HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One Printer review: Features and Speed Aplenty
In a world filled with cheap but underpowered inkjet multifunction printers (MFPs), using the HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus is a pleasant departure. One of the most competent MFPs for the price ($300 as of 12/05/2011), it lacks nothing in its features, is solidly constructed, fully supports legal-size paper, is faster than everything else in its price range, and even offers dirt-cheap ink. There’s not much more you could ask for.
Setting up the Officejet Pro 8600 Plus is a breeze with any of the three supported interfaces: USB, ethernet, and Wi-Fi. The 4.3-inch LCD is great: It’s easy to enter passwords for wireless setups; the menus and settings are well-organized; and you get access to HP’s numerous Web apps. For printing from smartphones and tablets, you get HP’s print-by-mail ePrint service, as well as direct printing from iOS and Android devices via HP applets. The contextually lit navigational controls (they remain dark until needed) that flank the LCD are less thrilling, as they require an unintuitive, annoyingly long touch before responding.
The OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus is one of the fastest inkjet MFPs we have tested, with speeds that range from 13.2 pages per minute (ppm) for text and blended text with monochrome graphics, to 4.6 ppm for half-page pics on plain paper, and 2 ppm for half-page pics on glossy paper. For our most challenging print test, a high-resolution, full-page pic printed on glossy paper, the OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus managed a just-above-average rate of 0.56 ppm. Scans are quite quick as well.
The Officejet Pro 8600 Plus’s print quality for office basics is quite good: Text is crisp and dark, and easy graphics look quite good. On the other hand, pics look a bit yellowish and washed out on plain paper, though they are much better on HP’s own pic paper. Copies, both monochrome and color, are good, even though color scans lean toward the dark side.
Ink costs for the Officejet Pro 8600 Plus are outstandingly low: The standard 1000-page black cartridge costs $27, or 2.7 cents per page (cpp), while the three standard color cartridges last for 700 pages at $20 each, or 2.9 cpp per color. That makes a four-color page approximately 11.4 cpp. The news gets better: The 2300-page, $37 XL black cartridge works out to only 1.6 cpp, and the 1500-page, $28 XL color cartridges come out to 1.9 cpp–making for a four-color page that costs a mere 7.3 cpp. If you do a lot of printing, this machine’s inks will save you money in the long run.
The Officejet Pro 8600 Plus is merely one of ideal inkjet MFPs on the market. You might argue about the default plain paper pic output, but it’s very fast, produces good printing overall, and is very cheap to operate. If you do not need this model’s comprehensive legal-size support, the Epson WorkForce 840 costs the same and has more paper capacity. On the other hand, it’s also a tiny slower, and its inks are not quite as inexpensive.
source : news.idg.no
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