HP DeskJet 3755 All-in-One Printer - Review 2022

HP touts its Deskjet 3755 All-in-I Printer ($69.99) as the world's smallest home all-in-one (AIO) printer. It certainly is pocket-sized, and uniquely styled. Unlike the business-oriented HP OfficeJet 250 Mobile All-in-1 Printer, our Editors' Option portable AIO, the 3755 is geared toward consumers, especially millennials, looking to print out photos from mobile devices. The 3755's slow speed and sparse feature prepare limit information technology to low-cal-duty apply, but information technology should do well in its intended role.

Rainbow of Printers

The 3755 measures 5.6 by 15.ix by 7 inches (HWD) when closed, ten.4 by 15.9 by 17.8 inches with trays extended, and weighs a lightweight 5.1 pounds. This compares favorably with the Epson Expression Home XP-430 Small-in-I, which measures v.4 by 15.4 past eleven.8 inches—more than iv inches deeper than the 3755.

The 3755 is available in seven colors, each a two-tone mix combined with white. Our test unit is Electrical Blue; other colors available in North America include Sea Grass, Dragonfly Blueish, Sporty Purple, Cardinal Carmine, Stone, and Poppy Pink.

An Atypical All-in-One

One unusual feature is what HP calls the scan beam, which is a bowed piece of plastic that horizontally spans the printer's summit. You scan a page by slipping it under the axle; it is fed through and emerges on the other side. The 3755 lacks a flatbed and an automatic document feeder; pages must exist fed i canvass at a time. The correct-mitt cease of the beam houses the control panel, with a tiny monochrome screen and its control buttons, for launching colour or monochrome scanning, enabling/disabling Wi-Fi or Wireless Direct, canceling or resuming a print job, or enabling HP's Spider web Services.

Connectivity is via USB or 802.11b/grand/due north Wi-Fi. It as well supports direct, peer-to-peer connexion with a uniform computer or mobile device via Wireless Direct. The 3755 is Apple AirPrint and HP ePrint uniform. It works well with the HP Smart mobile app.

On the Irksome Side

We didn't expect rapid speed from the 3755, and we did not get it. Both for press out our Word test document (4.3 pages per infinitesimal, or ppm) and our full business suite (1.4ppm), the 3755 turned in the slowest timings of any printer we have tested using our electric current test suite. (We timed the Epson Expression Premium XP-640 Pocket-sized-in-I Printer, the closest comparable printer, at 3.2ppm for the full suite, although in printing out our Word test document it was a relative speedster at ix.5ppm.) The 3755's photo-press speed (averaging 46 seconds per print) is also tiresome, only not the slowest for an inkjet that we have tested. The Brother MFC-J6535DW, for instance, averaged 1 minute, 25 seconds per print.

Good For Photos

Based on our testing, overall text quality is average for an inkjet, with average text quality, sub-par graphics, and above-par photo quality. For the four standard fonts in our exam suite, information technology was meliorate than usual for an inkjet, while information technology had problems with with the three more exotic fonts in the suite. Equally long every bit you stick to commonly used fonts, you should be fine.

With graphics, we noticed moderate banding, a regular pattern of faint striations, in some illustrations, and some backgrounds seemed a bit blotchy, suffering from uneven distribution of ink. Information technology'south okay for printing your own graphics, but non actually suitable for printing documents such as PowerPoint handouts meant for distribution to others.

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As the 3755 is designed primarily for photograph printing, and photos are one of HP's fortes, it is non surprising that it has above-average photo quality, despite the fact that it has only ii ink tanks—1 for blackness, and i for cyan, magenta, and xanthous—while most printers take separate tanks for each color. Nigh of our exam prints were at least as good as what nosotros would wait from drugstore prints, and a couple of prints were improve. There was some loss of particular in vivid areas in one print, and our monochrome image had a slight tint.

Running Costs

If you lot were to purchase HP'southward highest-capacity cartridges individually, running costs would come to a relatively high eight.seven cents per monochrome folio and 19 cents per colour page. According to HP, by enrolling in one of HP's Instant Ink subscription programs, you can save up to 50 percentage on ink costs. There are three levels: Occasional Printing (upwardly to fifty pages per calendar month, for $2.99 a month), Moderate Printing (upward to 100 pages per month, at $four.99 per month), and Frequent Printing (upwardly to 300 pages per calendar month, at $9.99 per month). You lot pay no more for a color page with instant ink than yous would for a black page; you pay extra if you print boosted pages, and are non reimbursed if you don't print your monthly resource allotment.

Small and Affordable, but Non Fast

The HP Deskjet 3755 All-in-One Printer is an atypical AIO printer. Its modest size, bargain price, and handsome design put it in a class of its own. Fix confronting these strengths are its ponderous printing speed and its lack of common all-in-one features, including an ADF (or a flatbed for that matter), auto duplexer, touch screen, SD-card reader, port for a USB thumb drive, fax adequacy, affect screen, and photograph tray. These omissions, forth with an input tray that fits only 60 sheets, peg the 3755 for lite-duty utilize. Clearly it'southward not for everybody. But if you lot are looking for a small, snazzy, and inexpensive printer primarily for use in printing out photos from mobile devices, it could exist an ideal choice.