HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

Product Description HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

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'll get professional-quality color at up to 40% lower color cost per page and using less energy than laser printers. And you'll be able to scan photos and documents (up to legal size) directly into folders, no PC required.

Product Details
HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

* Brand: Hewlett-Packard
* Model: CB057A#B1H
* Original language: English
* Dimensions: 21.00" h x 13.00" w x 22.50" l, 25.90 pounds

Features
HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

* Speed Up to 7 ppm Black and Color, Maximum 32 ppm Black and 31 ppm Color
* 2 Line Text LCD Display and Embedded Wireless 802.11g Networking
* Color Print, Color Copy, Color Scan, and Color Fax
* 250-Sheet Input Tray, 50-Sheet Output Tray, Automatic Two-Sided Printing, 35-Sheet ADF
* 32 MB Memory and Processor Speed 192 MHz

Editorial Reviews
HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

From the Manufacturer
Want to get the upper hand on office productivity? Print, fax, scan and copy, plus forget about messy printer cables with the HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One. Easily share your printer using built-in wireless[1] and wired networking, print two-sided documents and enjoy convenient scan and fax features.

Want affordable color printing? Get professional color for up to 40% lower cost per page and less energy use than lasers[2]. With four individual HP Officejet inks, you'll print documents with sharp black text and impressive color graphics.

Want a printer that's simple to use? Conveniently print up to 250 pages without reloading the paper tray. Plus, let the automatic document feeder do your busy work—fax, scan and copy up to 35 pages at a time.

Want to add photos to your documents? Just slide your memory card into the card slots and push the "Photo" button on the control panel.

Get it all done fast with the HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One
Power through your busy day. Print at high speeds, connect your all-in-one to multiple PCs using wireless[1] and wired networking, and save paper with automatic two-sided printing. Scan photos and documents, then save the files right to your computer or a memory card. You can also send faxes directly from your desktop and save received faxes straight to your PC.

Customer Reviews
HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-One Inkjet Printer

The All-In-One That Does it All
If you're looking for a printer with all the latest technologies, check out the HP Officejet 6500 Wireless. Keep in mind that HP makes two 6500 models--one is wireless and one is not. This is the wireless model. With copy, scan, print and fax functions this all-in-one is a real workhorse.

Fast speed (up to 31 ppm) and extremely easy to use. The setup function is all done via software--you don't even need to touch the 6500's keypad controls. It links directly to your System Preferences control panel making the wireless and fax settings easy. It uses 4 separate color inks, so you can control your print costs when only a single color needs to be replaced.

Main drawback is HP's decision to only include a 2-line text display. For a printer in this price range, HP should have included a 2.5" color LCD screen. If you're looking for a multifunction machine that does it all, seriously consider the HP 6500 Wireless.

Wireless printer
I looked and researched wireless printers and was going crazy. This one had all postive reviews so I decided to order it. I wanted an all in one printer/scanner/copy/ fax and wireless. At 149.00 dollars sale price I decided to go for it.
It came in a huge box and I thought what the heck did I order and when I took it out of the box it was bigger than my other all in one, but the double sided printing attachment adds some bulk (I have not tried this feature). It is noisier than my HP 4280 all in one, but that is not a big deal.
Set up was fairly easy, I just followed the instruction set up page. The software took a long time to install. I am familiar with printer set ups and installing software so no problem there just time consuming. It came with everything I needed including the USB cord (usually not included). The fax was easy to set up and send (I have not received a fax yet)It has speed dial too. The wireless works perfectly from my laptop. I'm familiar with HP software so the program is easy to use for scanning and it's easy to do copies too.
I am unfamiliar with printheads that you have to install yourself and I do not know if they have to be replaced periodically or not. The ink comes with a pop off top that was kind of scary but you just pop it off. Cartridges are very easy to install. It seems to have to go through a lot to get going including noise.
It took me over an hour but I wasn't in a big hurry.

The only problem I have encountered is with my new HP pavilion laptop 64bit running Vista. My desk top is a dell running XP, and I didn't have any software problems. The software installed on my laptop with no problems except it gives an error message when I shut down my laptop. My HP 4120 did the same thing, HP has not been able to give me a fix. It's a 64 bit problem.
I'm pretty impressed with all the features and I have printed out some 4 by 6 photos and had no problem using photo paper or 4 by 6 paper. The paper tray holds tons of paper which is nice when using wireless, in case I forget to check before printing.
I only gave it 4 stars because of the Vista 64 bit software glitch.
I am an intermediate to advanced computer user.

Excellent print quality, but clunky sounding and HUGE drivers
Yes, the print quality is beautiful, but I'm not as overjoyed as the previous reviewers.

The printer driver alone is 245 MB. That's almost as big as my entire MS Office suite! WHY??? With few of its optional programs included (an additional 100 MB or so), it took a good 20 minutes to copy and install the software from the disk onto my desktop computer and complete the initial setup.

I had expected that once the machine was installed on my wireless network using my desktop, that our laptops on the network could simply detect it and add it with the Windows Add Printer function, if all they wanted was print capability--maybe by grabbing a small driver off the internet or from the machine itself. But oh, no. This thing has to be installed from the disk for each machine, and took 20 minutes each to install on our XP laptops, and almost 30 minutes on our VISTA machine. The useless completion bar sat at 94% for most of that time.

As I said in the header, the machine itself is noisy. A few seconds after each print job completes, it starts back up and clunks and whirs for 15-20 seconds, apparently chewing its way through some kind of self-adjustment/maintenance. I fear that this is not the sound of long term durability. I'm glad I bought the two year warranty.