HP OfficeJet 8022 Review
The HP OfficeJet Pro 8022 looks every inch the tiny workplace printer. It's made from muted grey and beige plastics, and proudly wears its ADF like a hat. There's little clutter. The 225-sheet paper tray protrudes slightly at the front, but the eye is drawn to the tilted, touch-sensitive control panel above it.
This MFP has many of the functions you're likely to need in a micro or office environment. There's support for duplicate, check, and fax, along with both wired and wireless network links. The printer can automatically print on both sides of a page, yet the 35-sheet ADF is simplex-only, discarding unattended double-sided scans, duplicates, or faxes.
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HP has actually grasped touchscreen controls, and the example here is a case in point. The food selection responds naturally to drag-and-tap motions, making it a pleasure to use. There's assistance for cloud solutions such as Google Drive and Dropbox, but no USB or SD card slot for direct printing or scanning.
HP has actually dumped the modest configuration disc for an online installer that can be aggravating and seems overly eager to get you to install the HP Smart app. We endured numerous minutes of entertainingly corporate messages about "ending up software service exploration" before reaching the download page for the conventional driver software
As we began to use it, we began to discover other disappointments. Without a 2nd paper tray, you have to dig out the materials of the primary cassette if you want to print on headed or photo paper. HP's motor also appeared extremely slow-moving when spooling our colour graphics task —we timed nearly a min between clicking Print and the printer coming to life.
Simple paper print high quality was superb, with a jet-black, sharp message and exceedingly bright, strong colour graphics. The only letdown was small banding in some discussion slides. Scans were also excellent, although our 600 dpi picture looked as though it had actually been sharpened in software.
Speeds were good overall, with the printer reaching 3.9 ppm on our graphics test, even with the lengthy initial spool time. The only exception was our 1,200 dpi picture scan, which took virtually two minutes.
Stick to the largest products and the HP OfficeJet Pro 8022 must print a colour web page for concerning 8.1 p. That's all right for a light everyday workload, making this an excellent-- if not outstanding-- tiny or home office MFP.
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How rapid is it and how much does it cost to run?
The HP OfficeJet Pro 8022 uses four specific colour cartridges (black, cyan, magenta, and yellow), so there's no unnecessary waste when specific colours run out. And the price of printing is comparable to cartridge-based systems, with costs working out at 2.6 p per mono page and 5.5 p per colour page.
This indicates that enlisting in HP's registration service is only beneficial if you're likely to use a reasonable amount of colour ink or just want the convenience of having replacement ink sent to your address instantly.
However, it's worth noting that significant savings can still be made by opting for an ink-tank printer, which can print something like 13 web pages for the cost of a single page on this printer.
If speed is much more crucial than print quality, this model is well worth considering, however. At 17.4 pages per minute in basic mono setting, it actually rolls them out, even outmatching some laser printers. It's quick to get started, too, with a first-page-to-print time of 12 seconds.
When you require a legible record quick, there aren't many inkjet printers that match it. It wasn't quite as speedy when it came to colour printing; nevertheless, with print rates reduced to 4ppm, I saw similar performance in the duplex and photo-printing tests.
The one area where the OfficeJet Pro 8022 lets itself down is single-page duplicating via the flatbed scanner, which took an incredibly long time, whether in mono or colour, at around 2 minutes to finish.
The printer performed much better when using the automated sheet feeder, nonetheless, producing a 10-page mono copy in 1 min 26 secs and a colour copy in 2 mins 46 secs.
While I'm talking about the scanner, it's worth keeping in mind that, despite its claim to check at 1,200 x 1,200 dpi, we found it frustrating at such high resolutions.
HP's own software program doesn't let you scan at this level of detail, so I switched to Windows' built-in scanning and forced it to use the maximum hardware resolution. It's not worth the trouble, as our check of a 6 x 4-in image came out grouped at 4-in and jagged.
