HP’s Envy multifunction device promises fast text and good photo printing. It can also be operated without an HP+ account – but only with restrictions.
If you want to buy the HP Envy Inspire 7220e as a family printer, you should plan a lot of storage space. There is only a front paper tray, but no rear single feeder. Since the Inspire is also supposed to print photos, HP has placed a movable carriage for photo paper up to 13×18 format in the paper tray above the plain paper. The printer clatters noisily with the carriage each time it is switched on.
The Envy Inspire only has a flatbed scanner for copying and scanning, but no document feeder. The scanner flap cannot be lifted in the hinges, which makes book scans difficult.
The designers of the Inspire have rejected the practical idea of placing the document glass flat on the upper edge of the housing so that scanned sheets can be easily pushed off the glass surface: Now you have to laboriously pluck the document from the scanner glass again because it is more than a millimeter deeper lies.
