HP-Officejet-Pro-8025-Printer

Small and Capable

At 9.2 by 18.1 by 20.1 inches (HWD) and weighing just short of 30 pounds, the OfficeJet Pro 8025 is a few inches bigger all around (and about 10 pounds heftier) than the OfficeJet Pro 9015, yet several inches smaller than HP’s flagship model, the 9025. Two other highly rated competing AIOs, Canon’s Pixma TR8520 and Epson’s WorkForce Pro WF-4720, also have significantly smaller footprints and weigh in at several pounds less than this OfficeJet.

Nearly all AIOs in this price range ship with automatic document feeders (ADFs) for sending multipage documents to the scanner. In this case, the 8025’s manual-duplexing ADF holds up to 35 letter- or legal-size pages. That’s the same capacity as its 9015 and 9025 siblings, as well as Epson’s somewhat comparable WF-4720, while the Canon TR8520’s feeder holds only 20 sheets

Manual duplexing, of course, means that the scanner is capable of scanning just one side of two-sided multipage documents, while auto-duplexing ADFs can scan both sides of two-sided pages without your having to flip the originals manually. Of the AIOs mentioned here so far, the HP 9015 and 9025 and Epson WF-4720 ship with auto-duplexing ADFs.

You can make configuration changes, monitor consumables, and execute walk-up tasks (such as making copies, or scanning to and printing from the cloud) from the OfficeJet Pro 8025′s 2.7-inch touch screen.

The entire control panel is contained within this relatively small screen, though you can also access most functions (including generating usage reports and configuring security options) through a portal accessible via nearly any web browser, including those on your smartphone or tablet.

The OfficeJet Pro 9015 and WorkForce Pro WF-4720 each have one 250-sheet tray, while the OfficeJet Pro 9025 holds up to 500 sheets from two separate sources. The Pixma TR8520 comes with two 100-sheet trays. In this matchup, this OfficeJet Pro 8025 test model has the least-impressive paper-handling options.

Connectivity, and the Smart App

Standard connectivity on the OfficeJet Pro 8025 consists of USB 2.0, an Ethernet jack, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi Direct. The last is a peer-to-peer networking protocol that allows you to connect your mobile devices to the printer without either it or them being part of a local network.

In addition to Wi-Fi Direct, other mobile connectivity includes Apple AirPrint, Mopria, and HP’s cross-platform print and scan utility, HP Smart App. That last one is a universal printer interface that allows you to configure and manage all HP printers and scanners across Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS platforms.

Also available through the control panel, as well as your smartphone and other mobile devices, are Smart App workflow profiles. These profiles allow you to designate several aspects of your scan and print jobs, such as resolution, file type, and destination. HP touts these as Smart Tasks, and though they are given different names by different manufacturers, workflow profiles are available on most machines capable of scanning. That said, Smart Tasks are somewhat better developed than the workflow-profile iterations of some other vendors.

Speed-Testing the 8025: Strong Performance

HP rates the OfficeJet Pro 8025’s throughput at 20 monochromes and 10 color pages per minute (ppm). The OfficeJet Pro 9015 and OfficeJet Pro 9025 are rated for 2ppm and 4ppm faster, respectively (both monochrome speeds). These speeds are respectable for midrange AIOs. I tested the OfficeJet Pro 8025 over Ethernet from our standard Intel Core i5 testbed running Windows 10 Pro.

The OfficeJet Pro 8025 printed our first test, a 12-page Microsoft Word text document, at an average speed of 20.6ppm, or slightly above its rating, while the OfficeJet Pro 9015 came in about 1.1ppm faster and the OfficeJet Pro 9025 about 4ppm faster. The Epson WF-4720 trailed the OfficeJet Pro 8025 by 0.9ppm, and the Canon Pixma TR8520 fell behind by 7.8ppm.

For the next portion of my tests, I timed the OfficeJet Pro 8025 as it churned out our collection of colorful and complex Adobe Acrobat business documents, Excel spreadsheets (with supporting charts and graphs), and PowerPoint handouts (containing complex graphics and several typefaces at varying weights, sizes, and colors). I then combined the results of these tests with those from printing the 12-page text document for an overall score.

This time, the OfficeJet Pro 8025 managed 12.6ppm for printing our entire collection of 26 business document pages. That’s 1.3ppm faster than the OfficeJet Pro 9025 and 2.9ppm behind the OfficeJet Pro 9015. It trounced the Canon and Epson by 7.9ppm and 4.6ppm, respectively.

Finally, I finished up the testing by printing our detailed and brilliantly colored 4-by-6-inch test snapshots several times. The result? An average of 10 seconds per print. That’s a little faster than the other AIOs mentioned here.

Above-Average Output

I applauded the OfficeJet Pro 9015’s and 9025’s print quality, especially the text. The OfficeJet Pro 8025 matches them, producing excellent-looking documents that rival what you get from a good color laser AIO.