Hewlett-Packard Officejet 6500 Wireless

HP Officejet 6500 Wireless Inkjet MFP

Officejet 6500 Wireless Review, by Susan Silvius, PC World July 28, 2009

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• Latest User Reviews 5 reviews
• Reviewed by: fwer207

  Duration of ownership: 8 Months

  Strengths: Fast good text printing. Printing color graphics & photos is decent.

  Weaknesses: -Wirelessly networked, the product does it's good "energy star" job and goes to sleep... but it doesn't wake up. HP's solution by Indians speaking bad English is to re-install the driver each time I called. No matter we did that before and it didn't help, let's do it again! Finally, I gave up and ran a CAT5 to the printer. Pathetic support. -The drivers are memory and processor HOGS. Go with the "basic" driver not "full".

  Overall: I was an idiot to buy another HP. It will not happen again. HP is just another example of what used to be a sound, quality company being run by bean counters that care only about profit. Where have all the engineers gone?

• Reviewed by: mikedgolf40505

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Fast printing, works great wirelessly when hooked to my Time Capsule, works great with Mac OSX, large capacity cheap inks

  Weaknesses: Needs larger, color menu box

  Overall: Excellent printer, almost as good as the HP 7600 I have on my desk at work.

• Reviewed by: squirejay

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: Good print quality. Decently priced ink. Easy to use when it works.

  Weaknesses: The electronics and software are junk. I've had more problems with this printer than anything I have ever bought in the past. The printer goes into sleep mode and won't wake up. It loses it's wireless connection every time it goes into sleep mode...the problems just keep piling up!

  Overall: I am on my third printer of this Officejet 6500 wireless model in the last two months. I am having HP replace this with another model printer. STAY AWAY!!!

• Reviewed by: jebart

  Duration of ownership: 1 Week

  Overall: You cannot scan to email without installing Windows Live email program. I will be taking this printer back - This is totally wrong.

• Reviewed by: dsavary

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Prints well and is very economical with the ink. If used with a USB cable this is printer will serve you well.

  Weaknesses: Does not offer any wireless drivers for the Windows 7 operating system. HP has promised a set of Win 7 drivers in 2 weeks, that was in October, this has streched until November. Now Hp said December or January time frame. The real problem I have was the false advertisement that is is a wireless printer compatible to Windows 7. I also take little comfort in all the prnter reviews of this model for no one has picked this up which translates that very little testing is done and a lot is gleened from the manufacturers hipe.

  Overall: Great printer, lousy HP support. There should be a disclaimer for all the false advertising.

• Reviewed by: dvdirv

  Strengths: Wireless, separate cartridges, easy to set up, fast & great looking copies

  Weaknesses: 2-Line LCD text display

  Overall: 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.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.