HP F4180 Deskjet All In One Printer. Get fast everyday prints and copies at speeds up to 20 ppm black and 14 ppm color. Print worry free using an all in one built with HP award winning reliability. Count on durability and performance this all in one is made to last. Affordable printing and fewer cartridge changes with high capacity replacement inkjet cartridges. Rely on excellence PC Magazine has designated HP as a Readers Choice for 15 years in a row. Printing made simple easily print copy and scan everyday documents web pages and photos. Make copies in color or black and white without using a computer. Print what you see HP Smart Web Printing ensures you get usable web pages without cut off edges. Save paper and ink easily cancel unwanted print jobs with a one touch print cancel button. Easily edit print and share photos using included photo software starts with a one touch button. Print long lasting documents that maintain text and color quality for decades without fading. Preserve and restore documents and photos with 1200 x 2400 dpi scan resolution. Scan from books and thick materials the scan cover can be taken off and easily replaced. Print and copy 4 x 6 inch borderless photos or print with borders in sizes up to 8.5 x 11 inches. Enhance the color quality of your photos with optional 6 ink color.

• Robust and affordable all-in-one printer scanner and copier


• Enlarge and resize documents and photos plus make copies in color or black without computer


• Crystal clear scans with the 1200x2400 dpi scan resolution


• Scan pages of books and thick materials: scanner cover easily removed and replaced


• 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty

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The hp LaserJet 1200 series for business people working in the home or office features fast economical internet-enabled monochrome printing plus networking (LJ 1200n) and print copy and scan capabilities (LJ 1220) through parallel or USB ports.The hp LaserJet 1200 series allows you to print capture and manage high-quality documents at your own desk - providing the privacy and convenience you need for both PC and Mac environments.

• Home or office features fast economical internet-enabled monochrome printing plus networking (LJ 1200n)


• Print copy and scan capabilities

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Hp LaserJet 1100 Printer 2 MB RAM PageCount 32761

MODEL: C4224A

MEMORY: 2 MB RAM

PAGE COUNT: 32761

CONNECTION: PARALLEL

Power Cable: Yes Included

USB / parallel Cable: Not included.

TONER: NOT INCLUDED

CONDITION: USED/WORKING

• High-performance print functions for all your office printing needs


• It quickly prints professional-looking documents at 8 pages per minute with true 600 dpi HP Resolution Enhancement technology


• It utilizes REt and the HP UltraPrecise toner cartridges


• It prints the business documents you need with 2 MB standard memory


• The printer supports alternative paper paths for a wide variety of print media

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Hp Officejet 5610 All-In-One W/Fax

• All-in-one thermal inkjet unit prints scans faxes and copies


• Print and copy speeds of up to 20 ppm black & white and 13 ppm color


• Built-in scanner scans images in 48-bit color at up to 1200 dpi


• 100-sheet paper tray and 25-sheet automatic document feeder


• Measures 17.13 x 16.46 x 9.25 inches; weighs 13 pounds; 1-year limited warranty

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Want a multifunction color printer that offers the convenience of wireless networking? Our Officejet 6500 is right for all your small-office printing faxing copying and scanning. You'll get professional-quality color at up to 40% lower color cost per page and using less energy than laser printers. And you'll be able to scan photos and documents (up to legal size) directly into folders no PC required.

• Speed Up to 7 ppm Black and Color Maximum 32 ppm Black and 31 ppm Color


• 2 Line Text LCD Display and Embedded Wireless 802.11g Networking


• Color Print Color Copy Color Scan and Color Fax


• 250-Sheet Input Tray 50-Sheet Output Tray Automatic Two-Sided Printing 35-Sheet ADF


• 32 MB Memory and Processor Speed 192 MHz

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Quick Reliable Compatible

I purchased this printer through a local retailer and was debating between the HP and a similarly priced wireless printer from Brother. The replacement toner cartridges are a bit more for the HP but then again they come with the drum assembly built in. This greatly reduces maintenance and potential hardware failures.



Setup:

As for setup under Windows it's a snap. Put the CD in and follow the directions.



Under Linux (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)) the install was easy. I visited [...] web site and downloaded the drivers. From there I just followed the directions on the web page and it works like a charm.



I've not used it with a Mac but I did note that OSX is listed on the box.



