Within minutes I had an iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Android phone, Chromebook, and MacBook connected and functioning. Installing software and setting up this printer was incredibly easy. Software and compatibility Photo by Tracey Truly If so, HP will alert you to the change in terms. HP notes that this is a trial, so there may be a charge for faxing in the future. The HP Smart mobile app also has a fax feature that’s currently free. You’ll want a third-party OCR app if you anticipate an ongoing need to turn scanned documents into editable text. OCR seems prone to small errors that make editing time-consuming. Optical character recognition, which HP calls text-extract mode, is one of the few problem areas. It runs slower but allows you to step away while several sheets are scanned, saving time overall. There’s also a document feeder that accepts up to 35 pages. The mobile app has a multi-item scan mode that automatically crops and individually saves several photos scanned at once. Scanning the entire flatbed (a little larger than a letter-sized page) at 300 dpi takes about 20 seconds. Special features Photo by Tracey Trulyīeyond printing, the HP Envy Inspire 7955e is a great scanner and copier. Unless you are planning high-volume printing or selling your prints, the speed, and quality should be more than good enough. The HP Envy Inspire 7955e outputs up to 15 black-and-white pages per minute (PPM), more than enough for casual and home office use. I didn’t need to play with settings to get good results, and everything I printed came out looking great on my first try.įor documents, fonts are sharp and legible, even when printing gray text. The ink dries quickly and doesn’t spread even with standard paper. Unless you are planning high-volume printing or selling your prints, this is more than good enough. The main paper tray can hold up to 8.5-by-14-inch legal paper, standard letter-sized paper, envelopes, and various other sizes. Photo paper also yields more intense colors, while less expensive sheets still give accurate tones with less vibrancy.Ī dedicated tray for small, picture-sized prints accepts 5-by-5, 4-by-6, and 5-by-7-inch photo papers. High-brightness photo paper provides more range with brighter whites and more accurate blacks. Even on multipurpose paper, details are crisp. It’s hard to tell in the photo above, but the printed photo matched what I saw onscreen. The print quality of the HP Envy Inspire 7955e is fantastic when using high-quality HP paper. Printing performance Photo by Tracey Truly That’s important when using photo paper and other specialty paper. Notes and marks on the printer indicate how to load paper for printing, how to use flatbed and feeder scanning and adjust guides on each to accommodate different paper sizes.įor example, when adding paper, there are icons of documents and envelopes as a reminder the side to be printed should face down. Inserting ink cartridges is easy, and directions are clearly marked inside the device. That means little details have been refined to perfection. HP has been making printers nearly forever, long before the internet existed. One touch is all it takes to start a color copy, first scanning, then printing. The most useful of these is the copy button. It includes a 2.7-inch color touchscreen that makes accessing various functions simple without a mobile app or computer. The dimensions are 18.1-by-15.1-by- 9.2 inches, and the weight is 18 pounds. Since it’s an all-in-one printer, it stands taller than a print-only model but doesn’t seem overly large or obtrusive. It will fit in nicely in most home office environments. HP’s Envy Inspire has an attractive but functional design with a soft, off-white body and light beige accents. Spoiler alert: it’s every bit as solid as you may have heard. It’s become a staple of the remote work and small office world, but I wanted to test it out myself to see if it really lived up to the hype, looking through the design details, print performance, special features, and software to find out if it’s a good value at the current price.
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