The HP ENVY Inspire 7255e is an all-in-one inkjet printer designed for home use. It has a dedicated photo tray that accepts the most common photo sizes, and the main tray supports custom paper sizes, including 4" x 12" for panoramic photos. It's very similar to the HP ENVY Inspire 7955e, but it doesn't have an automatic document feeder, and it can't print pages longer than A4. The new HP ENVY Inspire lineup replaces the ENVY Photo lineup, and this specific model succeeds the HP ENVY Photo 6255, despite how different the two models look.
Our Verdict
The HP 7255e is okay for family use. It doesn't print many pages before its cartridges run out of ink, but you only need to buy them every few months if you print just a few pages a week. It prints great-looking photos; some colors look a bit inaccurate, like blue and violet hues, but they aren't bad enough to ruin your pictures.
- Nice-looking photos.
- High-yield cartridges available.
- Flatbed scanner to digitize notes and photos.
- Low page yield.
- Disappointing color accuracy.
- Slow printing speed.
- No automatic document feeder.
The HP 7255e is bad for small or home office use since it doesn't yield many pages. While the cartridges are relatively inexpensive, you need to replace them often, so running costs rack up quickly. Also, it doesn't have an automatic document feeder, which may pose a problem for your work if you often scan many sheets in a row. Also, it doesn't print very quickly, so you'll have to wait a while for long reports to print out.
- High-yield cartridges available.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
- No automatic document feeder.
The HP 7255e is okay for students. It doesn't yield many pages before its cartridges run out, so you need to replace them often. They're relatively inexpensive, so it may not get too expensive if you only print a dozen or so pages a week. It doesn't print very quickly, though, so you may have to wait a few minutes to print out large assignments. If you only print out one page every few hours, it takes about 16 seconds to get your page out, which is a bit slower than other similar models.
- Flatbed scanner to digitize notes and photos.
- Good range of wireless connectivity options.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
- No automatic document feeder.
The HP 7255e is disappointing for black and white printing, especially if you print in high volumes. It can't print many pages before the black cartridge runs out of ink, which isn't ideal if you're printing hundreds of pages a week. While the cartridge is relatively cheap, you'll quickly end up paying the price of the printer in ink since you'll have to replace the cartridge often. On the bright side, there's a high-yield black cartridge available that will last you a bit longer.
- High-yield cartridges available.
- Low page yield.
- Slow printing speed.
- No automatic document feeder.
The HP 7255e is decent for photo printing. Pictures look nice, though small objects are lacking in detail. While blues and some other hues look off from their original colors, they aren't bad enough to make your photos look terrible. It accepts many different photo sizes, and it can also print on double-sided photo sheets if you want to make postcards or write memos behind your image. Unfortunately, its cartridges run out of ink fairly quickly, so you may need to change them frequently if you print lots of photos.
- Nice-looking photos.
- Can print on double-sided photo sheets.
- Prints wide range of colors.
- Low page yield.
- Disappointing color accuracy.
- No automatic document feeder.
- Low page yield.
- No automatic document feeder.
- Low page yield.
- No automatic document feeder.
- Low page yield.
- No automatic document feeder.
- Low page yield.
- No automatic document feeder.
- Low page yield.
- No automatic document feeder.
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Changelog
- Updated Nov 03, 2023: Added mention of the Canon PIXMA TR7820/TS7720 as an alternative with better color accuracy in the Color Accuracy section.
- Updated Oct 25, 2023: Added mention of the HP Smart Tank 5101 as an alternative with a better page yield in the Cartridge section.
- Updated Sep 08, 2022: Converted to Test Bench 1.2.
- Updated Aug 25, 2022: Converted to Test Bench 1.1.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The HP ENVY Inspire 7255e only comes in a white and sandstone color scheme. You can see our unit's label here.
Popular Printer Comparisons
The HP ENVY Inspire 7255e is part of HP's ENVY Inspire lineup, which replaces the ENVY Photo lineup. This model is an updated version of the HP ENVY Photo 6255. Overall, it's a decent photo printer. However, other similarly-priced models (like the HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e and the Canon PIXMA TR8620) offer more, like more accurate colors, an automatic document feeder, and faster printing speeds.
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The HP ENVY Inspire 7255e is an updated version of the HP ENVY Photo 6255, though they look very different. Overall, the 7255e is better for photos. Its printed pictures look much more detailed and contain less banding. Also, its input tray holds slightly more pages, meaning you won't need to refill it as often, but otherwise, their page yields are very similar.
The HP ENVY Inspire 7255e and the Canon PIXMA TS6420a are both all-in-one printers designed for home use, but the Canon is better overall. It yields more color pages, which gives it a lower cost-per-print, even though its cartridge cost is nearly identical. It prints nicer-looking photos with better color accuracy and can print on thicker media, including magnetic photo paper. However, the HP yields a few more black pages, and it's also a bit faster at printing documents, so it's a better choice if your focus isn't photo prints.
The Canon PIXMA TS8320 and the HP ENVY Inspire 7255e are both all-in-one inkjets designed for home use, but the Canon is better overall. The Canon's cartridges yield a lot more pages than the HP's, so you don't need to replace them as often; it is a bit more expensive to replace them all at once since there's five color cartridges. That said, the dedicated photo black cartridge and the photo blue cartridge does make it a better choice for photos.
The Canon PIXMA TR8620 is overall better than the HP ENVY Inspire 7255e, especially for photos. The Canon yields about 100 or so more pages than the HP for both black and color, so you won't need to replace the cartridges as often. While its three individual color cartridges are more expensive than the HP's one color cartridge, the Canon's last longer, so you won't spend as much money on ink in the long run. It also prints nicer-looking photos with more range and accuracy.
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