HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e Printer Review

The HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e has a sturdy plastic body and a good cartridge bay lid dampener that closes the lid gently if you let go while closing it. Its power cord is detachable, so it's easy to replace it if it gets damaged. Also, it provides easy access to paper jams. Unfortunately, the ink cartridges are only accessible when the printer is on. While the 8025e only comes in one color, the 8035e comes in three colors: Light Basalt, Oasis, and Coral.

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The HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e has typical maintenance procedures you'd expect from an inkjet. The printheads can clog if ink dries, but you can use a variety of different maintenance tasks to return them to a working state, including printhead cleaning, printhead alignment, and smear cleaning. The printer also displays videos to help guide you. It's unlikely that your unit will clog as long as you store it within the acceptable temperature range stated by the manufacturer (59–95°F, or 15–35°C) with at least a partially full set of cartridges.

Since it has mediocre page yields, you'll need to replace the cartridges frequently if you print often. Fortunately, it's easy to do as you only need to turn on the printer and open the printer's cartridge bay lid upwards, at which point they'll be accessible.

The HP 8025e has a great color touchscreen. There are three touch-sensitive buttons at the bottom of the display for Back, Home, and Help. It's very responsive and provides audible feedback, and the menu interface is easy to navigate.

The HP 8025e has a mediocre cartridge system. Its black page yield is very low, meaning you may need to replace the cartridges often, especially if you print a lot. On the other hand, the color cartridge lasts longer, depending on how much you print in color. Fortunately, it's compatible with high-yield cartridges that can print more pages before needing replacing. If you want a similar printer with a much higher page yield, check out the HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e.

The HP 8025e has decent scanner features. There's both a flatbed scanner and an automatic document feeder, meaning you can digitize items like photos and multi-page reports. You can also save documents as searchable PDF files, letting you easily search through them on your computer. Unfortunately, the flatbed lacks extendable hinges, making it difficult to properly scan thicker items. Additionally, the ADF is disappointingly slow and will take a while to get through very long documents. Since it doesn't support duplex scanning, you can't scan double-sided pages without flipping them over yourself. If you want a printer with an ADF that supports duplex scanning, check out the HP OfficeJet Pro 6978.

• User manual
• Power cable
• HP setup cartridges:
• 1x cyan
• 1x yellow
• 1x magenta
• 1x black

The printer's cost-per-print is good. It keeps running expenses relatively low over time, but they may quickly add up if you often print in color. This printer comes with an HP Instant Ink subscription, which offers six months of free ink delivered to your door. The 8035e also comes with a subscription, but it offers 12 months of free ink.

The printer's printing speeds are alright. While both black-only and color documents take some time to print out, photos are out quick.

The printer allows you to print both in black and color even if one of the color cartridges is out of ink. It only displays a message that says, "Cartridges that are very low may be sufficiently depleted to cause poor print quality." It's good news for people who don't need to frequently produce multi-colored prints.

The printer produces vibrant colors and decently detailed photos, but there's some graininess and branding present in some images. That said, they're only visible if you peer very closely at the images, and they aren't as obvious if you print large-format photos. However, there's a spot of more obvious grain near the right side of all printed photos; the difference is most visible when comparing the left and right strawberries. This may be due to a manufacturing fault in a few units and likely won't affect you.

The scanned images provided above are for reference only, and look a bit worse than the actual physical photos due to the scanning and uploading process. The score is based on the actual physical photos.

The printer has decent color accuracy, meaning casual users can print natural-looking photos, and colored graphs for meetings are easy to distinguish. However, it isn't for professionals who need exact color reproduction.

The HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e has a mediocre color gamut. You can't see the bright zig-zag line except in the dark blue, and it looks dark instead of bright and vibrant in the greens. This means the printer has issues identifying the most vibrant parts of the image, resulting in incorrectly produced tints. It correctly identifies dark and bright colors well, although blacks have a reddish tint. Additionally, it has trouble producing bright blues properly, as they have a strong purple hue instead.

The printer supports Bluetooth for setup purposes only, and you can't use it to print.

HP Smart is a fantastic mobile app. It allows you to print, scan, and fax directly from the app, check ink levels, and manage your ink subscription. However, you can only print some commonly used formats on iOS.

The HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e is fully compatible with all commonly-used desktop operating systems. On Windows and Chrome OS, the printer works well if you install the HP Smart application. On Chrome OS, you need to add the printer directly using its IP address in the system settings as it can't automatically be detected, and you need to install the app if you need to scan. On the other hand, you can use AirPrint on macOS without needing to manually install any drivers or software.