HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One E910a (C9309A#B1H)

Product Description

Print professional color business materials up to 13" x 19" and for the lowest cost per page vs. in-class, wide-format inkjet all-in-ones with the HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One, which delivers maximum prints speeds of 33 pages per minute black and 32 ppm color. Print, fax, scan, copy - this wireless and Ethernet-ready workhorse does it all and saves you money with individual inks and high-capacity cartridges. It also uses up to 40% less energy than comparable laser products. Store your business documents on the Web and quickly access and print them directly from this inkjet printer using print apps and the 2.36" color touchscreen. You can also quickly fax files or scan to a PC or e-mail and use HP ePrint to send photos, documents and more from any mobile device directly to the HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One. The HP Officejet 7500A Wide Format e-All-in-One has a 150-page, wide-format tray and a 35-page automatic document feeder and handles a range of paper types. It also meets changing business needs by allowing you to connect to your PC with Hi-speed USB 2.0.6 or print without a PC using memory card slots.

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Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: HP
• Model: C9309A#B1H
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English, French, Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 11.54" h x 23.86" w x 16.77" l, 30.80 pounds
• Memory: 128MB DRAM

Features

• Print professional business materials-from 3 x 5 to 13 x 19 inches-plus Fax, Copy and Scan with ease.
• Print professional color for the lowest cost per page vs. in-class, wide-format inkjet all-in-ones.
• Print from anywhere, anytime, directly to your HP all-in-one, using your mobile device.
• Use the memory card slots and 2.36-inch touchscreen to print without a PC.
• Save on paper, using digital faxing options.

Customer Reviews

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150 of 158 people found the following review helpful.
HP OFFICEJET 7500A WIDE FORMAT e-ALL-IN-ONE - Strong multi-purpose workhorse
By Dean Redfern
This all-in-one HP Officejet performs the four functions of printing, faxing, scanning and copying. It does each as good or better than the standalone version of each of these activities. On the printing side, the quality of the printed documents and pictures also rivals that of third-party publishers, especially those on photographic paper. The prints, which can be borderless, have sharp, vivid and nicely saturated colors.

The nine-step installation process took about 45 minutes. All four functions were then up and running. Connectivity can be wired or wireless Ethernet, or through a USB connection to a PC. I connected the HP Officejet 7500A through a wireless wifi connection on my home office network. The unit saw the name of my network on its LCD display, and then prompted me for the network password, which is entered into the display unit.

I printed two "draft" documents, one in black and white, and one in color. The 22-page black-and-white Word document printed in 56 seconds. The 16-page web document of colored product pages from amazon.com, took 68 seconds. The quality of the draft documents is very good and perfectly fine for everyday use.

Since this is a wide-format printer, I printed a borderless 13 by 19 photograph from Photoshop Elements. The quality of the printed image is outstanding. It is as good or better than an emulsion-based print. I also printed the same image on a borderless 8 ½ by 11 to test for color consistency between various sizes of photographic paper. Both images were beautiful and consistent.

There are a couple of nice enhanced features of this all-in-one unit. The first is the auto document feeder, which feeds the FAX, copying and scanning functions. I stacked a 40-page document into it, and created a PDF file of the document in a few minutes.

The other enhanced feature is ePrint, which allows printing to the unit from anywhere on the Internet. During the setup process, an email address is assigned to the printer. You can print most standard document and image types by attaching then to its email address, and then sending it. The HP instructions say that "a print job might be delayed up to 5 minutes" before it prints. My delay time was eight seconds. This is a neat feature, which also includes a level of security that allows for limiting inbound email-based print jobs to a list of email addresses that you can create and manage online.

The HP Officejet 7500A is solidly built. It is replacing a 12-year-old Canon copier, an 11-year-old HP printer and a 5-year-old HP scanner. The quality of this HP Officejet 7500A is simply better than the "parts," so it is time to replace these older units. I think this HP unit will also last ten or more years as well.

57 of 63 people found the following review helpful.
Serious small business all-in-one
By Yu-jin Chia
Picking up this unit, I had pretty high expectations. HP has always produced excellent printers; in fact, back in the 90s they were better known as a printer (and possibly calculator) manufacturer than a PC brand. Suffice it to say that with this latest generation, it's clear they still make great printers. It's also clear that their software has improved since the last generation I've used, and that they're making a serious effort to improve usability across the board.

