This is a great printer. It has about all the features I want. It's easy to set up and operate. The price is fabulous too. I only wish the United States Congress would pass a law regulating the price of ink. The cost of the first ink replacement surpasses the price of the printer.
I purchased this printer to replace a competitor's printer. This is a super nice piece of equipment for the price. Fast, clean and precise copies every time.
HP's internal operating system intelligence in both my Spectre Laptop and Office Jet Pro 6978 guided me through the replacement of my HP Model 6830. I've been working in the computer industry for over forty years; this was the best end-user experience yet.
It was not clear before I purchased this printer that I cannot scan to computer creating a pdf. Now I have multiple steps to create a pdf of receipts for my business. Bummer!
I downgraded from an HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Series All-in-One Printer, as the machine suddenly stopped working after many years of use. This HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 is portable, and does all the work of the 8600 Series, except for the Scanning to PDF feature, which this HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 does not support. You can only scan to picture mode (JPEG, PNG, TIFF). It's time consuming to scan documents individually to photo images, and then convert them to PDF. So I miss that feature from the 8600 Series, which just allows you to scan multiple pages during one scanning process to PDF.
If you are like me, and want that feature included in your scan to file or desk top, then this printer might not be for you.