Let me tell you, this printer is a game-changer for my home office setup. The first thing that blew me away was how ridiculously fast it prints - we're talking 42 pages per minute! I timed it while printing a client report, and my jaw literally dropped when the stack of papers came out faster than I could organize them.

The auto-duplex feature is my secret weapon. No more manual page-flipping when printing double-sided contracts. Just last week, I printed a 50-page document while on a Zoom call, and the soft humming noise didn't even make my colleagues blink. The compact size fits perfectly on my standing desk without dominating the space.

Setting up was surprisingly painless. The touchscreen interface is refreshingly simple - none of that cluttered nonsense with endless menus. I had it connected to both my MacBook and iPhone within minutes. Though I will say the mobile printing can occasionally be finicky (had to cancel one stuck job), but computer printing works flawlessly every time.

The scanner? Chef's kiss! It handles double-sided documents like a pro, and setting up scan-to-folder was worth the initial configuration hassle. That little manual feed tray for envelopes has saved me so much paper-tray-swapping frustration.

After years of dealing with temperamental inkjets (goodbye, clogged nozzles!), this laser reliability feels like cheating. The toner cartridge seems like it'll last forever compared to those expensive ink cartridges that always ran dry at the worst possible moment.

Is it perfect? No tech is. But for anyone printing serious volumes of black-and-white documents who wants enterprise features without enterprise headaches, this HP hits that sweet spot between power and simplicity.