HP DeskJet 3630

THE WORST MOST HORRIBLE PRODUCT! DO NOT BUY – Literal Piece of crap Needs an APP to work, the app doesnt work. Then if you manage to get it working you need to get a STUPID WPS PIN which is the same as touching your nose from behind your head. The MORONS at HP should be fired and never be given design jobs again! Show details

always having log in issues. Unable to connect – It’s good for value as prints & scans are clear but stressful as to logging in and able to connect to wifi etc. haven’t been able to log in easily Show details

Don't do it – Rarely works. Worst printer I have ever owned or worked with. Prints a new test page every time it restarts which wastes ink. If the colour runs out it won't work on Black only. Connection to WiFi is shocking. All buttons can say it is connected but still nothing happens. This product was so poor that I will NEVER buy a HP product again.

Easiest set up I have ever done – I have only just set this printer up, and haven't put the ink cartridges in yet as I am not using it till my old printer runs out of ink, however after reading some of the bad reviews on how some people thought the set up was bad or complicated I just had to say that, for me, it was the fastest and easiest wi-fi set up I have EVER done with a… Read more

printer (and I do a few as I actually visit peoples homes and help them if they have trouble setting up their printer). I downloaded the HP smart App from the Microsoft store from the link provided when I visited the HP website and followed their prompts to connect it to my wi-fi and it really was easy and fast, and was connected to my computer quickly,I did a test scan and its working fine.

Very happy – I see a lot of bad reviews but I can't fault mine, specially for he price. Doesn't do everything immediately you touch the buttons on phone or unit, but I've had no probs. cartridges are cheap enough and readily available, and they are not heavy on useage, sorry I'm happy  Show details

How to not buy a printer, AGAIN! My 2nd HP printer – Focus on being factual and objective. Don't use aggressive language and don't post personal details - Now I've added the review criteria in here to try and be as factual and objective as possible. Q. How satisfied are you with the print quality in monochrome and colour?  A. This question is invalid with the product. Q. How satisfied are you… Read more

with this product's features/controls and its performance when you apply different settings? A. Can only print from my phone but can't scan, but I scan from my computer but I can't print. I have to use both devices at the same time. Found that out after roughly 2 hours while trying to contact support. After all that they didn't recognise the printers serial number?

Q. If applicable, how satisfied are you with the connectivity of the printer? A. Doesnt connect most of the time and/or disconnects my computer from the internet forcing you to restart you PC. Next question?

Q. How satisfied are you with the reliability and consistency of the printer (e.g. does it jam)? A. Honestly. This is the worst printer in the world. Stay away. Now where's my hammer!

Garbage doesn't even deserve a star – Impossible to use. Tells me it's not connected when it is. When I try to print a document, it prints endless copies of an old document, the memory of which can't be removed. Just goes on and on using the printer cartridge and paper. I printed out HP instructions for use which are worse than useless. If I didn't value my window, I would throw this piece of garbage right through it. As it is, it will go into the garbage bin. Show details

Terrible, hard to work with, constant troubleshooting, horrible customer service – Print quality is bleh. The only feature I USED to find useful was being able to print to an email address and print from my phone. If you lose internet or have to reset a wifi password or name, good luck ever getting the printer connected to the internet again without needing to call into support. I work for a software company, and this thing is ridiculously hard to troubleshoot. Show details

Absolutely Do not buy! – I can't give it less than 1, but it deserves half a star for the idea and the moderately okay scanner. Do not buy this. You will use easily half an ink cartridge just setting the thing up. And that's not even mentioning the countless hours and hours and hours I have spent troubleshooting it- as a person who is good with tech! I am never normally one to leave poor reviews but I have seriously lost it with this thing. Save your sanity people. Show details

Printer with its own life – Bought this printer in december 2019. It would be a solution for wireless printing if you get it to work. Sometimes it does most of the time it doesn't. The small cartridge does a lot of work for the printer itself by printing a lot of paper for self test and how to connect the wireless. So by the time you need a print it runs out of ink. A… Read more

replace cartridge cost you another $53 which does not go far either. Best choice is a simple Brother laserprinter no fuss just connect to your pc with a usb cable. Which you also can do with the 3630 but every time you switch on your pc it prints yes a self test asking you to copy this and print again. So much for a cheap printer.

Rubbish – The old adage you get what you pay for applies here. Hasn’t worked since the day I bought it!! Comes up error paper jammed and it’s not. After reading other reviews I’ve decided to bin it and spend my money on something decent that doesn’t have printer cartridges that cost more than the printer. What a joke!! Show details

It's just like a use and throw printer. The ink cartridge cost more than the printer – The printer is handy and very reliable. Can be done wirelessly with mobile devices. Scanning and copy is also super. Just the ink cartridge is so expensive than the printer.

Handy for light use – The HP 3630 is handy to have for occasional printing. Wireless printing is very handy, in fact I’ve never had to connect it to my PC I’ve just printed wirelessly from my phone through the handy HP Smart app. The clever thing with the app is that you can take separately scanned pages and make them a single doc for easy sharing. The Printer was very cheap but the ink cartridges cost more than the printer. Show details

Terrible, abomination avoid at all costs – This has the worst setup, most buggy frustrating piece of equipment I have ever had to deal with, it worked at best intermittently after hours trying to print off windows or android, it's seemed to work from Apple products. It ended up in the bin as its not worth a replacement cartridge. Avoid HP printers at all cost..  Show details

Buyer Beware – Print quality is great if you can get it online (wireless). The features are really bad, it seems simple but continues printing a "Printer Information Page" that does not give the instructions needed to set it up. The connectivity of this printer is the worst I have ever seen. I am so frustrated with this printer. I can't connect it half the… Read more

time to wireless and then it wants to print instructions every time which wastes ink. Buyer beware...this is not what you want in a printer.

