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# 20 ppm B&W speed Wireless & mobile printing Automatic duplex printing HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 All-in-One Wireless Printer, Instant Ink, Works with Alexa (T0F29A)

**Brand:** hp
**Price:** SAR 734
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate your home office game with pro-speed, smart ink, and wireless freedom!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 All-in-One Wireless Printer, Instant Ink, Works with Alexa (T0F29A) by hp
- **How much does it cost?** SAR 734 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/29891327-hp-officejet-pro-6978-all-in-one-wireless-printer-instant)

## Best For

- hp enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted hp brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Ink that never quits:** HP Instant Ink subscription ensures you never run out of ink, delivering cartridges before you need them.
- • **Eco-friendly efficiency:** Save up to 50% on paper with automatic two-sided printing and scanning—because sustainability is smart business.
- • **Seamless wireless freedom:** Print directly from your smartphone, tablet, or laptop with Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and mobile setup options.
- • **Speed that keeps up with you:** Print up to 20 black & white pages per minute and 11 color pages without missing a beat.
- • **Voice-activated productivity:** Compatible with Alexa for hands-free printing, scanning, and faxing—welcome to the future of office convenience.

## Overview

The HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 is a versatile all-in-one wireless inkjet printer designed for home offices and small businesses. It delivers professional-quality color prints at up to 20 ppm (black & white) and 11 ppm (color), supports duplex printing and scanning, and offers seamless mobile and voice-activated printing. With HP Instant Ink subscription, it ensures cost-effective, uninterrupted printing while supporting multiple paper sizes and network connectivity options.

## Description

Manage your budget with professional-quality color at up to 50% less cost per page than lasers with the HP OfficeJet 6978 wireless printer. Connect a smartphone or tablet directly to the printer and easily print without a network. Print wirelessly, and share this all-in-one with other wireless-enabled devices. Set the pace for success with rapid print, scan, and copy speeds. Save paper and conserve resources—consume up to 50% less paper with automatic two-sided printing. Make scanning effortless and accurate. Never turn a page again when you need to scan two-sided documents.

