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HP Officejet 6500 Wireless Multifunction All-in-One Printer, Copier, Scanner and Fax |
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Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £195.73
Our Price: £84.19
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 Dont bother, 2010-08-26
The first one we bought failed to work wirelessly, and we had to get it replaced. Second one had similar problems, and in the end we gave up and just use it connected to the PC. Every now and again it insists that it's not connected to PC and refuses to print. Most recently after I gave in and downloaded latest version of Smartweb printing. (HP pop ups kept inviting me to update. HP doesn't seem to believe in a no thank you option.)
 all-in-one, 2010-09-04
Image quality good. (Laser is better, but not much.
Simplicity of operation good.
Gripe:INK COST- (liquid gold? - actually gold is probably cheaper!)
 A Good All-Rounder With Just A Few Minor Niggles, 2010-07-29
This printer is a solid all-rounder that does it all. It includes features such as automatic duplex (printing on both sides of a page), that you might associate with more expensive machines. The quality of text print is not at all bad, and is, I would imagine, entirely acceptable for just about anyone. The colour output is reasonable, but just a little washed out perhaps. Certainly for my needs it's fine though, and most users are unlikely to take issue with it for casual or normal run of the mill colour and even light photo output.
The wireless features and the fax all work, though as with much of this technology, it can be more of a hassle than it should be setting up. That though, is a general complaint, and not something that's fair to lay at HP's door. The bottom line so to speak, is that it does all work. The instructions that come with it are in my opinion better than most. Likewise the scanner and copying function won't let you down, though it would have been nice if HP had bundled a little more in the way of software for the scanner. Still, it does work well, and what is included will get you started.
This model has attracted some comment because of its noise levels. Whilst this is fair in that it does make a bit of a racket starting up, and then occasional other noises thereafter, this has I feel been slightly exaggerated. I'd agree that if you really need a whisper quiet machine, the 6500 probably isn't for you. Otherwise though, I wouldn't let these reports put you off.
If you buy the maximum capacity ink cartidge in black, then the 6500 has reasonable printing costs, relatively speaking. (Don't get me started on ink prices!)
It's not an out and out speed machine, though it is fast in economy mode, again though, I found it to be easily fast enough right across the board.
I now turn to the software. HP's software has taken a few knocks recently. The core software that comes with the HP 6500 is okay. It's nothing fancy, in fact it's pretty basic. That's not a problem though since it does what it is supposed to. However, HP have in their wisdom included in their software CD, an automatic link to their online shop. My advice is at the installation stage, to exclude this so that it isn't loaded. My pc was crashing and slowing down after installation, and I eventually traced it to this. I can't understand why HP after taking knocks for the quality of their software, would want to do this. It's a pity because it has people feeling bad about a product that is actually good.
The 6500 wireless isn't subtle being quite a big beast. But nor is it ugly, and I could see it slot into most small offices or home studies quite nicely. It offers good value for money, and is a well balanced machine doing it all, and for reasonable running costs, relatively speaking.
HP6500 All in One Printer., 2010-08-24
Very good next day free delivery from Amazon. Packing from HP v good. Setting up was easy, even the wi fi as I was not looking forward to that having read reports of other machines being difficult to connect. The printer gives good copies, although the machine clunks around for quite a time both before and after doing some printing.
The software makes for easy transfer of scans to the PC. I have not done any photo printing or set up the fax yet, as the phone line has to be moved. But I hope that these operations will be as easy as the printing and scanning.
Overall - A Pretty Good Printer at a Fair Price, 2010-08-31
I bought this printer a little over a week ago (Aug 2010). After reading the reviews, I was concerned about difficulties I may experience in setting it up and with the level and duration of noise made by the machine (it's located about a foot away from my right ear).
However, the set up (I used the built in wireless capability - so that it communicates directly with my Sky supplied router/modem) required the same degree of technical knowledge as is required to set up a laptop on a home wireless network, i.e. the name of the network (the SSID), the network encryption key (the WPA-PSK), and (in my case) adding the printer to the "Wireless Station Access List" within the router. In short, providing this information is readily available, then installation is not technically challenging.
However, while it isn't technically challenging, it does take time - as the HP software needs to be installed on each computer that is to use the printer - and I guess (as I didn't time it) 20 minutes per machine (with the first machine taking considerably longer - which needs to be attached to the printer via a USB cable during the initial set up - which can then be removed once the printer is connected to the wireless network).
Once the printer was configured to run on the wireless network and the software was installed on each of our four Win7 computers (three desktops connected via Ethernet cables and one laptop connected via wireless) - it worked fine.
As yet, I have not been prompted to download any additional HP printer related software, so this aspect of the installation process that caused others a fair degree of frustration - hopefully, will pass me by altogether.
In regards to the noise, from reading the reviews, I was expecting far worse. I'd class the level and duration of the machine noise as `a little irritating' rather than `unbearable'. Certainly, in my case, now that I know the level of machine noise, it is not of a sufficient volume or duration for me to regret the purchase. That said, it can go on for some minutes making those strange sounds.
Printing speed. The product description (manufacturers description) on Amazon states "Maximum print speeds of 32 ppm black, 31 ppm colour and laser-quality output at speeds up to 7 ppm black and 7 ppm colour". While the wonderful caveat "at speeds up to" is used, I'm not experiencing anything like this. There is two aspects to this observation, (i) when the print button is clicked, the printer takes xxxx time to make its funny noise before it starts to print; (ii) once it starts to print - it is slower than 7 ppm in black. To give you an idea, I wrote this review in Word (using the 10 point Arial font) which takes up almost exactly a page (769 words). Once I click the print button, it took approx. 2 seconds before there was any observable response from the printer, then approx. six seconds making its wonderful sounds, then approx. 11 seconds from when I first observed the top sheet of paper (in the paper tray) move to when the page had fully printed. So, from clicking the print button to having a printed sheet takes approx 19 seconds. Obviously, for a multi-page document, the first two stages apply only to the first page - so subsequent pages will come though more timely.
Other reviews mentioned that the printer kept changing its IP address - which caused difficulties for the reviewer. I don't (or haven't) suffered from this - as I fixed the IP address within the router. My router is Sky supplied, so I'm guessing pretty basic. However, under option: ADVANCED - LAN IP SETUP - ADDRESS RESERVATION - there is the functionality to map the MAC address of the printer (which is readily available from a menu option on the printer) to a fixed internal IP address. I've used this facility to fix all my computer IP addresses, as the router was intermittently changing their IP addresses - which was causing me frustration (i.e. I apply specific firewall rules to specific computers [as defined by their IP address] - which I used to limit my children's access time to the internet). As such, this may be a solution to the issue of the printer randomly changing its IP address.
Overall rating is 4 out of five. The less than perfect score is due to (a) the noise (which, admittedly is less than I was expecting, but still irritating); and (b) the print speed being slower than expected.
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Hewlett Packard
EAN: 0884420425052
Label: hp
Manufacturer: hp
Model: CB057A
Publisher: hp
Release Date: 2009-03-08
Size: 1
Studio: hp |
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