Worse ever piece of crap – We bought one yesterday and After the setup it will not print.It says "Cartridges listed above are damaged or have failed.Remove them and replace with new cartridges. To order a genuine HP replacement cartridge online.Click buy now.HP does not have phone support but some robot crap.The piece of garbage is going back for a full refund.  Show details

Dust collector/paper weight – This printer has only ever printed properly once in the years I have had it, makes a great scanner but practically useless for printing. Followed though HP's help, completed a printer calibration, alignment and clean. After all this still didn't work only one option left was to buy new cartridges and that was a big waste of money and time. Paid $50 for a scanner that I use maybe twice a year.  Show details

This plastic ain't fantastic! – This printer was part of a laptop package I got for Christmas. After reading reviews on it, I was worried that it wouldn't last. Now here a year later it doesn't work for anything but as a copier. HP support is a lousy joke. Before it clunked it was throwing paper jams, printing stuff you already printed wasting paper and ink, errors, and printer not validated faults. Thanks for nothing QVC, and HP.  Show details

Bucket of ———- – The most useless dust collector I’ve ever bought. I would have to agree with previous reviewers this printer has all the problems other users have mentioned. I have only used this printer three times in a year. It never jams or run low on ink because it just doesn’t work at all.  Show details

Very poor no instructions – All my printer has ever managed to do is print reports about itself and then it ran out of ink. I have absolutely no idea how to make this printer work. No instructions included and the writing on the box is all Chinese. Very cheap but a waste of money  Show details

Very troublesome and I can't rely on it – Basically it was a difficult thing to get up and running as it fights you all the way. You have to get down on your knees and plead and compromise all the time and hope doesn't get some error or paper jam or decide the connection suddenly isn't good enough. Often it'll say you're out of paper and sure enough you've got plenty. Tonight I've tried… Read more

to print off some important documents but instead I'll be fronting up tomorrow empty handed and having to explain why I don't have these documents. It was that friggin new printer of mine!

My next purchase will be a sledgehammer.

pathetic – prints well, was reasonabl price, problem is that its constantly tries to print help sheets and is very hard to set up. one would think a wireless printer you could just connect your device to the printer and send but no you have to connect device and printer to wifi hard enough to figure out setting this up. then you have to google everytime you… Read more

need to do something and get another list of poorly explained instructions. pull my hair out everytime i have to use it. rubbish product.

No Good – Bought this as I wanted a new printer, which I thought would have been an upgrade from my old one. This printer does not come with instructions so I still don't know how to use it properly. Icons on the printer aren't very clear as to what they are it took me a lot of test page printing, which by the way randomly print out, to discover which… Read more

button to press to print a basic page from the computer. Also there is no usb input so you have to have a computer hooked up to it, I'm not even going to try the WiFi, too complicated. I write this review because I just went to print a document and it has printed black as blue so obviously the ink is running out and I have hardly used this printer at all printed 20 pages at most so I guess that's all I'm going to get out of it. Paid $50 from big w, Bought it because the only other option was 4 times that amount. Will obviously have to spend more for my next printer.

Avoid – I am not a computer guru but I have good computer skills. This printer is really unpredictable and temperamental, the set up is not straight forward at all for a home printer. Avoid! Its meant to be wireless but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, goes idle when you are using it can't even scan now.  Show details

Elegant printer - does the job with decent print quality – Decent print quality and does what I want it to do. Purchased this because I needed a simple printer for everyday printing, including text documents that are approximately 120 pages in length once in a blue moon. Quick and easy to understand software for status readings and ink levels. Useful web tools that allow for monitoring ink levels using an… Read more

internet browser.

The only thing that I can agree on is that when HP makes printers, it does it well and kudos to that.

More trouble then it worth! – Where do I start? Not even the price is encouraging, it's simply not worth the $20-$30. It's a nightmare to setup. It prints old jobs unless you manually go in and cancel them after printing. Printing ANYTHING is a SLOW process, it basically works in slow-mo. When printing, it either takes 10 pages at once or none at all and then sits there… Read more

flashing its lights like a Christmas tree. The print quality is ok when it's just a text document but if its an image or anything in colour you wish to print you will end up with horrible faded lines through the image which will make you think that your printer is low on ink (already!) so you'll go and buy more ink only to realise that HP dropped the ball on this one and it's just a crap printer.

Nothing satisfied me more than throwing this piece of S*** in the bin – First of all, what an absolute nightmare to setup. I am familiar with computers and this was simply horrible. Once finally setup, when printing, the printer would draw through about 10 pages at once. I had to move the location of the printer and unplugged it. Big mistake. Impossible to reconnect. The only time I actually gained satisfaction from… Read more

this device was when I carried it out the front a deposited in the bin. I cant wait until garbage collection so that this piece of crap is off my property. Never again will I buy a HP product.

The printer was cheap, around $30, but I would actually pay that sum of money to never have to use this product again.

Don't even bother – This printer, is absolutely horrid. It takes ten years to print (if it even prints) not even worth the $20 I spent on it. I wouldn't even pay 5 cents. Don't waste your money people. When looking for a good printer, it pays to pay more. This printer is just useless. It's in the bin now, not even worth giving it away!!!  Show details