HP Officejet 3830 Review - Wireless All-in-One Printer, Scanner, Copier, Fax
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In today’s video, I am reviewing the HP Officejet 3830 All-in one printer. This printer combines the functionality of a printer, scanner, copier and fax into a single device. For starters, setting the HP officejet 3830 printer up was reasonably pain free and intuitive. If you need help setting the printer up for the first time, I have a separate video that walks you through the entire setup process. Once setup, you’ll notice that the HP Officejet 3830 has a rather sleek, black design that allows it to elegantly blend in with the decor in your home. The body is made plastic but is finished well and looks pretty sleek. The HP Officejet 3830 is also fairly compact and measures in at about 18 inches in length by 14 inches in width by 8.5 inches in height, with the output tray closed. It is however a bit taller than most printers like the hp envy 5055 that do not have a document feeder. The 2.2 inch black and white screen is the printer’s primary interface. I do like the fact this touchscreen is pretty responsive and the menus are very intuitively laid out- something I seem to appreciate with a lot of HP printers I have reviewed lately. This screen has a power button to the left and a blue wireless indicator light to the right. As with other all-in-one printers, the HP officejet 3830 has a glass scanbed which can scan documents as large as letter or A4. In addition to this, it has a hidden automatic document feeder which can scan upto 35 pages automatically, when opened up. Both the flatbed and scanner can be used to scan documents either to a phone, using the HP smart app, or a to a computer using the HP Easy Scan program. When using the Easy Scan program on a computer, you can scan multiple pages and combine all those pages into a single PDF. A pretty useful option. The scanbed and document feeder can also be used to make copies and send faxes- that’s IF you still send faxes. The HP officejet 3830 can make as many as 50 color or black and white copies at a time. And the printer also has quite a few useful features for making copies: like lightening or darkening an image, resizing copies and an ID card copy option. As I mentioned, it does have the ability to send faxes. The phone jack for the fax line is one of two phone jacks in the back. The second is for an extension telephone line. There is also a usb port in the back, in case you wanna connect the printer to your computer using a usb cable and skip the wireless connection.
he printer can also print borderless prints as large as Letter or A4. It pulls plain paper from an open paper tray that can hold upto 60 pages. The paper tray does have a paper guide tucked away beneath this flip lid, and you want to pay attention to that when loading paper. I am not a big fan of open paper trays. If you live in a somewhat dusty environment, your paper has a tendency to absorb a bit of that dust. The black and white print speed was pretty good for an inkjet printer and the quality was pretty decent too. Definitely not laser quality but very usable and reasonably sharp. When it comes to color prints, the 3830 was a bit slower. However, the borderless prints were quite respectable, especially on photo paper. The colors were well reproduced and tge images were crisp. The prints are pushed onto this folding paper tray, which almost seems like an afterthought. It’s pretty flimsily built and is even made from gray plastic, in stark contrast to the rest of the printers black body. The hp officejet 3830 uses the extremely popular 63 series black and tricolor cartridges. The cartridges are pretty easy to replace and are reasonably inexpensive. If you plan to use the printer very regularly, I recommend using the 63XL series cartridges instead. These are much more cost effective and last longer. I’ll leave links to both the 63 and 63 Xl cartridges below, in case you’re looking to buy some.
So should you buy the HP Officejet 3830? Well, that all depends on if you need a document feeder and what kind of environment you live in. If you need an automatic document feeder and live in an environment that isn’t too dusty, the HP Officejet is a great little printer. However if you don’t need a document feeder and live in a dustier environment, I recommend the HP envy 5055 instead. However, if you do need a document feeder and also need a closed paper tray, I recommend the HP Officejet 5255 instead. I’ll leave links to all three printers below, in case you’re looking to buy any of them. If you own one of these, please tell me about your experience in the comments section below. Hope this video was useful?
29 авг 2024