Review: A printer actually worth 5 stars at an unbeatable price! LOVE IT! - I have owned HP printers forever. Our old HP all in one was still going after 12 years but the scanner bed had gotten dirty and I also decided it was time to upgrade because I needed double sided printing and also the ability to print wirelessly from my iPhone and iPad. A nearby Office Depot was closing its doors and having a big blow out sale to get rid of all its inventory so I decided to go look at printers thinking I could get a screaming deal. I talked to one of the sales associates about my needs and she said this was a very popular model that offered all the features I want and then some. They had it marked down from $180 to about $153 on sale. Before I bought it I do what I always do and checked desertcart and was shocked to find that the exact same printer in the exact same package was only $99 with Prime! I bid farewell to Office Depot (no wonder they're closing) and went right home and ordered it! I have to say, so far I REALLY LOVE this printer! First of all, it was the easiest printer to set up EVER!! I mean, I truly couldn't believe it! I'm a gadget tech nerd (built my own PC) and was prepared to have to spend an hour getting it all unpacked, turned on, calibrated, set up on my network and also connected to my devices for wireless printing. That's what I'm used to. Set up of this printer BLEW MY MIND with how simple it was! Literally, you take it out of the box and remove all foam and plastic etc., plug it into the wall, press power, insert the ink (SO simple) and follow the instructions on screen to align the cartridges. Once it was aligned the touch screen informed me to go to hp.com/setup to download the drivers I would need. My computer/network automatically detected the printer and knew just what drivers I needed. Download and setup was a breeze! You can use the provided disk instead but I didn't even remove it from the sleeve. The one thing I would say about HP and their software is that they tend to over do it. My recommendation is to select the option that enables you to choose which additional programs you want installed instead of letting HP do it for you. I always get way more than I bargain for and end up uninstalling a lot of the "bloatware" programs that I don't use that just take up HD space like HP photo etc. I use photoshop. There is an option for just the basic drivers that you can select. Your printer will work just fine with those and you won't get blogged down with unwanted software. Either way works great though. I tried both. The driver setup took 5 minutes. Then I got on my iPhone and downloaded the HP ePrint app which IMMEDIATELY recognized and connected to my printer all on its own! You can use it to print from your photos, the web, email and the cloud. AWESOME!!! That was it! In about 12 minutes from the box I was completely set up, connect and printing! Here are some other things I love about this printer: - Fastest setup of any printer ever (yes I know I already mentioned this but it deserves repeating). No having to manually enter IP addresses or anything like that! - Design is very sleek and modern. I love the all black with little color screen! It's pretty sexy as printers go! - Small/slim profile. For everything this printer does and how well/quickly it does it, it really is quite small! WAY smaller than my old HP all in one! - Touch screen is really high quality! I often get frustrated with touch screens at check out stands and elsewhere because they're not very sensitive to your finger or pressing down in one spot causing a neighboring button to be selected. That is NOT the case with this touch screen. I find that it's very sensitive and accurate and also the display is crisp and beautiful! - AUTOMATIC DOUBLE SIDED PRINTING AND SCANNING. HALLELUJAH! - Printing is very fast and the print quality is excellent, even and especially with photos! - I LOVE that this printer only needs one cable (unless you want to use the fax feature as well) and works so well wirelessly! - Printing from the app on my mobile devices is my new favorite thing - Unlike my old printer, this guy is whisper quiet when it's printing. It's a little thing, but I live with an autistic 4 year old and a husband who sounds like he's calling in air support for a military strike when he talks on the phone so...sometimes the little things make a big difference! - Scan quality is really fabulous! Honestly, I rarely give 5 star reviews to things, but this printer really does deserve it, from price point to set up to functionality and features. I HIGHLY recommend this printer for all your in home office needs! And no, I didn't get it for free or at a discount. I paid full price for it and I would do it again! I hope this helps someone else who is looking for an office upgrade! UPDATE 1/21/17 - After a couple weeks I started having issues with this printer going offline spontaneously and the only way I could seem to get it back online to was by restarting my computer. Around that time we also bought a Roku 4 and started having trouble with streaming. The signal was dropping all the time. I finally realized that it was because of our router, which, while a great work horse for many years, was getting seriously old in "tech years" and needed to be replaced. I bought a dual band Asus router and ever since I installed it we have not only had flawless streaming but the printer now stays "online" all the time! If you're having this issue with it going offline, I would look at your network setup before you blame the printer itself.
Review: Always go for HP printers - As usual, a great HP product. I upgraded (or downgraded depending on how you see it) from a Photosmart printer that has recently seen most of its apps be rendered unusable due to HP killing them off from that generation of printers. I was tired of the random quirks I was having with ePrint since they moved to a new service they call HP Connect. I'm also doing less photo printing and more document scanning. First off: Yes, this printer can do automatic 2 sided scans! I was getting tired of trying to find if it did or not considering the material only points to automatic 2 sided printing and the ability to scan multiple documents to copy as 2 sided (2+ single sided to 1+ double sided). So I honestly bought it on a risk and also due to price when I bought it, $20 less than price shown on 1/18/17. When I installed it, I started messing around with settings and at the bottom of the page options for copying was 2 -> 2 sided. It isn't mentioned anywhere, but that's the setting to take a 2 sided document and copy as a 2 sided document. There was also a 2 -> 1 sided which allows you to undo the dual sided and copy each side as a single page. This will be a huge time saver with all the documents I plan on saving digitally. Second: For the price, this is one of their faster models. Although color still lags behind after all these years, I feel it is still respectable at 11 ppm at best quality. The product page on HP claims it can be as high as 20 ppm or so if using draft. Considering the only color prints I'd use at best quality are photos, this is blazing fast to me. Black can get as high as upper 20's in draft. I have never seen a reason to print a document in best mode, so to have speeds of upper 20's black and roughly 20 color is more than adequate for most people. Also, draft mode ensures a longer life for your cartridges. Even during my heaviest printing times, I've had cartridges last me months using draft mode. And ever since getting the Photosmart as my first dual sided capable printer, I have bought paper in years! I admit though, I over bought paper a few years ago when Staples did buy 2 get 1 free on cases. Third: I have always hated tri-color cartridges. Yellow is ALWAYS the first to go since black printing uses some yellow as well for whatever reason unless you set default document settings to gray-scale. Even when I would print photos way back when, the 3 colors never finished at the same time. A tri-color cartridge guarantees that you will have to buy a new one before using all the ink. Part of the reason I took so long to change printers was that HP seemed to have gone back in time to strictly tri-color. This printer though uses a single cartridge per color! Thank goodness. This is the 21st century, tri-color cartridges should be totally obsolete, or at the very least relegated to the cheapest of models. Fourth: Wi-Fi connection appears very fast. There is a caveat though, this printer takes a while to start from a cold start. I sell often on eBay and print from the app. With the Photosmart, maybe due to the change in service, I used to have to wait a while before the printer processed what it was doing. With this one, as soon as the printer states it's online, it begins within seconds any print job received from either HP Connect or HP Direct (the mobile to printer connection that uses Bluetooth I believe). I have had consistent success with HP Direct since it takes out of the equation everything except my phone and the printer. HP Connect though I always had issues with. The eBay app seems to hate printer plug-ins, so I decided to try going the HP Connect route. This involves e-mailing the printer what you need to print. Well, I e-mailed a shipping label. I decided to sit down and wait the customary forever for it to print (based on Photosmart experiences). After hitting send and touching the chair to sit, the printer had already began the printing process. Since this printer was made after the switch to HP Connect, it went super fast! I can say I am completely impressed. Fifth: Paper tray. Yeah I know how cares, it's a tray. But coming from a Photosmart, being able to put what looks like a third of a ream of paper into the tray is so nice. I always felt I was reloading paper too often on the Photosmart due to the small tray. I do miss the dedicated photo paper tray though. That's all I could think of with my limited use of the printer thus far. The only negative is that I feel it takes too long to be ready from a cold start. I know it is partially my fault because I kill the surge protector to save as many pennies as I can. Florida Power and Light really loves shafting us with the power bills here in Miami. But I have restarted the printer without turning off the surge protector and it still took a bit longer than the Photosmart. But with 5 positives so far vs the Photosmart, whats a bit longer boot up time?

