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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - A909g (CB794A#1H3)

HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One BUNDLE EDITION - print, fax, scan, copy. Bundle includes USB Cable. This HP Officejet Pro All-in-One consumes up to 50% less energy than color laser all-in-ones. Significantly reduce energy when using this HP All-in-One instead of four separate products. Greatly reduce paper use and costs by up to 50% by printing on both sides of the paper with two-sided printing.

Brand: HP Model: CB794A#1H3 Cut color print costs per page up to 50% over lasers, reduce energy use and go wireless. Speeds equivalent to a laser printer with up to 15 ppm black, 11 ppm color. Share your all-in-one easily and use resources more efficiently with wireless 802.11g networking. Save time and get high-quality results with automatic two-sided prints, faxes, scans and copies. Copy and scan documents up to 8.5 x 14-inches on the legal-size scan glass.

Most helpful customer reviews 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Great machine, but CHEWS through ink cartridges $$$ By Ellen Beebee We love this printer and haven't had a problem with it. Makes great scans, was easy to network in and run wirelessly, prints well and reasonably fast, good fax. BUT it chows ink cartridges AND it uses the color cartridges even when you are only printing in black, which is very strange to me. My magenta is almost gone, but I haven't printed more than one small color doc ( a coupon!) in ages. Always print black. Something's fishy. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Much more expensive to operate than PC World magazine's reviews say By Bart L. Schairer After reading numerous reviews in PC World that rated the HP 8500 wireless All-in-One as one of the best printers around we decided to buy one. One of the key selling points in PC World's review was that the cost of ink was very low for this printer - so we thought that the $400 price (in January 2010) would be worth it. Were we ever wrong!Pros:The print quality is very good. The page per minute rate is excellent. The wireless makes it easy to set up for all the computers in the house. It makes wonderful copies and scans well. We never used the fax function but that could be really handy if you needed that.Cons:The ink cartridges for this printer are VERY expensive! And even if you only print in black the printer uses a bit of color to 'maintain print quality' with every print, so you use color ink anyway. Worst of all is that if any of the 4 ink cartridges run dry you CANNOT PRINT ANYTHING - even if you're trying to print in black only! So you have to keep $100-$200 worth of ink on hand at all times or you're out of business! Forget printing envelopes with this printer - you might as well hand write them, because it WON'T feed them straight even if you try guiding them in by hand.AND that isn't even the worst of it! Just after the 1 year warranty ran out the cyan ink tube kinked and cracked, leaking blue ink all over the printer. You wouldn't think this would be a big deal - I thought I might even take it apart and replace the tube myself. But I thought I'd contact HP first to see what they'd say before I messed it up...They had me search for a local repair 'partner'. I found one, called them, and was told they only repair the laserjets and that my All-in-One Officejet is unserviceable. HP is offering me an 'upgrade option' where I trade this one in for a refurbished one at a discounted price, but my wife has since bought an HP 110 Photosmart ($75 online, shipping included) that doesn't use as much ink and has much cheaper ink cartridges. I may just stick with the 110 and pull my 8500 apart (it's basically worthless anyway) and see if I can put a new plastic tube on it and get it to work.This all has me very upset because I'm STILL using my HP 722C from 15 years ago on my old PC and it works GREAT! I can't use it on my new PC because new PCs don't come with parallel ports anymore.I've never had problems with an HP printer before, but I can't really recommend this one. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A great paperweight By Chris M. I've had this printer for 14 months now and this product is an embarrassment to HP. Here are what I've found for pros and cons:Pros:1) When the wireless works (see #3 below), it's great. Print and scan over my home network!Cons:1) It's on a constant ink bender - I use this for a home office and buy XL cartridges every other month.2) Startup and shutdown times are incredibly long and there's a printhead cleaning with every startup (see #1 above).3) There's been an ongoing issue where the computer cannot find the printer over my home wireless network. The only solution to this is completely uninstalling the software and reinstalling it. This week, with the warranty recently expired, the WiFi card in the printer has completely stopped working and I now have a big paperweight.4)

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