Printer quality:

As for the printer itself. It has a very small footprint on the desk when the paper trays are not extended and a small one when they are. It has excellent monochrome print quality and is very fast. As with all laser printers the ink is waterproof once it's on the paper. I'd recommend it any day of the week.



The printer's body feels solid when you handle it. The input trays are similarly solid. The output tray feels a bit light but as long as you aren't abusing the tray it'll be more than sufficient.



HP Experience:

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Excellent Printer... Needs a Driver Update!

I love this printer I bought it on sale over the weekend for under $100 (couldn't resist a laser printer at that price!). I probably printed about 700 pages this weekend one of the perks of being a Grad student I suppose.



The Positives

-Prints quickly and great font quality

-The printer is SMALL smaller than my injet.

-Works great with XP and Vista (sorry No Mac to test on)



The Con

-This printer won't work with my wireless print server. The reason given is that the driver doesn't support it at this time. My workaround for the time being is to share the printer from the desktop in my office since I do most of my printing from my laptop in another room.



Hopefully that driver or a firmware upgrade to the print server (whichever comes first) comes out soon! Otherwise this is an incredible laser printer for the price!



On a side note many people in discussion forums have complained about the high cost per sheet for a laser printer (about 4 cents a page) it is still far lower than any inkjet AND the printer just came out as far as I've seen Laser cartridges (at least here on Amazon) tend to fall in price by a few dollars after the product has been out for 6 or more months. I don't see this changing for this printer as well.More detail ...

Comments on HP Officejet 8500a

I have been looking for a networked color laser printer suitable for home and small office use for some time. Then I received an ad for this printer. I was convinced to try it because of the new ink technology the relatively low cost of replacement ink cartridges and the duplex printing capability. So far I've been completely satisfied. It's easily fast enough for my use. Print quality is high. It seems to have good color accuracy; I've printed a couple of photos on high quality photo paper and been quite pleased. It was a breeze to install (we are a Mac household). The scan and copy functions are easy to use. Duplex printing is slow but adequate for the times it is used. I've yet to have to replace a cartridge so I can't speak to the cost per page of printing.More detail ...

In the end my printer was a dud

This is overall a very good printer. I like the built in duplex scanner and printer; it scans 2 sided documents without the need to flip it as well as prints 2 sided. The only drawback is that there is a brief 10 second or so pause after printing one side to allow the ink to dry.



I would give this product a 5 star rating but lowered it by 2 for two reasons.



Reason 1:



I question the quality of this printer. My first one was defective. It had two problems.



First the key pad would not function properly. It ignored about every other key press and that was when pressing them normally. Pressing the buttons quickly such as to scroll down a menu would result in only a few buttons being recognized if any. Going through the menu with this defect was a chore. I checked the display model at a store which did not have that problem. This defect appeared to affect all the buttons.



Second the printer registered the ink as installed on December 2008 even though it was installed in May 2009. This did not affect the ink warranty however.



My replacement printer operated normally. The keypad recognized all the buttons. I was able to quickly work my way through the menus. The ink showed it was installed in May 2009. However the connection piece in the back that connects everything (power cable phone Ethernet USB etc.) does not appear to be tightly connected to the printer housing (not a big deal).



Reason 2:



In choosing my new printer I was looking for a low cost printer to do black and white printouts to replace my old HP laser 4si. The replacement black ink cost appears to be much more expensive when compared to the HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless all in one model. This printer uses the 564XL black ink which is good for only about 800 pages. The 8500 all in one uses the 940XL black ink which is good for about 2200 pages nearly 3 times more yet they cost about the same when purchased from Amazon. It would appear the price per page for black ink is more than double the cost of the 8500 model.



The color inks appear to have the same per page cost between this model and the 8500 when purchased through Amazon. The inks for this printer have about 1/2 the page capacity but are also about 1/2 the price.



While I prefer the 8500 models black ink cost I decided against that higher end model because of an annoying high pitch noise it emits from where the power cable connects (at least from the one I took home as well as from several store displays).



Good Quality Photos:



The photos look great on HP glossy paper. Looking at them they would appear to come from a photo lab there was no graininess. I never believed Ink Jets could print such beautiful images. However when I printed them through Windows Vista photo gallery they came out too red. I adjusted the magenta down and increased the cyan and yellow. I still wasn't happy with the results. When I printed them through the HP Digital Imaging Monitor and selected Auto Photo Fix under advanced options the colors appeared to print correctly under the default settings. So I am guessing in the future I will need to print all my pictures via the HP Digital Imaging Monitor.



