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With brilliant document quality, fast printing and low ink costs, the Officejet Pro 8500 is an ideal Business Buy. It's expensive to buy but cost-effective to run. It's also power efficient, as it draws just 35W while active. Print costs are indeed among the lowest we've seen, at just 0.9p per sheet of mono A4 and 3.5p per mixed colour page. The touchscreen does not respond when you try to use the printer.
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This document is for HP Officejet Pro 8500 (A909g,h,n) and Officejet Pro 8500A (A910a,d,g,k,n) All-in-One printers. HP claims that the 8500 can print at half the cost of a colour laser, while producing prints of a similar quality. HP Officejet Pro 8500 Printers - The Touchscreen Does Not Respond. Fortunately, you can configure it to scan files to a designated format and location at the touch of a button on the device itself, which is far more convenient.
#HP OFFICEJET PRO 8500 INKT SOFTWARE#
The scanner's software interface is poor, with key settings buried several mouse clicks away.
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However, photo prints suffered from poor shading and visible dithering. Colour print quality was outstanding, even on cheap 80gsm paper, while thicker media produced even better results. It prints at 15.6ppm, and its colour print speed of 5.2ppm exceeded every colour printer here except for Lexmark's X544dn laser. The Officejet produces mono text prints that rival those of most laser printers. Irritatingly, we couldn't find a way to switch the default Letter paper size to A4 using Windows' printer preferences or the printer's onscreen menus and web interface. The first time it's switched on, the printer takes about half an hour to charge its ink reservoirs, align its print heads and auto-initialise. The heads are easy to replace if they become blocked. Its separate print heads reduce costs, as headless ink cartridges are cheaper to produce. It's the only inkjet here to provide a duty cycle figure at 15,000 pages, it's on a par with more expensive laser printers. It has a comprehensive web interface, automatic duplexer, 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11b/g wireless, a 250-sheet paper tray and a 3?in touch screen. A page containing all four colors would cost a mere 7.3 cents.HP's Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless is far more expensive than the other inkjets here, but it's designed to compete with colour laser MFPs. But the economic picture gets even brighter with the high-yield cartridges: A 2200-page black cartridge costs $36 (1.6 cents per page), while each 1400-page color cartridges costs $26 (1.9 cents per color per page). A page printed with all four colors would cost just 9.3 cents. The machine ships with a 1000-page black cartridge priced at $26 (2.6 cents per page), and three 900-page cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges for $20 (2.2 cents per color per page). The icing on the OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One’s substantial cake is its incredibly low ink pricing. On HP’s own paper, the images tended to be slightly dark but very smooth. Photos and graphics appeared grainy but had natural colors on plain paper. Text output looked black and fairly crisp. In our tests conducted at the MFP’s default settings, it printed text pages at 15.6 ppm and graphics pages at 4.5 ppm–far short of the company’s promises, but plenty fast nonetheless. I advise you to take HP’s speed claims with a grain of salt: The unit’s 35-page-per-minute text speed and 34-ppm graphics speed are possible only in draft mode.