HP X476dw Color Printer

Specification & Options

The HP Officejet Pro X476dw has USB, 10/100 Ethernet and wireless connections and with its wireless link set up – a simple matter with WPS setup – is accessible from a variety of Android and iOS devices, as well as Windows.

Although the setup cartridges provided with the printer are good for 3,000 black pages and 2,500 colour ones, the high-yield versions can provide 9,200 and 6,600 pages,  respectable page numbers for most office lasers and better than virtually all office inkjets.

HP rates the Officejet Pro X476dw at 36ppm in both black and colour. This is in what it refers to as Professional quality and the claimed speed rises to 55ppm in General Office mode. While Professional quality is very close to laser quality, with dense black text and smooth 600dpi edges, General Office  mode, which is substantially faster, is much better than a draft mode.

Text is a bit less dense, but for most purposes, it will be easily good enough, as HP says, for general office use. We measured speeds of 15ppm in Professional mode and 18.8ppm in General Office mode on our 5-page test, increasing to 24ppm on the 20-page test and 32.7ppm on the 80-page document, close to spec.

Our duplex print test gave 9.2 sides per minute and a 10-side duplex copy took 1 minute 31 seconds. A single-sided copy took 19s and a 5-page copy from the ADF finished in 45s.

The printer produces quality colour images on plain paper, with vivid graphic fills and natural photo images, it can also print on HP Advanced photo paper. 15 x 10cm images took between 26s and 47s, though the machine can’t manage borderless prints, even on this smaller size.