Follow up on 6/17/09 (Revised from 6/7/09 to correct saturation and color tone)



I recommend turning off Auto Photo Fix because it doesn't seem to work correctly on all photos. Instead I have created a new setting. I use Bright -6 Saturation 0 (neutral) Color Tone -30 (cool) Cyan 12 Magenta -8 Yellow 5 and Black 0. I print on HP photo paper with the automatic settings and run this through the Photosmart software. The default color settings (zero on all) were way off extremely red and too warm.



The above settings produce amazing lab quality results.



You can move the picture up and down in the HP Photosmart Essential software to crop it as well.



Follow up on 9/2/09



I have had several issues with this printer which I was able to correct:



1) The auto paper feeder would not feed the paper through after a couple of sheets. HP support gave me some documentation how to clean the rollers and that resolved the problem



2) Using Vista 64 bit software the printer frequently sent my computer a connection error when scanning documents. A July 2009 update on HP's website corrected that problem. It is a firmware update that I highly recommend.



3) The fax would not work with my Comcast ISP phone service. Per HP's website a solution is to lower the connection speed; I set mine at the lowest 9600 and the fax now works perfectly using Comcast's ISP service.



I noticed a big difference between this HP printer and my former Epson printers. When my Epson printers thought the ink was empty that was it the printers stopped working. This HP printer on the other hand gives frequent notices when it thinks the ink is empty but doesn't shut down the printer. I have gone through all my cartridges at least once some twice using XL cartridges (I have used the printer a lot) and have ignored the warnings. I wait until I can visually see that the color is gone on my print outs. Replacing the totally empty cartridge with a level one cleaning does the job. The ink indicator is fairly inaccurate from my experience and I can use the cartridges much longer than what the printer thinks I have.



I don't recommend a level two cleaning unless needed as that uses up lots of ink.



I am still very happy with this printer.



Follow up on 10/5/09



I noticed this printer sometimes cuts the bottom line on some of my printouts. After searching the HP forums for awhile I found a fix. If this also happens to you go to your control panel select printer right click on HP Photosmart C309a series and chose properties go to tab ports and uncheck the box that states Enable bidirectional support which is towards the bottom.



Follow up on 10/30/09



I installed Windows 7 on my system initially as an upgrade. The HP Solution Center no longer worked. I also had issues with other software (non HP software) so I did a clean install of Windows 7. The HP website has Windows 7 software for this printer which I have installed and so far appears to work fine. I suggest that if you install Windows 7 you might want to uninstall all the HP software prior to the upgrade and then install the updated Windows 7 HP printer software.



The other thing is that bidirectional support was re-enabled causing some of my print outs to cut-off at the bottom. The printer was not listed in devices and printers. To remove bi-directional support you can open up Internet Explorer and select print from the menu. Under select printer highlight HP Photosmart 309a Series and right click it and select properties. Go to the tab ports and uncheck the box that states Enable bidirectional support which is towards the bottom and click OK. The system will save the setting even if re-booted.



Follow up on 11/12/2009



I am not happy. I noticed some discoloration on my table right next to the printer. I lifted the printer and saw a tremendous amount of ink on my table underneath the printer. I have never seen an inkjet do this before. Needless to say my small table is permanently damaged. I have returned this to the store I bought it at and replaced it with a Canon Pixma MX860. I decided against getting a third HP Photosmart. I haven't read any other complaints with the printer leaking ink so I will leave my rating at 3 stars.More detail ...

Well-suited for the home or the home office

I thought I would make what is normally the conclusion the beginning section because not everyone may have the time or the disposition to go through all these paragraphs unless actually interested in making a purchase. I am providing more detail that should support my conclusions AFTER the evaluation section.





Evaluation

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The reviewed unit meets the claim of it being a all-in-one solution. While it is not likely that any individual user would take advantage of all its features on a regular basis it is reassuring to know that the features are there. The supplied software and the printer's own console interface allow for a tremenduous amount of flexibility and customization. Some of the more advanced features will require an above-average level of computer expertise but even without a lot of customization this will be a useful worthy printing/faxing/copying/scanning appliance.



While the superior quality of output would make this printer a good 'small office' candidate its speed would probably disqualify it if the small office was doing any significant amount printing. I provided some personal benchmarks so that any prospective small business buyer could decide. As a 'home' printer this comes as close to perfect as they come. I will be using it as a home printer so please do interpret my rating within that context.



