The Officejet 5255 All-in-One Printer is one of HP’s best-selling home printers. But should you buy it yourself?
Its predecessor is the HP Officejet 4650 Printer series which is also built for home and small business users.
The most recognizable change that HP made for their Officejet 5255 printer is it has a more compact design than the HP Officejet 4650 printer.
Now, let’s see if you should consider getting this HP printer with our HP Officejet 5255 review below.
HP Officejet 5255 Printer Features
Wireless Printer
The HP Officejet 5255 printer is designed to connect easily with your devices using a wireless connection. This feature is not unique with this printer as there are hundreds of printers with the same feature. But what HP developed with their HP printers over the years is they made it easier for printer owners to connect their computers, laptops, or phones with their printers.
The HP Officejet 5255 printer utilizes the common WiFi setup of choosing your wireless network on your printer display screen and entering your WiFi password to establish a connection between your WiFi network and printer. This is similar to how you connect your phone to your WiFi.
If it so happens that you don’t have any idea what your WiFi password is, then you can utilize the WPS button or WiFi Protected Setup on your HP Officejet 5255 printer.
All-in-One Printer
The HP Officejet 5255 printer can print, copy, scan, and fax. HP also says that it can do photo printing, but I think that’s unnecessary since as long as you can print documents, you may also print images.
When it comes to printing documents, the HP Officejet 5255 printer can compete with more expensive printer models and it’s very efficient too as it only used two cartridges instead of four. We’ll talk more about that later on in this HP Officejet 5255 review.
When it comes to copying and scanning, the HP Officejet 5255 printer allows you to copy or scan through the automatic document feeder or ADF or by using the scanner glass on top of the printer. For the price you’re paying for this printer model, it’s a good feature to have the option to scan multiple documents easily.
For photo printing, we can say that compared to printers that are designed for printing colored images, the HP Officejet 5255 printer’s photo printouts are not on the same level. But if you’re just printing colored charts and graphs along with your black and white documents, then this printer’s capability should be enough.
Water-based Ink Cartridges
The HP Officejet 5255 All-in-One Printer only uses two ink cartridges and the best thing about it is the black ink is capable to print up to 190 pages according to HP. But we know that may not be the case as most home printers may only print 100 pages before you have to change them.
Since it’s using water-based inks the HP Officejet 5255 printer is suspect to dry inks. Once this happens, you may have to change your ink completely for you to use your printer which will cost you money.
One of the great features of having an HP Officejet 5255 printer is you can use it even if you only have one ink installed inside the printer. This is called single-cartridge mode and it only works for HP printers that use only two ink cartridges, not four.
If you’re only printing black and white documents, then you might consider installing and using only black ink cartridges to save money in the long run.
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HP Officejet 5255 Printer Customers’ Review
We’ve checked online shopping websites and printer forums and we’re able to compile the list of most common problems encountered by HP Officejet 5255 printer owners.
Automatic Document Feeder Issue
HP Officejet 5255 printer owners have reported that they have difficulty scanning using the automatic document feeder of their HP printer.
The paper is often not picked up by the document feeder, so they had to scan their documents one by one using the scanner glass.
Color Printing
We’re already aware that the HP Officejet 5255 is not a good printer for photos or images, but some customers have experienced being unable to print in color completely.
This is a common issue for inkjet printers or printer who uses water-based inks, and it can be easily fixed by cleaning the printhead of your printer using your printer’s display screen.
However, some owners reported they had to replace their cartridges right away or return the printer to the store they bought them from as they don’t want any more headaches using the HP Officejet 5255 All-in-One Printer.
Unable To Copy Documents
There are some customers who have said that they were unable to copy documents using their HP Officejet 5255 printer.
However, this HP printer issue was easily resolved by updating their printer’s firmware or by doing several attempts of printhead cleaning.
Those are our recommended troubleshooting steps for printers printing blank pages or for HP printer not printing black.
Easy Setup
True to its word. The HP Officejet 5255 All-in-One Printer was very easy to set up according to its owners. Since most HP printers don’t come with USB cables anymore, they had to set up their printer using a wireless connection.
They phrased how easy it is to connect the printer to their WiFi networks using the printer’s display screen.
Good For Printing Black and White Documents
The HP Officejet 5255 printer owners are satisfied with how it prints their black and white documents.
Once they’ve been able to connect their printers to their devices, printing documents were fairly easy to do.
A business owner mentioned how she was able to print hundreds of pages in a day and still have enough inks to print another hundred more the next day.
The black ink capacity for this type of printer is only 190 pages as per HP. Maybe she used the draft mode to print her documents but she never mentioned that.
HP Officejet 5255 Review – Final Verdict
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With its capability to print, copy, or scan multiple documents, the HP Officejet 5255 All-in-One Printer can be a good printer to be used at home. However, with all the issues it has for scanning and copying documents, we won’t recommend it for business owners.
We usually give a rating of pass or purchase for all the printers we review here at Printer Not Printing.
For this HP Officejet 5255 review, we will give a PASS rating.