HP Wireless Officejet Pro 8000 C9297A - $30 AR/Trade-in Newegg

why go to Staples if they don't have this deal!?!?!?

Thanks just purchased and the code took $10 off, making total with shipping $79.99
I got an email with the promo code, if you are not on the email list then I don't think you can use the code.

in 4 1, Thx OP

cougarls88 said: In for 1 as well. What does the trade in printer have to include in the box that you're sending back? Would they have taken a printer that's missing the power block? I got a cheapo Canon one at the local thrift shop for 2 bucks that's complete but they had a big HP printer for $7.50 but it was missing the power adapter (did have the 6 cartridges--could've used those at Staples).

Don't worry about any power block. As a matter of fact, they tell you not to send any accessories with the printer.

If you have signed up for Bank of America's Add It Up program, you can get 6% back.

crazypalooza said: f2000sa said: Bring the new printer to Staples and trade it in for $50 toward buying another HP. Do not forget to take the ink cartridges out, $3 each recycling at Staples.

Please explain, why would you take the new printer to Staples for $50 credit???

I think he's figuring on using the "discounted" printer at Newegg ($50 credit) towards a more expensive one at Staples. Another thought assuming you already have a "working" 8000/8500 printer (that you're keeping)...buy a second one, scavenge the cartridges and heads from it (keep them, obviously), then trade the pieced-out printer in at Staples for a third one (this assuming it goes on sale again, obviously it's not this week).

much better to take and recycle directly to odepott or sttaples OR
be prepared to email, call and recall to get the multi step hpp
send in $50 recycle rebate

Anyone know if the $10 coupon will invalidate the Bing CashBack? I know its not a big deal and worth trying, but just curious.

Good price until you need ink, and then the burn begins.

i picked up a cheapish $7 printer and goodwill computer works to trade into Office Depot, but after exhaustive research the last few days, I've concluded that it's not worth it get a new color AIO, particularly inkjet. HP 6500, HP8500, Epson Workforces, Artisans, etc. Most, if not alll inkjets require you to use color, even in B&W printing, and no printer will simply do straight up black monochrome like my current HP Laserjet 1000 or my previous HP Photosmart... could go monochrome AIO laser but than you lose features like a decent scanner or auto duplex, or wireless.

All in all, I think it's such a crock of sh1t, this revenue retention regression in tech.

So you buy a high capacity blank cartridge and the the printer manufacturers boast a high page yield and competitive price per pg. to comparative laser printer... but then, lo and behold, you have to replace the cyan, magenta, and yellow 2-4 times before you get through the black.

A fair non $ gouging printer would allow to completely shut off cyan, magenta, and yellow unless printing a photo, better yet, not even require anything but black cartridge for printer to function period.

/end of rant

sorry, this is just bothersome to me. I think I'll be sticking with my 2500 pages per toner HP LJ 1000 for a wee bit longer, as much as I'd like a full featured AIO.

QUICKAVE said: exxxxactly....
ALL INKS need to pass WHATEVER the HP NEW "fill level" requirement is....ONE THAT TAKES just ENOUGH color
from EACH color cart to print EACH B/W page!!
....and if you get one large black one and another goes out
WELLL just like the good ole XMAS LIGHTS you need to get the others....only worse.... the PRINTER
BECOMES USELESS as NOT EVEN b/w is ALLOWED till you pay up for more color ones that STILL have some ink in them!! ....
and the rebatte as mentioned email, fax,most likely call, then re- send letter.. then hope it comes
it will if you follow up to 5months.....
hakujin said: Good price until you need ink, and then the burn begins.

i picked up a cheapish $7 printer and goodwill computer works to trade into Office Depot, but after exhaustive research the last few days, I've concluded that it's not worth it get a new color AIO, particularly inkjet. HP 6500, HP8500, Epson Workforces, Artisans, etc. Most, if not alll inkjets require you to use color, even in B&W printing, and no printer will simply do straight up black monochrome like my current HP Laserjet 1000 or my previous HP Photosmart... could go monochrome AIO laser but than you lose features like a decent scanner or auto duplex, or wireless.

All in all, I think it's such a crock of sh1t, this revenue retention regression in tech.

So you buy a high capacity blank cartridge and the the printer manufacturers boast a high page yield and competitive price per pg. to comparative laser printer... but then, lo and behold, you have to replace the cyan, magenta, and yellow 2-4 times before you get through the black.

A fair non $ gouging printer would allow to completely shut off cyan, magenta, and yellow unless printing a photo, better yet, not even require anything but black cartridge for printer to function period.

