HP Envy 7855 Photo All-in-One Printer - Review 2022

A pace forward for HP'southward Green-eyed printer line, the 7855 Photo All-in-Ane Printer ($199) has a wide range of connectivity features for a photo-centric all-in-one printer. Its speed and photo quality are both improved over the HP Envy 7640 east-All-in-Ane Printer. The HP Envy 7855 is a good choice for habitation users who wants to salve money on photo printing and are willing to sign on to HP'south subscription-based Instant Ink programme to do so.

Style and Substance

A handsome printer, the The Envy 7855 is matte black with glossy-black highlights. It measures 7.6 by 17.9 by 19.viii inches (HWD) with trays extended, and weighs 17 pounds. A 3.5-inch color touch screen is prepare in the tilt-up front panel. Paper capacity is 125 sheets, plus a 15-canvass photo tray. Information technology has an auto-duplexer for two-sided printing. The 35-sheet automated document feeder (ADF) allows you to browse, copy, or fax multipage documents up to legal size. Unlike many similarly priced inkjet all-in-ones, the 7855 tin can't automatically browse 2-sided documents, although many photograph-centric all-in-ones--including the Editors' Choice Canon Pixma TS8020 Wireless Inkjet All-in-Ane Printer--don't have an ADF at all.

The Envy 7855 tin impress, copy, fax, and scan, and it can print from or scan to a USB thumb drive or SD retentivity carte du jour. The printer supports HP'due south ePrint, which lets you lot email files as attachments to a unique address that HP assigns to the printer, and the Green-eyed will print out the due east-mail and files, even if y'all're on the far side of the world.

Connectivity includes USB, 802.11b/yard/n Wi-Fi, and Ethernet, and the printer can also make a direct peer-to-peer connectedness with a compatible mobile device by either HP Wireless Direct or via Bluetooth. (You tin set up the 7855 for wireless printing over a Bluetooth connectedness with the HP Smart app installed on your iOS or Android mobile device.) We ran our speed tests over an Ethernet connexion with drivers installed on a PC running Windows x Professional.

The 7855 is the highest-end model of iii recently introduced HP inkjet all-in-ones. The HP Envy Photo 7100 lists at $149, while the HP Envy Photo 6200 all-in-one lists at $129. The 7855 is the only i of the 3 to accept a port for a USB thumb drive, Ethernet connectivity, an ADF, the ability to fax, and to support printing on legal-size paper.

HP Envy 7855 Photo All-in-One Printer

Print Speed and Ink Options

In the text (Give-and-take) portion of our our business applications suite, we clocked the Envy 7855 at 12.7 pages per minute (ppm), which is reasonably close to its 15ppm rated speed for printing in black. Information technology printed our full suite, which includes the Give-and-take document likewise as more graphics-intensive files, at a 4.6ppm rate. We can't direct compare it with the previous-generation HP Envy 7640 , which we tested using our old protocol. Knowing that photocentric inkjets aren't more often than not known for their speed, withal, the 7855 turned in a respectable performance. The Canon Pixma TS9020 Wireless Inkjet All-in-One Printer and the Editors' Choice Canon Pixma TS8020 turned in comparable scores, 12.9ppm on Word and a 4.2ppm overall score for the TS9020, and 11.4ppm on the Discussion role of our test and iv.4ppm overall for the TS8020. The Epson Expression Premium XP-640 Small-in-Ane Printer was slower, at 9.1ppm on the Discussion document and 3.2ppm for the unabridged suite.

The printer uses just two ink cartridges, one blackness and i multi-color (the other three standard ink colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow). Running costs based on HP's prices and yields for its high-capacity cartridges are 6 cents per monochrome page and 16 cents per color page, but that only holds if yous were to purchase the cartridges individually. Customers can reap considerable savings past enrolling in the HP Instant Ink Programme. As a point of comparison, the Canon Pixma TS8020's running costs are considerably lower, at 4.1 cents for black pages and 12.seven cents for colour pages. The Expression Photo XP-860's costs are also lower, 4 cents per monochrome page and 15.5 cents per colour page. With Instant Ink, HP users can considerably undercut those color costs.

The Instant Ink Program is a iii-tiered program that offers up to 50 pages per month for $two.99 a month, upwards to 100 pages per month for $4.99, and up to 300 pages per calendar month for $9.99—and those rates hold even if you were to exclusively print in color. The printer detects when you're running low on ink and automatically orders more than. Unused pages are rolled over, and additional pages can be had for xv pages per dollar in the basic programme, 20 pages per dollar in the mid-level plan, and 25 pages per dollar in the 300-folio plan. For the $nine.99 Frequent Printing Program, the toll per page (monochrome or color) is iii.iii cents. For the everyman-stop plan, the costs ascent to 6 cents per page, which is still a considerable savings for color press over its toll for buying the ink without an Instant Ink subscription every bit well as over the color costs of the other printers mentioned here.

Best for Photos

Output quality was a mixed handbag, with average text, graphics a tad below par, and slightly above-average photos. Text should be fine for whatsoever business organisation use except for ones like desktop publishing applications that use very minor fonts.

Graphics should be expert enough for schoolwork or full general business use, although I'd draw the line at formal reports or handouts going to people you lot need to impress. Many illustrations showed banding, a regular pattern of faint striations. Backgrounds weren't equally nighttime equally nosotros'd like to see them.

Photo quality was a touch above par. Colors were well saturated, vivid, and punchy—although in a couple of prints they crossed the line into oversaturation, nigh to the betoken of garishness. The 7855 did very well in preserving the black and avoiding a tint in our monochrome test photo. In a couple of prints, it could accept done better in differentiating betwixt subtle changes in shading. Virtually of our test prints were of a quality we'd expect from drugstore prints. The good black press is in line with what HP told us is a new ink formulation generating improve photo quality than usual for a printer with but two ink cartridges, though it cruel short of the print quality that we saw in the contempo Catechism TS series like the Canon Pixma TS8020.

Understated and Improved

There was a time in which HP'south Envy all-in-i printers, which were introduced in 2022, were all about style—at the expense of features and functioning. The 7855 is still fashionable, though in a tasteful, understated way. Its speed, feature set, and photo quality take improved since we terminal tested an Envy printer (the 7640). Its overall output quality falls short of the Canon TS9020 equally well equally the Editors' Selection Canon TS8020. It does have two features the two Canons lack, an ADF and fax capabilities, but the 7855 has barely one-half the paper capacity of those 2 models. Ultimately, as a photo all-in-i primarily for home use, its usefulness rests most heavily on its output quality, and in that location it falls brusque. The TS8020 retains our Editors' Choice crown, but the HP Envy Photo 7855 All-in-One Printer gains kudos as a step forward for the Envy line. If y'all demand to scan multipage documents likewise as print good photos, the 7855 is worth a close look.