HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e Printer Review

The HP 9125e feels well-built. It has a sturdy plastic build and a design that allows easy access to the front maintenance bay. The scanner lid and background feel solid, though the lid's hinges are on the cheaper side and come out of their sockets rather easily. The output tray isn't particularly small, as it holds up to 60 prints; however, ink can make some pages curl up and push other prints out of the tray, resulting in out-of-order prints.

The HP 9125e doesn't need a lot of maintenance. Thanks to the printer's high page yield, you won't have to replace the ink cartridges often. You can easily access the cartridges for replacement through the front maintenance bay; just ensure the printer is on. For paper jams, you can access the sheet rollers via the front maintenance bay or by removing the input tray. The input tray holds 250 sheets of paper, which is a decent amount, so you likely won't need to refill it regularly unless you print a lot. Like all inkjet printers, the printheads can clog if you don't print for an extended period. If you experience print quality issues, there are a few built-in maintenance functions that can help resolve them, like Smear Cleaning, Printhead Cleaning, and Printhead Alignment.

See the user manual here.

The display is reasonably large. Visibility is good when looking directly at it, but not so much from the sides or above due to its poor viewing angles. Although you can adjust the tilt, the range of movement is pretty small. The interface is user-friendly and fairly responsive.

A set of ink cartridges yields a large number of prints, so you won't need to replace the cartridges often unless you print a lot. The printer warns you when the ink is low or empty. If one of the color cartridges is empty, the printer will allow you to print in black only; however, this doesn't work the other way around, meaning black ink is necessary for color printing.

The flatbed's lid hinges can technically extend to accommodate thicker items, but as mentioned in the build quality section, the mechanism feels cheap, and the hinges detach from their sockets fairly easily. The OCR (optical character recognition) is software-based, meaning you need to install the HP Scan app to use it, and you can only initiate an OCR scan from the computer.

The scan quality is very good. Colors and text look nice, though the image processing is a little too aggressive in removing finer details like the lines in the graph and the watermark. There's also an issue with the automatic feeder, as all ADF scans come out crooked, regardless of the settings used.

• Documentation
• Power cord
• Set of HP 936 starter ink cartridges:
• 1x Cyan
• 1x Magenta
• 1x Yellow
• 1x Black

The print quality of black-and-white documents is excellent. Text looks sharp, and all the finer details are present and easily visible. However, the colored areas look a bit faded, making white text within them harder to see. Like the HP OfficeJet Pro 9135e, the banding disappears when printing in the high-quality mode.

The print quality of color documents is excellent. Everything looks sharp; the only complaint is that smaller white text on a colored background can be hard to see.

The HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e's cost-per-print is excellent, thanks to its high page yield and relatively cheap ink cartridges. HP states this printer is only for use with genuine or remanufactured HP cartridges. It comes with three months of free ink via HP's ink replenishment service; however, know that if you subscribe to the service, the printer must have a continuous internet connection to function, as HP continually updates the firmware to block the use of third-party cartridges.

The posted black-only text document printing speed is when printing over Wi-Fi. It can print faster, up to 18 pages per minute, but only via a wired USB connection. Printing via a wired USB connection only increases the color document printing speed to seven pages per minute.

The HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e has an okay color gamut. It can't reproduce bright, saturated colors and replaces them with darker tones, resulting in a noticeably darker picture than the original. Its narrow color range also causes significant loss of fine details, like the parrot's feathers in the sample picture, which look almost like a single color with no texture or depth. Color transitions look grainy and uneven.

Color accuracy is okay. Printed pictures look too dark, with an overly warm tone, and blues and purples are noticeably inaccurate. If you want a printer with better color accuracy to print photos, check out the Canon PIXMA TS9520a/TS9521Ca.

This printer is mediocre at reproducing small details. While low, the print resolution isn't the only reason small details look blurry, as other printers with an identical print resolution perform far better, like the Canon PIXMA TR7820. The halftones are very prominent, softening the edges of objects, and the contrast could be better, too.

The HP 9125e can print directly off a USB flash drive; the USB port is on the right side of the printer.

The HP Smart app is feature-rich. It lets you print, scan (with a smartphone camera or with the printer), copy, fax, order supplies, and manage your ink subscription service. The Android version doesn't support Microsoft Office files, text files, and webpages, so you'll have to print them in whichever app you use to view those files.

There's no need to install drivers or apps on Chrome OS and macOS devices. You simply install the HP Smart app on Windows devices, which will automatically update the drivers.