HP Officejetpro 9022e

Home office printer for high-quantity work

The HP Officejet Pro 9022e is larger than your average multifunctional inkjet printer, measuring 318x437x396mm (HXWXD), meaning you’ll need a decent amount of desk space to sit it on.

In fact, it looks more like the sort of laser printer you’d find in an office than a home-based inkjet. It has a 35-sheet automatic document feeder for the copier function, and two 250-sheet paper trays to help keep your printing workload flowing. There’s a slick colour touchscreen to control the settings and the copier function.

It’s also the fastest inkjet we’ve tested, with mono prints outputting at 24 pages per minute (ppm) in our tests, which puts other similarly priced laser printers to shame. It isn’t as fast when printing in colour, but it’s still no slouch.

The downside is that prints aren’t perfect. They’re good enough for most office tasks you may need to carry out at home, such as printing letters, documents and school work. However, its photo prints were disappointing, particularly those that included darker areas, which just came out blotchy.

The 9022e comes with a free six-month subscription to HP’S Instant Ink service, which takes the hassle out of buying replacement ink cartridges. HP ensures that new cartridges are sent through the post well before your existing ones run out. Once the free six-month period is over, you will need to pay a monthly

SPECIFICATIONS

4800x1200dpi maximum print resolution • 1200x1200dpi optical scanner resolution • 24ppm quoted print speed • 802.11n Wi-fi • Ethernet port • USB 2 port • 318x437x396mm (HXWXD) • 11.6kg • 3-year warranty www.snipca.com/38914 subscription based on how many pages you expect to print per month.

This can range from 15 pages per month for 99p, up to 700 pages per month for £22.49. The recommended home package is 100 pages for £3.49 per month, which works out at 3.5p per page. It doesn’t make any difference whether the print is colour or mono.

If you go over your limit, additional pages will be charged at 10p per page, though unused pages can be carried over and counted against any additional prints you need to make in future months. You can switch subscription levels or quit the service at any time.

Having new ink cartridges posted to you before your current ones run out is genuinely useful, and the subscription service doesn’t make the running costs any more expensive than if you were buying your own ink whenever you needed it. The free six-month trial also gives you ample time to work out how many pages you’re likely to print every month.

A bulky inkjet that’s ideal for a home office and comes with six months of free ink

VERDICT A fast, efficient printer that includes a replacement-ink service so you’ll never run short ★★★★ ★

ALTERNATIVE

Canon Pixma G650 £250 Canon’s six-colour ink tank multifunction printer er is cheaper to run and prints better photos