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Print from any room without using cables Built-in Wired Networking Share your printer with multiple people Two-sided Printing Save paper by printing on both sides automatically Memory Card Slots Print photos without using a PC Color LCD Screen Edit photos and/or manage your printer easily 4 x 6 Color Photo Printing Print brilliant photos for albums or to enhance business documents Auto Document Feeder Fax, scan and copy multiple pages automatically
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67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer N911a,
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This review is from: HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-On Wireless Color Printer with Scanner, Copier & Fax (Office Product)
HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer N911aI had an HP Officejet R40 printer for over 14 years, and it finally broke. After considerable research, I replaced it with the HP Officejet Pro 8600. There are "Plus" and "Premium" models of the 8600, but I got the cheapest. As far as I could tell, the Plus and Premium models did not have much to offer that I cared about - a higher capacity document feeder, a larger touch screen, and a second paper tray. I was pretty happy with the R40, and I thought that 14 years was pretty good for a printer. I print less that 1000 sheets a year, I think. So I was predisposed to get another HP. They have "Photosmart" printers that allow you to edit photos on the printer, but I am happy to do my editing on my computer using Picasa. The 8600 does have slots for inserting several types of memory cards (SD, Memory Stick Pro Duo, etc.), which would be handy for photos. The Officejet 8600 does lots more than the R40 did, so it is just as well that I had to get a new printer. Apparently this model replaces the HP Officejet Pro 8500, which was rated in PC World and Consumer Reports in December, 2011. PC World gave the 8500 four stars out of five, and rated it number one in their list of ten multifunction printers. They said the ink costs 1.6 cents for black and 7.2 cents for four colors, per page. The other printers cost two or three times as much for ink. Consumers Reports gives it a "Best Buy" check and rates it "very good" in all areas (quality and speed). I bought the 8600 model, and I believe it is essentially the same as the 8500. The printer uses a black HP 950 ink cartridge and three HP 951 color cartridges (cyan, magenta, and yellow), so you can just replace the cartridge that is empty. The cartridges come in standard capacity and XL high capacity, but the high capacity cartridges may be hard to find - my local Walmart didn't have them and the Best Buy salesman said that they don't always have them. The high capacity cartridges have way more ink and cost only a little more, according to the Best Buy salesman. During installation I hit some speed bumps but I was able to resolve the problems reasonably easily. I have a desktop computer, a laptop, and a Linksys wifi router. Both are about four years old and run Windows Vista Home Premium. The first decision was how to connect the printer to the desktop. It turns out that for my setup, it is best to not connect the desktop to the printer at all. The printer has wifi, and my desktop has an Ethernet connection to the router, so they are connected through the network. Given this setup, it is best to not connect the desktop to the printer via the USB ports. And it is better not to use Ethernet to connect the printer to the router. As I understand the documentation, an Ethernet connection (or USB connection) to the printer would disable the wifi capability, which would be bad for my laptop. I thought the documentation could have more clear, but I think I figured out the optimal solution and it is working fine. I ran the included CD on the desktop and it installed without a problem, and I was able to print and scan. Now, how to install the printer on the laptop. The documentation does not discuss how to install the printer on a second (or more) computer. My first (wrong) guess was to find the printer in Windows Explorer, right-click on it, and select `install'. I did this, and it was unsuccessful. I tried the CD, and that didn't work. One of the failure screens guided me to an HP web site that had a help file to download. The help file had a convenient button to launch msconfig, and instructions to disable some startup programs and services, and reboot. The help file had a button that sent me to an HP download site to download the latest version of the printer software. I downloaded it, ran it, restored the startup programs and services that had been previously disabled, and rebooted. Now everything was fine. Printing from the laptop over wifi works great. We have an iPod Touch, and we can print from it using the Airprint protocol. The iPod did not require any installation or setup of any kind - it just prints, since I had already set up the wifi on the printer. Some people might think that I had quite a hassle installing the printer on the laptop; I wasn't bothered by it too much. I think if the quick-start documentation had just a little more information, I might have gotten it all done the first time without having to get the help file. I have tried the scanner and it works fine. Launch the HP Scan application and it gives you a choice of PDF, JPEG, or Editable Text (OCR). OCR means optical character reader - scan a page of printed text and it recognizes each character and saves everything as text characters, and you can save the document as TXT or RTF (rich text format.) (This paragraph edited 1/29/2012.) I have not tried the FAX. I don't have much reason to use a FAX, and don't even know who I would send a FAX to as a test. The documentation makes kind of a big deal about using the provided "special" telephone line to connect to the phone outlet. I don't know why an "ordinary" telephone line wouldn't work. I printed a color picture on 4 x 6 inch HP Everyday Photo Paper, and it looks very good. If the installation had been flawless, I would have given five stars.
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great printer,
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This review is from: HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-On Wireless Color Printer with Scanner, Copier & Fax (Office Product)
The printer was very easy and fast to set up. It is a dream compared to the old HP printer that I had replaced for setup and ease of use. My primary use is for printing, scanning and copying on standard paper and it is one of the easiest to set up and use that I have found. I did compare this printer with the HP7510 (which is the same price) at a store and chose this one because it has the ability to fax, has the ability to use an ethernet cable (unlike many of the newer wireless printers) and because the ink for this printer was almost 40% less than the HP7510 (assuming the page volumes for the ink cartridges are comparable). The only difficulties that I have had was the eprint setup took several attempts. Not sure if this was a problem with the printer or a problem with the webservice. However, the printer seemed to lock up during this process. After turning the printer on/off and retrying several times, it finally did complete and printout a code to enter into the eprint service setup. The webservice then allows one to choose your printer's email address. The manual was not particularly helpful in giving instructions on how to complete this process. The eApps are cool. The second issue that I had with this printer is the double sided printing feature. The manual again was not particularly helpful. After inserting the duplexer, one must also ensure that it is enabled under the customize settings/device settings section as well as choosing a double sided option under the properties when printing. However, I still have occasions when printing from pdf files where the printer only prints single sided. Another note is that the document feeder on top with the scanner is only able to scan single sided. However, I am very impressed by this product thus far!
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent product,
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This review is from: HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-On Wireless Color Printer with Scanner, Copier & Fax (Office Product)
Excellent product, I left impressed by the speed of printing, in addition to having many features such as easy access tray up side, flash drive and memory cards.
The part that not like is that when I already installed all the software, the software tell me that I need to install a update, and I download a patch to a communication error. Also at first, wireless network disconnected every minute, I had to put a internal fixed ip on my router. Of rest is very good product.
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