HP - OfficeJet Pro 9730 Wireless Wide Format All-in-One Inkjet Printer, Scanner, Copier, AI-Enabled with 3 Mos of Instant Ink - White

The HP OfficeJet Pro 9730 is a quality wide-format color inkjet printer ideal for small office use. • Unboxing and Setup – The printer arrived well packaged in a large box. Unboxing was quick but make sure it is near where you plan to set it up as the printer is a decent size making it awkward to carry. It measures approximately 15 x 23 x 18 inches and weighs almost 43 pounds. Setup is fairly straightforward. Power it on and select a language on the 4.3-inch color touchscreen. Scan the digital QR code located on top of the printer. Alternatively, there is a website listed below the QR code if you prefer to use a browser. Follow the instructions to complete the setup. The only issue I had was the final step in the app of entering the printer PIN. It would get stuck on the loading page and nothing would happen. Ultimately, I would have to force close the app and try again. After multiple attempts it finally worked. • Printing – It produces professional quality prints at speeds up to 22 ppm for black and 18 ppm for color. It has two 250-sheet input trays and a 75-sheet output tray. It can print up to 11x17 inches. The printer connects via a dual-band Wi-Fi, Ethernet or USB. So far, I have printed numerous family pictures for my daughter’s school project which turned out great. Swapping to photo paper and updating the printer settings is easy to do on the color touchscreen. Additionally, I have printed many documents for work that were clear and free of streaking, missing lines, or smudging. • HP App – User friendly app that allows quick access to print, scan, copy, or fax directly from your personal device. I find this to be super convenient as I do a lot of my work directly from my phone. • Optimize print formatting with HP AI – An innovative feature that helps optimize the printing of webpages and emails to reduce wasted space/ink by removing unnecessary content (ie: Ads) and improving the layout. • Cons – Really the only major issue I have with this printer is the requirement to use HP genuine cartridges. Per the HP documentation, if you try to use any 3rd party cartridge the printer will block it. HP also pushes periodic firmware updates to maintain this block. This is super anti-consumer. There should be an option where you can agree to the risks of using a 3rd party cartridge. The printer loses a star for this.

Review of HP OfficeJet Pro 9730 Wireless AI-Enabled Wide Format AiO Inkjet At first, the OfficeJet Pro 9730 is remarkable in its own category for supporting wide format printing and ease of use via HP application through the variety of type of connection and devices and multiple users. Its specifications are quite common to regular printers, but differs on: 1. Print Speed: Up to 22ppm (black) and Up to 18ppm (color) 2. Supported features: Duplex Print, Borderless Printing, 3. Maximum Scan Size 297x432 flatbed 4. Supported Wide Formats: - Tabloid (Ledger) (11 x 17 inches) & A3 (11.7 x 16.5 inches) 5. Input Trays: it has two standard input trays. It can store up to 500 sheets in total. Then its screen for control from the printer is nice feeling as move around the options as it is touch screen. The display size is 4.3 inch color LCD, and smooth on fingertip. And the corresponding cartridges are 4, Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Black, and included with the printer. Now, to setup it require upon powering on, it prompt on the LCD the message to connect via HP App with mobile as very first step, then the following are same to most of standard setup to connect to the WiFi to the point of having installed the cartrdriges. In between it include link to see how to, then the rest is following the steps from the LCD. Then the HP Smart App can control different customizations and specific to printing job. In overall, it is good if the need is to have support of wide format printing without having a huge larger scaler printer. Although, it is quite big as it has two trays and has to be wide enough to support it. And it doesn’t have many USB ports, only one at front and another in the rear and one for the ethernet port. And for last, a remark on the LCD, it is comfortable to interact with it, it feels larger than actual size during the use, and able to tilt up to ease the experience. What I wish it were better: 1. The AC Power cord was longer. It comes with 6 feet long. Hence it is forced to place near an outlet even though if it is not optimal place within the office or house. (Naturally there is workaround which takes additional cable).

