HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus is synonymous with being a great printer if you are looking for small micro printer for home or office use. As in comparison to its Pro 8500A Plus, the HP Office jet printer has gotten a performance upgrade from inside out, which has increased the speed of its print engine...

It offers maximum horizontal to vertical resolution as 4800×1200 dpi; Colour print speed is 35ppm; Offers envelop and banner inputs along with transparency printing capacity; Has both automatic and manual feed capacity; Works on multiple Operating systems like Microsoft Windows 2000; XP...

Touch Screen requires efforts to operate and it cannot be calibrated in any way for better sensitivity; Bigger in size than most of the other printers; Graphic quality delivered is below standard

T here are two versions of the OfficeJet Pro 8600 , so check that you are getting the model you want before buying. The standard 8600 model costs £229, but we opted for the £270 8600 Plus.

Very fast performance for text and colour documents; excellent black-and-white prints; low running costs

Photo output often seemed dark

The printer is wonderful. The only problem I am having is it will disconnect from the computer and I have to do a restart to activate it. I have had to do this twice. It prints beautifully and every computer including my laptop and Ipad print directly to the printer.

Print quality

It disconnects from the computer

Used in home for personal and some business. Major improvement over 6500 that we had. 8600 much faster printing and better print quality. Major hole in setup instructions - Initial setup gets thru unpacking and plugging in.

Compact Design; Easy To Use; Fast Operation; Great Print Quality

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When you have seen a printer, you've seen them all, right? At least, that's what a lot of many small business owners like to think, when they next buy an all-in-one machine for their office or SOHO.

HP Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One provides most of features you might want in a small, busy or micro home office. It is ready for high volume printing needs with ample 250-sheet paper input capacity, plethora of versatile connectivity options, cloud printing and autoduplexing.

This is probably the best HP printer I have had - WiFi easy to set up - ePrint facility surpriseingly quick and useful and duplex speed not back for an inkjet. Only minus is I don't seem to get anywhere close to the expected 2300 pages of an XL Black cartidge but I think I do quite a lot of image...

Please note: pricing in this article is in US dollars.

Fast; Cheap ink; Solid construction

Non-LCD controls are slow

In our last all-in-one Labs, the HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus strolled away with the top award thanks to its combination of a quality scanner, great document prints and very low running costs.

In our last all-in-one Labs, the HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus strolled away with the top award thanks to its combination of a quality scanner, great document prints and very low running costs.