Let me give an overview of the equipment they own, there is three PC’s and one Mac, a Linksys router. The router is plugged in the main PC at the home office, as well as the printer. The main PC is a Dell, the other Dell desktop is on a guest room (no one really uses it, except for my client’s wife when he is busy in the office), there is a Toshiba Notebook from my clients employer, and my client’s daughter uses a MacBook.

First, my client had installed the printer in the main computer using the USB hub in his home office, so there was nothing to do there since it was set up correctly. The Linksys router was set up to give up to three non-static IP’s, so I had to change that to six. I wrote down a list of the IP’s to start assigning static IP’s to every machine. I chose to do it this way because the Notebooks tend to get the IP’s as they become available messing up the printing configuration, that happens when the IP’s are not static.

Then I grab the MacBook, installed the software and assign a static IP, before that I had already assign an IP to the printer as well. Then I grab the Toshiba notebook, installed the software, and assign an IP too, up to that point everything was running smoothly. Then I went to the guest room and set up the printer thru the network, that Dell PC has a network Ethernet connection instead of just an antenna receiver.

It was time to have some fun, we tested all the features except for the wireless faxing thing. First thing, we notice was that the MacBook had a wider signal range than the Toshiba notebook. Printing was fast, and scanner feature worked out great. However, what impresses me the most was the quality of the 4 x 6 picture that we printed. The printer has Ethernet plug but you can only use either Ethernet or Wi-fi.

It has separate trays for regular 8.5 x 11 paper and 4 x 6 photos, the downside is that the paper tray holds only100 sheets, which is somewhat small for home office use. It has a media card reader that works great and a small 2.4-inch display that looks good. Being able to preview the photos in that screen is not really a plus since the computer is right there in the same place but I guess is a nice feature anyway.

Overall, I like that printer a lot with a price tag of $250.00 after rebates I think is a great product. Share your experience with us, leave a comment on this post. For more cool HP printers information go to www.hp.com. For more reviews like this one visit LwEEs.com, Email me for questions at webmaster@lwees.com, also please digg this post. Thanks.