Customer Rating: 
Summary: Jo Fields
Comment: I have never wrote a review before but but this time HP has made a piece of junk. I hope I stop someone else from buying this printer. It was not an inexpensive printer when I bought it and have had nothing but trouble. My printer says there is an ink system failure and I have spent hours tryinhg to get the problem resovled. Its impossible and I have decided to junk it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Waste of my hard earned money!
Comment: For some reason I can only put down to insanity, I bought this printer after my beloved Epson died (after many years of trouble free use). This printer constantly claims to be out of paper, no matter how I load the paper tray. Do a Google search and see how many other people have this same problem! And HP tech support is apparently in Guadalajara! BAH! I'll take my lumps, throw this piece of garbage in the land fill, and buy something else (NOT HP).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bad seller
Comment: Printer did not work. Powered up but would not print. I have seven of these printers no problems
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't plan on printing black and white...
Comment: I've owned many HP printers in my lifetime and they're the only brand I've recommended for years, however this printer has changed my opinion of HP so drastically that I may never purchase another HP printer again.
When printing color, this printer does great and I like that it's got separate color cartridges so that you don't have to replace the entire rainbow when one color runs out, however this printer has a serious flaw...
When printing black and white, it continues to burn through color cartridges. I estimate that for every 30 BLACK ONLY pages (no, I'm not kidding here) I end up replacing one of the color cartridges. I've called HP, I've chatted with online support... the only thing they tell me is that I must not have "black only" selected under my quality options, but I do. I've spent over $100 on color cartridges even though I use this printer to print black and white primarily and I've finally decided that I could have bought a cheap laser printer by now for the cost of the ink that has literally gone to waste.
I even resorted to saving my cartridges thinking that surely it isn't actually USING the ink in these color cartridges, and that maybe it's just a software malfunction in calculating remaining ink? Nope, that doesn't work either... when you see the message "Replace yellow because it's low" and then you toss in your old yellow cartridge that mysteriously ran out even though you hadn't printed a single color document since it had been installed, you get a new message: "Replace yellow cartridge because it is beyond it's expiration date" ... what's in this cartridge that makes it expire in 6 months, milk??
Save your money, stay away.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hate this printer
Comment: This printer has had paper feed problems from day one. I so regret not returning it. Previously had an HP all-in-one, cheap but worked better than the 8250 which was over $250. Afraid to buy another HP.
Summary: Jo Fields
Comment: I have never wrote a review before but but this time HP has made a piece of junk. I hope I stop someone else from buying this printer. It was not an inexpensive printer when I bought it and have had nothing but trouble. My printer says there is an ink system failure and I have spent hours tryinhg to get the problem resovled. Its impossible and I have decided to junk it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Waste of my hard earned money!
Comment: For some reason I can only put down to insanity, I bought this printer after my beloved Epson died (after many years of trouble free use). This printer constantly claims to be out of paper, no matter how I load the paper tray. Do a Google search and see how many other people have this same problem! And HP tech support is apparently in Guadalajara! BAH! I'll take my lumps, throw this piece of garbage in the land fill, and buy something else (NOT HP).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bad seller
Comment: Printer did not work. Powered up but would not print. I have seven of these printers no problems
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't plan on printing black and white...
Comment: I've owned many HP printers in my lifetime and they're the only brand I've recommended for years, however this printer has changed my opinion of HP so drastically that I may never purchase another HP printer again.
When printing color, this printer does great and I like that it's got separate color cartridges so that you don't have to replace the entire rainbow when one color runs out, however this printer has a serious flaw...
When printing black and white, it continues to burn through color cartridges. I estimate that for every 30 BLACK ONLY pages (no, I'm not kidding here) I end up replacing one of the color cartridges. I've called HP, I've chatted with online support... the only thing they tell me is that I must not have "black only" selected under my quality options, but I do. I've spent over $100 on color cartridges even though I use this printer to print black and white primarily and I've finally decided that I could have bought a cheap laser printer by now for the cost of the ink that has literally gone to waste.
I even resorted to saving my cartridges thinking that surely it isn't actually USING the ink in these color cartridges, and that maybe it's just a software malfunction in calculating remaining ink? Nope, that doesn't work either... when you see the message "Replace yellow because it's low" and then you toss in your old yellow cartridge that mysteriously ran out even though you hadn't printed a single color document since it had been installed, you get a new message: "Replace yellow cartridge because it is beyond it's expiration date" ... what's in this cartridge that makes it expire in 6 months, milk??
Save your money, stay away.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hate this printer
Comment: This printer has had paper feed problems from day one. I so regret not returning it. Previously had an HP all-in-one, cheap but worked better than the 8250 which was over $250. Afraid to buy another HP.
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