HP Smart Tank 750 Review

Nowadays, most of us prefer to capture and store our memories on our smartphones and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most offices are preferring digital rather than print documents. Yet, there are a few things which we love to explore in the real world. We love to print images of some special occasions. Similarly, at the office, we must have a printed document for certain procedures.  So you cant completely do away from printing and to do so you need an efficient printer.

We got a chance to explore the new HP Smart Tank 750 all-in-one printer. The printer is packed with numerous features of a commercial-grade printer. It is designed along the lines of inkjet printers.

Build and features

The AIO is a compact machine measuring 427.54 x 364 x 240.25 mm, that can easily fit in a corner or on a table. Weighing around 7.70Kg, one can easily move it around. When you open the printer box, it contains regular cables and four ink bottles. When you set up the printer, can fill in the colors easily to the tanks with its spill free refill system.

The printer has a quick and easy set up enabled by dual-band Wi-Fi. it comes with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and HP Smart App that lets you operate the printer from your mobile devices; allows easy mobile scanning and printing. The HP printer comes with numerous security features. The secure boot feature ensures that the device boot with the software trusted by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and immediately stops if it’s compromised. It also validates memory code, then stops and notifies the consumer if it’s not authentic. The printer also has Write-Protected Memory to avoid the introduction of malicious codes while the printer is running. And to prevent your data from hackers, it has a Randomized Password feature allowing it to pre-set passwords to prevent intruders from accessing printer settings.

The ink tank printer is ideal for heavy print loads, as it onboards some of the features from the corporate-style large format printers including duplex printing, automatic document feeder, etc.

Setting up

It would take hardly a few minutes to set up the printer, if you are well versed with the connectivity, cables and color refilling, etc. It doesn’t require any technical knowledge. Simply take out the printer, and remove all the protection films/papers, then plug it to power. Insert the print heads, it’s like inserting a cartridge into the printer. Using the color bottles, fill in the colors in the respective tanks.

On the front of the printer, you can see a screen displaying all the basic information about the printer along with smart guided buttons such as paper input, and WiFi among others. You can set up the printer to your wireless network or using the LAN port you can connect the printer to your home/office network. The HP Smart App is available on both iOS and Android, you can install the app on your mobile device and configure the printer in a few simple steps. This app lets you command the printer for all wireless printing and scanning needs.

The printer has the capacity to hold 250-sheets in the input tray for regular printing needs, and the 35-pages in the automatic document feeder come in handy for scanning and photocopying multiple documents.

Performance

We used the HP Smart Tank 750 printer for around a month to test its printing capability. In our standard ISO test with 5% ink coverage, it printed 5 A4 color pages in about 1 min and 06 sec with the first page out in 15 seconds. While printing 100 pages, it took 16 min 03 secs. We got 1 photo page print in approx 2 min 41 sec of A4 size with the best DPI and 6X4 inch photo out in about 56 sec with 300 DPI. When we used duplex printing, it took around 29 sec to print both sides. In standard text printing, it was able to meet the 21 pages per minutes (black) print speed. But color print speed wasn’t close to what was claimed, it was around 14 pages per minute.

The test included text pages, graphics pages and pages with mixed content for both black and white. The output quality is excellent, and the text looked sharp and detailed. The print quality of the image comes with a good amount of details and sharpness.

The optical resolution of the scanner is 1200 dpi (dots per inch is a unit of optical resolution). It scanned an A4 image in just 19 sec with a good amount of details and took around 4 min 40 sec at 1200 DPI with a whole lot of details and vibrant colors, and only 41 sec to copy an A4 page.