Being rather a novice in the printer market, it was with trepidation that I made the decision to entrust my home printing needs to Hewlett Packard and this 8500 series model. That the decision was vindicated came as a great relief as this system can amply cope with and indeed excel in fulfilling my hefty scanning and printing needs. The scanning feature enables smooth and effortless saving of multiple pages to one handy PDF document and requires almost no reading of any manual what so ever. As for the printing capabilities, the quality of printed documents even on the energy efficient 'draft' settings is beyond expectations and the cartridges really last quite a long time. I had to replace the yellow cartridge after 8 months and the blue after 10 months use. After having some rather basic models of printers in the past I can safely say this is well worth the investment.