Hewlett Packard Officejet Pro CM756AB1H Wireless Color Printer with Scanner, Copier and Fax

I am somewhat perplexed by the large number of negative reviews for this HP All-In-One Printer. After having owned an older HP C7100 for nearly five years and giving me great reliability and service, when it came time to update I did not hesitate in purchasing another HP Printer. This Officejet model is a premium high end AIO Printer with perhaps only the Canon MG8120 having simlar features. Although the Canon has received excellent reviews, it is more of a photo printing unit than the HP. For home or small office users printing a large volume of text documents,the HP with its larger paper cartridge and automatic document feeder is more robust. Setting up the 8500A Plus was a breeze with the initial loading of printheads and ink catridges taking only about 15 minutes out of the box. The Printer sprang to ife upon powering it up with test printing and alignment working flawlessly. Loading the Windows 7 drivers from the CD-ROM was again extremely easy and took about 5 minutes. I ran into one small problem with setting up the wireless network for my home office latops but that was quickly rectified by making a call to HP Support. Thus far I am extremely happy with the 8500A Plus. Printing speeds in black and white and color are well above average for an inkjet although not as fast as a laser. Print quality seems very good with nice bold black texts. The copier/scanning functions also work very well with excellent speeds and print quality. Printing costs as advertised by HP for this Printer should be very low though I have not verified this as yet. In summary , the HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus seems to be an excellent AIO Printer that will handle all office tasks with ease while giving you some very nice features for the price.

I've been using HP printers for a long time. I'm aware of the fact that they use expensive ink and printheads. They could give away the printers for free and make a killing off of the supplies. When you get ink jets to work, though, the quality is decent and the cost per copy is fairly low. The key is getting them to work. I had the 8500, and right out of the box it wouldn't always pick up paper. For maybe a year it worked okay except for this, but you'd think you'd get better with a so-called 'business class' printer. I picked up the 8500a printer because it uses the same printheads and ink cartridges as the 8500, plus I got a continuous ink supply system that fits it. The 8500 just suddenly decided that the black/yellow printhead had a problem. I bought a new printhead, and it still has a problem. Got a replacement printhead from HP under warranty and it's also got the same problem. I'm going to try one more time, then take a sledge hammer to it to vent my frustrations if I can't get it to work. The printer is only about two years old. I've heard HP has a lot of problems with printheads. They advertise as a 'green' company, but pretty soon the landfills are going to be overloaded with these junk printers. Well, the 8500a looks nice but is also a piece of, um, something scraped off my shoe from the yard. Again, right out of the box it misses picking up paper, even though the paper supply is full. Every five pages it has to clean and check itself. The duplexer works okay, but slow (two sided printing). It wants to stay connected to the web and do it's own updates, but I think that is because HP just wants to track whether you are using their ink or not. The 8600 I've heard is an even bigger piece of that stuff from my shoe. They also changed the ink cartridges and printheads, just to keep people off balance I think. I've not purchased one of those, because this is my last HP. They've really gone in the (flushing device of my bathroom) over the last few years. Ink cartridges are ridiculously priced, and the printheads only last a few hundred copies. Between two printheads ($60.00 each) and four ink cartridges (over $100.00) you can buy a new printer. So that's what I recommend. Buy two or three printers, just for the supplies. Keep one as a lightly used backup, and one in the box. Or get a continuous ink supply system. The investment is worth it, especially if you bought two or three of the things. If you get into trouble with one of them, chuck it and set up the new one. Cannon is the way to go from all my research. You can buy after-market supplies for them a lot easier, and the parts last longer. Update 6/9/12. Yellow printhead plugged again. Having trouble aligning after merely removing the black/yellow printhead for a check. Constantly using paper to do an alignment that, so far after a dozen tries, still won't succeed. After it took 10 minutes this morning checking itself it still hadn't printed. So I did the most satisfying thing I've ever done with a printer. Took it outside and smashed it on the cement. Some images uploaded for your enjoyment if Amazon lets them post. 4 month old printer and now it's a piece of junk. Wait. It was a piece of junk when I bought it. I've had HP printers now for years, putting up with their shortcomings, but no more. Brand new printer, two-fifty paid, now in the toilet. You have fair warning about buying these pieces of bottom-shoe stuff.

This printer is not small, but this printer is great. It is very comprehensive for a home office or anyone who wants a multifunction machine. The text quality is great, the printer is pretty fast although not as fast as a laser printer. I have not yet printed a picture. There is automatic 2 sided printing if you want it. That slows it down a bit because it waits for the ink to dry, but it does save paper. The document feeder works well. The web portal for the printer works pretty well and one is able to quickly see the settings. Scan to email feature works very well although it is not the easiest thing to setup. You set it up from the web interface. Then it will scan to email addresses without a computer. It has a very handy address book feature. The scan to computer function works very well also. I don't use the fax function. It works on both our Windows computers and our Mac. It is airprint enabled for iOS devices and this feature works well. The ePrint feature lets you send documents to an email address specific to the printer and this is actually very handy. The applications are not all that helpful but might have some uses. In short, I had an Epson Workforce 840. It was fast but honestly a pain to use and could not do scan to email without a computer. This HP is so, so much better. Highly Recommended.

