HP Deskjet 5440 Photo Printer (C9045A#B1H)

It worked very well until it would reject my ink cartriges half way through their use. It would all of a sudden say they were not the correct cartridge. This equated to a very high cost in ink so I just quit using it.

I got this printer for free when I bought my desktop two years ago and just barely started using it in the last 6 months.

I shouldn't have waited!

It was easy to install and easy to use. I have printed some beautiful photos out of it. I had to print three pages of collages for an adoption profile my husband and I made, and the pictures were small, but very detailed.

It's quick for normal black and white text documents, and a tolerable speed for photos. On regular paper, photos also print out crisp and clear. The noise is not excessive or even bothersome. And the printer doesn't take up much space, but I wish the bottom tray folded up like the top tray does, just for symmetry.

My other complaint is the speed at which this printer uses ink. I don't often use the printer, but I have already changed both the black and the color cartridges, and am a little over half way through that black cartridge. But about $15 for an HP 92 black cartridge (if you shop around) isn't too bad.

I have not used the port in front of the printer.

I have an HP2575v. This printer has never been able to feed paper of any kind. Imagine having to run to the printer serveral times to clear paper jams during the course of a print job. Why have a networked printer when you have to put down your wireless laptop and run to the other side of the house whenever you print. It has never fed a single sheet of 4x6 paper. The documentation says alot about using HP paper to print 4x6 pictures. The network drivers are buggy and consume all available CPU until it freezes. Only solution is to turn off the power on computer. A search on the internet reveals that many others have same problem, HP knows about it, but does not release a fix. Inhales ink cartridges and is extremely expensive to operate when it actually feeds paper. Save yourself and buy a Lexmark or Cannon or Epson.

As almost everyone else has said, this printer does a great quality print job whether printing text and graphics or printing photos. I am dismayed however at the extremely, repeat, extremely high cost per page. This is due to the tiny amount of ink in the cartridges and the very high cost of ink. Although Walgreens and others will refill these at about half the price of a new cartridge, it is still not a reasonable cost per page. I would not recommend any HP for this reason alone. They, and Epson both make great, low cost printers but what good is a well priced printer if you can't afford to supply it?

We picked this printer for our daughter to use at school. She set up with no problems, ez. It's small, quiet, prints beautifully (looks better than our expensive deskjet) and has been very reliable. The cartridge it came with lasted most of the year and then we got cartridges sent direct to her from Amazon - great price, free shipping and they just appeared. What could be better?