The same job in colour needed 90 seconds, which is still quite quick. Photocopy quality was also very high, with single copies taking about 14 seconds, and a 10-page mono copy just 65 seconds. Fortunately, this speed doesn't come at the cost of quality: black text was crisp and dark, and graphics were strong and free of obvious grain or streaking - although I did spot a small amount of bleed through on our 80gsm test paper. Colour prints were impressively fast, too: its 8.6ppm on our graphics-heavy test is well above average. It's a particularly fast printer, delivering our black text test at 21.4 pages per minute (ppm), and at draft quality reaching 25.4ppm - faster than HP's claimed speed. These relatively minor grumbles aside, there's a lot to like about the OfficeJet Pro 8720. It's also a shame to find no bypass feed for special media.īest printer 2022: The best inkjet and laser printers to buy I was disappointed to find a few simple office features were missing: there's no option to secure a print job, and from an inserted USB stick you can only print photos, not PDF or other document files. This MFP's touchscreen is intuitive, but not as responsive as HP's' best. Also, with this being 2016, there's a big colour touchscreen for control, and NFC for quick and easy pairing with mobile devices. Both printer and scanner support automatic duplexing, so you can print, scan, copy or fax double-sided documents. The paper tray holds 250-sheets, but if you need to expand you can add another paper tray for a 500-page total. Speeds are high, with HP claiming up to 24 pages per minute (ppm) for black A4 printing, and 20ppm for colour.

The OfficeJet Pro 8720 is perfectly specified for a busy small office, with support for wired and wireless networking, and a USB host port for walk-up print and scan jobs. The top portion contains a flatbed scanner with a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF). That's largely down to an unusual printer design where paper is ejected away from you into a 150-sheet tray (most inkjets print towards you). HP's hulking OfficeJet Pro 8720 is one of the biggest A4 inkjet multifunction peripherals (MFPs) I've reviewed.

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