Updated on 2012.12.05 I have had this printer for six months now. Still pretty good. There has been issues with the paper pickup mechanism in the printer. It sometimes goes into hose mode and will not pick up paper. Regardsless. I got on the NET and found some references to printer settings to fix it. I apologize as I do not recall what they were. But it seems to have fixed the problem. I use GENUINE HP paper and I still had the problem. The cost per page has been good. I have done a bunch of printing and the cartridges last a good bit. It acts (cost wise) more like a Laser printer and not a normal ink jet. I knocked my review from 5 Stars to 4 Stars. If the problem comes back -- I am going to slam it and go to 2 Stars. Original review I am not a big fan of inkjet printers. I bought an HP 2710 about seven years ago for around $400. It has been pretty good (general use, printing pictures) but the wireless part of the device was a big computer hog and there was no easy way to directly connect it to my Home network. So -- I would drag my computer over to it when I need to print. For business reasons -- I was in the mode for buying a new network printer. I was looking at a Standard HP Color LJ but ran into this item by accident. I read the reviews and liked the following: 1. Network hardware (direct). So I did not need to do the whole wireless deal 2. Sheet feeder for copying 3. Papertray holds 250 pages. 4. You can buy the more expensive model ($100+ more) for a second tray or go on eBay and get it for $60 minus plus free shipping. I just did that today as I had some eBay bucks in the que so it was free 5. It has a fax but I am not sure who faxes anymore. Not me. In my mind -- let's drop that in the future, HP, so we can pocket the savings. 6. Cost for printing per page is claimed to be less than a Color LaserJet. I will let you know my results. But -- the cartridges appear to be solid ink (minimal liquid) 7. The eprinting feature is pertty cool. I have an assigned email address now for this printer and have given it to my daughter who lives in another state. It was only a few seconds after she told me that she hit the email send message that the printer kicked in. I have an iPHone and an iPad so I will use this feature. And I have my sister visit and I no longer have to print their boarding pass (they can do it themselves...) 8. It looks nice and professional. Like a sleak, black race car. We are not into looks in our printers but this is one hot looking printer. 9. Packaging was great 10. It appears that the driver install was minimal. There are not eight different processes running in the background to make this device work (as compared to previous HP products). I know that HP thinks that was the right approach but it is not. Make your drivers print and nothing more. You want to bring up a box once a month about the status of my inks -- that is fine. Otherwise -- I don't even want to see some HP popup box trying to help me. So far -- after two weeks -- it has been clean. 11. I have not tried printing pictures yet. My HP 2710 was pretty good at that. I still have it so if the HP 8500A flops on good pictures -- I'll use the 2710. For the price of $299 plus ebay $60 for the second paper tray -- I think this is a winner.

I am on my second unit - the first had a defective touch screen - Amazon was great about replacing the unit - no hassle and fast. The bad: Both units have had a problem staying connected to my wifi (as indicated by the brief flash of an error code C026000). I have used HP support to no resolution, 3 hours in all - although their call center folks escalated me to a case manager who offered to again replace my unit and offer a 2nd year warranty. Nice of them, but it doesn't help me to go thru yet another configuration cycle etc, if they can't figure out the recurring problem. I could hardwire the unit to the router as its only 10 feet away, but that defeats the whole wireless printer thing. When it fails, the front panel lights all flash and you need to turn the printer off then back on - not a good way to get anything done. This occurs at random, and when printing from either a Mac or Windows7 machine. I think that troubleshooting this would indicate a problem in combination with my router - a Cisco E3000, but HP has said that they are not aware of any router incompatibility and all the settings are per the HP specs. Print jobs from the Mac can sometimes hang in the queue for days, or not.... (Gee, why did that just print??) The Good: How does it work when it works? Very well. Its fast and prints clean. I am not really impressed with photo printing on this unit but it is significantly better than other office inkjets I use. For whatever reason, this unit sometimes can't pick up the paper in the drawer - my experience is that this is usually a paper problem - so I will buy a different paper brand and expect this problem to go away. Its makes lots of noises when it works but I don't find that to be a problem. Scan quality is very good from both the flatbed and the document feeder. The driver software includes easy control from the computer and makes it easy to route scans to the folder you want. Fax capability is what you would expect from a very mature technology - there just isn't much to report here. ePrint ROCKS!!! This works well from anywhere. Applications on the printer are kinda cool, but I question the usefulness. I dont really want to print a few headlines from USA today when I can get them online myself. The weather lookup would be more useful if the weather reporting was more specific - this is a lost opportunity so far - handy if you want to post the days weather on a board, or in our case, the kitchen table before school. The Forms app could be very useful if you had school age kids or if you need a steady supply of easily printed forms without having to go to a computer to do so. This will appeal to some and not at all to others. It prints two sided - but there is a surprise in that it does it really slow. The first page prints, then the printer pauses to let the ink dry - then it pulls the paper back thru to print the second side. Probably a limitation of the inkjet printers. If you want to save paper - it takes a long time to print anything large. I have not had any issues with either the document feeder or the page duplicator. My net take away (as your mileage may vary): I am disappointed with HP on this purchase - I am a loyalist, as I type this on my 3rd HP desktop, and printing my 3rd(4th) HP Printer; all of the other purchases I have been very happy with. My experience here is that they have a product problem that they don't admit, or they lack the ability to service the consumer market with actual technical support. As they told me - "we sell hundreds of thousand of these units, so it can't be a product flaw". I do suspect it has something to do with the combination of the 8500 and the Cisco router, but HPs diagnostic tools don't figure it out.

