HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e [8022e, 8028e, 8035e] Printer Review

This printer feels well-built. It has a sturdy plastic body with no obvious gaps in the construction. The design gives you easy access to paper jams and ink cartridges for maintenance. It also has a good cartridge bay lid dampener to guide the lid down gently. The power cord is detachable, so it's easy to replace if it gets damaged.

This printer requires a fair amount of maintenance. Like most inkjet printers, there's a risk of the printheads clogging if you don't print for a long time. If you experience clogging or other print quality issues, there are a few maintenance functions built in that can help resolve them, including printhead cleaning, printhead alignment, and smear cleaning. You can watch how-to videos directly on the printer's display if you aren't sure how to perform maintenance tasks.

As for ink maintenance, you'll need to replace the cartridges frequently if you print a lot since they don't last very long. Replacing the ink cartridges is easy; you only need to turn on the printer and open the cartridge bay's lid. For paper jams, you can access the sheet rollers by opening the front panel and lifting the top of the printer. The input tray holds 225 sheets of paper, which is a pretty good size, so you likely won't need to refill it often.

You can see the user manual here.

The HP 8025e, as well as all its variants, has a great display. There are three touch-sensitive buttons at the bottom of the display for Back, Home, and Help. Touch input feels very responsive, and the menu user interface is easy to navigate.

This printer has a very low black page yield, meaning you'll have to replace the black ink cartridge often. Its color page yield is better, but not significantly. You can increase the yield slightly with longer-lasting high-yield cartridges (HP 910 XL), which will help reduce maintenance frequency. If you want a similar printer with a much higher page yield, check out the HP OfficeJet Pro 9025e.

This printer has decent scanner features. It has an automatic document feeder to process multi-page documents. It's very slow, which isn't ideal if you're in a fast-paced office, but it's still more convenient than scanning each page manually. Also, it doesn't support duplex scanning, meaning you'll have to flip the pages manually when scanning double-sided sheets. Its optical character recognition feature lets you save documents as PDF files for quick keyword searches. It works well but makes mistakes occasionally when there are special characters.

The scanner produces good-quality scans. It captures text well, but colored areas look grainy, and the colors look washed out. It also has trouble capturing finer details, which isn't ideal if you're looking to digitize photos.

• User manual
• Power cord
• HP 910 starter ink cartridges:
• 1x cyan
• 1x yellow
• 1x magenta
• 1x black

This printer prints black-and-white documents exceptionally well. Text looks sharp, and smaller, finer elements are all present. It has trouble converting the color yellow to grayscale, although that's normal for most printers.

The print quality for color documents is outstanding. It produces colors that look a tad washed out, but the text looks clear, and all the finer elements are present.

The cost-per-print is good. Although the ink cartridges need frequent replacement, they're relatively cheap, so your overall maintenance cost won't rise too quickly. This printer also comes with six months of free ink through HP+, HP's ink subscription service. The HP OfficeJet Pro 8035e variant includes 12 months of free ink instead of six.

The overall printing speed is okay. It's slow with black and color documents, but photos come out quickly compared to similar inkjet printers.

This printer has a mediocre color gamut. It has trouble reproducing bright, saturated colors. In the case of greens, it even substitutes bright greens with a darker shade. It also struggles with lighter shades of blue and purple. Color transitions aren't smooth at all and look very grainy.

The color accuracy is decent. Some colors are visibly off, but photos still look relatively natural, albeit on the warmer side. This level of accuracy is fine for casual photo printing, but it likely isn't good enough for professional work that requires perfect accuracy.

This printer is excellent at reproducing small details. However, the halftones (dot effect) make edges look less defined and distant objects less visible.

The printer supports Bluetooth, but it's only for setup purposes, not for printing.

The HP Smart app is very feature-rich. It allows you to print, scan (with your phone's camera or the printer), copy, and fax directly from your mobile device. You can also check the printer's ink levels and manage your ink subscription.

This printer is fully compatible with the most commonly-used desktop operating systems. You don't necessarily need to install the drivers to use the printer on Windows devices, but it works better if you install the HP Smart application. On Chrome OS, you may need to add the printer directly using its IP address in the system settings, as the operating system can't automatically detect it, and you also need to install the app if you want to scan. You don't need to install any drivers or applications on macOS.