A minor observation regarding 'design'. I found it interesting that some of the functions available on the touch screen are duplicated on physical buttons on the printer's console. This was striking because I actually saw this model for sale at New York's Fifth Ave. Apple store. It immediately occured to me that an Apple designer would have none of those buttons if allowed to redesign the product. This is not criticism it's only an observation also prompted by the fact that for example when specifying the number of copies to be printed I could NOT use the physical number pad but had to punch the number on the virtual keypad displayed on the touch screen.



The strong almost violent shaking the printer brings itself to when not on a perfectly steady surface was a little disturbing to me. I have little doubt that if improperly placed the printer would quickly lose its printheads alignment and it might even experience other technical trouble.



Finally I am happy that the HP Tech support solved my Vista-related problem but it would have been better if a printer that was manufatured only a few days before I received it had an updated CD or at least a flyer advising Vista users how to obtain the updated driver.



Considering all of the above the this printer gets a strong very positive 4 stars.



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First impressions

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The HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-In-One Printer integrates print copy fax scan document and photo-processing functions. HP supplies the printer itself 'starter' ink cartridges print heads and a phone wire. Ethernet or USB cables are not included. Thin manuals are provided for wireless and FAX setup. A quick installation poster is provided as well. The full 300+ manual can be downloaded from the HP site. The CD has drivers for the several supported Operating Systems and a number of additional applications such as OCR (optical character recognition).



Besides the Ethernet and USB ports other physical IO include 2 telephone jacks in the back and slots for several types of memory cards in the front. The printer can be controlled from a PC or directly through a touch-screen color display and several buttons that generally duplicate options on the menus available through the touch-screen interface. To satisfy energy saving concerns the printer goes to sleep if not used for a while but it can be reactivated by either touching the screen or one of the buttons or remotely from a networked workstation.





Software

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Drivers are available for the most recent flavors of Windows (Vista XP 2000) and for the Mac. It can be configured to either a local printer connected to a PC via a USB cable or as a network printer wired (Ethernet) or wireless (802.11g). Another option (not tested by me) would be for one PC to connect the printer via USB and then share it over the network. I experienced problems installing the Vista drivers but HP's tech support addressed it by replacing the CD-supplied drivers with a version available at HP's site.



While installing the drivers HP will also install a number of applications and services. Of these the HP Solutions Center is the most versatile. It monitors the printer's status including the ink levels and allows for configuring printing scanning faxing and other capabilities such as the forwarding of documents to network folders (tested) or to email (not tested yet). In addition the home page can be used to control fax and scan operations to convert a graphic image to text and to launch other applications such as the HP Photosmart Essential. I posted images of the Home and Configuration screens.



I did not fully test the Photosmart Essential application yet but I expect it to meet most basic photo management and printing needs and perhaps more.



If staying with the defaults at drivers installation HP will install other generally unneeded or unwelcome applications and services. One of them the HP Customer Participation Program seems to be taking hundreds of megabytes but not doing anything useful from the end-user's point of view. I found Web discussions indicating that the 'program' was guilty of a memory leak. I removed it. Another unwelcome (to me) addition is the 'Yahoo Toolbar' to my Internet Explorer which I don't use anyway. This was done without asking for my permission. I had to use Vista's Control Panel to remove it after the fact.



Finally one 'glitch' that occured after my initial installation from the supplied HP disk had a pop-up constantly telling me that the "HP product assistant" had to be installed or updated and asking me to provide a path. Providing the path for the requested file which I found burried 3 levels deep inside the supplied CD was not helping and the cycle kept repeating endlessly. Some Web research revealed that this was a common problem and there were not many known solutions. I was able to find at the HP site a utility that tried to remove all HP drivers software from my PC but 4 reboots later and after re-installing the drivers the popup returned. A call to the HP support was answered and a technician was able to address the problem after taking over my computer performing the 'cleanup' job that I tried myself and then installing an updated version of the drivers downloaded from the HP site. The file name for Vista 32-bit is OJP8500vA909_Full_12.exe. I will post an image showing how to get to the drivers from the HP Solution Center. The HP suppport remediation completed after about 2 hours. The HP technician stated that 'only Vista' installations experience this problem. XP or Mac users should be safe.



