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

Large Footprint

I just bought The HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus. I received it in the mail yesterday and only until today did I finally get the Airprint feature to work on it. When I opened the box and got the printer set up everything worked great.

I have to say this is the best printer I have ever used. I work as a professional in IT and hate fighting printers just to get what you need from them. This has been rock solid, reliable, always prints, scans well...and delivers straight to PC seamlessly !

Another great work horse from HP printers to replace the last HP I had for 5 yrs. Also purchased through Argos. However the HP Pro does not copy duplex automatically through the ADF facility on top, as the HP Pro Plus does.

Purchase was a replacement for identical model, which broke after using it for 18 months. Costco concierge that I spoke with about this said that his info included the statement that the expected life of a modern printer was one year.

great features and photo quality is excellent

may only last about a year

This printer has a lot of features that my old 7500 didn't have and I was excited to start using it. Overall I'm pretty satisfied, but my wireless connection has been on and off a lot and makes it hard to use. It is only 10ft from my router, so I don't think it is a signal strength issue.

Easy to Use; Meets Expectations; Features

noisy; drops wireless connection

Don't buy this. It looks great, had all the functions I needed for home office. But under pretty light use (around 500 sheets of paper) for 6 months, it is now a boat anchor that I have to recycle.

Nothing

Junk; High cost of ink; Network disconnects for no reason

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The HP Officejet 8600 Plus prints professional-quality photos and documents quickly with versatile connectivity options and robust features like an auto-duplexer; cloud printing; and a legal-size scanning bay

The touch screen requires aggressive finger presses to actuate the display functions; and there's no way to calibrate its sensitivity