My test drive of the new HP Office Jet Pro 8500 printer continued this evening.
I had several long documents that I needed to print this evening at my home office. Being a bootstrapper at heart – or as some in my family might say, “cheap” – I like the relatively low cost of printing with this machine. Inkjet is always going to be lower cost than a laser, and this printer seems to perform at a reasonably comparable speed to my HP laser printer at the university. It has a quality that is clean and crisp. This inkjet has certainly come a long way from the models I had even a few years ago in terms of print quality.
HP claims that the printer will save 50% over a color laser printer. Add to this that it can print front and back – saving paper in quite a few of my print jobs – and the fact that you can recycle the cartridges through HP for free, you have a fairly economic printer.
OK, but shouldn’t a bootstrapper buy the lowest cost printer on the market? Not always, as I like to remind people that bootstrappers are cheap, but cheap with a purpose.
It is possible to create a lot of materials that not that long ago would require working with a printing company. The printed materials that you can create with this printer will be considerably less expensive than if you have to send it out. And it will look much more professional than the low cost printers I have traditionally had in my home office in the past.
Simple stationary, brochures, and so forth can be created with this printer that is perfectly acceptable for the purposes of many small businesses. By tying into HP’s creative studio, it is possible to create some professional looking materials. Be aware that some of the links through this site do carry additional costs.
So what don’t I like so far? The one main drawback is that the machine is a bit noisier than I am used to with the smaller printers I have used in the past. But all in all, so far so good.
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