

- HOW TO SET UP SCAN TO EMAIL ON HP PRINTER BLUETOOTH
- HOW TO SET UP SCAN TO EMAIL ON HP PRINTER PLUS
- HOW TO SET UP SCAN TO EMAIL ON HP PRINTER WINDOWS
Specialist photo printers will give you more clarity and dynamic range, but the Envy Inspire 7224e holds up well against other non-specialist inkjets, including the Pixma TS8350. This is a standard four-colour printer with a fairly normal 4,800 x 1,200dpi print engine, yet it still delivered excellent photos with natural colours, visible shadow tones and highlights, and respectable colour depth. What we didn’t expect, however, is for the photo quality to be so good. The worst thing you can say about it is that the ink occasionally comes out slightly damp, though even then it doesn’t smear. Colours are bright and any graduations smooth, and there’s no sign of blotchiness or banding. The Envy Inspire 7224e prints good, crisp black text and also copes well with diagrams and business graphics. That should be fine for basic home and office usage. Yet the main paper input tray holds 125 sheets, while the photo paper feed on top can hold up to 15 5x5 to 5x7in photo sheets. There’s no automatic document feeder for the scanner, and HP specifies a recommended workload of around 300 to 400 pages per month. The Envy Inspire 7224e isn’t what you’d call an office workhorse. What’s more, it’s one of a small number of printers to have moved beyond 802.11n wireless connectivity to embrace dual-band 802.11ac, which should help speed things up when you’re printing larger and more complex files.
HOW TO SET UP SCAN TO EMAIL ON HP PRINTER WINDOWS
In fact, with Windows 11 picking up the Envy Inspire 7224e automatically, it couldn’t be much less work to get a printer up and running. It’s an approach that makes setup and basic operations so easy that you barely notice them. It carries through to simple admin and management, including keeping track of ink supplies.
HOW TO SET UP SCAN TO EMAIL ON HP PRINTER BLUETOOTH
It’s the default option for initial setup, where the app makes a Bluetooth connection to the printer and hooks it up to your Wi-FI network, then holds your hand through cartridge installation and installing paper. This app-centric approach turns out to be the norm with the Envy Inspire 7224e. These cover a range of capabilities including scan and email to a specific email address, or scanning and uploading to cloud storage, with options for most of the major services including Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Box.
HOW TO SET UP SCAN TO EMAIL ON HP PRINTER PLUS
This provides easy access to the most basic copying and scanning operations, plus user-definable shortcuts you can set up through the smartphone app. The minimalist front panel is dominated by a 2.65in LCD touchscreen, which can tilt slightly backwards for easier operation when you’re looking at the printer from above. It’s going to fit better into a lot of home offices than your average black or dark grey model.

However, HP has done its best to minimise the bulk with rounded corners at the base and an interesting two tone off-white and beige design. It’s substantially bigger than the Canon Pixma TS8350, for example, or even the squarer Epson Ecotank ET-7250. With a desktop footprint of 46 x 38cm, even with the output tray folded away, this isn’t a particularly compact printer.
