HP Smart Tank 5103

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Two years of ink in the box, a hundred sheets of 4 × 6 photo paper beside it, and no cartridges anywhere — the pitch is aimed squarely at the people HP's cartridge printers drove off, and the bottle arithmetic behind it is real. HP 31 colour bottles are rated 8,000 ISO pages each, which puts a full-colour page a little over 1.2 cents. Smart Tank models are also sold outside HP+, so nothing commits the buyer to Original HP supplies for the life of the printer the way the DeskJet and OfficeJet 'e' models do. The machine around the tanks is deliberately plain: one 100-sheet tray that will at least take legal paper, manual duplex, no document feeder, and a 1.2-inch icon display that pushes almost every setting into the phone app. The awkward part is the price. At what HP asks for this, the Smart Tank 6001 beside it adds the automatic duplexer for much the same money.

Approx. price: ~$269
Cost per mono page: 0.40¢
Cost per colour page: 1.2¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$297
Print speed, mono: 12 ISO ppm

Best for

Someone leaving cartridge printing behind who prints documents and family photos and does not need a feeder or a duplexer.

marks an estimate. Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Purchase price plus ink or toner over the pages shown, assuming four mono pages for every colour page. Price is an approximate snapshot from our last catalogue update.

What it costs to own

Black consumable: HP 32XL black bottle · 6,000 ISO pages · ~$23.89
Colour consumable: HP 31 colour bottles · 8,000 ISO pages · ~$21.89 each
Cost per mono page: 0.40¢
Cost per colour page: 1.2¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$297
Cost to own, 200 pages/month for 3 years: ~$309 (7,200 pages)

Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. How this is worked out

Cost to own · 5,000 pages

HP Smart Tank 5103~$297
~$269 printer + ~$28 supplies
HP Smart Tank 6001~$297
~$269 printer + ~$28 supplies
HP Smart Tank 7301~$407
~$379 printer + ~$28 supplies

purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.

Specifications

Manufacturer-published figures. Cost lines are computed from the consumable figures above and are estimates.

Approx. price: ~$269
Cost per mono page: 0.40¢
Cost per colour page: 1.2¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$297
Cost to own, 3 years: ~$309
Technology: Thermal inkjet
Ink system: Bottles
Inks: 4
Black consumable: HP 32XL black bottle · 6,000 pages
Colour consumable: HP 31 colour bottles · 8,000 pages
Ink in the box: 6,000 pages
Third-party ink lock: No
Ink subscription: None offered
Print speed, mono: 12 ISO ppm
Print speed, colour: 5 ISO ppm
Functions: Print · Copy · Scan
Two-sided printing: Manual
Document feeder: None
Paper capacity: 100 sheets
Max paper size: Legal
Borderless photo: Yes
Resolution: 4800 × 1200 dpi
Connectivity: Wi-Fi
Mobile printing: AirPrint · Mopria
Display: 1.2" icon LCD
Dimensions: 17.1 × 14.2 × 6.2 in
Weight: 11.1 lb
Released: 2024

Features

Four refillable tanks using HP 32XL black and HP 31 colour bottles
Colour bottles rated 8,000 ISO pages each
Not an HP+ model — no obligation to use Original HP supplies
Two years of ink and 100 sheets of 4 × 6 photo paper in the box
Flatbed scanner and standalone copier
Borderless photo printing up to 8.5 × 11
Legal paper in the 100-sheet tray

No ink lock Borderless photo

In its favour

8,000-page colour bottles keep refills rare, even for colour-heavy printing
No HP+ enrolment, so third-party bottles are not blocked
Ships with about two years of ink and a hundred sheets of photo paper
Slightly faster than the comparable entry EcoTank at 12 ISO ppm

Against it

No automatic duplex, and the 6001 that has one costs about the same
A 1.2-inch icon display, so most settings need the phone app
No document feeder
HP's app is more insistent about accounts and sign-ins than its rivals'

What owners say

No owner discussion has been collected for the HP Smart Tank 5103 yet. The specifications above are the manufacturer’s published figures and the cost per page is computed from them — but nothing on this page claims to know what living with it is like, because nobody here has read owners on it.