The HP OfficeJet 8500A Pro printer does have nice features and it does represent an advancement in technology. But it does have its drawbacks and its important for people to know about them prior to purchase. The unpacking and setup is a bit of a challenge if you are not tech-savvy. The instructions are in some ways almost too simple. If you can follow pictures you are probably okay. But if you ever ask 'why' questions or want to know what you're doing and why, you won't get anything like that and installation may be harder for you. The printer is 'smart', and not always in a good way. It takes a very long time - orders of minutes - to initialize. Many times I have had to turn the printer on because I forgot to do so in advance. And then had to wait several MINUTES while it initialized. This is not a one-time process. This is an everytime I turn the power on process. The printer is fond of cleaning its print heads often too, which may be unexpected if this is your first 'smart' printer. The HP Deskjet 6122 I had previously (another double-sided and image printer) was quieter, smaller and much faster responding to print commands. The 6122 dual-sided paper handling was done entirely internally. The new OfficeJet Pro 8500A Plus uses a separate mechanical dual-sided paper handler that frankly is very kludgy. And it often bends paper. The paper eject is quite forceful; it often lands on the table in front of the printer and not atop the document tray which I think is the intended design. Installing the scanner software seems to be a bit problematic. It does not work directly out of the box; at least it did not for me. This might be a setup error, although I tried to follow the limited instructions correctly. There seems to be a missing software component which I finally located and installed manually. Honestly, if I weren't a software professional I don't think I would have ever figured this part out. I cannot comment on the fax capabilities. Again there is a bit to the setup and I am not currently configured for it. I would be suspicious however given the other minor surprises that have popped up. I have to admit that overall I am NOT IMPRESSED with the HP OfficeJet 8500A Plus. It looked like a good idea. I wanted an 'all-in-one' printer, scanner, copier with fax capabilities. This particular printer DOES NOT DELIVER is my opinion. I would strongly suggest that anyone contemplating buying this printer (or any HP printer in the OfficeJet product line) demand to see every aspect of the printer demonstrated on a live system. Lacking that, I must RECOMMEND AGAINST BUYING THIS PRODUCT! Do so online with no prior evaluation AT YOUR OWN RISK!

I ordered this printer on Thursday afternoon, selected standard shipping, and it arrived in Atlanta on Saturday morning. Way to go, Amazon! I have a home office (I work remotely from my "real" office about 98% of the time), and I needed to replae an ancient color printer AND my scanner. Everything digital in my house is networked either wirelessly or with a wired connection. Almost all of the computers here run not windows, but Linux (specifically Fedora FC 16), and the setup was not only quick, it was completely painless. I plugged in the USB cable first, and before I could get the network cable connected, the USB drivers were installed. I was printing in under 20 minutes from the arrival of the box. There were many negative reviews of this AIO printer, but I have a lot of experience with HP, and overall it is one of the more reliable brands (my 19-year-old lj4 is STILL being used to print out all of the paperwork for a boy scout troop and it has never seen a minute's downtime.) So I took a chance, and I'm not sorry I did. Printing, copying, faxing, and scanning all work well and this device is MUCH faster than the three it replaced. I'll update the review after I've had enough to to evaluate it fairly.

After a long, agonizing period of reading online reviews of various all-in-one printers and having run my old HP into the ground (it was so old there were compatibility problems with any new operating systems and Adobe, etc. and the feeder was beginning to have problems)and with intrepedation, in August of 2011 I purchased a new HP Office Pro 8500APlus. I had read all the online reviews moaning about how load it was or some compatibility issue or some other agravating problem. I purposely waited a few months to post a review to let any bugs or nagging issues show themselves. But I can honestly say I have had absolutley no issues with this unit...none! It scans, faxes and prints beautifully, is not as loud as people were reporting (it sits right behind my desk chair- and I am easily annoyed- so if it was loud I would definitely mention it here.) No problems with the feeder, no problems scanning, no problems!!! I was scared to death to buy this thing because of some of the bad reviews but I needed all the features. I actually delayed buying anything because I didn't want to be disappointed and have to either settle or exchange it. I run a consulting biz out of my house and I couldn't afford to have any printer downtime. I have to admit that since I'm not that tech savvy I had GeekSquad help me set it up and initialize everything. So, I can't address or give an opinion on ease of setup. But it did seem pretty fast. Overall, I got a great deal on it from Ammazon and I'm VERY pleased with the performance.

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