Level up your campaigns with HP printers: essential equipment for gamers and storytellers

Come with us, adventurer, and we’ll show you things your imagination could scarcely comprehend. Through the mists of the enchanted forest of Eboyah, you glimpse a shape, sleek and white against the lush vegetation. It has all manner of doors, slots, and flaps to explore. LEDs sparkle like jewels embedded in its carapace. And it emanates a strange energy you find irresistible.

It is... a printer. Specifically, an HP printer from the eBuyer online store.

Yes, strange as it may seem on a PC-focused website, the humble printer is an essential inventory item if you’re interested in a different type of gaming, the kind that requires paper, dice and furniture. A tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) is a collaborative storytelling experience in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting, often fantasy-based. Guided by a set of rules and dice rolls, as well as the whims and humour of the game master, players work together to navigate adventures, solve challenges, and shape the story. Popular examples include Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, but there are a plethora of independently produced games to explore too.

The game master, or dungeon master, creates the world the game takes place in, often working from source material from a book or printed out from digital files. As great as reading a PDF on a laptop or tablet can be, working from printed material not only feels more appropriate, as TTRPGs have a long history of appearing on paper, but allows the creation of maps, handouts, character sheets and campaign notes that enhance the experience for the players and increase their immersion in the story.

Print scrolls, grimoires and “help wanted” notices

High-quality printing is therefore essential for any dungeon master, and HP’s wide range of printers offer exactly this. If your item cards need to be colourful and your character rundowns sharply defined, then you want a colour inkjet printer that can cope with the strongest fighters and sneakiest rogues without producing the kind of blurry mess you’d expect after a night out with some bards.

The mists part, and the HP OfficeJet Pro HP 9730e enters the arena. This is high-performance hardware, with the ability to scan and copy as well as print any file you send it. When ploughing through tomes of lore, dungeon masters will appreciate the ability to print up to 22 pages per minute, and the automatic double-sided printing too, as wizards hate inefficiency. It’s a wireless printer, with HP’s most reliable Wi-Fi connection that will automatically reconnect if it loses touch with your network, and can handle pages up to A3 in size, so you’ll be able to produce realistic wanted posters for your party’s rogue or a detailed map of the area you’re exploring.

Sign up for Instant Ink and print more of what you love for less

A huge benefit of choosing an HP printer is the Instant Ink service. When you first set up your new purchase activating HP+ you will get three months of Instant Ink for free. After that, your subscription continues, and your printer will call for reinforcements whenever it’s running out of ink, and new cartridges are delivered to your door quickly and conveniently at a low monthly cost, so you can print as much as you need without breaking your budget.

And as Instant Ink is based on monthly page plans, it costs the same to print a full page of colour as it does black and white.

Should an A3 printer be too large for your requirements, consider the HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e instead. This wireless colour inkjet from the world’s #1 printer company offers the same triple threat as its larger cousin, and can scan and copy in addition to printing out pages of text and graphics up to a very respectable 22 pages per minute. A4 is plenty large enough for character sheets and handouts, and with HP’s legendary print quality, the ability to print at up to 4800 x 1200 optimised dpi on HP Advance Photo Paper, and an Instant Ink subscription making sure you never run out of cartridges, nothing can stop you.

Not everyone is a dragon sleeping atop his horde of gold, however, and there are even more keenly priced options in the HP range that can deliver the high standards you expect for less initial outlay. Take the HP OfficeJet Pro 8125e - a wireless all-in-one printer with a price tag bound to delight. It’s quiet, reliable, and capable of producing excellent results at up to 20 ppm.

With options for wide-format printing, fast outputs, and vibrant colour accuracy, HP printers such as the OfficeJet Pro series are designed for creative minds and busy dungeon masters alike. Whether you’re a complete beginner or a seasoned DM, you’ll love the way an HP printer can help bring your adventures to life. Warriors, mages and monks deserve more than a screen to guide them through the wilderness, and HP’s professional-quality output can bring your world to life.