Nevertheless, it only produces a relatively little number of pages, so you might need to change the cartridges frequently, which can rapidly become expensive if you print a lot. Unfortunately, whether you print over batteries or while it’s plugged in, it prints papers quite slowly. you can read our article on HP Officejet 250 All-In-One Portable Printer review. All-in-one printers don’t have to be large, clunky machines that are attached to a desktop or placed on a separate table. Although it can print, copy, and scan, the HP OfficeJet 250 Mobile All-in-One Printer is small and lightweight enough to fit into a travel bag and be carried around with little effort. The OfficeJet 250, like its single-function sibling, the Editors’ Choice HP OfficeJet 200 Mobile Printer, has superior output quality than most inkjets and is our first Editors’ Choice for a portable all-in-one printer.
Design
Design-wise, HP did a great job with this MFP. It’s made of the customary matte-black plastic, but it’s a sturdy material that should take some bumps. The 50-page input tray is created by a lid that keeps dust out of the paper feeds and appears to be solid, but its hinge is less so, and it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t latch shut. The paper exit is high enough to allow printing onto carpet or a car seat even though portable printers often lack an output tray. There are some cool particulars. You can click the touchscreen into the printer body or elevate it. It has a sprung hinge and serves as the ideal damper in the event that you forget to lower it before closing the lid. We can’t believe we’ve never seen such a straightforward time-saving technique before because the paper size is automatically established when the paper guidelines are adjusted. The touchscreen lives up to HP’s customary high standards, responding quickly to tap and drag movements and letting you set up shortcuts for frequently used functions.
HP Officejet 250 All-In-One Portable Printer review: Features
The HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250 is an inkjet printer that employs a two-cartridge system, one for black ink and the other for cyan, magenta, and yellow ink. On regular printers, tri-color ink cartridges are not advised, although they are standard in compact printers. Anyhow, considering that a cartridge typically costs between $18 and $24, HP provides a respectable page yield for each cartridge, with the normal black cartridge producing roughly 200 pages and the tri-color cartridge lasting 165 pages. HP now offers high-capacity, XL versions of its ink cartridges, increasing the page yields to 600 and 415 pages, respectively, if you want to make printing even more economical. The biggest capacity offered on a portable printer, the paper input feeder for the HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250 can accommodate up to 50 sheets of standard paper. You can scan multiple-page documents using its scanner because it also includes an automatic document feeder. The scanner can scan and copy documents, however it can only read one side of the page at a time. PDF, JPEG, and TIFF are just a few of the file formats that can be scanned to. The copy quality was quite good during our testing. The HP’s scanning resolution was the finest we saw in our review, so when we copied plain text documents, the results were clear and readable. Even in dark and shaded photos, it duplicates images reasonably well with little banding or colour errors and decent detail clarity. In one of the photographs we duplicated, light colours were slightly washed out, although even that was barely noticeable.
Connectivity
The finest of the group, its connectivity choices include USB plugging into a home computer, WiFi printing from a laptop, smartphone, or tablet, and even Bluetooth printing from other mobile devices. Although Apple AirPrint and Google Cloud Print aren’t natively supported by the printer, HP does have its own HP ePrint app that is accessible on all platforms and allows you to print from all of the major mobile devices. Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems are also supported. also you can check our article on HP Officejet 250 All-In-One Portable Printer review.
Scanning Quality
The HP OfficeJet 250 has a document feeder scanner, so it can scan single-page documents using the LCD touchscreen. However, we found that the HP Smart software for Windows and mobile devices provided better results and more possibilities. Text papers only took a few seconds to scan, however a single 4″ x 6″ photo took about 30 seconds. Due to the output from the scanner awkwardly overlapping the printer feeding tray, the feeding tray for the scanner can be a bit finicky, especially for full size pages. We were occasionally uneasy when scanning papers because they tended to slightly bend and twist as they entered the scanner, but we never had any major problems. Smaller images like 4″ x 6″ and 5″ x 7″ fit well inside the movable paper guidelines. Photos can be printed, saved, and altered right from the app, and the 250 supports scanning at resolutions of up to 600 x 600 dpi.
Printing Quality
The HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250 isn’t just adored for its compact size, though. Whether printing simple text or PowerPoint slides in full color, this little printer has excellent print quality. In our tests, the OfficeJet 250 produced documents with little to no errors, comparable to the print quality of bigger desktop inkjet printers. There was little spotting, no discernible streaking, and no alignment issues, and it handled broad swaths of color with just light banding. Out of all the printers we evaluated, this HP model produced some of the documents with the best quality. Additionally, it is among the quickest compact printers, generating papers in black and white at a speed of eight pages per minute. Printing crisp text and sharp photos on letter- and legal-size paper up to 8.5 x 14 inches is possible with the HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250. If you have some picture paper and extra ink, you can easily print photos with it thanks to its high print resolution of 4800 x 1200. Additionally, we were really pleased with the HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250’s printing noise level.
Battery life
Our belief is that HP makes a concerted effort not to provide you with battery life information. We had to phone customer support to find out, and even then they were hesitant to give us a straight answer, saying only that it’s “long lived” and that your consumption may vary. This battery’s 1050 mAh capacity, which is roughly the size commonly seen in cameras, was revealed to us. According to our research, the battery should last for a few hours and allow for up to 225 sheets of printing per charge. also you will learn our article on HP Officejet 250 All-In-One Portable Printer review.
HP Officejet 250 All-In-One Portable Printer review: Software
An outstanding and simple-to-use app for PCs and mobile devices is HP Smart. The software promptly indicates any printer status issues, such as offline, low ink, or an empty paper tray, and its menus and buttons are appealing and well-organized. We could quickly control the scanner, print images and papers, and complete any maintenance tasks through the app. The physical LCD touchscreen, which is stunning in and of itself, is overshadowed by the app’s flawless operation. The touchscreen has many options for wireless connections, sleep mode and auto-off times, and scanning documents straight to an inserted USB storage drive. It also has an on-screen battery life % indicator. In order to send documents or photographs via email attachments, HP ePrint assigns the printer an email account. This eliminates the need for any additional software or connectivity to the printer. The touchscreen is clear, simple to use, and attractive when folded.
HP Officejet 250 All-In-One Portable Printer review: Price
With an MSRP of $379, the HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250 is among the most expensive small printers. Having said that, you get a lot for your money with this printer thanks to its exceptional print quality, additional features like a scanner, and portability all rolled into one. Check out the HP OfficeJet Mobile 200, the smaller sister of the HP OfficeJet All-in-One 250, if you’re looking for something a little less expensive.
Conclusion
For family use, the HP OfficeJet 250 is suitable. Although pictures appear a little grainy, it prints photos with reasonable detail. It offers a high-resolution copy function and an automatic document feeder, but regrettably not a flatbed scanner. Due to its low page yield and inability to automatically scan or print double-sided pages, the cost of cartridge replacements can easily surpass the cost of the printer itself. There are several positive aspects of this printer overall. The printer is clear, produces high-quality prints, and offers a variety of paper sizes in addition to photo printing. The software appears to function effectively and was extremely simple to set up. It can be folded up to fit in a bag, briefcase, or automobile because it is so little.