/end of rant

sorry, this is just bothersome to me. I think I'll be sticking with my 2500 pages per toner HP LJ 1000 for a wee bit longer, as much as I'd like a full featured AIO.
Umm, if you do a little more checking you will find out that HPs default settings on these print black text using color inks, but you can go into the printer properties and force all black ink.... at least on the 8000 and 8500 models. I do it all the time. I seriously got 2000 pages out of a black XL cart on my HP 8500 last month. These models are the best kept secret in inkjets right now. They're ultra fast in B&W mode to... smokes my old HP laserjet. And the HP "XL" black ink carts for these last as long or LONGER than most HP brand B&W laser printer toners. Only way I'm seeing the HP lasers coming out on top is if you buy the "compatible" off-brand toners from discount shops. And I quit doing that after getting a batch of really poor quality toners with worn out drums in them (for the HP 1018 series). The 940 inks used in these inkjets are only available from HP at the moment.

Isn't it ironic that a wireless printer comes with USB cable, when regular printers come with none?

If we have done the trade in before (when it was available at the other big name B&M store), are we eligible to do the $50 trade in again ?

Does buying from Newegg qualify for the $50 trade in rebate?

COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW TO FORCE 8500 NOT TO USE COLOR INK ? I ONLY KNOW TO USE GRAYSCALE - BLACK SETTING (BUT IT STILL USES SOME COLOR INK)
ANY SUGGESTION WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

chw2455 said: COULD YOU EXPLAIN HOW TO FORCE 8500 NOT TO USE COLOR INK ? I ONLY KNOW TO USE GRAYSCALE - BLACK SETTING (BUT IT STILL USES SOME COLOR INK)
ANY SUGGESTION WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.Within Vista using HPs drivers that shipped with the unit... goto your applications print utility popup, then select the printer name- "HP Officejet Pro 8500 A909a Series" if its not already your default, then select Properties, then select Features tab and at the bottom of the Features tab under Color Options select "Print in Greyscale", then switch from High Quality to Black Ink Only. Just printed off 300+ pages with it using black ink only... better than laser quality print. And it was fast as hell. Haven't tried it with XP or Win 7, but I bet its the same procedure.

c3688t said:
Umm, if you do a little more checking you will find out that HPs default settings on these print black text using color inks, but you can go into the printer properties and force all black ink.... at least on the 8000 and 8500 models. I do it all the time. I seriously got 2000 pages out of a black XL cart on my HP 8500 last month. These models are the best kept secret in inkjets right now. They're ultra fast in B&W mode to... smokes my old HP laserjet. And the HP "XL" black ink carts for these last as long or LONGER than most HP brand B&W laser printer toners. Only way I'm seeing the HP lasers coming out on top is if you buy the "compatible" off-brand toners from discount shops. And I quit doing that after getting a batch of really poor quality toners with worn out drums in them (for the HP 1018 series). The 940 inks used in these inkjets are only available from HP at the moment.

Well, I probably wouldn't have found out that much since I have done quite a bit of research (even in the 8500) and given up. Folks complain that even if you choose an black and white mode on newer HPs (particularly the OfficeJet 6500), it still cheats and uses other colors and HP acts clueless as to the problem. So I need to ask... are you positively sure? Because the norm is using color no matter what and using substituting grey scale and straight up b&w.Epson does it. Canon does it, and HP does it, as standard practice.

The fact that you're getting 2000 pages on xl black is great news, but the question is how often do you change color (cyan, magenta, and yellow) and can you use printer with no color cartridges in it? I would seriously consider the 8500 over the 6500; th. 2000 yield sounds nice, just don't want to exchange the color 2-3x during the course of the black cartridge.

Edit: Also, what do you think of some of these complaints; come across any problems of your own?

http://www.Amazon.com/Officejet-8500-Wireless-All-Printer/product-reviews/B001PM6RX6/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

lots of DOA (or soon thereafter) printheads,hissing noise, and cannot scan to network folder seem to be the main reasons.
Though, I'll give it a whirl if you can confirm the aforementioned questions, as I would really like more desk space.

This was actually the 1st one of 8 printers that I researched, interestingly enough. Can you also tell me whether the scanner utilized ADF and if it supports duplex?