Print

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Ink-jet printing outputs clean documents even on the 'normal' resolution. Printouts can be either color or black and white one-sided or two-sided. Print quality can be set to anything form 'general everyday printing' to presentation photo-quality or to ink-saving 'fast/economical printing'. The supplied paper tray can be loaded with up to 250 sheets up to 'legal' size. One-sided print speed is adequate but duplex printing can be quite slow.



The print operation appears to involved a great deal of physical movement inside the printer. If placed on anything but a very steady platform the printer tends to swing quite violently from left to right and back. This had me concerned enough to move it from its initial location.



Copy

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The copy function allows for anything from one-sided/one-sided to two-sided/two-sided copies. As in the case of printing two-sided copies are much slower to produce. The copy quality is good enough to make the copy almost indistinguishable from the original.



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I did not fully test the FAX capabilities but it's worth menioning that a lot of flexibility is provided including the ability to direct the faxes to a network folder (which I did test with the scan function) rather than having them printed. It is also possible to block 'junk' faxes by maintaining a list of the offending phone numbers.



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As a scanner one can file the output to any of up to 10 preset network folders or if when the scanning process is initiated from a PC output can be directed to a designated user's local folder. Scanned documents can be translated to text via the integrated OCR function. My experiment with a printed document produced with Microsoft Word returned 100% accuracy for content but as expected the formatting (headers footers margins) was not properly handled.



Photo processing

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Photo processing can be controlled either at the console and the interactive touch screen interface does allow for some flexibility. Input is provided by inserting one of the supported memory devices containing pictures (MMC SD CF XD MS/DUO or USB). Some crude cropping and sizing is available as well as color processing - sepia or gray scale prints can be produced and the colors can be manipulated to be darker or lighter. The more flexible solution and the one more likely to be used is via the provided HP Photosmart Essential application. Either through the touch screen interface or via HP Photosmart the printer can be configured to use photo paper from either HP or 'other' manufacturers. Inks more suitable for photo printing are available from HP but the quality of prints that I produced with the supplied ink on Canon Photo Paper Pro was satisfactory.



Document Management

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I did not test the claimed document management capabilities yet.



Support

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I was satisfied with the quality of support provided. After a slow start (20 minutes) where the Help Desk person asked many questions related to my identity the printer's identity and the nature of the problem I was forwarded to a technician that was able to actually solve my problem (see above under 'software'). It's hard to tell whether the better than expected support came because I mentioned that I was in the process of reviewing the printer on behalf of a known vendor.



In addition the HP Web sites provide a lot of material including updated drivers and the full manual which I still have to print.





Benchmarks

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I am including a few personal benchmarks with the hope that they might help someone make the right decision when it comes to purchase a home-printer or a small office printer.



- Printing



Was done on 10 pages of a Microsoft document that had some graphics and some color. The print quality was set to 'General everyday printing'.



10 pages (10 sheets) one sided - 56 seconds.

10 pages (5 sheets) duplex - 2 minutes 56 seconds.



- Copying



Set to 'color' 'General everyday printing' quality.



1 page 1 copy 1-1 side - 24 seconds.

1 page 5 copies 1-1 side - 1 minute 6 seconds.

5 pages 1 copy 1-1 side (5 sheets) - 1 minute 22 seconds.

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No driver for Snow Leopard 10.6

I purchased this printer 6 months ago and it has been a good solid printer. Recently I upgraded my iMac to Snow Leopard OS 10.6 and realized just about every driver for HP products is available except the P2035 and a handful of others. HP is working on a driver for Snow Leopard but does not have a date yet. If you have a iMac running Snow Leopard heads up!!!More detail ...

Other than scanning very nice

The first thing I learned when I put the HP 4680 on line was that the old usb cable I had from my evidently crippled HP 1210 had failed. I didn't even know that usb cables could do that but the 4680 couldn't 'see' the connection using the old cable. When I purchased and attached the new cable the 4680 then went righ along very well.

Incidently my curiosity was eating me alive as to whether all this time the cable could be the problem with my old HP 1210. Turns out it was and the old printer was once again functioning. With it now resurrected I began to question whether I really needed the new 4680. Still it was pretty nice with the little LCD screen & all - so I put it on line.

Two days later my wife was attempting to scan a page not using the computer and it would not saying instead try scanning from the computer. So - went to the HP Solutions Center program and again it would not and gave some sort of 'disconnect' error code.

