Printer Reviews

HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer specifications:

• Speed Up to seven ppm Black and Color, Maximum 32 ppm Black and 31 ppm Color
• 2 Line Text LCD Display and implanted Wireless 802.11g Networking
• Color Print, Color Copy, Color Scan, and Color Fax
• 250 Sheet Input Tray, 50 Sheet Output Tray, auto Two Sided Printing, 35 Sheet ADF
• 32 MB Memory and Processor Speed 192 MHz

HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer review:
Want a multifunction color printer that offers the convenience of wireless networking? Our Officejet 6500 is right for all your small office printing, faxing, copying, and scanning. You will get professional quality color at up to 40 lower color cost per page and using less energy than laser printers. And you will be able to scan photos and papers up to legal size directly into folders, no PC obliged.

HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer reviews:
Rating: HP OfficeJet 6500 Wireless All in one Printer
This printer is a complete part of garbage and shouldn’t be sold to anybody who wants a dependable wireless printer. I have spent the better part of six hours installing this software and every time I get the error can not detect my network. I dont have firewall turned on or an anti virus. This print just simply won’t install vi wireless. I’ll be returning this printer to but a lexmark printer that I can connect straight to a router. I have four PC now connected and functioning on my network.

If you want a good dependable printer don’t purchase THIS PRINTER!!!!!!!!

Rating: Great Printer for Mac OS X
I just finished setting up this printer and had none of the problems mentioned in other reviews. I just followed the directions and it quickly set itself up and joined my wireless network and is printing from all of my computers!

Compared to HP printers I have owned from the late 90s which did not support OS nine or X, this printer works wonderfully with my Macs. Setup was a breeze and I suspect easier than with Windows, judging by other reviews and the software is tailored to OSX. The printer joined the network with Bonjour and the software comes with a Dashboard widget to monitor printer cartridges a vast improvement over Windows centric HP printers of the past.

If you are considering printers to use with your Mac, this is a great choice. Do not let the setup nightmare stories of Windows users deter you OSX and the HP software makes it really easy and foolproof just follow the directions.

Rating: Great, though a little overwhelming
I bought this when it has been priced at $135 and think it was a great deal. I have only had my printer a day, but set up was easy except when I neglected to disable my anti virus software and got a fail message just as the original install was about to conclude. I bought this model because I needed a new printer with wireless potential and have generally been happy with HP. At the time I ordered this it was the cheapest model meeting those prerequisites, so the scanner, copier and fax features are just bonuses.

It is a bit noisier than my old HP but the speed is unbelievable and the auto double sided printing works just as portrayed. The copier feature works well too. I tried out the scanner still and dont have plans to use the fax. In general it is an excellent purchase if it has more features than I need.

Rating: No FAX With Digital Service!!
This machine can not FAX if you have a digital system. It’s intended only for analog. If you purchase this unit and have Comcast digital service, you must pay them $100 to set up a special analog device plus pay $10/month for the analog “fix”. This is seemingly a common problem with digital fax machines. Unfortunately, HP doesn’t tell you about this problem in their literature.

Rating: Installation is a big pain
I have been working on the installation for more than five hours and still counting..The installation is a big ache. Here is what happened:

1. I followed the start up guide faithfully till step eight and the printer is supposed to print a test page now. Would not print, said “paper jam”. Of course that wasn’t possible because it had not printed anything yet! Played with the paper tray, shut down and turn it on again, printer mad tons of noises, received many error messages accusing me of interrumpting initiation, then it refused to do anything at all.

2. Installed the software on my mac. Whe it reached the point that it searched for the device, it froze. Had to quit, uninstall and start again. Same thing happened. This time I quit, opened HP manager, chose to skip setup so I could complete the installation, , then use the HP manager to finish the set up. Big pain!

3. Now I am trying to connect the printer to my lenovo netbook using wireless. Got many error message: communication error possibly caused by firewall, okay I turned off the firewall, but then “your computer and the printer are on different network” garbage, there’s only one wireless network! tried again, this time: the printer does not support wireless. I gave up: I am uninstalling and reinstalling the system all over again.

It is totally unacceptable for a printer to take this long to install. Totally ridiculous. Should be a ten minutes thing, and indeed none of the last 10+ printers I have used took more than 30 minutes. Had I recognized this, there is no way I purchase this stupid printer.

Additional cons: NOISY!!! and slow! Strangely it makes many of sound AFTER it prints anything, for like 1+ minute.

This is one buy I really hate. If I bought it at a local store, I could totally returned it.

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