## Features

- Main functions of this HP color inkjet photo printer: copy, scan, fax, wireless printing, two-sided duplex printing and scanning, color touchscreen, automatic document feeder, Instant Ink ready so you'll never run out of ink, and more
- Easily print when and where you need to from your smartphone, tablet, or notebook PC. Get convenient mobile printing options and mobile setup. Connect the way you want to with Ethernet and wireless networking
- Built for business. Produce fast professional-quality color for 50% less than lasers, save paper, and handle more tasks without slowing down
- HP Office Jet Pro 6978 is ideal for the home office or small workgroups that need professional-quality, affordable color with powerful productivity and fast functionality
- Save up to 50% on ink with HP Instant Ink: ordered by your printer and delivered to your door before you run out (optional subscription required). Use Original HP 902, HP 902XL & HP 906XL ink cartridges to print up to 2x the pages as refills
- Includes all features of HP Office Jet Pro 6960 plus scan to email and other network functions for easy task management; duplexing document feeder for two-sided copying and scanning to complete tasks quickly
- Paper sizes supported: A4, Letter, 5x7 in, 4x6 in, Legal, 4R, L, Panoramic/10x30 cm, 10x15 cm, 10x15 cm plus tab, 13x18 cm, 4x8. 5 in, 13x18 cm; Fax memory: Up to 100 pages
- One-year limited hardware ; 24-hour, 7 days a week Web support

