Envy 4500 All-in-One Printerby HP

TECHWALLA

VERDICT

Not recommended. This product is super problematic.

68^%

TECHWALLA SCORE

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PROS

This heavily discounted multifunction printer can connect with Wi-Fi or USB, and it supports the HP ePrint service.
The Envy prints two-sided pages for professional looking documents and paper savings.
The Envy prints high-quality borderless photos on HP Premium Presentation paper.

CONS

The printer has no automatic document feeder, and paper capacity is limited to 100 sheets.
The printer uses a single color cartridge and produces subpar graphic quality on all but premium photo paper.
The LCD shows advertising messages when you change cartridges.

The HP Envy 4500 is a bare-bones multifunction color printer with a 100-sheet paper capacity and automatic duplex capability. You can connect directly to your PC with USB 2.0 or wirelessly with Wi-Fi, and print from your Android, iOS, Windows, or other devices using HP ePrint or Apple AirPrint. The Envy 4500 claims a black print speed of 8.8 ppm and color speed of 5.2 ppm, and it works best with premium paper. To navigate setup and features, you use the functional 2-inch monochrome LCD display.

68^%

TECHWALLA SCORE

based on the following sites

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Price Watch

LIST PRICE
$100
$97.99Buy


Name	Envy 4500 All-in-One Printer	Officejet Pro X 576DW	Maxify MB2320	Workforce ET-4550	Expression Home XP-420 Small-in-One All-in-One Printer
Manufacturer	HP	HP	Canon	Epson	Epson
Techwalla Score	68^%	88^%	73^%	73^%	69^%
List Price	$100	$800	$200	$500	$100

90^%

In most cases draft print really is only suitable for internal drafts which you’re going to mark up before editing.

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80^%

The HP Envy 4500 has a very appropriate name (Envy). Other printer manufacturers should be envious of this printer.

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60^%

If you’re a household that rarely goes through a ream of paper, prints color once in a while, and isn’t too concerned about print quality, t…

If you’re a household that rarely goes through a ream of paper, prints color once in a while, and isn’t too concerned about print quality, the Envy 4500 does the job.

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60^%

We particularly like the printer's copying ability, which produced accurate colours in our tests when copying photos.

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60^%

The specs around this model are strong and it’s wi-fi/air-play which, for the price, won me over.

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60^%

With the Envy 4500, HP is betting its money on versatility, speed, cost effectiveness and ease-of-use.

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Negative Reviews

Faxing doesn't work, neither does the scanner, really

by Christine Niebuhr 9/10/2015

Well, it's inexpensive. Good for very casual printing... maybe for your high school kids. The fax capability has not worked properly since I bought this printer. Also the scanning app that comes with this printer doesn't always work consistently. So I have to resort to using my computer's native scanning tool. So yeah, it's cheap. But for another hundred bucks, you can get something that's far more reliable. I say pass on this one.