HP Officejet 7110 review

The HP Officejet 7110 is an office inkjet that can print on paper sizes up to A3+ (329x483mm). It’s intended for plain paper rather than photo printing, making it suitable for producing plans, drawings and folded brochure content in-house. It’s a little larger than a typical inkjet, but it’s more shallow than many A3 printers thanks to paper input and output trays that can be retracted when printing on paper that’s A4 or smaller in size. The output tray can hold 75 printed pages, while the input tray can 250 sheets.

The Officejet 7110 has support for wired and wireless networking, and for printing from mobiles and over the internet through HP’s ePrint service. It’s also compatible with Apple AirPrint. There’s no automatic duplex (double-sided) printing, but for about £60 you can buy HP’s C7G18A duplexer which simply slots into the back.

Like most network printers there’s a built-in web admin interface

Aside from needing a little extra space, this is just like any other current HP inkjet to set up. However, we experienced a hesitant start to our tests, with the printer stalling in the middle of its ePrint configuration sheet (produced automatically at the completion of the setup). It eventually abandoned it altogether. After restarting both printer and computer, however, we quickly warmed to the Officejet 7110. It’s quieter than many inkjets, particularly during draft quality printing, which is often a frantic mix of whirs. It’s still fairly rapid, though, reaching almost 17 pages per minute (ppm).

Brother’s print interface is great; everything you need most often is located on the main tab

At normal quality, the Officejet 7110 still managed to produce pages of text at 14.6ppm, and it printed colour sheets sat 3.8ppm. A3 printing was roughly half the speed, with the printer managing five pages of text in 54 seconds and taking two minutes 18 seconds to produce five pages of colour magazine pages.

Black text was fine for day-to-day office work, and while photos weren’t too impressive they were acceptable for occasional use. Unfortunately, colour graphics were a little disappointing, with some subtle banding and colours that lacked the impact of the best plain-paper inkjets.

The Officejet 7110’s running costs work out to be 5.33p per A4 page, which isn’t bad for an all-round office printer. It’s a good choice if you need occasional A3 printing in-house, but it’s not ideal if you’re fussy about print quality.