Reviews for HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One

This printer is awesome. Very Fast, crisp, highly flexible and functional with iPad/iPhone. All the goodies, scan and print to/from email, etc. over the internet, AirPrint/e-print does it all. Scanner and Copier very fast. I have the premium, dual paper tray model. Unbelievable value, and its an office jet, so the high volume cartridges are VERY cost effective cost/page b/w and color.

I've been using this printer for a month now. Setup was easy on my wireless network using the driver software it came with. I use it with my Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.2, IPad 3, and IPhone 5 using AirPrint with no issues. I also have a Windows 7 pc that uses it over the wifi as well. It works good, it's fast and the output quality is very acceptable. I would recommend it.

50% of the time, the printer doesn't scan, doesn't print. Chooses when to clean its sensors (OBTW it chooses to do it, right after you've click on the print button). The printer is connected directly to the workstation yet its software tells me it's not available. You have to 'wake up' the printer (jab at its panel) to get it to do something. Oh it has features --- that you'll never use. HP - if it doesn't print or scan, it is useless. PIECE OF JUNK

Front touch panel control screen failed after 3 days (went to solid white) making it useless except for printing from the computer. On day 5, the printer stopped feeding paper making it completely useless. Returned it to the store I bought it from. Turns out others on the HP forum have had similar problems with this printer.

this printer does not allow any paper thicker than regular old printing paper. Card stock NOPE! Photo paper NOPE! Went through too much hassle to get the printer then this, and an exchange only made me more mad.
This is not the printer you want period

Tends to report a jam... when there isn't one.
Tends to constantly run diagnostics. And report nothing.
Love ink... I mean really alot.

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 could print through wifi, I could print the eprint center, copy, scan and I dont have a hardline to fax but it all worked. The next task was to figure out the AirPrint feature. I wanted to print using my I phone but could't figure out how to print using AirPrint. Mostly because I didn't have all of the know how about my iPhone. So I talked to Apple Care and talked to a lady named vicky and she showed me how to search for the printer on my phone and then print. It really does have AirPrint people it just takes a little work to get there.

The printer was purchased in September of 2012 and has worked very well with my PC and Macbook Pro (purchased in February 2012) It was easy to install and set up wireless on my Home network. It functions better with my iPhone and and iPad. The only drawback is that it will not allow two sided printing on the Macbook Pro. All the other devices do the two sided printing. Must be some gap in either the Mountain Lion software of the HP driver; but can find no answer from Apple nor HP.

Having gone through a headache a couple of years ago with the Lexmark 7675x (partly my own fault for installing from the CD instead of downloading drivers), I approached the HP with some trepidation. It turned out to be a fairly simple process. The HP website walked me through the driver download and, after a bit of tinkering to figure out the scanner controls it's working OK. Printing is really fast and scans are sharp. One caveat: I went for the simplest install, using USB instead of our WiFi.

A simple review:
Wireless function unstable and intermittent.
Same result when wired to a network, intermittently nonfunctional.
Air print feature worked at first, then hopeless.
THIS PRINTER IS NOT A NETWORK PRINTER OR AN AIRPRINT PRINTER.
All this experience on a professionally set up and maintained network with no other problems.
Enough said.