[Review] HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 All-In-One Printer; Ideal Printer For Small Business

HP has always a choice when it comes to printing for both consumers and businesses. The all-in-one printer – HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 is designed for high-volume enterprise and it can be used in a small-to-medium business also, where printing is done every day. It is compact in size and save your space by offering complete print environment.

The HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 is easy to setup and it comes with a installation CD, there is no guidebook in the box. The CD demonstrate how easy to setup and in no time, without any help you easily use it. As soon it starts up, you’ll be greeted with a colour and bright Graphic User Interface which is touch-enabled. It is easy to use & navigate, you can easily modify print & scan settings. The HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 is idle for small business, as they don’t have their own technical support team to lookout for problems. Above all, there is short video clip which help users to troubleshoot different parts of the printer.

Although the HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 is small in size but it offers the best possible experience. With touch-screen you can easily operate the printer, even though it is not connected to any laptop or PC. There is a USB slot which means you can directly print & scan directly using pen drive. Apart from this, you can also connect the printer with your network to get printouts from any device or share scanned filed with one PC or entire workgroup.

The HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 comes with a built-in Wi-Fi which allows you to connect to network or create a hotspot that can be used by different devices to print wirelessly, although there is a range limit. When connected with internet you can do it from anywhere as it generates one unique email ID. You can send your prints to the email & get it done in real time. if you are using hotspot then there is a range limit. The thing which you’ll like about HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 printer is that, it comes with NFC connectivity, which means that you can connect any NFC enabled device and with just a tap/touch only, you can print or scan the document. Isn’t cool?

Talking about smartphone, HP JetAdvantage Capture app is available on Google Play Store and the app lets you do almost everything. Above all, you can also edit scanned files as as monitor & manage printing jobs too.

There are two trays for scanning, the top tray holds the sheets of various sizes and once the scanning is one, sheets comes to the second tray. It manages everything automatically which means there is no need to feed the scanner for every single sheet and no need to worry to catch the scanned pages. For printing, there is one tray at the bottom of the device just below the screen where you can put the papers.

The all-in-one printer HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 print and scan multiple sheets as well as print both sides of the pages in one go. The printer is capable of printing 1000 to 2000 pages in a month. Also, the printer comes with security features for enterprises too, all you have do is to enable pin printing on your device and you job is done while travelling is encrypted.

The printer churns out prints – both monochrome and coloured quicker than I’m expecting, although there was a little noise. HP allows its users to set the OfficeJet Pro 8730 to quiet mode but it will show down the performance. When it comes to performance & quality it stands out and without any wastage of time, the print-outs come fast, efficient & best-of-all.