
You pay no more for a color page with instant ink than you would for a black page you pay extra if you print additional pages, and are not reimbursed if you don't print your monthly allotment. There are three levels: Occasional Printing (up to 50 pages per month, for $2.99 a month), Moderate Printing (up to 100 pages per month, at $4.99 per month), and Frequent Printing (up to 300 pages per month, at $9.99 per month). According to HP, by enrolling in one of HP's Instant Ink subscription programs, you can save up to 50 percent on ink costs. If you were to buy HP's highest-capacity cartridges individually, running costs would come to a relatively high 8.7 cents per monochrome page and 19 cents per color page. The Brother MFC-J6535DW, for instance, averaged 1 minute, 25 seconds per print. (We timed the Epson Expression Premium XP-640 Small-in-One Printer, the closest comparable printer, at 3.2ppm for the full suite, although in printing out our Word test document it was a relative speedster at 9.5ppm.) The 3755's photo-printing speed (averaging 46 seconds per print) is also slow, but not the slowest for an inkjet that we have tested. Both for printing out our Word test document (4.3 pages per minute, or ppm) and our full business suite (1.4ppm), the 3755 turned in the slowest timings of any printer we have tested using our current test suite. We didn't expect rapid speed from the 3755, and we did not get it. It works well with the HP Smart mobile app. The 3755 is Apple AirPrint and HP ePrint compatible. It also supports direct, peer-to-peer connection with a compatible computer or mobile device via Wireless Direct. The right-hand end of the beam houses the control panel, with a tiny monochrome screen and its control buttons, for launching color or monochrome scanning, enabling/disabling Wi-Fi or Wireless Direct, canceling or resuming a print job, or enabling HP's Web Services.Ĭonnectivity is via USB or 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi. The 3755 lacks a flatbed and an automatic document feeder pages must be fed one sheet at a time. You scan a page by slipping it under the beam it is fed through and emerges on the other side. One unusual feature is what HP calls the scan beam, which is a bowed piece of plastic that horizontally spans the printer's top.
