HP Officejet 7110 review

The HP Officejet 7110 is an office inkjet that can print on paper sizes up to A3+ (329x483mm). It’s intended for plain paper rather than photo printing, making it suitable for producing plans, drawings and folded brochure content in-house. It’s a little larger than a typical inkjet, but it’s more shallow than many A3 printers thanks to paper input and output trays that can be retracted when printing on paper that’s A4 or smaller in size. The output tray can hold 75 printed pages, while the input tray can 250 sheets.

The Officejet 7110 has support for wired and wireless networking, and for printing from mobiles and over the internet through HP’s ePrint service. It’s also compatible with Apple AirPrint. There’s no automatic duplex (double-sided) printing, but for about £60 you can buy HP's C7G18A duplexer which simply slots into the back.

Like most network printers there's a built-in web admin interface

Aside from needing a little extra space, this is just like any other current HP inkjet to set up. However, we experienced a hesitant start to our tests, with the printer stalling in the middle of its ePrint configuration sheet (produced automatically at the completion of the setup). It eventually abandoned it altogether. After restarting both printer and computer, however, we quickly warmed to the Officejet 7110. It’s quieter than many inkjets, particularly during draft quality printing, which is often a frantic mix of whirs. It’s still fairly rapid, though, reaching almost 17 pages per minute (ppm).

Brother's print interface is great; everything you need most often is located on the main tab

At normal quality, the Officejet 7110 still managed to produce pages of text at 14.6ppm, and it printed colour sheets sat 3.8ppm. A3 printing was roughly half the speed, with the printer managing five pages of text in 54 seconds and taking two minutes 18 seconds to produce five pages of colour magazine pages.

Black text was fine for day-to-day office work, and while photos weren't too impressive they were acceptable for occasional use. Unfortunately, colour graphics were a little disappointing, with some subtle banding and colours that lacked the impact of the best plain-paper inkjets.

The Officejet 7110’s running costs work out to be 5.33p per A4 page, which isn’t bad for an all-round office printer. It's a good choice if you need occasional A3 printing in-house, but it's not ideal if you're fussy about print quality.

Basic Specifications

Rating

***

Maximum native print resolution

4,800x1,200dpi

Quoted Speeds

Quoted speed, mono A4

15ppm

Quoted speed, colour A4

8ppm

Tested Speeds

Time for two 10x8in photos 1.0

7m 20s

Time for six 6x4in photos 1.0

8m 56s

Print Quality

Number of ink colours

4

Number of ink cartridges

4

Maximum number of ink colours

4

Maximum number of cartridges

4

Physical and Environmental

Standard printer interfaces

USB, 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless

Optional printer interfaces

none

Size

189x585x419mm

Weight

8.5kg

Noise (in normal use)

65dB(A)

Duty cycle

12,000 pages max, 200-800 pages recommended

Paper Handling

Maximum paper size

A3+

Maximum paper weight

250gsm

Standard paper inputs

1

Standard paper input capacity

250

Maximum paper inputs

1

Maximum paper input capacity

250

Duplex (code, cost if option)

Yes

Photo Features

PictBridge support

No

Borderless printing

A4

Direct (PC-less) printing

No

Supported memory cards

none

CD printing

No

General

Printer technology

thermal inkjet

Supported operating systems

Windows XP (32 bit only), Windows Vista/7/8 (32 or 64 bit), Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Mac OS X 10.6 or later, Linux (via download)

Other inkjet features

HP ePrint, Apple AirPrint

Other inkjet options

UG194E three-year warranty with standard exchange, UG070E three-year warranty with next-day exchange

Buying Information

Price

£127

Consumable parts and prices

£10 each

Quoted life of supplied black cartridge

Approx 400 pages (ISO/IEC 24712)

Quoted life of supplied colour cartridge(s)

Approx 330 pages (ISO/IEC 24712)

Quoted life of supplied photo cartridge(s)

N/A

Price per colour A4 page

3.5p

Price per mono A4 page

1.8p

Warranty

one year RTB

Supplier

http://uk.insight.com

Details

www.hp.co.uk

Tested Print Speeds

Time for two 10x8in photos 1.0

7m 20s

Time for six 6x4in photos 1.0

8m 56s

Basic Specifications

Quoted Speeds

Tested Speeds

Print Quality

Physical and Environmental

Paper Handling

Photo Features

General

Buying Information

Tested Print Speeds

Hunter Jones

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