HP is evil. I HATE my HP printer. HP purposely made the printer with pic rollers so sensitive they will only work with HP photo paper. No other will work. HP photo paper is rough on the backside. The printer is so prone to jamming, it sucks. It wouldn’t really bother me to have to use HP paper if it wasn’t significantly more expensive. If something costs twice as much I kind of expect that it should be much better quality.