Yesterday I spent over two hours with HP tech support and really they were very polite worked hard reinstalled the software installed other software etc. and still could not get it to scan as indicated in the manual. The tech guy DID discover however that it would scan using Microsoft Windows Gallery under the heading of 'Insert' 'Scan'. So we then knew that the scanner really works just not using the software from HP at least so far.

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Can be made wireless through wifi router connection

I've had this printer driver installed twice.. first time on computer #1 driver on the CD took forever to load! For computer #2 I went to the HP site (per one reviewer's suggestion) and installed the smallest "for IT professionals only" version and found I could not use the scan function with that slimmed-down driver.



I finally figured out I had to load the full-feature English only 191MB driver using the custom install option (left out the Photosmart HP Purchasing). To disable the incessant looping Update nag message window on machine after reboot I deleted the HP Update application (via Add/Remove utility) afterwards. I agree HP software is rather crappy and bloated but the HP printers have been more reliable than other brands I've used. I bought the 6500 to replace my 6 year old HP PSC 1210 that died after years of heavy use. Before that I bought the HP Deskjet 500 that still works after 20 years. I hope this machines lasts awhile as well.



I'm surprised this newer-model printer isn't faster than my old printer (equally noisy to my 1210) but the scanner is improved - more adjustment options decent resolution. I wanted the flatbed copying and sheet feeder capabilities for my next multi-function machine and this one does the job adequately.



Had a power outage recently and was concerned that since I didn't power off via the button on the printer it might screw up the settings.. but there was no issue. It worked fine after power was restored without me having to make any adjustments.



Now if I can only figure out how to avoid paying an arm and two legs for those ink refills! For most documents I set the print resolution to "Fast Draft" to make the ink cartridge last longer.



Addendum (5/16/10): Ignore the "empty cartridge" alert on the machine. The final warning will stop the print jobs from proceeding. Just take that ink cartridge out and re-install it back into the machine. This will override the "out of ink" status. You'll get at least another 20 pages before the ink cartridge is actually empty.



Found out Walgreens cannot refill these ink cartridges: [...] I could try my luck with ink refill kits.

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Had to return the first one

I did a ton of research and finally decided to go with this unit despite no reviews at the time. Installation was a breeze (using Mac OS X) except for one part where it asks you to set up a print queue. After doing so it didn't recognize it after multiple attempts. I finally decided to click past that step and it worked fine anyway.



We printed about a dozen photos over the first three days. On day 4 the printer booted up and slammed the print cartridge hard to the left then came up with a "Carriage Jam" error. The nice thing about the touch screen is that it also visually walks you through pictures of the areas that you need to check for paper jams etc.. Alas after going through every trouble shooting step provided it didn't solve the problem.



We returned it to Amazon (Very hassle free I might add--can't fault them a bit) and decided to try a second one since we did like the features. I was glad to see that Amazon ships you another even before you return the defective one. So far this one is working fine although it's only been a couple of days.



Our last HP was probably 4 years old. I have to say the print speed on this one is amazingly fast by comparison. I'm impressed it can print a 4x6 photo as fast as it does. Copy and scan work well too although I've found I have to initiate scanning from the Mac. Didn't seem to work if I tried to use the touchscreen to scan. I was pleased how easy they make choosing options with scanning. You can scan a document straight to PDF JPEG TIFF Memory Card USB drive OCR...



Overall it does seem as though this printer is very well made. It's also great having a tray for both paper and 4x6 photos. Unlike so many printer reviews it doesn't appear as though this printer is burning through much ink at all.



Although I would definitely recommend it I can't give it 5 stars due to the issues mentioned above.



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The All-In-One That Does it All

If you're looking for a printer with all the latest technologies check out the HP Officejet 6500 Wireless. Keep in mind that HP makes two 6500 models--one is wireless and one is not. This is the wireless model. With copy scan print and fax functions this all-in-one is a real workhorse.



Fast speed (up to 31 ppm) and extremely easy to use. The setup function is all done via software--you don't even need to touch the 6500's keypad controls. It links directly to your System Preferences control panel making the wireless and fax settings easy. It uses 4 separate color inks so you can control your print costs when only a single color needs to be replaced.



Main drawback is HP's decision to only include a 2-line text display. For a printer in this price range HP should have included a 2.5" color LCD screen. If you're looking for a multifunction machine that does it all seriously consider the HP 6500 Wireless.More detail ...