I am happy with the ink system in this printer. There are a couple of things I don’t like better than my old printer. 1. Having to print with HP Smart print is not always easy. On my old HP I could just select print from a doc for example. Don’t seem to be able to do that now - have to save the document first.
2. The first page takes ages to get to print.
3. It doesn’t have the option to print double-sided. Such a waste of paper. Obviously I should have read the full spec more carefully but this is the thing that makes this printer “average” for me. Wish I had spent more for the next model up.
I love the printer but I bought it to print my own Christmas cards which it did extremely well but almost every one had black ink lines on the back which of course would be the inside of the card so couldn't use them, I have tried all the tricks like nozzle clean etc but they are still there.
So far a better printer & cheaper to run than my old HP6100 series. I have 2 issues however, the first is the capacity of the paper tray, its abysmal, the second is that the printer advertises double sided printing, I assumed it was similar to the 6100, which automatically printed the reverse side of pages. Unfortunately the 5100 require manual removal of 1st side printed & then replacing that side into the feed tray correctly, the diagram provided is very misleading & makes double sided printing cumbersome & slow. Not impressed at all with that issue.
The ink tank concept is excellent, and the product meets the usual high HP standards. The only thing that I don't like is the paper feeding system manually. It only takes a few pages at a time, so you must keep an eye on it and consider how many pages are loaded before a big print job.
Excellent printer and good quality prints. Downside is the poor set up instructions and the abysmal HP print app that can't even handle a word document 😶