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Looking for professional-looking printing that's also affordable? Our Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-One offers impressive results at up to 50% lower color cost per page and using less energy than with laser printers. You'll be able to print, copy, scan, and fax, plus cut your paper usage in half by printing on both sides of the page.
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Technical Details
- Maximum Print Speed 35 ppm Black/34 ppm Color, Laser Quality Up to 15 ppm Black/Up to 11 ppm Color- Built-in Ethernet Networking
- 2 Line Text LCD Display
- 250-Sheet Paper Tray, 35-Sheet Automatic Document Feeder, Automatic Two-Sided Printing
- 64 MB Memory, 384 MHz Processor Speed, and Scan Resolution Up to 2400 x 4800 dpi
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By Terry Spears (Waverly, GA)
I have had this AIO for over 6 months. It has only had 1 paper tray jam and 1 fax feeder jam. The scan is unbelieveably long but good quality. Fax is very good but you have to manually set it to black each fax. The ink doesn't go as far as my cheap old HP 6122 printer. For whatever reason, it will lock up and not respond to touch pad or on/off button. It has to be unplugged and then go through it's noisy 3 minute recalibration. It is not a simple plug and play either. I had to transfer router settings via usb thumb drive. I don't see how it rates as high as it does for editors choice awards. Mabe they just read the company hype and didn't actually use it.
By Charles Silversteinj (NYC)
I bought the 8500 Wireless to go with my imac with Snow Leopard. They are not compatible. Here is a short list of the problems. The wireless installed flawlessly for the first week. Then it stopped working & I needed to connect them by cable - but wireless worked when I used my PC Netbook. It took 2 1/2 minutes to print ONE PAGE. Given that I was printing documents, it took all day. But you have to stand right next to the printer - you can't leave it because 1) you keep getting messages that you need to load paper when there's lots of paper in the tray - but you have to push "OK." So you have to be there. Then it stops every, say 6-8 pages, in order to "Check the device." That takes a minute, after which it stops in order to clean the printheads, after which it tells you to push OK when you put more paper in the tray, plus 1 1/2 minutes for the next page! That's why you have to stand over the damn thing. The print quality is very good, but not helpful with all these problems. Then there is ink cost. I have never had to spend so much money for ink. I printed out about 600 pages, a combination of text and pictures. I used up all 4 ink cartridges that came with the machine, plus 2 yellow, magenta, and cyan XL cartridges, and 1 black XL (not quite empty). I estimate that I spent over $250 for ink in order to print those pages, a far cry from the claims of HP. Now for those of you PC people who are grinning with satisfaction, get this. When any of the cartridges go empty - at least how HP defines empty - the whole machine shuts down - regardless of Mac or PC. Kaput! You are not allowed to print anything - no text, no copies, no faxes. Dead in the water. Right now my printer says I need a new Yellow, so I can't can't B&W copies! Kaput! You won't have some of the other problems like Snow Leopard Macs, but if you use this printer you will always have to have an extra supply of every cartridge available for when the printer shuts down. Others have already commented on HP support, so I won't. If I don't get satisfaction from HP - I still believe in Santa Clause - I'll give it away. It's of no use to me.
By Phoenix (Woodville, Mass)
One minute it works, next minute it doesn't. Sometimes it even stops printing in mid stream. Sometimes it works from one computer, sometimes the other. Takes itself 'offline' - 'disconnects' itself, and the HP support (I should have learned with the previous unit we had, when there was a problem, HP was useless). I've wasted hours with this infernal machine, even had to reinstall the software on each computer.
To be clear, this is the 'wireless' version - tho it's more like the 'worthless' version.
By Orion L. Rogers (SATELLITE BEACH, FL, US)
My wife pushed for this printer, I wanted and wished I had bought the Lexmark. It worked fine for 3 weeks. It then somehow lost contact with my MacBook pro. I reloaded the supplied software at least 10 times. It is quite a job by the way. I tried to reload the software from the HP website at least 5 times. I went to online help. They tried but proved to be useless. I spent many hours back and forth with 4-5 different techs and nothing. Eventually they suggested that I nuke my hard drive and reload my operating system! Whaaaat?
Never will I fall into this trap again. Now the PC's that were working with it a little longer can no longer use it. It says paper jam and there is nothing anywhere in this printer. Extra ink carts I'll never use. What a waste of money. Don't buy this piece of junk.
By Jason Buberel (Sunnyvale, CA USA)
The printer was purchased for use in our small office of 10 users. I specifically purchased the version with a wired ethernet connection as I've found printing over WiFi to be much less reliable.
After several weeks of usage, I'm very happy with the purchase.
Setup: This went very smoothly after unpacking, attaching power and ethernet connections. The printer correctly configured an IP address using the DHCP server on our network. I then downloaded the 'Dirver only' install bundle directly from the HP driver/support website (never used the CD that came with the printer). HP supplies both MacOSX and Win7 (32 and 64 bit) drivers. All machine correctly identified the printer on the network and installed the driver correctly without hassle/error.
Scanning: We use the printer to scan business documents to PDF over the network. The sheet feeder combined with Nitro PDF Professional (PDF creation software) works perfectly for scanning long documents to PDF for archiving. This is an amazing time and labor saver.
Printing: Nothing spectacular, but then again we're just printing business documents not photos or glossy brochures. Printer speed if fine.
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