HP ENVY 4520 All-in-One Wireless Printer
$39.99
$99.99
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Model: HP Envy 4520
Condition: Refurbished
Top positive review
5 people found this helpful
Outstanding value - plays well with Linux
By Eyeconic on Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017
This replaced an aged laser printer and is an ideal home/home-office printer. I am amazed by the features at this price point, some of which are quite clever. For example, the heads have to be aligned when ink cartridges are installed. The printer prints out an alignment page. Then it self-adjusts by scanning the page that you just printed. I am involved in several advocacy endeavors and I believe that the best method of contacting elected officials is by regular snail mail. The appearance of the printed page is very important to me. Letters (including envelopes) look very professional. NOW THEY TELL ME: Setting up the printer from Linux is challenging. Had I simply installed the HP app to my phone or Fire I could have made life much easier. You don't need the app to print stuff from your phone put it facilitates things like scan-to-email so I left it on my Fire 8. QUALITY: Print and scan quality are quite good; excellent really. I am using high quality, 24 lb. — 97 brightness premium paper which helps. Photos from a decent cell phone on glossy paper (which I have yet to try) should be pleasing as well. I have included a test page that was printed and then scanned to email at 300 DPI (the machine is capable of 1,200 DPI scan). It might give you some idea of the quality. E-PRINT: This is a free service from HP. They give you an email address which you can customize. If you send an email from anywhere to that email address the attachments will be printed. I am not entirely sure why one needs to print remotely but it is there if you need it at no cost. FRONT-ORIENTED: Paper input and printed output are to and from the front of the device. A little arm swings out when you print to support the output. Just swing it back in when you are done and it is out of the way. Saves space. LINUX: Hplip is included in my (Fedora) distro. However, it would not add the printer. The native printer utility worked perfectly and allows you to complete setup with quality and paper settings which can be adjusted per job. Everything works fine with LibreOffice including some beautiful color charts. ENVELOPE HANDLING: Better than my HP laser printer. DIAGNOSTICS: Everything you could possible want to know about the printer and its setting can be printed as various reports from the app or the front panel.
Top critical review
3 people found this helpful
I bought this printer. Then HP Tech Support wrecked it. Don't buy unless you want a disposable printer.
By S.P. on Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2017
This printer is great, until the scanner stops working and will scan only black pages. Even after you follow HP's troubleshooting steps of cleaning the scanner glass, which they insist upon. The scanner on my HP Envy 4520 stopped working after about 8 months. And if you try to contact HP tech support to get help under warranty, be ready for a lot of frustration, and no resolution. Now, I fully recognize that there are some really unskilled users out there, and tech support is geared toward that lowest common denominator. But there has to be a point where a company's tech support understands that no, the user isn't lying about the problems their experiencing, and going through the unplug-the-printer-and-plug-it-back in dance will not yield different results the 6th time you try it. And perhaps... PERHAPS... when a customer is telling you that something is wrong with the scanner element and the problem is not dirty scanner glass, they might just know exactly what they're talking about. I MIGHT also be true that something is seriously wrong with a specific printer, when the steps tech support gives the user to reset the printer only make the situation worse. Like, locking the printer up to that it only displays "Error Code OXB85361C4" and won't allow you to do anything else... so now, not only is the scanner broken, but it will no longer print or do anything else, either. Then, after all of this... tech support asked me to take the cartridges out, and clean the printheads. Because this is clearly a dirty printhead problem right? Well, ignoring the stupidity of this request, the print cartridges are rendered inaccessible when the printer is locked up and displaying nothing but "Error Code OXB85361C4." But hold on to your hats! Because it's at this point that HP Tech support will diagnose a broken scanner issue as "a jammed printhead carriage," and then insist that you go taking apart the inside to look for a paper jam. Yup. This is the last HP printer I will ever buy. Maybe if you get one and it doesn't break, and you never have to go through HP tech support, it will be worth it to you. But know now that should your HP printer happen to break, their tech support is far too incompetent to assist you in getting your broken printer replaced under warranty.
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