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B01FS2W6I8 |
| Additional Printer Functions | Copy, Fax, Scan |
| B&W Pages per Minute | 20 pages_per_minute |
| Best Sellers Rank | #97,455 in Office Products ( See Top 100 in Office Products ) #87 in Ink Tank Printers |
| Brand | HP |
| Built-In Media | HP 902 Setup Black Instant Ink Ready OfficeJet Ink Cartridge, HP 902 Setup Cyan Instant Ink Ready OfficeJet Ink Cartridge, HP 902 Setup Magenta Instant Ink Ready OfficeJet Ink Cartridge, HP 902 Setup Yellow Instant Ink Ready OfficeJet Ink Cartridge, HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 All-In-One Printer |
| Color | black |
| Color Depth | 24 bpp |
| Color Pages per Minute | 11 pages_per_minute |
| Compatible Devices | Laptops, PC, Smartphones |
| Connectivity Technology | Ethernet, USB, Wi-Fi |
| Control Method | Voice |
| Controller Type | Amazon Alexa, Vera |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 13,991 Reviews |
| Display Type | LCD |
| Duplex | Automatic |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00889894925961 |
| Hardware Interface | Ethernet |
| Ink Color | Magenta, Yellow, Black, Cyan |
| Item Dimensions D x W x H | 15.35"D x 18.26"W x 9"H |
| Item Type Name | HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 |
| Item Weight | 17.9 pounds |
| Manufacturer | HP |
| Maximum Copies Per Run | 30 (black and white) * 60 minutes = 1800; 18 (color) * 60 minutes = 1080 |
| Maximum Copy Resolution Black and White | 1200 x 2400 dpi |
| Maximum Copy Resolution Color | 4800 x 1200 |
| Maximum Copy Speed Black and White | 30 pages_per_minute |
| Maximum Media Size | 8.5 x 14 inch |
| Maximum Print Resolution Black and White | 4800 dpi |
| Maximum Sheet Capacity | 225 |
| Maximum print Resolution Color | 1200 dpi |
| Model Name | Officejet Pro 6978 |
| Model Number | OfficeJet Pro 6978 |
| Model Series | OfficeJet Pro |
| Number of Ethernet Ports | 1 |
| Number of Trays | 1 |
| Output sheet capacity | 60 |
| Paper Size | 8.5 inch x 14 |
| Power Consumption | 27 watts |
| Print media | Card stock, Envelopes, Glossy photo paper, High-resolution paper, Labels |
| Printer Connectivity Type | Ethernet, USB, Wi-Fi |
| Printer Output | Color |
| Printer Output Type | Color |
| Printer Type | Inkjet |
| Printing Technology | Inkjet |
| Processor Count | 1 |
| Resolution | 4800 x 1200 |
| Scanner Type | Flatbed |
| Specific Uses For Product | home office, small business |
| Total USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
| Total Usb Ports | 1 |
| UPC | 889894644459 193808005794 889894925961 |
| Unit Count | 302.72 Ounce |
| Warranty Description | reg |
| Warranty Type | limited warranty |
| Wattage | 27 watts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** HP
- **Color:** black
- **Connectivity Technology:** Ethernet, USB, Wi-Fi
- **Item Weight:** 17.9 pounds
- **Max Printspeed Monochrome:** 20 pages_per_minute
- **Maximum Print Speed (Color):** 11 pages_per_minute
- **Model Name:** Officejet Pro 6978
- **Printer Output:** Color
- **Printing Technology:** Inkjet
- **Product Dimensions:** 15.35"D x 18.26"W x 9"H

## Images

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: If color ink runs out, can you still print black and white?**
A: yes, in fact I changed to black and white invoices and the xl cartridge and it seem to last forever.

**Q: Does the automatic feeder scan as well? Or does it only copy? If it does scan, will it scan both sides of a two sided document?**
A: The automatic document feeder on the 8025e DOES NOT feed two sided documents.  The older answers here are for the HP 6978 which did.

