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Okay, I picked it up tonight and so far I'm pleased. Very easy to set up, including the wifi. I was disappointed with one aspect: I wanted to have it on the lan and only use wifi for roaming devices or guests, but it looks like it has to be one or the other.

Speed is a little slow compared to similar printers, but quality is better so there's the trade-off. Plus, it's faster than the one it replaces so no real gripes. One bonus is the ability to print photos direct to 4x6 paper, which my other printers didn't have. Memory card support and color LCD were new too.

One of the main selling points (besides the $100 rebate) was bluetooth printing. HP sells their own usb BT radio for it, but on a whim I tried a generic one and it worked fine. My laptop saw it right away and autoconfigured (drivers were already installed) once I selected it in the BT devices list. Bluetooth was critical because when I'm working from home, my laptop can't see everything on my local network when I connect to work via VPN. It may be a VPN configuration issue, but rather than wrestle with it I decided a printer with BT would be a nice option... and sure enough, the first print went right through, VPN or no VPN!

There is a duplexing add-on available for about $70 I may buy later. For now I'm just glad to have that one printing issue solved!