HP Printer HP Smart Tank 5101 High Capacity Ink Tank Type US Model A4 Color Inkjet Multifunction Printer, Smart Tank, Gray

Poor printing quality, if your pin printing a picture, it cuts off every eighth or so picture, way too often the colors are very dark. They're not vibrant at all and then the other situation is printing from your mobile device. It cuts off about 15% of the outside of the photo. For instance, if you're printing a picture of a face, it's gonna cut off the forehead enlarge it so much that maybe even the ears will get cut off.I'm so extremely disappointed in this printer and I've always used HP from the 90s and back then those printers... they lasted. I had whichever version it was. I don't remember, but I used that daily multiple times a day bright colors it printed exactly the size I wanted it to size and the colors were wonderful. The ink containers lasted long enough and these current ones, my last three each HP's that I've had do not feed the paper right it either eats the whole bundle or it won't catch.HP has got to do better :-(

Dear HP, why has your printer quality dropped so much?I have Only owned HP printers for as long as i can remember, mostly having good success with them. The best printer i ever had was my first, a Deskjet from the 90's. While the color wasn't the premium level they have today (so they say), i used that thing like mad for more than 6 years.After that one, each NEW printer lasted less than the one before that. My last one was the HP ENVY 6055e (purchased in 2023). It lasted me 1 year and the #1 reason i got rid of it was same issue i'm having today with the Smart Tank.Before the 6055e was an Envy Photo 7858 (purchased in 2021); I really liked how well everything looked when printed, but i struggled to get it to print after a year. In the end i was hand feeding it every time to make it work. My brother has that printer and still hand feeds each sheet.The Smart Tank 5101 I purchased on April 14, 2025 (currently doing the review 7 months later).I got this for 2 reasons: 1) to fix the paper load issue, and 2)I was hoping to print my own designed sublimations to press on to shirts.Well, not even a year yet and by far, this is the worst HP Printer i have ever owned. I waited this long to do the review as i really wanted it to work out and at nearly $200, i had my fingers crossed.30 minutes now trying to print TWO LABELS and the printer finally fed the label sheet, but then it spit it out with nothing on it. I'm back to trying to get this to printThe gravity feed on the Smart Tank i thought would make things better, but if anything it's worse. No matter how many pages i stick in, 1, 20 or 40, it doesn't matter as majority of the time i can't get anything to print. Paper, labels, card stock, doesn't matter thick or thin, i find myself having to fight 20+ minutes to print ONE page.I've tried talking to HP reps and they explain how to do the cleaning maintenance, something i've done with these for 25+ years and to load more paper into the feed. I don't have any more that i could even load this thing with; this is just insanity.On this Smart Tank, i thought maybe it's like the others and i need to clean off the wheels. Uh, there's no easy way to clean the rollers as there are no panels on the bottom or back that come off. As a matter of fact, if you have a jam, the only way to get in is thru the front panel (and no the scanner bed does not lift open); best have some long pliers or tweezers to reach in there, especially if you have big handsThey do have a display for errors and print info, but it's just symbols, no words and is on the top, in the middle of the printer. If i want to attempt to read it, i have no choice but to stand up to look directly down at it; you can't read it from any other angle. The old printers had it on the front face and had words.I can't get these labels to print. Even removed the label sheet, still nothing.Those 1-star reviews for this printer are increasing and now i know why.Holy Wait Time Batman, it finally loaded and started printing; 45 minutes to print one sheet.It's a good thing i didn't have a hammer in this room, as the ungentle persuasion was a thought for a while. The page i got to print, was not my 2 labels i needed. I just said to heck with it and printed a full sheet on glossy photo paper and it printed. I tried for a second page, just as a test and NOPE, back to the same issues as before. I give up.This was the first printer in a long time that i got Brand New, not a refurbished model and did not up for the extended warranty, which in the end is gonna cost me dearly.I have 2 HP OMEN PCs and like them both, they have worked great and are chuck full of name brand components.As for the Smart Tank if anyone else gets this, i hope you don't have the same issues because it is so frustrating.

An excellent, economical, and high-performance option for the home or office, offering printing, scanning, and copying capabilities with refillable ink tanks that drastically reduce the cost per page. It features Wi-Fi connectivity, good text quality, and easy mobile setup.

I'm most impressed with the ink usage and economy of savings. I got rid of my previous HP ink cartridge printer because I was furious with HP gouging me for $90 cartridge replacements - even when I mostly print in Black Only mode.+ After 3-months, of moderate print usage (I'd say about 25-pages per week), I still show full levels on ink - all colors!+ Print quality is fine - can't tell a diff from the last ink cartridge printer. No issues with smearing!Couple of downers:+ it may go into internet sleep mode; or it seems to drop my wireless connection. About 35-ft from the WiFi router. After a power cycle, it seems to reconnect.+ it may take a while for the initial print job to activate, and makes some machine noises, but finally pops out the print page.+ hard to see ink levels from the front well window. Best to check with the app.So in summary, I give it 5-star because it met my goal of saving on ink. Really an improvement on ink economy and affordability with no loss of print quality.

for a basic all in one this works quite well. For the price point i beleive its a good deal. The 2 years ink wont last me 2 years, but iprint daily as opposed to most home printers. Over all seems to be easy to use prints nice havent tried making a photo so cant say.