HP DeskJet 1010 Printer (CX015A)

I ordered 3 of these printers, 1 for a friend of mine and 2 for myself. I have a shipping room in my home and I sell items on eBay. I use one printer to print out the invoices and the other to print out my labels for the package. When I set up the printers, I named them INVOICE and the other LABELS. So this way, I knew which printer I was sending which item to. They work just like a charm. No biggie that you have to turn them on -- stand up and click on and you are in business. I put shelves on my wall and put both printers up there and fill them with what they need and I am off and running. I got a USB hub and a 12 plug surge protector and put them on the bottom of shelf and I print and do everything right from my lap top. What a breeze it is to get an item ready for shipment. The price of the cartridges are nominal and for the price of the printer, you can't go wrong. Less than $13 for black and less than $20 for color and you can get both for like $30 bucks. This is just a printer, NOT a scanner, copier, phone or anything else, just a printer. You will need a printer cord unless you have one from your previous printer. If you don't they are inexpensive enough to get. Great printer and you won't be sorry on this purchase.

Got the HP 1000 from Walmart on a closeout a few months back. My husband wanted one too so I was glad to see this model on special a few weeks ago..When we got the unit I took the new one and gave husband my old one, mainly because I print a lot more than he does. **READ THIS** Do NOT install the USB cord connecting the printer to the computer until you are done with everything else..follow the instructions and connect the USB cord LAST !! Also, you will save ink if you don't install any software that communicates with HP over the internet. As other posters mentioned, you need to buy a USB cord separately..the unit doesn't include the cord.. but that's OK.. The printer and the $5 cord add up to free shipping. Another thing I found different from the HP 1000 unit was the ink was harder to get into the machine. Just make sure you hear the "click" when you push the ink cartridge into the unit. The HP 1000 had a better graphic on a sticker showing how to do that.. I don't print color very often so I set the option on Black Ink Grayscale. You can change this when you want to print color but mostly I print text and when I purchase something off the internet. This is a good basic stand alone printer..it doesn't hold much paper but it's easy enough to refill the paper slot. My daughter ordered one too and we are all happy with it.

Oh my gosh! I LOVE THIS PRINTER! It's literally perfect for me. It comes with an full ink cartridges. FULL!! I still haven't had to buy new ones. It's really great for college kids like me. Nothing overly fancy, it's just a printer. And damn nice one too. Super easy setup, super ease of use. Would definitely recommend hands down. If you're just looking for a great quality no nonsense PRINTER, (not those scanner, fax, waffle making, Hubble telescope combination nightmares) this is definitely your guy. Great ship speed, and honestly a great deal. Printer is way more expensive from hp. Still a good value but from here it's the best deal you can get, again college kid on a budget here.

The little printer that could. When all of the fancy printers in my life fail me, this guy keeps on printing, so long as I keep refilling his ink cartridges. I LOVE it. The big tech-ie printers are so moody and unreliable. "I have a paper jam" "waaaahhhh". "I don't feel like printing today...", "waaahhhhh". Not this little guy. He shows up, shuts up, and prints! Huzzah. I could not have asked for a better printer for the price. Also, I can trick him into printing when the black ink cartridge is empty by removing the black cartridge, setting the text color to *a color*, and telling it, "Yes, I really do want you to print in single cartridge mode, it's okay little guy...", and then he prints.

Pros: 1. Cheap - one of the cheapest printers in the market 2. Prints fast 3. Prints without erros 4. Compact 5. Gets what you need done. Cons: 1. During first few prints, I get a popup asking me if I want to redeem one of their "treats", which is essentially a way to cross-sell me another hp product. This is really annoying, and I couldn't find a way to remove them. Luckily, after a few prints, the popups disappeared.

Received the product today and am in the process of installing it. The program prompted me to search for any updates to the software on the web and I did have to install .NETframework. The install process is taking a while because of this. I was surprised to see the package contained both a color and BW cartridge b/c I thought this was not included but perhaps I misread. I had the cord from my last HP and it fits. The unit itself is not robust. I would recommend it only for light printing such as a few pages at a time. I would not test it by printing that e-text you downloaded for free off the web. I have not used it yet but from the feel of the unit I would say it is good for home use. I will update after I actually print a few documents. 9/12: it took me several tries to load the software, about an hour's worth of time. Once I got it printing, it did print a nice copy. There is a delay in it's taking the command to print and it prints slowly. Let's see how long it lasts with moderate use. 11/8: a little tough on ink, adjust your settings accordingly. 1/6/2015: after several tries, I cannot install the recommended updates from HP. 1/11/2015: I am fed up with this printer. After a week of trying, I cannot install the required updates. I get an error message that the .exe files "have encountered an error". I have tried to to download and install from the HP website and manually. Nothing works. Now I just put in a new printer cartridge and I cannot get a page to print. The printer is receiving the message to print but I get these ghost like images on the paper. I have cleaned the cartridge three times. I have tried to align the printer and reinstall the software but the software won't proceed to the next step. I have no idea if it is the cartridge or the printer that is the problem but then that would be a quality control issue. This could have been a nice, affordable printer for light home use but it is too unstable. Don't buy this printer.

This was a great deal for a basic printer. My only complaints are that it did not come with the USB cable, and that there is literally no way to reset the ink level after refilling the cartridges. I tried every single method I could find, none of which were specific to the #61 cartridges that this printer uses. Not even cycling 3 sets of cartridges through it would work. Not even ignoring the warning messages would work. It just prints blank pages with cartridges which have run out of ink (I even tried keeping them filled with in so they wouldn't dry out, kept everything clean, etc). The previous printer I had was the HP DeskJet D1530 which uses #21 and #22 cartridges and the ink level reset worked PERFECT for it every time I refilled them. That printer suddently malfunctioned and not even resetting its internal memory would save it. I miss it. It came free with the computer but a replacement is around $130. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why certain models no longer being made are crazy expensive and these that can't work will refilled cartridges are super cheap. HP has adapted and modified their printers/cartridges. Programmed obsolescence. I have tons of perfectly good ink sitting around, 2 other sets of cartridges with ink, and this 1010 model won't use them no matter which set of flawed instructions I have found. I even tried making up methods of covering the metal contacts to no avail. If anyone ever figures out the secret, if there is one, to resetting the ink levels for these tricky cartridges in the DeskJet 1010, let me know in a comment, please!

I can't stand buying printers... For one simple reason.... INK! For this price you can just pitch the printer once it runs out of ink and buy another one! The wife has long time wanted a printer... Me I don't need one but she has started a coupon craze and I'm getting tired of printing the coupons out at work. So I looked long and hard didn't want to spend anything over $100 let along anything close to $50. Found this printer and I have to admit for the price you can't beat it. Works right out of the box with my iMac no issues. It's not the fastest printer on the street but hey it does it's job and that's all I wanted something that prints! 5/5 STARS!!

love it, very compact, like how it folds together when not using

Pretty much the starter printer. Ink, as always, costs as much as a brand new cheap printer.