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.

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