Some designs allow for the printer to fold up into a smaller footprint for storage (think of the paper tray folding up to save yourself about 6 inches of space at the front), and other units will have a dedicated size that takes a little more space but has fewer moving parts.

A small printer will often be about a foot tall and have a footprint of something near 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet, but this varies by model. Size might be something to keep in mind when looking for a new printer. Printer technology has grown a point where you can easily find a relatively small printer that suits the needs you have, and the printing needs of the at-home user can generally be broken down into a few main categories that can really help to figure out which features are right for you. This MFP also failed to scan at 1,200dpi unless we completed a preview first and, as usual, scans at 600dpi and above appeared to have been digitally sharpened, with no opt-out.Whether you are working from home, running a small business or simply hoping to have a document that you can read without staring at another screen for long periods of time, you will soon find yourself looking for a printer that can handle your specific needs from the comfort of your own home. We're not fans of HP's over-simplified TWAIN scan interface, in which 150dpi scans aren't usually available.

Scan performance was a bit less impressive: while a 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) A4 scan took just nine seconds, there was a 46-second wait for a 600dpi photo scan. The same job in colour needed 90 seconds, which is still quite quick. Photocopy quality was also very high, with single copies taking about 14 seconds, and a 10-page mono copy just 65 seconds. Fortunately, this speed doesn't come at the cost of quality: black text was crisp and dark, and graphics were strong and free of obvious grain or streaking - although we did spot a small amount of bleed through on our 80gsm test paper. Colour prints were impressively fast, too: its 8.6ppm on our graphics-heavy test is well above average. It's a particularly fast printer, delivering our black text test at 21.4 pages per minute (ppm), and at draft quality reaching 25.4ppm - faster than HP's claimed speed. These relatively minor grumbles aside, there's a lot to like about the OfficeJet Pro 8720.

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