**Q: Can you print double sided with this printer?**
A: Yes you can. You can not print it all at once double sided though. Only by turning the page over into the printer's feeder with a blank side to be printed with the inkjet nozzles pointing towards the page. Also make sure the top of the page is the same as over onto the blank page to be printed as you insert it into the feeder forward.

**Q: Does it work with Apple**
A: I called Apple to ask this same question. I was told that as long as a printer is "AirPrint compatible" it would work. However, all printers are not. This one is.. I then called HP to ask what All in One printer they would suggest I buy that would work with my iPhone 6S, my iPad Air 2 and my MacBook pro(10.12.4 Sierra version.) They suggested HP office jet 6978. The HP ENVY 7640 was a dud. Tried for over four hours to hook it up with help and assistance from HP tech, Amazon tech, and APPLE tech. None of these people could get it working..Touch screen was defective and all attempts to fix it or hook to cable, failed. Sent it back. I did sign up for the instant ink  package. 50 sheets of black or colored prints for $2.99 monthly is a good deal for me. Any unused paper is rolled over to the next months printing. (Per HP phone rep) Let it be known, I have not yet received this printer yet and when I do I will let you know whether what I was told is true.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A printer actually worth 5 stars at an unbeatable price! LOVE IT!
*by K***Y on October 21, 2016*

I have owned HP printers forever. Our old HP all in one was still going after 12 years but the scanner bed had gotten dirty and I also decided it was time to upgrade because I needed double sided printing and also the ability to print wirelessly from my iPhone and iPad. A nearby Office Depot was closing its doors and having a big blow out sale to get rid of all its inventory so I decided to go look at printers thinking I could get a screaming deal. I talked to one of the sales associates about my needs and she said this was a very popular model that offered all the features I want and then some. They had it marked down from $180 to about $153 on sale. Before I bought it I do what I always do and checked Amazon and was shocked to find that the exact same printer in the exact same package was only $99 with Prime! I bid farewell to Office Depot (no wonder they're closing) and went right home and ordered it! I have to say, so far I REALLY LOVE this printer! First of all, it was the easiest printer to set up EVER!! I mean, I truly couldn't believe it! I'm a gadget tech nerd (built my own PC) and was prepared to have to spend an hour getting it all unpacked, turned on, calibrated, set up on my network and also connected to my devices for wireless printing. That's what I'm used to. Set up of this printer BLEW MY MIND with how simple it was! Literally, you take it out of the box and remove all foam and plastic etc., plug it into the wall, press power, insert the ink (SO simple) and follow the instructions on screen to align the cartridges. Once it was aligned the touch screen informed me to go to hp.com/setup to download the drivers I would need. My computer/network automatically detected the printer and knew just what drivers I needed. Download and setup was a breeze! You can use the provided disk instead but I didn't even remove it from the sleeve. The one thing I would say about HP and their software is that they tend to over do it. My recommendation is to select the option that enables you to choose which additional programs you want installed instead of letting HP do it for you. I always get way more than I bargain for and end up uninstalling a lot of the "bloatware" programs that I don't use that just take up HD space like HP photo etc. I use photoshop. There is an option for just the basic drivers that you can select. Your printer will work just fine with those and you won't get blogged down with unwanted software. Either way works great though. I tried both. The driver setup took 5 minutes. Then I got on my iPhone and downloaded the HP ePrint app which IMMEDIATELY recognized and connected to my printer all on its own! You can use it to print from your photos, the web, email and the cloud. AWESOME!!! That was it! In about 12 minutes from the box I was completely set up, connect and printing! Here are some other things I love about this printer: - Fastest setup of any printer ever (yes I know I already mentioned this but it deserves repeating). No having to manually enter IP addresses or anything like that! - Design is very sleek and modern. I love the all black with little color screen! It's pretty sexy as printers go! - Small/slim profile. For everything this printer does and how well/quickly it does it, it really is quite small! WAY smaller than my old HP all in one! - Touch screen is really high quality! I often get frustrated with touch screens at check out stands and elsewhere because they're not very sensitive to your finger or pressing down in one spot causing a neighboring button to be selected. That is NOT the case with this touch screen. I find that it's very sensitive and accurate and also the display is crisp and beautiful! - AUTOMATIC DOUBLE SIDED PRINTING AND SCANNING. HALLELUJAH! - Printing is very fast and the print quality is excellent, even and especially with photos! - I LOVE that this printer only needs one cable (unless you want to use the fax feature as well) and works so well wirelessly! - Printing from the app on my mobile devices is my new favorite thing - Unlike my old printer, this guy is whisper quiet when it's printing. It's a little thing, but I live with an autistic 4 year old and a husband who sounds like he's calling in air support for a military strike when he talks on the phone so...sometimes the little things make a big difference! - Scan quality is really fabulous! Honestly, I rarely give 5 star reviews to things, but this printer really does deserve it, from price point to set up to functionality and features. I HIGHLY recommend this printer for all your in home office needs! And no, I didn't get it for free or at a discount. I paid full price for it and I would do it again! I hope this helps someone else who is looking for an office upgrade! UPDATE 1/21/17 - After a couple weeks I started having issues with this printer going offline spontaneously and the only way I could seem to get it back online to was by restarting my computer. Around that time we also bought a Roku 4 and started having trouble with streaming. The signal was dropping all the time. I finally realized that it was because of our router, which, while a great work horse for many years, was getting seriously old in "tech years" and needed to be replaced. I bought a dual band Asus router and ever since I installed it we have not only had flawless streaming but the printer now stays "online" all the time! If you're having this issue with it going offline, I would look at your network setup before you blame the printer itself.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Always go for HP printers
*by P***I on January 18, 2017*