Very nice SOHO printer. Its very large and heavy, came in a large box. Two people is recommended to get it out of the box and setup. Once put in its place, I plugged it on power and plugged an ethernet cable to it (also supports Wi-Fi) and turned it on. The setup process is very easy and starts in its very nice large color touch screen, I inserted the included set of inks (easy to insert too, you just plop open the front door and you insert them and they click into place), then it makes you firmware updates and then print an alignment test. From there, you finish the setup on their HP app. We have Windows PCs environment, so downloaded the HP app from the Windows app store and finished there. From there you can tell it what do you want to do (scan a document, print, copy etc.), you can also do those things locally on the printer's touch screen. The app can be finicky at times, sometimes it will say "printer is offline", where it is actually online. I have to click the app a couple of times, to kind of "detect" my printer. But, its not really a real issue, windows always shows it online and ready, so its more of a HP app issue. The printer is great and versatile for a SOHO or office. You have 2 paper trays and you can have different size papers on each. We have one for regular letter papers and the second one for larger format, which this printer supports, up to A3. It also has a large bed for scanning documents, but it also has an auto feeder on top, and it will scan several pages if you want and feed itself (copies too). The print quality is great, with dark blacks and great color too. Its very fast and not that noisy, however if you want it to be quieter, there is also a quiet mode, where it will be even more quiet, at the sacrifice of speed. A nice thing is you can set automatic quiet hours. Fast during the day and quiet at night. Since I use it on a SOHO environment, this is a great and welcome feature. Ink sets can be pricey, however they do include 3 months free of their printer subscription, and they have several pricing tiers, so the could help saving on printer ink. If your SOHO prints a lot, this would be beneficial. If you are looking for a nice large format printer for your SOHO, this is a very nice option!

There is no doubt that HP is a leader in the printing industry. For years, their products have proven their efficiency and performance. No exception, this HP Officejet 9730 is no exception. I was surprised by how big it is; it is massive compared to other Officejet in the same segment, because it prints and scans 11 × 17-inch documents and has two paper trays. It feels more like a professional office printer, and I think the extra size is worth it, knowing that this printer is going to be all-in-one with extra capabilities that I may need. From the first moment, I liked how the design is clean and solid and felt premium. As usual, setup was easy using the HP Smart app and following the steps, and in a few minutes the printer was up and running. The 4.3-inch color touchscreen is really helpful and responsive, making it very easy to navigate the printer's settings. Printing is fast, quality is excellent, and text looks sharp. Since this printer is all-in-one, the 35-sheet automatic document feeder supports single-pass duplex scanning, meaning it scans both sides of a document in one pass instead of feeding the paper through twice. It also supports automatic two-sided printing, so everything is handled without manually flipping pages. Except for ID card scanning, both sides required flipping the ID. The printer supports dual-band Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB, Apple AirPrint, Wi-Fi Direct, and the HP Smart app, so I can print from everywhere whether I’m home or away since it supports cloud printing. The Wi-Fi connection has remained stable, and I haven't experienced any unexpected disconnects. One thing that's kind of disappointing here is that this printer uses regular ink cartridges rather than an HP Smart Tank that relies on a refillable ink tank, which makes the printing cost way less. However, this is not a deal-breaker for me; the printer offers a combination of printing quality, performance, automatic functions, a big touchscreen, and two massive paper trays.

HP has been in the printing industry for a long long time. The office jet pro 9730 is another step to their stake in the printing industry. Setup was pretty easy with the exception scan to HP cloud and Scan to Google. We will get to that in a bi.. Pulled out of the box slid it out (be careful super heavy you probably need to team lift this beast of a printer). Plugged in. Walked through Wi-Fi connection via on screen prompt and I was in. My Android phone found it no problems, my various household PC same. Found it with no issues. Print quality and speed is good for ink jet. HP very nice crisp and fast. I tried using the app. It found the printer no problems. Copy function is great! 11x17 scan/Copy is ONLY through flat bed. Automatic document feeder does not take 11x17. So make sure you are aware of this. Also note. Paper tray for 11x17 will cause for the try you put the 11x17 in to stick out. If you are OCD this might bother you. So going back to the scan to cloud and Scan to HP Cloud. I had some issues with setting this up. I ended up resetting the printer to the original Firmware and not updating it and I was finally able to keep the scan to cloud function to stay. I think HP might be working on a solution for this but in the meantime this isy suggested work around for this issue. Also this requires an ink subscription to work. Other than that. Great printer. I love my 11x17 option.