HP Officejet 6000 Color Inkjet Printer (CB051A#B1H)

• Up to 32 ppm black and 28 ppm color using individual ink tanks
• Up to 40% less energy consumption than laser
• Up to 40% lower cpp than laser
• Built-in ethernet networking
• Uses HP 920 Series ink cartridges

I am a very short time user of this printer, however, this is at least 16th printer I have had at since my first Centronics in 1979, and I have installed many more at work.

The printer is very well packed. The print head comes un-installed. I had a little apprehension putting in the print head. The gray bar that is raised has a stiff spring. It would not be the first time I have pulled something too hard, but there are no locks or catches. It just lifts up. The head went in smooth as did ink installation. The next step is to put power on and wait for the printer to align. This takes some time. The printer werrs, pops, grinds, sounds like it is trying to load paper, but eventually prints, JUST WAIT.

After plugging in the Ethernet cable, the network light came on, and pressing the light got me a network printout. (However, it was not necessary). From here you put the disk in the computer and follow instructions. I installed the printer on three computers, a desktop wired to network, and Asus EEEpc, wireless (copy all files to a usb and run setup from the usb), and a laptop also wireless. The desktop with Vista required me to except port 427, the Asus running XP required nothing, and the Laptop running Vista and Zone Alarm required reconfiguring Zone Alarm. The good thing is the firewall changes required were somewhat explained by the software. The Zone Alarm instructions were better than the Windows FireAlarm instructions.

I have read many of the ''professional'' reviews on this printer. Now that I have it installed and have printed several test prints, some thoughts. Print speed, is well within acceptable limits. In fact I read one review that said it was too slow. I disagree with that. I also read that the ''Photo'' quality was not good. Well it is certainly good enough. It does make noise, however, it is no worse that most other HP ink jets I have dealt with. It is not a factor for me, but it it were I would pick the Wireless model and stick the thing in a closet somewhere.

I would highly recommend this printer to anyone looking for no frills printing. I particularly like the cost of ink! While I have refilled carts before, at $9.99 for color carts, for 300 pages and $14.99 for 700 pages, I don''t think I will mess with it. The black XL cart is suppose to print 1,200 pages that is almost 5 reams of paper!

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This printer is very pretty and the cartridges for it are really cheap, but it doesn''t get very many pages per cartridge and when I tried to install it on my Windows 7 machine, following the instructions that came with the printer didn''t work. It says not to plug in the printer until you''ve installed the software, but the disk that comes with the printer does not have Windows 7 drivers. I was going to send the printer back until I tried just plugging it into the computer and letting it go. Luckily the computer was smart enough to find drivers for the printer without the disk.

Once the printer was installed and I tried to print something, I noticed the printer takes its good sweet time printing things, so if you''re looking for something super speedy you may want to look elsewhere.

Also note: THIS PRINTER DOES NOT COME WITH THE USB CABLE TO CONNECT IT TO THE COMPUTER! This printer does not have wireless capability so you need the cable to use the printer.

I didn''t see that before I bought it. Luckily I had an extra cord lying around, but others may not be so lucky.

Overall for the price however I am very happy with this little machine. No major problems I can see so far, and I''ve printed a good number of things since I purchased it.

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I''ve used the HP 6000 for only a short time (printing a hundred pages or so), but have found it excellent so far. Installation, though a bit slow, went easily. Printing speed in fast draft is exceptional (about 3 seconds a page) and the quality good. Communications between the printer and my computer could be faster, too, but once it goes to work it zips. One minor paper jam was easily fixed. I''m surprised at getting this much for the cost.

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I replaced an older Dell 920 with this printer and have been very impressed with the ease of set up and installation. It''s a little noisy but print quality is much better than I expected at this price. I like the 250 page paper feed tray.

This printer replaces my workhorse HP 895cse professional printer I have used for 6 or 8 years. Problem was, it was going to cost 75 dollars to replace the print cartridges so I decided to spend a few bucks more and replace it with a new printer. I read the reviews and for the most part, knew what to expect. So I''m generally OK with the printer and it is working fine. Which is to say, it prints nicely, but as other reviewers have mentioned, installation is a bit of a pain, and the thing is very noisy. Not loud, but just really chatty. Tell it to print. It whirrs and clicks for anywhere from 10 to 35 seconds (one time it took a minute). Once it gets started, its fast especially in economy/draft mode. In that or "everyday printing" mode it is at least twice as fast as my old printer. So that''s good. But remember the whirring and clicking, etc. Well, it even does that about 30 seconds after you stop printing. Finally a minute after you stop printing silence. Beautiful wonderful silence until you want to print again and the whole episode repeats itself :-( Its not horrible just annoying for someone who had a good printer before that didn''t need to do all these gyrations. I''m guessing this is HP''s way of getting good print quality at the most bargain-basement price possible. Let the firmware and auto-align stuff constantly grunt away to make up for not having provided a precise enough carriage to begin with?

Installation was somewhat problematic as others have mentioned. But if you follow the directions (mostly pictures with few words), and you are brave enough to lift the really stiff bar to put the print heads in, and then twist the levers on the cartridges until they snap off (yes you are supposed to break them off !), then it goes OK. Just notice the 10-minute symbol in the section of the instructions where you let it do its initial auto alignment. It sounds like its trying to feed paper many, many times. But its actually doing its alignment (or something) dance all that time. The hint is the 10-minute clock symbol in the picturial instruction sheet. Miss it and you will think the thing is having trouble loading paper. Don''t force feed it more paper. It eventually brought in the paper (after about 10 minutes) without any problem. Then its time to install the software.

The software spends an absurd amount of time doing seemingly nothing. (What in the world can a printer driver software set be doing for all this time ?! Half the time it is not even accessing the disk just chewing on the processor...) Once it finishes "checking the system", it then wants to install lots of utilities (and marketing stuff). I told it to not do most of them. Just the needed ones that were not possible to de-select, and the "solution center" which I wanted. After a few more minutes, it was finally done.

So how''s the print quality? It''s good. Somewhat of an improvement over my old 895cse, in both fast-econ, and in normal (everyday printing) modes. So that''s a good thing.

In summary, this is probably an OK, or maybe even good printer for the price, for the home environment where I''ll be using it. But I would NOT recommend this for an office. It''s not a business grade printer in my opinion and I would go nuts if I was periodically printing small batches and had to listen to it all day...