TIA TIA TIA! Your feedback would greatly help me!

hakujin said: c3688t said:
Umm, if you do a little more checking you will find out that HPs default settings on these print black text using color inks, but you can go into the printer properties and force all black ink.... at least on the 8000 and 8500 models. I do it all the time. I seriously got 2000 pages out of a black XL cart on my HP 8500 last month. These models are the best kept secret in inkjets right now. They're ultra fast in B&W mode to... smokes my old HP laserjet. And the HP "XL" black ink carts for these last as long or LONGER than most HP brand B&W laser printer toners. Only way I'm seeing the HP lasers coming out on top is if you buy the "compatible" off-brand toners from discount shops. And I quit doing that after getting a batch of really poor quality toners with worn out drums in them (for the HP 1018 series). The 940 inks used in these inkjets are only available from HP at the moment.

Well, I probably wouldn't have found out that much since I have done quite a bit of research (even in the 8500) and given up. Folks complain that even if you choose an black and white mode on newer HPs (particularly the OfficeJet 6500), it still cheats and uses other colors and HP acts clueless as to the problem. So I need to ask... are you positively sure? Because the norm is using color no matter what and using substituting grey scale and straight up b&w.Epson does it. Canon does it, and HP does it, as standard practice.

The fact that you're getting 2000 pages on xl black is great news, but the question is how often do you change color (cyan, magenta, and yellow) and can you use printer with no color cartridges in it? I would seriously consider the 8500 over the 6500; th. 2000 yield sounds nice, just don't want to exchange the color 2-3x during the course of the black cartridge.

Edit: Also, what do you think of some of these complaints; come across any problems of your own?

http://www.Amazon.com/Officejet-8500-Wireless-All-Printer/product-reviews/B001PM6RX6/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

lots of DOA (or soon thereafter) printheads,hissing noise, and cannot scan to network folder seem to be the main reasons.
Though, I'll give it a whirl if you can confirm the aforementioned questions, as I would really like more desk space.

This was actually the 1st one of 8 printers that I researched, interestingly enough. Can you also tell me whether the scanner utilized ADF and if it supports duplex?

TIA TIA TIA! Your feedback would greatly help me!
I'm 99.999% certain that when you select the options I mentioned it prints with black ink only. I do print some heavy duty color documents, and they do drain the 3 colors down eventually. I'm talking brochure-quality edge-to-edge graphics full of solid colors. Even on those, you get a ton of mileage out of the "940" ink tanks on this model. The "XL" color carts last a long time on color print outs. How often have I changed them... once so far. Even the starter color carts lasted for a long time of color printing. I'm very impressed with ink usage on this one vs other models of inkjets/laserjets we've owned in the past including (HP PSC 500 AIO, HP 5610 AIO, HP 1018 mono laser, HP Photosmart 7460, and Samsung CLP-300 color laser). But when I was printing large text documents with mixed graphics in black ink only, it only drew down on the black ink gauge.... colors did not go down. No issues on printheads so far. But for $30 after HP's trade in, get a spare for sure. I think you can trade in up to 3 on the 8000 pro series for $50ea in Cash Back ($150 max). Its worth it for the 4 inks alone, plus you get a spare set of printheads. Only problem that I was very disappointed on was scan to windows features didn't install on Vista 64-bit. So one touch scanning from the control panel and bundled OCR s/w doesn't work for me. I spent a lot of time trying to get it to work. HP doesn't admit the problem exists, but others have reported the same thing. On my Vista x32 machines it works. BTW there is a work around to scan into Vista 64 systems... you can directly scan from window's paint program under File, then "From Scanner or Camera". I just use that instead and it works fine. Also, here are a few other things to know before you get-- 1) I wanted this for the built in duplexer feature and edge-to-edge capability. However, the s/w only allows you to print all the way edge-to-edge if it is configured for photo or brochure paper. This prob means more ink consumption on edge to edge prints. Otherwise, plain paper printing is very close to edge to edge, like .18 inches boarder or something like that. 2) The unit is more noisy than the average inkjet. 3) These use pigment based ink, and I don't believe they produce as good of high res color photographs as quality dye based photo printers. The pigments are probably better suited for office documents and mailers/brochures anyway. And most people wouldn't be able to tell the diff on photos. I've compared them and found a slight difference- color gamut is not as wide with these 940's. Ok, I'm done. This should put you to sleep!

How about ink refill?

Quote: I think you can trade in up to 3 on the 8000 pro series for $50ea in Cash Back ($150 max).

Where did you find a limit of 3? I have not found this limit.

I think I signed up for Paypal's 'Pay-Me-Later' (it was VERY late).
If all went through, there is supposed to be another twenty-five dollar
credit on this printer transaction. That would make my cost near to
seven dollars! I really like FatWallet!!

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Someone's working late! Or early. Just received notice that the
printer has shipped.
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