--the ink is nice and dark

Great printer - sure sucks up the ink.

Error kept appearing on the screen, stating not original ink.

Very easy to swap out ink as well, and the print quality is quite decent for both photo and any standard document

Update-It looks like the ink isn't to bad price

For this 'benefit', the printers would lack speed, the ink would start to run not too long after use and perhaps it's

Ink is expensive, if you don't use them enough they dry up and leave you with a large device that would cost more to repair than it costs to buy the replacement

Call and complain and they’ll give you 7 months of free ink.

The ink should be much less expensive than my old printer

I had an Epson printer, but after 5 years it died, the ink was a little expensive on

I'm not sure, but it does seem that HP is moving strongly in the direction of proprietary inks as evidenced by the big sticker on top of the unit for a 3 month trial to their ink "club"

It leaves horizontal lines of uneven ink on glossy photo paper

Ink is expensive and hard to find

Use the genuine inks, and use the best paper you can.