Yes, it does both duplex scanning and printing.

Fax is common on business printers above a certain price.

It's decent. And the bonus with instant ink is you pay per page, so pics are very cheap relative to other printers.

However, it's a 3 + black, for top quality lab equivalent you'll want a specialised photo printer. They tend to have 5 or more inks, but will cost more per print.

Plan to get rid after credit is used. It's a decent printer, but from reviews it's on the over zealous side with the cleaning cycles. So unless you do lots of regular printing, you won't be getting the 2k pages out of those carts :/

In Currys: "It includes up to 2 year's HP Instant Ink (longer if 50 page plan used) - made up of 3-month trial & £74 code."

37 months @ £1.99/ month (assuming they don't put the price up). Plus 3 months trial, plus 1 month with freeink code, plus 1 month with referral.

So upto 42 months potentially, with first 5 months trial being 300 pages/month.

Can pay £1.99 per month for 50 pages regardless of how much ink it uses

£2 per page printed?! Surely, that's an exaggeration if I've ever heard one or you transposed the decimal point by 2 places. I'd be interested in finding out how you worked that out.

I've had an 8610 for 2 years and am a somewhat light printer user. I use the high yield XL cartridges, which costs under £30 and is rated at up to 2,300 pages.

Based on your estimation, it sounds like you're saying I should only expect to get 15 prints from a £30 cartridge, which is way, way off, even if you'd factored in other costs and variables! I've probably done perhaps 1,000 or more prints on that printer and only changed the cartridges when the initial setup inks ran out. I'm sure I'll get at least another few hundred prints out of the cartridges.

With respect to laser printers, while its SOMETIMES true that they're more suitable for infrequent prints (more due to reliability and the way how toner works vs ink), there are some caveats, not least of which include higher power consumption and the fact that if you want a proper multi-function laser printer that's on par with this in terms of features, you're looking at between £150-250 for the printer and around £500-700 for genuine toner.

For most people, the economics favour inkjet printers, even with their wallet-draining inks.

Try updating the firmware to the latest version and the problem might go away.

HP apologises for ink-blocking update

Have you picked up the correct model number ??? It should pick it up during the registration process. Mine all went through smoothly and I already have received my first supply of Inks

So long as one of the plans is feasible for your usage scenario, otherwise I would buy generic/refurbished cartridges.

4. Rollover allows unused pages in a month to be placed in a rollover account and then applied to pages in excess of your monthly allowance. The rollover account balance is limited to a maximum of your monthly service plan pages (e.g: £1.99 plan 50 pages = 50 page rollover maximum).

lol, that is very true. I guess that is why you get the first 3 months of printing up to 300 pages a month for "free". :confused:

The included cartridges are up to 745 pages black and 400 pages each for cyan, magenta and yellow (@ 5% coverage).

im getting the same :/

Nope, the Easter promo has finished. However after claiming £25 cashback from HP the final price will be £74.99, which is still a great price.

HP don't know how to use cookies. Open the link in a private / incognito window and it will work.

what invoice information did you send through to HP? What are they defining as the invoice - I used a print screen of the online order which wasn't good enough.

Google or PM someone thats an instant ink subscriber.