Reviews for HP Photosmart 7520 e-All-in-One Printer

After so much research on wireless printer performance with Apple products, I took a chance on the HP 7520. If you read enough user reviews you will not want to try any.

I did not install the HP software on my MacBook Air, but instead set it up on the wireless network as a stand alone device. It has worked flawlessly with this laptop, 2 iPads, an iPhone 5 and also an Android phone. I have used it for multiple full color 4X6 and 8 1/2X11 photos and documents and have scanned directly to the iPads and both phones using the HP apps. I love the effortless double sided printing, and also keeping both paper sizes loaded at the same time, and not having to choose which to use. My biggest concern was having complications with my Apple laptop, but so far all features have worked so easily while maintaining print/scan quality. I have been using this printer 100% wirelessly and loving it!

92 of 97 people found this useful

This printer has MUCH less functionality than its predecessor, the 7510. First, this printer does NOT have E-fax functionality, a feature I assumed it had because I thought it would be a step up from the 7510. Second, you cannot access facebook directly from the touchscreen on the printer, so unlike the 7510, you cannot go to Facebook on the printer and print directly from it. Third, there is some sort of software glitch where the software cannot be downloaded from the internet. All in all, not impressed. Please bring back the 7510!!!

46 of 56 people found this useful

Love it works great ink seems to last long and cool feature can print from my iphone 4 S when I am away from the printer>.fax work well also no problem.

Have one issue control panel light goes off n on If Any one kow this reason please let me know

Love wireliress printer Great work HP.

14 of 14 people found this useful

Paid $100 for each when I purchased an apple product.
BOTH were TERRIBLE.
Only one would SCAN and ONLY one would PRINT! so i would unplug according to the job I was doing. So stupid!

Then the SCANNER one finally broke after 9 MONTHS!
TODAY it has been 12 months and the PRINT one broke!

The cartriges were $50 to refill and they dried out fast so you could not have them refilled by a second hand store (costco, walgreens, etc)..which led me to have to buy NEW $50 cartridges VERY often.

Also the printers could NOT turn off their WIRELESS ability so it would take FOREVER to print ONE PAGE!

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!

18 of 24 people found this useful

I bought this printer directly from HP in Jan 2012 and had problems getting it to find the internet address from DHCP from my Linksys router. Many other devices are served just fine except the 7520. My wireless is from an access point not a wireless router but this, according to the 7520 documentation should work fine.

If you select the "Tools" option on the front panel then it has no "return" option so you are stuck on this screen until it somehow times out. The HP printer software guys need to test more thoroughly.

this printer has great features but the wireless software systems is very weak. I have had no problems on my network with a recently purchased HP5514.

the HP 7520 takes over 3 minutes to get an IP address from a router.

Weird

15 of 19 people found this useful

Though not a fan of HP printers, I was pleasantly surprised with this printer. Easy to set up. the print quality is great as well as the two paper trays, great for pictures without having to change paper, but can of course print photos on regular paper. I found the ink, if you put it on draft, prints as well as normal, and will extend the life of the ink cart. save the special ink settings for important pictures or legal documents. it is a waste of ink to print everyday things such as text docs with normal printing. I use this setting for insurance forms and have not found any loss in quality of print.

For the price it is a great printer, and the cart. are very reasonably priced.

11 of 13 people found this useful

I am very pleased with the speed and quality of this printer. I choosed to setup my printer on our wireless network and not through the USB port of my local desktop computer. In doing so, I had setup an HP eprint service so we can print from our iPhones and iPads in our home. The cool thing is that your printer is connected to your web based eprint service account and you can print from your mobile device when out of the home. I highly-recommend this printer to everyone.

13 of 17 people found this useful

I have had the same issues with my Photosmart on my iMac using both OS 10.7 and 10.8. The WiFi has never worked properly. WiFi was very difficult to set up initially and it quits when the printer goes to sleep, refusing to reconnect after waking up. I finally just connected it by cable. The WiFi will not work when the cable is hooked up, so you can only access it from the wired computer. Also, the scanner freezes in the middle of a scan and requires a full restart to correct. I recommend you look at a different machine.

11 of 15 people found this useful

I am surprised at all the negative reviews, we have had no problems at all. Set-up was super easy and quick, and since then the printer, scanner, fax and copier has worked absolutely fine. No problem with the wifi connectivity from either our iMac or our iPhones and iPads.

The only thing I would say is that I have trouble turning off the automatic double-sided printing and sometimes you have to wait for up to one minute for the printer to warm up after a long time of inactivity. Otherwise, it works like a dream, and the eprint facilities are great!

6 of 6 people found this useful

Excellent preforming printer. However, I believe the ink cartridges are too small, thus can not print very many pages.

5 of 6 people found this useful