HP Officejet Pro K8600 – Printer – color – ink-jet – A3 Plus – 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi – up to 35 ppm – capacity: 250 sheets – USB
- Borderless Printing – No
- Catalog Publishing Type – Printers-Inkjet/Photo/Mobile Inkjet
- Compliance, Standards – ENERGY STAR Qualified
- Connector/Port/Interface – USB
- Depth – 16.54 in
Product Description
Be your own print shop: the K8600 delivers professional quality results allowing you to produce high-quality brochures and marketing materials in-house. High page-per-minute speeds in color and black and white keep productivity up without compromising quality. Delivers over a wide variety of sizes and types of media, giving you the versatility to get the job done. Straight-through paper path for heavy media (up to 76lbs) and specialty papers. Professional quality co… More >>
Odd, I thought I already gave this a 1 star review, but it seems to have gone away. Oh well, I hate this printer enough to warrant writing this again. We have gone through two in our main office, and the one in our remote office has been terrible too. The first suffered from mechanical problems from almost day one, even with only moderate use. It would misfeed as many as 15(!) pages at once. Swabbing the rollers with alcohol temporarily alleviated this, but hardly something you should need to do on an almost weekly basis.
As for driver issues, all 3 have suffered from these… such as, printing totally blank sheets, cutting off margins, etc. After a lot of trial and error and conversations with HP support, we found that using a deskjet 990c driver (of all things) at least fixed the blank page issue, but many issues with document margins being cut off (that looked fine in Print Preview) remain. Granted, this review probably doesn’t do much good since this model has largely been pulled off the market by HP (with good reason)… if I was of a litigious bent, I’d be tempted to see about starting a class action against HP for everyone who bought this model–Instead, I’ll just steer away from ever using HP in an office environment again.
For what it’s worth, my HP 1020 B&W laserjet at home has been fantastic (still on it’s starter toner cartridge after 3 years of light use). However, if the K8600 is any indication of where HP’s quality has headed… I’ll be very reluctant to look to them for a replacement if my 1020 dies.
August 16th, 2010 at 8:41 pmRating: 1 / 5
DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER. Go read all the mixed reviews on Google and Cnet. Mine had to be replaced twice, after which it still didn’t work. HP isn’t even selling this unit anymore, which means if you need support, you’re going to get nothing but refurb.
August 16th, 2010 at 10:02 pmRating: 1 / 5
Though the initial setup for paper type was somewhat frustrating, once done the printer has performed admirably.
August 17th, 2010 at 12:27 amRating: 5 / 5
The main thing I like about this printer is that I can use it to print on 11×17″ paper for architectural and engineering drawings.
August 17th, 2010 at 1:21 amRating: 5 / 5
Like previous reviewer, I am using it for printing on 11×17. It has been close to two years. Aside from a few paper jams and replacing ink (the unit uses more ink than I expected), I did not do anything else to it. It has already paid for itself considering the undr $200 cost, two years ago.
August 17th, 2010 at 2:24 amRating: 4 / 5