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More…HP's OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One is a color inkjet multifunction printer built to take anything that a small office can throw at it. Granted, it's expensive, but if you do high-volume printing, consider buying it for the low consumables costs if nothing else.
HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer
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Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | No |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 2 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 14.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 500 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 150 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 250 |
| Duplex printing | Yes |
General Features
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| PictBridge compatible | Yes |
| Printer languages supported | pcl3 |
PCWorld Rating, November 24, 2009
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Pros
Fast print and copy speeds
Cheap inks; lots of features
Cons
Very expensive purchase price
Slow scan speeds
Bottom Line
A small office that wants it all can get it here: features galore, including really cheap inks.
HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet MFP
Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer Review, by Melissa Riofrio, PC World May 15, 2009
This MFP's generous paper-handling features include a 250-sheet input tray, a 150-sheet output tray, and a 50-sheet automatic document feeder. Duplexing is automatic. An optional second 250-sheet input tray (for plain paper only) costs $80. Ethernet, USB, and Wi-Fi connectivity are standard. Media slots cover CF; MMC/SD; xD; and MS/Duo, and you also get a USB/PictBridge port. Most of the control panel is displayed on the unit's 3.45-inch, color touchscreen LCD, which makes navigating the many settings fast and easy.
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. 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. Text output looked black and fairly crisp. Photos and graphics appeared grainy but had natural colors on plain paper. On HP's own paper, the images tended to be slightly dark but very smooth.
The icing on the OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One's substantial cake is its incredibly low ink pricing. 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). A page printed with all four colors would cost just 9.3 cents. 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 containing all four colors would cost a mere 7.3 cents.
Among business-minded competitors, the Canon Pixma MX7600 matches the OfficeJet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One closely on purchase and ink pricing; but it's a little faster and throws in a few bonus features (such as a second input tray), and Canon has a better overall rating in our Reliability and Service survey than HP. For a little more or less of the same, the base OfficeJet Pro 8500 ($300) has a letter-size platen, no Wi-Fi, and no touchscreen. The OfficeJet Pro 8500 Premium ($500) adds a second 250-sheet input tray, along with some media and software to get you started on in-house marketing pieces. Another competitive option is the Canon Pixma MX860.
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Performance
| 300dpi Line Art Image (secs) | 12.9 |
| 4 by 6 Color Photo (secs) | 12.24 |
| 4 by 6 Grayscale Photo (secs) | 12.9 |
| Color Output Quality | Good |
| Color Photo Quality | Very Good |
| Copy Output Quality | Very Good |
| Copy Quality | Very Good |
| Final Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 16.31 |
| Final Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 1.43 |
| Final Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 2.57 |
| Grayscale Glossy Output Quality | n/a |
| Grayscale Output Quality | Very Good |
| Line Art Output Quality | Very Good |
| One-Page Copy | 18.61 |
| One-Page Copy (secs) | 18.61 |
| One-Page Line Art, Maximum Resolution | Very Good |
| One-Page Webpage (secs) | 15.84 |
| One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | Good |
| Overall Scan Quality | Good |
| Preview Scan, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 27.68 |
| Preview Scan, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 27.59 |
| Preview Scan, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 27.71 |
| Sports Action Shot (secs) | 80.85 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 49.91 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 49.91 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 4.5 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 4.7 |
| Tested Grayscale Speed (ppm) | 4.7 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 15.6 |
| Text Output Quality | Very Good |
| Three-Page Word Document | 23.05 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 23.05 |
| Total Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 16.31 |
| Total Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 1.43 |
| Total Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 2.57 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 25.77 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 25.77 |
Scanning
| Preview scan, 2-by-2-inch document, 600 dpi | 27.68 |
| Preview scan, 4-by-5-inch document, 100 dpi | 27.59 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 27.71 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 27.71 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Very Good |
User Reviews
Average User Reviews for HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer
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Reviewed by: volfanbob
Duration of ownership: 6 Months
Strengths: Paper capacity
Weaknesses: There are so many problems with this machine, it's hard to know where to begin. I HAD an HP 7410 which was an awesome All In One. I decided to upgrade to the 8500 Pro, and what a mistake! It's the slowest printer that I've ever owned, goes "offline" several times a week, and is not at all dependable. Clearly the last HP Product that I will ever own.
Overall: Among the poorest printers in the industry.
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Reviewed by: john18
Duration of ownership: 1 Month
Strengths: Fast, built in duplex, cheaper ink cost in the long run, much improved HP software
Weaknesses: A bit noisy, initial cost for first ink replacement, larger footprint than many multi-function printers
Overall: I am very happy with this printer. It is noticeably faster than the HP 6310 it replaced and the interface software appears to have been substantially improved.
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