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At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Overnice design and output quality
Mobile, including bombardment and Bluetooth

Cons

Rather wearisome performance
Expensive ink

Our Verdict

This inkjet MFP gives you lot portable press and scanning in a cleverly designed but expensive package.

The price ($400, per HP) of a ticket to the HP Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-I show is steep, and information technology gets steeper when you accept ink costs into business relationship. If you're willing to ante up, though, you lot get a unique, cleverly designed, easy-to-use colour inkjet multifunction printer that has Bluetooth connectivity for printing from mobile phones and devices. The unit'south press and scanning output are top-notch.

The Officejet 150 Mobile connects via USB or Bluetooth. Possibly at that place wasn't room, but nosotros wish that it supported Wi-Fi for AirPrint, advertizement hoc networks, and the like. Setup is easy, and the scanning and Iris OCR software are competent. HP renders the print dialog area nicely, providing options for manual duplexing equally well as multipage and booklet layouts.

The Officejet 150 Mobile is approximately 14 inches broad by 7 inches deep by iii.five inches tall, so you can fit it into larger luggage, just not into a briefcase or laptop bag. It's not particularly light, either, at 6.eight pounds with battery. The silvery top panel pops open up and leans dorsum to create the fifty-sheet rear vertical paper feed, and to reveal the control panel and the scanner. The control panel, which tilts upward for use, includes a 2.36-inch touchscreen with a resistive pattern that requires slight pressure to issue commands. The scanner consists of a slot with a few markings around it.

Describing an MFP'south paper-handling features equally fun may seem odd, but watching the Officejet 150 Mobile make a copy is a care for. To brainstorm, you place the original face-down in the scanner feed. Printing Copy on the touchscreen, and the original feeds up, sliding over the paper that the automobile draws down from the rear feed to produce your re-create. It's a very clever merely limited design: the scanner takes only 1 sheet at a time, and printed pages go out from the front of the unit, with no output tray to catch them.

Calling the Officejet 150 Mobile wearisome is putting information technology mildly, though y'all tin get considerably faster operation (and lower quality) in draft mode when yous need it. At the MFP'due south default settings, monochrome pages leave at 4.9 pages per minute on the PC and 4.6 ppm on the Mac. Snapshot-size, iv-by-half-dozen-inch photos impress at 2.vii ppm on plainly paper and 0.seven ppm on glossy stock. Total-folio sleeky photos crawl out at 0.two ppm. Color copies exit at nigh 1 ppm. Given its sheet-fed design, the machine doesn't offering scan previews, but higher-resolution color scans take a very slow 70 seconds.

Offsetting its slow functioning is the Officejet 150 Mobile's excellent output quality. Text is sharp, articulate, and blackness, and monochrome gradients are handled quite nicely. Color graphics look a tad done out when printed on manifestly paper, but the high contrast ratio works well on glossy paper.

Ink is somewhat pricey, only cartridge yields are generous. One compatible cartridge is the HP 98 black, which costs $26 and lasts for 440 pages, which works out to 5.ix cents per folio. Just the HP 94 black cartridge has the same cost and delivers a yield of 500 pages (a charge per unit of 5.two cents per page).

The two tricolor cartridge options are easier to differentiate: The HP 95 costs $32 for 330 pages (nine.seven cents per page); and the HP 97 costs $44 for 560 pages (7.9 cents per page). The price of printing a four-colour page using the cheapest 94 and 97 ink cartridges is xiii.1 cents–a picayune college than the average. For fifty-fifty better photo quality, you tin bandy out the regular black cartridge for the HP 99 photograph cartridge, which uses low-cal cyan, calorie-free magenta, and photo black to create a richer palette. It costs $32 and lasts for well-nigh 130 photos, or 24.6 cents per photo.

With the Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-One you lot get style, a clever pattern, and skillful output quality. It'll await cool when you fix information technology downwards in forepart of a client, and it'southward the only truly portable printer/scanner on the marketplace. But it costs $400, and the ink isn't cheap either. If yous desire a portable printer, but tin can do without the scanner and copier, check out the HP OfficeJet 100 Mobile or the well-nigh identical Canon Pixma iP100 (which we've not reviewed).

Editor's annotation: This review was corrected to reflect that the Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-One does not offer HP ePrint for sending print jobs remotely via e-mail service. PCWorld regrets the error.