job right. Sometimes it’s a terd and doesn’t wanna work. Pretty 2025 of it.
We use it for homeschool and work. When it listens to me, it does a great job! When it doesn’t, we gotta trouble shoot or restart.
Print quality is pretty good and, again, when it works, it connects to phone and computer.
Seems to print better from the computer as you get more options of how to print than you do on your phone.

This printer does not hold a lot of paper. When I forget to add paper, it goes offline if you are still printing and it runs out. It takes forever to get the printer running again. If you put the paper in slightly crooked it jams and goes off line. It takes a long time to get it up and running again. It mysteriously pauses and AGAIN, it takes a long time to figure out what is wrong with it and get it running again. I have spent long hours trying to get this printer to work again. The back plastic that holds the paper in place falls down and your paper falls out. When you can get it working, it produces nice quality, but I have never seen a printer that is so temperamental and so cheaply made. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! This Printer is TERRIBLE!

We have owned a few printers over the last 30 or so years. Most have been HP and we have always liked them and had good luck with print quality and features. The one sticking point has always been cartridge cost and reliability. And they have never worked well refilling them.

Our last printer was a Canon and we will never buy one again. I had been watching the ink tank printers but price was the stumbling block. With the 5000 series the ink tank printers they are finally affordable.

This printer makes very nice crisp prints in both letters and pictures. It does scan, the tray is direct feed from the rear top of the printer making it nice if you make water slide decals or anything similar. Super easy to set up and install the software, print heads fill tanks etc. Once on your network it just powers down and waits for the next time you tell it to print.

The printer appears to be a winner and now we just have to test it for long term reliability of print heads etc. But as it stands we are impressed and do recommend this if you are tired of the small amounts of ink in cartridges and the high cost.

Printers are a tough investment, but this one has been an unfaltering addition to my school work for months. It sits on an elevated rolling laptop stand, my MacBook on top of that (separated by a piece of non-slip drawer/cabinet liner that prevents scrapes and sliding), and it’s as sturdy as a rock.

A couple of things to note upfront:
It’s louder than anticipated. You’ll hear it from the living room during wireless printing, which is noticeable at first, but you adjust.
It’s not the speediest. It’s perfectly fine for my personal and family printing needs (a few pages to a dozen or two for study material or odd jobs). For photo output, it’s sharp but not “masterclass”—definitely better photo printers exist. However, for black and white or grayscale, it delivers. Color printing is also sharp and doesn’t bleed, with reasonable (though not lightning-fast) speed. If outright speed is your priority, look elsewhere.

### Wireless Connectivity
I use a Mac, a Pi 5, and Windows 11 Pro with WSL2. They all connect perfectly with zero issues on my home network. It even seamlessly switched from my old ASUS Wifi 6 router to our new Amazon Eero system. I can print from anywhere on the network, even from my Pi across SSH. This printer delivers wonderfully on the wireless front.

### Ink
It claimed 2 years of ink, and so far, it’s mostly full. I print a fair amount, mostly in grayscale or black, but color charts for networking are sharp and readable. The kids and wife hit this thing all day, and it never gives them issues—something I’ve never been able to say about a wireless printer before. While I’m not typically an HP fan, this device has been a rockstar from Day 1.

### Setup & Durability
Loading the ink and setting it up was fast, easy, and uneventful. My hardest job was walking to the trash can to dispose of the funky adapter from the print heads! I’ve had zero dried ink or printhead issues; it calibrated perfectly the first time and prints everything with precision. Its wireless connectivity, durability, ease of setup and use, and minimal vibrations are all well-balanced, providing a full, uneventful printer that does exactly what it’s supposed to, when it’s supposed to. This holds true across multiple operating systems and even after switching networks.

My wife thought the cost was worth the gamble compared to other alternatives, and she was right. Zero issues with this printer. If this review remains unedited, know that I’m still having a completely happy, issue-free experience. I would absolutely buy another if needed for a college dorm or similar.