"all in one" printer with a decent scanner?

[flyinion]

I don't know anything about this printer.

However the first thing I look at is - how many inks does it have? Modern photo printers have the four basic inks - Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black - plus extra colours to give prints with more nuances so that they actually look like photos (light magenta, light cyan, grey, light grey - my Epson has 8 cartridges in all).

The HP printer you mention only has the 4 basic inks. OK maybe HP know something that Epson don't but it doesn't look very promising as a photo printer

HP actually does have a printer with those extra inks (the gray for example), but yes this one only has the 4 "basic" colors. I don't know that she's going to do a lot of printing photos, I think her intended use is more for scanning photos/documents and then printing documents. I know if I replace my printer (old 2006/2007 era HP with two cartidges) I'll definitely be after one of the newer printers with the extra inks.