Hp Officejet Pro 7720 Wide Format Aio Printer

[Harald Atta]

Poweredby PrecisionCore, the WorkForce WF-7720 wide-format all-in-one printer quickly produces print-shop-quality borderless prints up to 13" x 19" and scans up to 11" x 17". A versatile inkjet, it features 500-sheet capacity, dual trays, plus a rear feed for specialty paper, ensuring powerful productivity for any office. It also includes auto 2-sided print, copy, scan and fax, plus a 35-page Auto Document Feeder. Use the 4.3" color touchscreen for easy navigation and control. Featuring the ultimate in wired and wireless networking, the WF-7720 makes it easy to print from tablets and smartphones1, and includes Wi-Fi Direct2, Ethernet and NFC3.

2 Most features require an Internet connection to the printer, as well as an Internet- and/or email-enabled device. For a list of Epson Connect enabled printers and compatible devices and apps, visit www.epson.com/connect

5 Monthly duty cycle is the highest duty a user could expect in a month, based on near-constant operation of a device of this kind. It is not recommended that the device be run at this duty. For best device performance, run the device at the recommended duty.

6 Scan to cloud requires an internet connection, a free Epson Connect account and a destination email address or cloud storage account. For a list of supported cloud services, visit www.epson.com/connect

10 Display permanence based on accelerated testing of prints displayed under glass in indoor display conditions; album permanence based on accelerated testing of prints in dark storage conditions. Actual print stability will vary according to media, printed image, display conditions, light intensity, temperature, humidity and atmospheric conditions. Epson does not guarantee the longevity of prints. For maximum print life, display all prints under glass or UV filter or properly store them.

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As a wide-format printer, the HP OfficeJet Pro 7720 lets you print on media up to 11 x 17 inches in size. It is also a multi-function machine, however, offering scanning, copying, and faxing capabilities as well, alongside easy mobile printing with the HP Smart app, to help you take on your everyday productivity tasks. Replacement ink cartridges for the HP OfficeJet Pro 7720 include remanufactured high-yield HP 952XL (L0S64AN) magenta, HP 952XL (F6U19AN) black, HP 952XL (L0S67AN) yellow, and HP 952XL (L0S61AN) cyan ink cartridges. Buy them individually with discounts up to 69% off or take advantage of our four-piece combo pack for even bigger savings. Shop today! All orders and up get free shipping.

It is recommended that you replace missing cartridges as soon as possible to avoid print quality issues and possible damage on the ink system or extra ink usage. Never turn off the printer cartridges are missing.

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Borderless photos are printed right to the edge of the paper. You get beautiful photo prints with no trimming, all with the hp Officejet pro 7720 wide format all-in-one printer for those who love to work and present professionally.

Note: This printer is intended to work only with cartridges that have a new or reused HP chip, and it uses dynamic security measures to block cartridges using a non-HP chip. Periodic firmware updates will maintain the effectiveness of these measures and block cartridges that previously worked. A reused HP chip enables the use of reused, remanufactured, and refilled cartridges.

The bargain-priced HP OfficeJet Pro 7720 offers some pretty fancy features for little more than a song. It can handle wide-format paper up to 11 by 17 inches, yet it costs only $200. To boot, it can copy and scan up to legal-size documents, and it has a document feeder for multipage copying and scanning. And its duplexer enables double-sided printing.

This OfficeJet has a wide body, in part because the scanner glass is legal-size. This is also in part because the paper path is made to handle 11-by-17-inch paper. At 23 inches, this printer is almost half a foot wider than the Canon Maxify MB5420, which we tested at the same time. There is just one 250-sheet paper tray, which could be limiting if you plan to routinely mix up your print sizes or media. The document folder holds up to 35 sheets for scanning and copying (this model does not offer duplex scanning).

On the front panel sits a touch screen that allows you to swipe. This procedure is much easier than having to tap virtual buttons for page-up and page-down. The section of the front panel with the touch screen hinges upward. There are no physical buttons, so all stand-alone operation will have to be conducted with the touch screen, which can get a little cumbersome.

