Very noisy. I've used quite a few ink jet printers over the years - this is , by far, the noisiest of the bunch.In just over a week, the black ink was gone and I printed no more than 50 - 75 pages. I bought the CX6000 to replace a Epson CX5400 that died after 2 1/2 years of fairly heavy use. Doing the same type of printing, the ink in the 5400 would last from 6 - 8 weeks or longer, NOT just a week.1/4 tank of each of the colored inks was used just to do a nozzle check. Later I printed some maps - the only color on them was a few outlines made with high lighter. Then I printed two approx 4 x 6 colored pictures. I was warned that there wasn't enough colored ink left to print another page like the one I had just printed. Pretty expensive pictures!I returned the CX6000 and bought a Canon Pixma MP600 which got wonderful reviews here on Amazon and computer magazines. So far, I'm loving the Canon printer.