Review Of HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless Printer- For Excellent Text And Photo Prints

Printers — By Ricky on November 30, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Sum and Substance:

Thumbs Up:

Gorgeous looks, 3.5 inch LCD touch screen display, wireless connectivity, great quality prints and good speed.

Thumbs Down:

No auto dial buttons for fax, no Bluetooth, dual paper tray for input.

Inside the Trunk:

Software Included
Drivers and utilities, Consumables Included
1 x Cartridge ( Black ) – up to 1000 pages, 1 x Cartridge ( Magenta ) – up to 900 pages, 1 x Cartridge ( Cyan ) – up to 900 pages, 1 x Cartridge ( Yellow ) – up to 900 pages.

The Whiz Kid Speaks:

HP Thermal Inkjet
Standard Memory 128 MB,

Supported Flash Memory
CompactFlash, MultiMediaCard , Memory Stick, SD Memory Card, SDHC Memory Card, xD-Picture Card, Memory Stick Pro

Max Copying Speed
up to 35 pages/min (mono) / up to 34 pages/min (color)

Max Copying Resolution
up to 1200 x 600 dpi (mono) / up to 1200 x 600 dpi (color)

Max Document Enlargement 400 %
Max Document Reduction 25 %

Maximum Copies
99

Automatic Duplexing Yes

Max Printing Resolution
up to 1200 x 1200 dpi (mono) / up to 4800 x 1200 dpi (color)

Max Printing Speed
up to 35 pages/min (mono) / up to 34 pages/min (color)

Printer Drivers / Emulations PCL 3

Optical Resolution
2400 x 4800 dpi

Interpolated Resolution
19200 dpi

Gray Scale Depth
8 bit

Color Depth
48 bit

Max Transmission Speed
33.6 Kbps

Fax Resolutions
203 x 98 dpi, 300 x 300 dpi, 203 x 196 dpi

Total Memory Capacity
125 pages, PC Faxing

Broadcast Transmission
48 stations, Delayed Transmission

Features
Color faxing, Junk fax barrier, Fax forwarding, Distinctive Ring Pattern Detection (DRPD), Automatic redialing

Document and Media Handling

Max Original Size
Legal (8.5 in x 14 in)

HP officejet pro 8500 printer review

Document Feeder Capacity
50 sheets

Max Copy Size
Legal (8.5 in x 14 in)

Supported Media Type

Cards, Transparencies, Banner, Labels, Photo paper, Envelopes, Plain paper, Greeting cards,
Borderless Photo Sizes – 8.5 in x 11 in
Standard Media Capacity – 250 sheets,

Max Media Capacity
500 sheets,

Output Trays Capacity
150 sheets

Document & Media Handling Details – ADF – 50 sheets – Legal (8.5 in x 14 in), Output tray – 150 sheets – Legal (8.5 in x 14 in), Input tray – 250 sheets – Legal (8.5 in x 14 in)

Speed Details
Copying : up to 35 pages/min – B/W, Printing : up to 35 pages/min – B/W, Printing : up to 34 pages/min – Color, Copying : up to 34 pages/min – Color

Operating System Support
MS Windows Vista, MS Windows XP Home Edition, Apple Mac OS X 10.5.x, MS Windows 2000 SP4 or later, MS Windows XP Professional, MS Windows Vista (64-bit versions), Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, MS Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

1 year warranty

Razzle Dazzle:

The HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless is an office printer and just because it is an office printer it doesn’t mean that it cannot be attractive. Usually no one cares about the looks when it comes to office printers, they just want a device that can print copies fast and deliver high on the quality level

HP has made the printer attractive, just like HP does its products. The exteriors of the printer is all glossy which means it will attract a lot of finger prints so make sure you have a cleaning cloth around because it attracts a lot of finger prints. You may not like this if you are a hygiene freak.

Inside Dope:

HP has been known to making good printers. They have been around for quite a lot of time and they now make one of the best products in this class. HP makes printers of all types’ right from inkjet to laser and they have also made printers for all kinds of budgets. We get lots of HP printers to test in our test center and we don’t have much to complain about them when it comes to quality.

We got the HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless all-in-one inkjet printer in our centers for test. It is an all in one device which can do print, copy, scan and fax jobs for you. The printer has a 3.5 inch color touch screen display so you can control all your printing scanning jobs from the touch screen display on the screen. This LCD touch screen is one of the best that we have seen in touch screen genre of printers. The touch screen is quite responsive and re acted fast to our touches. You use the LCD printer to adjust the settings as well as to store your preferences.

There are also a free physical buttons around the printer so you can use it as well. An all LCD look in the printer would have made it more attractive but we guess there are some functions which are better with physical buttons.

When it comes to connectivity of the printer, say good bye cables because this printer supports wireless connectivity. You can connect this printer to multiple computers in a wireless network so that you don’t have to go running to a single computer when it comes to taking print outs. If your office doesn’t have wireless interface there is Ethernet jack/USB connectivity for you to use the printer with. But we recommend wireless for clutter free environment.

Below the printer is the 250 sheet for you to put your papers for printing. The sheets on the printer sits comfortably and with 250 sheet support you won’t be running around fetching more papers, because you can keep plenty of them at a time. On the top of the printer there is a 50 sheet auto feeder for scanning so that you can have a hands free experience or you can continue with other work while the printer is busy scanning.

Below the printer there is a media card reader with which you can directly put in your cards and the printers will read and print from them. This is great for photo printing where you can put a card from camera in to the printer and browse through the collection from the LCD and take the copies that you want.

We were disappointed to find that the printer doesn’t support Bluetooth. Bluetooth connectivity means that you can take print outs from a wireless device such as a mobile phone. You will miss this function because you will have to physically take out the card from the cell phone and put it in the printer before the printer starts taking copies.

The ink cartridges of the printer are a four cartridge set up, the black cartridge being the biggest. The printer is good when it comes to cartridge management because you don’t have to refill the entire unit, just refill the cartridge that runs out.

So let’s get down to business, what about the print quality and speed? This printer is ahead of its times, it gave us output of 11 pages per minute. This is better than what other printers can churn out. HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless is a great printer if you want to get work done fast and hate to wait. This speed is in fact double the speed of the second placed competitor in the tests that we made.

We next tested the printer for print out quality. The print quality is great when it comes to text or presentations. Photo quality was also far more superior than any of the printers we have seen.

Nitty Gritty:

Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless from the stables of HP is by far the best printers that we have tested. It has great quality for print outs, faster print out speeds and the photo quality is awesome. We would recommend this printer for office usages even if it has a couple of issues like no Bluetooth connectivity or lack of fax buttons for auto dialing.