HP Smart Tank 5103

The HP Smart Tank 5103 is aimed at family and everyday-household use — a balance of print quality, running cost, and ease of setup. A starting price of $259.99 places it in the mid-market — more capable than the sub-$100 tier but without premium-segment overhead.

Print speed is modest at 12 ppm — adequate for the home and light-office volumes this category is designed around. The 12,000-page monthly duty cycle comfortably covers typical home and home-office usage. Cost per page is very low at $0.004 — a strong long-term economic argument, particularly for anyone printing more than a few dozen pages a month.

Connectivity is wireless-first, with Wi-Fi making it straightforward to print from phones and laptops without drivers.

Overall, it's a solid family printer — dependable enough for everyday document work without pushing the household into unnecessary feature bloat. Specifications below are sourced from the manufacturer's published datasheet and product page; see our ranking methodology for how we assess printers uniformly across the database, or our editorial standards for sourcing and corrections policy.