For example, having dedicated buttons for black-and-white and color copying/scanning would make stand-alone operation (not to mention entering fax numbers) more convenient. After I changed from color to black-and-white copying, for example, the copy icon at the lower right corner of the screen stayed green, which led me to question whether I'd actually changed the setting since it did not indicate the changed setting. Of course, when operating this OfficeJet from a computer, this limitation is of no worry.

The document feeder on top hinges upward to reveal the legal-size scanner glass. The hinges offer no resistance to the weight of the lid, so you will have to lift the lid up 90 degrees or hold it up if you don't have enough clearance.

This OfficeJet offers the typical assortment of connectivity: wireless, Ethernet and USB. The printer does not, however, have a USB direct-print port for printing from a thumb drive, nor an SD card slot.

Printing speeds are at the slow end of the range for competing small office-printers, but not out of range. The OfficeJet 7720 printed our five-page text document in 24.1 seconds, or 12.4 pages per minute. The Canon Maxify MB5420 was quite a bit faster, at 17.5 ppm. Using the duplexer, the HP made two-sided text prints at a very respectable 12.4 ppm, although the Canon MB5420 was significantly faster, at 17.5 ppm.

Print speeds on mixed text and color graphics were more up to par: The OfficeJet 7720 printed our six-page document in 56.1 seconds, or 6.4 ppm, compared to 6.1 ppm from the Canon MB5420. Making two-sided prints of the same six-page document, however, the Canon bested the HP by roughly 15 seconds, printing at 4.1 ppm compared to 3.5 ppm for the HP.

The HP printed a letter-size glossy photo in 1 minute 41 seconds. The Canon MB5420 took 24 seconds longer to print the same photo. Our test is done at the maximum dpi setting. With this setting turned off, the OfficeJet made the same print in 20 seconds less, or 1 minute 20 seconds.

This OfficeJet does not spit out black-and-white copies in short order. The 7720 made a single black-and-white copy in 15.3 seconds, roughly twice the 7.6 seconds it took the Canon MB5420 to make the same reproduction. A similar difference resulted when copying multipage text documents using the document feeder: The OfficeJet made the single-sided copies at 6.2 ppm, compared to the brisk 14.6 ppm turned in by the MB5420.

The OfficeJet excelled at black-and-white scanning to PDF format. It completed this task in just 5.8 seconds, much faster than the significantly more expensive HP PageWide Pro 577dw, which took 8.5 seconds. The Canon MB5420 clocked in at 9.4 seconds.

When scanning to JPEG format in our tests, the HP Scan software performs a preview scan. This takes about 9 seconds, after which you confirm the file name and the save location. File names should automatically be numbered, according to the company, though in my testing I had to manually number the names. The scan time to JPEG includes the preview scan time.

The OfficeJet 7720 delivers dark, sharp text that is near laser-printer quality. Graphics print with well-saturated and accurate color, details are sharp, and textures are smooth. When using the duplexer, colors looked slightly less saturated, and dark-shadow areas printed a little lighter, but the difference was very subtle.

Copy quality is high, though text did not look quite as dark as in the original text documents. In a black-and-white copy of our document that had a mix of color graphics and text, however, the text came out a little darker than in the original. These are minor differences; copy quality was very high across the board.

Scan quality was similarly of high quality. However, 600-dpi photo scans showed some mild bit-mapped artifacts in fine details, compared to scans by the Canon MB5420, which smoothed these out with more-attractive results.

Using high-yield cartridges, the OfficeJet 7720 does not deliver as much of a cost break as some other models. The Canon MB5420's print costs with high-yield cartridges are 1.5 cents (black) and 7.1 cents (color), versus the OfficeJet 7720's costs of 1.7 cents and 7.7 cents, respectively. In the case of the HP, high-yield color costs were calculated using individual cartridges, because at press time, a three-pack of the XL color ink cartridges was not available, which could lower color printing costs.

Setting up the OfficeJet 7720 should be straightforward, after removing the usual assortment of tape and packaging material. I did, however, find that connecting to the OfficeJet was a little unintuitive, though I thought I was following the printed setup guide accurately. I ran into errors that said the printer was unable to connect to the PC, while the Wi-Fi settings on the touch screen said this connection was already set up. After following prompts to reach WPS mode, however, I was able to use the wireless setup wizard on my Windows PC and put the 7720 on my network.

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