As usual, a great HP product. I upgraded (or downgraded depending on how you see it) from a Photosmart printer that has recently seen most of its apps be rendered unusable due to HP killing them off from that generation of printers. I was tired of the random quirks I was having with ePrint since they moved to a new service they call HP Connect. I'm also doing less photo printing and more document scanning. First off: Yes, this printer can do automatic 2 sided scans! I was getting tired of trying to find if it did or not considering the material only points to automatic 2 sided printing and the ability to scan multiple documents to copy as 2 sided (2+ single sided to 1+ double sided). So I honestly bought it on a risk and also due to price when I bought it, $20 less than price shown on 1/18/17. When I installed it, I started messing around with settings and at the bottom of the page options for copying was 2 -> 2 sided. It isn't mentioned anywhere, but that's the setting to take a 2 sided document and copy as a 2 sided document. There was also a 2 -> 1 sided which allows you to undo the dual sided and copy each side as a single page. This will be a huge time saver with all the documents I plan on saving digitally. Second: For the price, this is one of their faster models. Although color still lags behind after all these years, I feel it is still respectable at 11 ppm at best quality. The product page on HP claims it can be as high as 20 ppm or so if using draft. Considering the only color prints I'd use at best quality are photos, this is blazing fast to me. Black can get as high as upper 20's in draft. I have never seen a reason to print a document in best mode, so to have speeds of upper 20's black and roughly 20 color is more than adequate for most people. Also, draft mode ensures a longer life for your cartridges. Even during my heaviest printing times, I've had cartridges last me months using draft mode. And ever since getting the Photosmart as my first dual sided capable printer, I have bought paper in years! I admit though, I over bought paper a few years ago when Staples did buy 2 get 1 free on cases. Third: I have always hated tri-color cartridges. Yellow is ALWAYS the first to go since black printing uses some yellow as well for whatever reason unless you set default document settings to gray-scale. Even when I would print photos way back when, the 3 colors never finished at the same time. A tri-color cartridge guarantees that you will have to buy a new one before using all the ink. Part of the reason I took so long to change printers was that HP seemed to have gone back in time to strictly tri-color. This printer though uses a single cartridge per color! Thank goodness. This is the 21st century, tri-color cartridges should be totally obsolete, or at the very least relegated to the cheapest of models. Fourth: Wi-Fi connection appears very fast. There is a caveat though, this printer takes a while to start from a cold start. I sell often on eBay and print from the app. With the Photosmart, maybe due to the change in service, I used to have to wait a while before the printer processed what it was doing. With this one, as soon as the printer states it's online, it begins within seconds any print job received from either HP Connect or HP Direct (the mobile to printer connection that uses Bluetooth I believe). I have had consistent success with HP Direct since it takes out of the equation everything except my phone and the printer. HP Connect though I always had issues with. The eBay app seems to hate printer plug-ins, so I decided to try going the HP Connect route. This involves e-mailing the printer what you need to print. Well, I e-mailed a shipping label. I decided to sit down and wait the customary forever for it to print (based on Photosmart experiences). After hitting send and touching the chair to sit, the printer had already began the printing process. Since this printer was made after the switch to HP Connect, it went super fast! I can say I am completely impressed. Fifth: Paper tray. Yeah I know how cares, it's a tray. But coming from a Photosmart, being able to put what looks like a third of a ream of paper into the tray is so nice. I always felt I was reloading paper too often on the Photosmart due to the small tray. I do miss the dedicated photo paper tray though. That's all I could think of with my limited use of the printer thus far. The only negative is that I feel it takes too long to be ready from a cold start. I know it is partially my fault because I kill the surge protector to save as many pennies as I can. Florida Power and Light really loves shafting us with the power bills here in Miami. But I have restarted the printer without turning off the surge protector and it still took a bit longer than the Photosmart. But with 5 positives so far vs the Photosmart, whats a bit longer boot up time?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ How I fixed my 3-day WIFI installation frustration
*by T***I on October 31, 2022*

