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At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Overnice design and output quality
Mobile, including battery and Bluetooth

Cons

Rather slow 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-One show is steep, and it gets steeper when you take ink costs into account. If yous're willing to ante upward, though, you get a unique, cleverly designed, easy-to-apply color inkjet multifunction printer that has Bluetooth connectivity for printing from mobile phones and devices. The unit of measurement'south printing and scanning output are tiptop-notch.

The Officejet 150 Mobile connects via USB or Bluetooth. Peradventure there wasn't room, simply nosotros wish that information technology supported Wi-Fi for AirPrint, ad hoc networks, and the like. Setup is easy, and the scanning and Iris OCR software are competent. HP renders the print dialog expanse nicely, providing options for transmission duplexing besides as multipage and booklet layouts.

The Officejet 150 Mobile is approximately xiv inches wide by 7 inches deep by 3.5 inches tall, and then you can fit it into larger luggage, but not into a briefcase or laptop handbag. It's not particularly light, either, at 6.8 pounds with battery. The silvery top panel pops open up and leans back to create the 50-sail rear vertical newspaper feed, and to reveal the command panel and the scanner. The control panel, which tilts upward for use, includes a 2.36-inch touchscreen with a resistive design that requires slight pressure to issue commands. The scanner consists of a slot with a few markings effectually it.

Describing an MFP'due south newspaper-handling features as fun may seem odd, just watching the Officejet 150 Mobile make a re-create is a treat. To begin, you place the original face-downwardly in the scanner feed. Press Copy on the touchscreen, and the original feeds upwardly, sliding over the paper that the auto draws down from the rear feed to produce your copy. It'south a very clever but express design: the scanner takes only 1 sheet at a time, and printed pages leave from the forepart of the unit, with no output tray to catch them.

Calling the Officejet 150 Mobile slow is putting information technology mildly, though you tin get considerably faster performance (and lower quality) in draft mode when y'all need information technology. At the MFP'south default settings, monochrome pages exit at iv.9 pages per minute on the PC and 4.half-dozen ppm on the Mac. Snapshot-size, four-past-half dozen-inch photos impress at 2.7 ppm on plain newspaper and 0.seven ppm on glossy stock. Full-folio glossy photos crawl out at 0.2 ppm. Color copies exit at about 1 ppm. Given its canvass-fed design, the machine doesn't offer scan previews, but college-resolution color scans have a very slow lxx seconds.

Offsetting its wearisome performance is the Officejet 150 Mobile's excellent output quality. Text is sharp, clear, and blackness, and monochrome gradients are handled quite nicely. Color graphics look a tad washed out when printed on obviously newspaper, but the high contrast ratio works well on glossy paper.

Ink is somewhat pricey, but cartridge yields are generous. Ane compatible cartridge is the HP 98 black, which costs $26 and lasts for 440 pages, which works out to 5.9 cents per page. But the HP 94 black cartridge has the aforementioned price and delivers a yield of 500 pages (a rate of 5.2 cents per folio).

The two tricolor cartridge options are easier to differentiate: The HP 95 costs $32 for 330 pages (9.7 cents per page); and the HP 97 costs $44 for 560 pages (vii.9 cents per folio). The cost of printing a four-color page using the cheapest 94 and 97 ink cartridges is thirteen.1 cents–a little higher than the average. For even amend photo quality, yous tin bandy out the regular blackness cartridge for the HP 99 photo cartridge, which uses low-cal cyan, low-cal 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-Ane you get manner, a clever blueprint, and skilful output quality. It'll look cool when y'all set up it downwards in front of a customer, and it's the but truly portable printer/scanner on the marketplace. But information technology costs $400, and the ink isn't cheap either. If you want a portable printer, but can do without the scanner and copier, check out the HP OfficeJet 100 Mobile or the nigh identical Canon Pixma iP100 (which we've not reviewed).

Editor'south notation: 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 electronic mail. PCWorld regrets the fault.