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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many customers expressed significant dissatisfaction with the product, often describing it as unreliable and difficult to use. People frequently encountered issues with the app and website, finding them unresponsive and poorly designed, which made basic functions like printing or managing accounts frustrating. The subscription service also drew strong criticism, with many feeling it was unsatisfactory and made it impossible to use their printers effectively. Reviewers consistently reported problems with the printer's functionality, including connectivity issues, failure to recognize cartridges, and an inability to print despite being online and having ink. The process of setting up and troubleshooting was often described as lengthy and unhelpful, leading to a general sentiment of regret over purchasing HP products.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The HP smart app does not even deserve a 1 star rating, but you have to tick just one star! Absolute pile of rubbish, fairly straight forward to setup but often go print something and nothing happens... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don't buy HP! We just disenrolled from the smartprint service for our year old HP printer because the cost was much more than what we'd pay for when buying cartridges as needed. (We've only had... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Worst service ever, 1st after 5:30 pm UK Time all support down and their virtual assistant as much use as a chocolate teapot 2nd. Can't Print anything despite printer being online and FULL of in... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Worst decision to ever make an account with HP smart printer or their huge scam--the instant ink subscription. They make it impossible to close your account; the supposed steps to do so dont work beca... See more


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dreadful

Dreadful, never again , when the inks gone , printers going . As far as i can tell , the whole product is just a mechanism to sell monthly ink deliveries.

May 24, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

New 8015e Printer

New 8015e Printer. HP Smart App loaded, but have to sign in to account - so I tried and tried and tried. Then 2 calls to HP Support. They couldn't figure it out so said they would transfer me to the computer tech. The computer tech wanted me to pay $55 and 17 a month to get assistance - I declined. The Smart App is useless and no way to use the scanner or fax without the App - terrible decision on the part of HP. Returning this printer and going with another brand after 20+ years of using their products - By the way, I don't speak India speak - their tech support!
**Update
After the 3rd try, actually got a printer tech on the phone that knew what he was doing. Smart App was corrupted, he rebuilt and reinstalled printer with both the WiFi and the usb. It's now working.

May 16, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have a negative review of HP…

If I could give a negative review of HP Smart, I would do at least three times. I cancelled the service on two separate occasions, Verbally. Another via email on a third occasion. They failed to follow my directive and then billed me $25.57 for another month. I have had two conversation today, 05-09-24, two of which with representatives that claim to be supervisors. One of which claimed at the beginning of the conversation that they had the ability to issue a credit. All three of the reps claim that they are following "business protocol" and escalating the complaint to a supervisor, and they will contact me in a few days for any possible refund. My question to them is you have not followed business protocol in the past so why are you following it now. Irene and Ella need to be retrained on how to deal with their past and current clients. I am one of the past. I have been a loyal customer to HP for at least 30 years. Furthermore, I have never had anyone at HP so such blatant disrespect. The only thing they had to do is say "Oops, we made a mistake. I am issuing a refund now." But they choose to no listen to a client, whether former or current. Do not sign up for HP Smart as they are not capable of follow clients directive and just bill as they see fit.

May 9, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I can use any function without frustration, I would have given two stars

If I can use any function without frustration, I would have given a two-stars review.

Adding a printer requires logging into hp.com. Not recognizing my printer at first attempt.

Scanning to local requires logging in, too. Scan preference reset after scanning each page. Crash after rotating and cropping six pages manually before scanning.

I used to love HP printers and I owned two previous models. Now I will avoid any HP products for the sake of "HP Smart".

May 2, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute joke of a company

Absolute joke of a company, customer service is rude and unable to assist or even have knowledge about their own services, Mis sold services, refused to rectify the issue, remotely stopped my printer from working, would not roll over unprinted pages (unsure why they even have this feature) no supervisor available to rectify the issue simply only untrained staff working from home who are rude and havn't got a clue how to be professional, I will have to dispute past payments with my credit card company as theres no one to speak with. A joke of a company AVOID AVOID AVOID

April 29, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Website and App just sends me in circles…

Website and App just send me in circles and will not connect to the instant ink subscription to enable printing. I have spent the last 3 hours trying to get it to work, after 3 factory resets and continual web and app connection and I decided to telephone the "help" and they are just as useless

April 27, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

HP smart printers - less use than cockroach vomit

Every conceivable that a printer should do seems impossible for HP allinone printer (2700 series). Will not repeat other reviewers complaints here, but, today's numerous failings include requesting a new password BEFORE verifying my email. ANYONE could hijack your printer with such non-security. Needless to say, the "smart" software insists there are 2 instances of the same printer - one offline showing it is connected to a router (yes!!!), the other stating it's online but the menu page says it's offline, preventing access to all the functions, unless one creates a new account... Duh ... A sack of cockroach vomit would be more useful!

April 26, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A piece of rubbish that replaced a decent app

Recently bought new Windows11 pc to replace my older Win10 machine. The HP Scan app that I used with Windows10 has been retired and replaced by Windows smart. The scan quality using HP Smart is far below that obtained from the 'retired' HP Scan app. This is one more case of changing a perfectly good app for a piece of rubbish. I am now investigating the possibility of using a third party app for scanning

April 24, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Not Impressed REVISED now I’m happy!

I had HP print software years ago and uninstalled it and it took with it most of my others stuff on my PC.
Bought another HP printer recently and sad to say the software seems poor. Constant spinning wheel and poor print quality to boot. I launched my last HP printer down the garden and this one may end up the same.
REVISION
Having had the printer for a while now I think I was harsh in my review problems encountered were mainly due to lack of use. I now quite like my little printer; so apologies to HP.

April 16, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Smart ink but dumb agents

The ink might be smart, but the agents are not. They can't even switch my nee printer. 3 hours with tech support and I hung up. I will be going to Walmart and spending $50 on ink and it's fine. These people will suck up way more than $50 of my time for nothing. Bye Dumbink!!

April 15, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

HP Not So Smart

This is the worst piece of software I had the misfortune to use! Continually eats into memory which causes the sofware to crash! I am a software engineer with over 30 years experience and we would never release software that continually crashes during testing! This implies that the software has not been fully tested! Crashing seems to only occur when scanning, I've had no issues with printing..

April 2, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

HP Support is THE WORST

If you want to maintain your sanity and not waste hours of your life, DO NOT USE HP Smart or their customer service people. I cant believe how useless they are and they just kept transferring me back and forth to the same departments saying they couldn't help me. If I had to hear 'sorry for your inconvenience' one more time, I was going to lose it!! SO FRUSTRATED !

March 25, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The most annoying software known to…

The most annoying software known to humanity. Crashes almost every single time, whether using scanner or printer. Does not work after installation. Is not recognised after installation. Works on every other machine except the new machine you need it to work on. Insane number of keystrokes + mouse clicks + steps needed just to scan one document.

March 20, 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They claim u save money with a pre-pay…

They claim u save money with a pre-pay subscription and u pay every month but don't get ink sent out every month, only when they can see on the app that it's running low but they still take your money every month, and then you have to pay for every page you print over and once you cancel your subscription they block you from using the printer so your left with a printer you can't use, would never recommend HP to anyone

March 3, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unsmart

Horrendous - Won't be buying a HP Printer again. The most unuser friendly an unsmart app ever

March 3, 2024
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