![]() ![]() In the absence of other co-workers, while I work from home, the HP Officejet Pro 8035 is the best work-wife I could hope for: helpful, nice and good at its job. However, we are less impressed with the color documents it produces. While it isn’t quite as easy to use as our main pick, it does a great job of printing simple black and white documents with crisp-looking text, quickly. If your budget falls on the leaner side, the HP Envy 6055 ( available at HP Store for $129.99) is a great choice. It scans well and makes excellent copies of anything you throw at it. It’s easy to set up, easy to use, and produces crisp black and white or colored documents or photographs. Situations like these are what make owning a reliable multifunction home printer so attractive.Īfter looking into some of the most popular printers on the market for weeks, we can tell you that the HP Officejet Pro 8035 ( available at HP) is our favorite option. Once in a while, however, you might need to print and sign a legal contract, scan receipts for your accountant or free a photo that’s been trapped on your smartphone to hang on your wall. The output’s good enough for a quick print of a smartphone snap, but you wouldn’t want to frame it.Most of the work we do from home, be it for an employer, to keep our personal finances in order or, for school, can be completed and submitted digitally. Brighter colours reproduce quite well, but softer tones tend to look faded and you don’t get the clarity or detail you’ll find on prints from more expensive models like the Envy Inspire 7224e. Photo printing speeds aren’t painfully slow, at around 80 seconds for an A5 photo or two minutes for an A4 photo print with quality set to high, but the prints themselves are more usable than impressive. The Deskjet 2710e will also print photos, though we found it touch and go working with heavier photo papers, often refusing to feed them in on the first try and waiting until we’d pulled them out and reinserted them. Speeds aren’t great, at around 20 seconds for a mono A4 page or 34 seconds for colour, and the reproduction is patchy in areas, with the printer delivering thicker, darker text than you’ll find in the original or struggling to match vibrant greens and reds. It's a similar story for mono and colour copying. To be fair, though, we didn’t have any further disconnections during testing. Ironically, HP pushes stable wireless connectivity as a feature, with support for dual-band Wi-FI and an automatic Wi-Fi reset if the signal’s lost, but that connection didn’t seem all that stable while we were setting this one up. We had similar issues on our first two attempts at making the 2710e connect to the Windows app, even though the printer was already connected to the network when we started. It took four goes with the Android version of HP Smart before the printer completed the process, with a wireless disconnection brought things to a halt the first three times at different stages. This has worked brilliantly on other HP printers we’ve tested, but with our test 2710e things fell apart. ![]() Turn the printer on and install the two cartridges, and you can add the printer to the network from the Windows or smartphone HP Smart app, run the alignment routine then get to work. Simplicity has been a hallmark of HP’s setup process over the last couple of years, and the Deskjet 2710e takes the same app-based approach as most of its recent stablemates. It’s more of a small part-timer that looks its best with everything stowed away neatly. Yet you get the feeling that the Deskjet 2710e isn’t designed for full-time use. We’re not sure the design would survive life in a busy office and it all looks a bit messy, to be honest. The flap at the front folds out to form the output tray, with a secondary support pivoting out to stop your documents falling to the floor. Instead, up to 60 sheets of office paper cram into a vertical rack at the rear, with a pull-out support to hold them securely. Of course, with this tiny form factor there’s no room for internal input or output trays. ![]()
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