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I ordered this printer in part because it was rated by Consumer Reports as using very little maintenance ink. CR did a retest of all it's previously recommended printers because so many subscriber's reported excessive ink usage compared to CR results. They discovered that low volume users, something like 20 copies a week, would waste most of their ink supply in "printer head maintenance cycles". This non-adjustable function clears the heads so frequently that more than half the ink was being injected into an internal sump, and never hits paper at all. This design fault varies greatly by manufacturer and model. But this problem disappeared for high volume users. This is the easiest Printer setup I have ever encountered. Even the Wifi connection worked perfectly. It didn't ask for the router key and apparently didn't need one to complete the setup. I've used the print, copy and scan functions and all worked perfectly. If I ever see a need for a land line I'll test the fax capability. That is never likely to happen. EDITED TO ADD: The Install is easy but don't use the included instructions. THAT RESULTS IN AN INCOMPLETE INSTALL, Instead: Go to HP.COM/ Support/ Download Drivers/ enter Officejet 5740/ select HP Officejet 5740e/ select HP Officejet 5740e again/ Option 1: Check for Updates select “Check Now”/ Use option to Download (highlighted in orange)/ Save File, open and install. The directions included with the printer installs an incomplete NOT UPDATED driver that does not fully activate the printer display panel. You can use the display panel, but those commands will not connect with or export to your computer. Once installed check to ensure the Printer will Scan and Copy directly to your computer using the Printer Front Display. The computer needs to be on for this to work properly. All this can also be done remotely from the computer using the HP Dashboard icon on the Computer Desktop too. I do have two suggestions. To save ink go to Control Panel/ Devices and Printers/ right click on your printer (which should already have a green check mark as your Default Printer)/ Printing Preferences/ Paper Quality Tab/ And under Quality Settings, select Draft and finally Apply. The Draft setting uses 20% less ink than than the Normal setting (according to HP Tech Support) with almost no degradation of print quality that I can see. Some have had difficulty with where their Scans are saved. I never had that problem. Here is a very brief tutorial. When finished scanning and after selecting Save, an HP "Save As" dialog box opens, which gives you the option of naming the file (highlighted in blue, call it anything you want). And to the left side, in the margin, is a list of all the available destinations on your computer. You can place your work in any of them by left clicking on that destination. Select Pictures for photos and Documents for documents. If you named it something accurate and descriptive you will have no trouble finding them again. Another note on Scanning and Copying in the PDF format. If you want to later print from that PDF file, open it, right click on the image and the Printer Icon will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. Without the Right Click it is a read only view of the file. The only problem I now have is that the old HP printer, lost to a fire, had an unintended safety feature. I could hear it banging along from two floors away. I relied on that racket to tell me if it had run out of paper or ink. I cannot hear this one working from 10 feet away. It is almost silent. I hope this helps.