Sometimes, the fix is as easy as removing the printer/reinstalling the printer - which is still time-consuming. It's very frustrating when you need to print something, but it wouldn't print. hp printers used to be so good, don't know what happened. I had Canon MX8xx/9xx printers before they didn't have any connection issue and worked well with 3rd party inks. The connection issue still exist with the latest firmware.
The ink that comes with it are starter inks and if you have one color depleted it wont print anything (b&w or color) for you until it's replaced. Ink is about 26 per standard crtg but I think that costco has the XL 3 packs (CMY) and puts them on sale for 80 from 100 every now and then.
HP OFFICEJET PRO 8720 STAPLES SERIES
NB: Epson Wf-4630 along with their new ecotank series returns are staggering. The 8720 n 8740 can also use the 956 black cartridge rated for 3000-3500 pages, bigger display, legal sized flat bed scanner & paper tray (will not stick out when using 8.5x14 paper), 50 page ADF and NFC, The 956xl cartridge has about 50% more capacity than the 952xl. Get the 8720 or 8740, both of which are on sale at Staples (if buying a HP and size is not a problem). 8710's returns are only exceeded by Epson WF-4630 (WF-36xx series are good, most people buy WF-4630 due to high yield cartridges). Scan documents and photographs on the integrated flatbed scanner, and finish fast with the ability to print up to 34 ppm.
Create brilliant documents with the HP Officejet Pro 8720 all-in-one printer. Get the color graphics and black text you need to keep your business humming. 8710 has serious sleep issues, ie, the printer will not wake up once it goes to sleep and becomes offline. HP OfficeJet Pro 8720 All-in-One Printer can print professional-quality colorfor less. There's a reason why HP is clearing out the Officejet Pro 8710 for 80 bucks even though the 87xx series came less than a year ago. these articles mention "patches" and other updates that supposedly backtrack on the copy protection, but that only applies to older firmware and there is nothing available for new updates and new printers.I had the 8610 and was a lemon for me, always had connection issues and then the powers supply in the printer blew up after mild use (mostly used for scanning and the occasional color print) after a year and a half. Buy Brother, Canon, anything but HP and Epson (who pulls the same scam). This is commonplace for HP, as they did this with a lot of printers in 2016, got hammered on it in the press (and were threatened with legal action) so HP issued "firmware fixes" but from my research, they started it up again in 2017-18. And they worked perfect before the firmware copy protection "upgrade". Canadian The third party companies were not only helping by proving ink at reasonable prices but they are/were also recycling the cartridges and keeping. Your HP OfficeJet Pro 8740 printer is designed to work best with the Original HP 952/956 Ink family. The ink 135.35 Staples Canada is showing a price of 192. I had a whole box of 3rd-party laser cartridges that I tossed out because each and every one gave an error now. HP OfficeJet Pro 8720 All-in-One Printer HP OfficeJet Pro 8724 All-in-One Printer HP OfficeJet Pro 8725 All-in. I had an old HP that was working great, then in late-2018 they issued another auto-update "firmware upgrade" that stealth-installed and disabled all 3rd-party ink and it started giving errors and basically stopped working.