HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 Format All-in-One Colour Inkjet
HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 Format All-in-One Colour Inkjet Printer – Black, White
HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 Format All-in-One Colour Inkjet Printer – Black, White
The true-to-colour scanning and printing are far superior to that of my RICOH laser printer using the same original. Printing & copying is pretty quick too. One negative is that the A3 paper tray extends beyond the body on the printer so dust (and cat hairs) can get inside the thing (to be fair this is one horizontal surface She who must be obeyed hasn’t frequented yet). Set-up was a real trial and the tiny 1.5″ x 2″ control screen doesn’t help. Needless to say there was no manual as it, and everything else in life, was all ‘on line’. Not only that but the HP website could see the machine for some set-up functions but not others. I have now got two instances of this machine in ‘Printers’ but can only print to one of them as the other is always ‘Off-line’ even when all the lights are on (but no-one is at home). I hope I learn to live with it and not need an A3 print in a real hurry.
Loading A3 paper could have been made easier, s you have to extend the lower cassette. Consider buying a printer which allows you to top-up ink wells instead.
The printer itself is great, straightforward to set up and use but the reason I knocked a star off is it only came with a European power lead. Not much good for the UK. But I purchased a UK lead from Amazon and was up and running the next day. The only other thing to note is it won’t take heavy weight card stock I tried 300gsm but no luck. Changed the card to a lighter weight around 180gsm and that works great.
Quite heavy. The box suggests two people to unpack it. I managed that on my own and to carry up stairs but I wouldn’t recommend anyone trying it. It was well packed and the set-up instructions were quite adequate. You have to download advanced instructions from HP if you need them. It handles paper, both photo and plain, very well. The photo printing is fine for amateur home use but could fall short if you are entering A3 size exhibition or competition entries but at the price one should not be surprised at that. It’s good for the user it’s aimed at.
I had problems printing A3. Technical support was not any help at all, two hours wasted on the phone top them. I deleted all HP related files in PC and reinstalled driver which fixed the problem.
I needed a printer and scanner capable of A3 for my history study. This does just that and I am able to print from all my devices using the WiFi access. But because it is an A3 printer it is rather big although my study is big enough to accommodate it. The only downside, if indeed it is one, is when you load A3 paper the paper drawer does not shut and about 10 cms stick out. But aside from that this is a good printer.
Set up was very straight forward pretty much being plug and play, simple menu to navigate through, system set couldn’t be any easier, just select your WIFI and enter your password.
Print speed is really quick and quiet, print is really sharp and professional looking.
Photos quality is awesome, printed lots of photos up to A4, colour depth and sharpness again make them look like they’ve been professionally printed.
I can print directly from my iPhone, iPad regardless if i’m home or not.
I don’t know what else i could add to this printer in order to make it any better, if you have the space and the need, grab one i can’t see why you’d be disappointed.
Excellent printer and scanner but the HP scanning software fails to save scanned files to a Mac as .pdfs , and HP support can’t solve the problem. They save fine as JPEG’s. It’s not a major issue since the scanner can be driven from inside Apple’s Preview package and the files then save as .pdfs. But it is annoying.
This is a serious piece of office kit and much larger than I expected (so didn’t quite fit where my old A3 printer went as that was more a desk size one) I like that both paper sizes can be added. Seems easy to connect and use. Quality was good.
This is a good small office printer IMHO even though price was cheaper than other home printers.
Just measure the size, because it did take me by surprise.
It’s massive… Bigger than what I thought. Make sure you have one more person to help with lifting this printer.
It has two paper docks that can be set for A4 and A3. It scans A3 too which is a bonus. It does fit on a normal desk but it’s bulky obviously.
It was very hard to set up. Instructions are very poor so I called hp customer service who kindly helped me to download an app on my phone to print. It does work but hit and miss.
I bought it for my work office and it struggles to pick up business WiFi. Make sure the printer and computer or phone are sharing the same WiFi. I may try ethernet cable soon to see if it’s better.
Overall it’s ok because there aren’t many options like this around but disappointing for HP to create something so complicated.
I’ll be trying the copier and scanning function soon.
This is a very large printer compared to A4 format ones. It should be noted that the dimensions given assume that tray 2 has A4 paper in it. If you add A3 paper then tray 2 sticks out an additional 7cm.
HP interface is pretty much standard across all models. It’s okay but is a little slow to load.
Quality and speed of prints is okay.
Scan quality is okay but higher resolutions are only available if you save in .pdf (which is a bit odd).
Paper handling could be better. The printer struggles to pick up heavy or glossy papers. On the A4 tray anything over 150gsm will be a problem. Similar issues occur when using heavier A3 papers. End result is you end up faffing around a lot to get the paper to feed. If encountering this with A4 try feeding just one sheet and bowing the paper slightly using the tray paper end stop.
On A3 feeding is just as tricky with heavy papers and here I found it best to have a low gsm paper below the higher quality paper then, as the sheet is grabbed by the printer, physically hold the lower low gsm sheet back using your fingers (the lower tray sticks out and you can leave the flap up to allow access).
Overall an okay printer but it does have its limitations with regards to paper handling.
Like the shape, the simplicity of use, took hardly anytime to set up and lng to my Wi-fi and all works great.
As far as I’m concerned it’s a great machine at a good price, quiet in use, pretty quick and having A3 scanning and printing is vary well executed at this price point, what more do you need to say.
Very easy setup for wifi printing as well.
Its a big printer, but is fast, and I like the large scanning area, which means I can get a lot more expense receipts into one scan. Its fast, and its also been easy to connect to all our devices, including tablets and mobile phones.
One thing we suffered from was the printer refused to accept the cartridge initially, this seems to be a problem reported by other people fortunately. You have to loosen the actual printer head, and re seat it. As either in transit or in the factory, it shift and ceases to work properly. Not a difficult thing to fix. But there’s nothing about this in the initial set up for the printer. I only knew about this, as I’d seen it in someone else’s review, and needed to find the instructions to fix the problem online. Would be good if they added this procedure to the initial set up manual, as I can guarantee someones going to assume the printer is actual DOA.
I wanted this for A3 printing. It has two trays both of which take A4 or A3. Does scanning and also photocopiying. I connected using only WiFi to my network, as I have no LAN connection in the room, but it works fine. Can print from iPad perfectly also, which is a bonus. Quality on plain paper is excellent.
I’ve used HP printers for many years and this one is the easiest to set up yet. In the past HP printers have always needed a call to the help line to get them running, even the Office Jet Pro 8615 which I still have needed a bit of setting up to get the wifi connection working. I bought the 7740 as I needed a A3 printer which could scan A3 as well and the set up was easy. Turn it on, put in the inks, enter your wifi password and you’re set. Prints from my Mac, Windows laptop and phone with no problems.
If I was to be picky, I would say that the 8615 has a very slightly better print quality on standard settings but I haven’t tried it on photo quality settings yet.