I have been a faithful HP user for the last 5 years due in no small part to their quality and reliability. My Officejet Pro 8600 Plus (n911g) finally died after 4 years of home use. So, after doing some web searching, I decided to fall back to the highly recommended HP Scanjet Pro 6978. After 3 days of frustrating effort in trying to implement the wifi printer function, I was able to successfully enable it in my new printer/scanner. Seeing and experiencing the frustrations shown in purchase reviews, I decided to take the time to layout what worked for me. The bottom line is that HP Smart was not detecting that my computer was set up to not share devices. The basic software at the HP Customer Support web page did and corrected this. More detail below. As background, I had used HP Smart with my previous 8600 printer and became frustrated with it, so I stopped using it and started using just the basic printer software. Also, seeing the Instant Ink “horror stories” in the purchase reviews, I was determined not to let this happen during the install. As it turned out this latter fear was totally un-founded and I was easily able to bypass the Instant Ink offer. In retrospect, I believe HP Smart is a good addition to the basic software, however, over the years my 5-year-old laptop has been subjected to a lot of additional security and other software which I believe HP Smart was unable to detect and correct. Once corrected, I plan to continue with HP Smart and believe the underlying issue was also the source of the problem I had with it with my prior printer. During the initial setup, I was easily able to get the printer into my network (solid unblinking blue wifi indicator on the printer). Where the 3 days of frustration happened was in getting the computer to recognize the printer! Once I gave up on the HP Smart wifi and other USB and ethernet solutions, I decided to go back to finding the basic 6978 software. On the HP support web page I found a it through web link HPEasyStart_14_6_6. Using it led to another piece of software (Full_Webpack-40.16.1234_1-OJ6970_Full_Webpack) that completed the installation on my laptop. I believe I had to start an HP account for this as well as use the sharing functions. What the basic software detected was that my computer was not allowing my devices to share. Once it corrected this, the software installation went quite quickly. I believe this unsharing was done by my security software in order to eliminate the risks of remote hacking. I may very well go back (or have to when the AVG software scans again) and limit the sharing to only the devices I want to access the printer.

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