The HP OfficeJet 7500A is a large all-in-one, designed to accept wide format print jobs and clearly catering to a small office setup. It has practically every feature you can think of: scanner, copier, wireless, USB, fax, and e-mail printing. It also has a color touchscreen display, memory card slot, and dedicated sheet feeders for printing and copying. The size and weight of the machine are both substantial, so this is not something you'd buy to put in a crowded room or if you plan to move around frequently.

Straight out of the box, setup is simple. If you can configure a Kindle, this is really no harder- just plug it in, then hook up the USB, ethernet, and wireless as applicable. Install the software on whichever machine you want to print from (or don't- see below) and you're good to go. I installed it on an old Win XP desktop, my Macbook, and a Win 7 machine: two using wireless, one physically connected. No issues whatsoever; I wish all hardware was this easy to install.

Alternatively, you can simply turn on the printer, connect it to the internet via WiFi/ethernet, and use the e-print feature without installing any software. This also allows devices that can't install the software (e.g. phones) to print. Setup involves creating an account on the HP e-print site, after which you can specify a list of e-mail addresses allowed to use this feature (or let anyone, which is probably not recommended). To print, simply attach the file to an e-mail addressed to the printer. This feature recognizes most common document formats (.txt, .doc, .pdf, .xls, most image formats) and works pretty well. I did notice some quirks with it, for example it will not print graphics that are small size or low resolution. Why not just use this feature instead of installing the pretty big HP software suite? For one, it can take a while depending on how snappy your e-mail is. It also doesn't let you specify any formatting- you can only choose black & white or color in the general printer setup. Lastly, it doesn't support ALL document and image formats.

The third alternative is to put your media on an SD card and physically insert it into the printer. This allows you to print images directly from a digital camera, for example. The touchscreen allows some simple formatting instructions as well. The primary advantage of this is you don't have to have a computer running to use this.

Print speed is comparable to most modern printers- very fast for B&W, decent for good quality color. Print quality is fully configurable, and is very high (photo print detail) on best quality. The scanner/copier works as well as any comparable device; having the dedicated sheet feeder is a plus, as it allows you to automatically scan stacks of documents instead of doing it one by one.

The machine itself comes with a pack of photo paper to play around with, plus the standard four color cartridges. The black cartridge is the same size as the color ones despite the fact that the print head can fit a considerably larger one (as is the case with most modern inkjets). No doubt this is to get you to buy one sooner, which is a bit cheap on HP's part.

Additionally, this printer has built-in fax via a standard phone cable. I haven't tried this particular feature and don't use fax in general (it's such an 80s way to do things IMO). Especially with the scan-to-email feature, this is rather obsolete. However, if you need it, it's there.

The next big question is, who is this printer for? It's probably most suitable for use as a home office or small office machine. For personal use, it's pretty massive overkill in terms of features and power and is too bulky besides. For a large business, assuming most print jobs will be B&W, it'll work but will likely cost more than a laser printer in the long-run due to the higher cost of black ink. On the other hand, if you plan on printing color frequently this machine is going to be hard to beat. The fact that it can take outsized pages is an added plus.

Bottom line: though a tad on the pricey side, the OfficeJet 7500A has pretty much every feature you can imagine and can handle anything you can throw at it. It's easy to set up, the touch LCD is a nice feature, and the scan/print options are effective and powerful. It might not be the most cost effective unit for massive amounts of black and white printing, but it can definitely do the job.

59 of 66 people found the following review helpful.
HP 7500A Wide Format Printer
By Sister in Christ
As with many other reviews on this product, I had high expectations of this HP because I've owned 5 excellent ones in the past. I've only replaced for upgrades (like I expected to do this time, and that just isn't going to happen). I've never been disappointed in any HP product, until now. There are many pros and cons to this printer which is why I gave it a 3. Though for me, an experienced HP user, the cons are more outweighing the pros. The quality of the print is really fantastic. Pretty top notch, and the ink doesn't bleed like most ink jet printers, which is a WONDERFUL attribute. I've had problems with previous HP printer's ink cartridges included in the purchase pkg (the ink is usually too low and goes bad really fast), so I did my norm and purchased all of the necessary cartridges to get a valid opinion, and I can't imagine my prints getting any better. I'd even tested it with printing an 8.5 x 11 print using a picture from my telephone and the quality it returned far surpassed my expectations even on very inexpensive paper. The smooth operation of aligning, cleaning printheads, diagnostics were fantastic, typical HP. It may take a little time trying to figure it out, but the process is pretty simple and self-explanatory once you do. The quality of the prints alone is worth keeping the printer. The problems I'm having are:

1. This printer takes so long to start up just to print a 1-pg copy, certainly more than my previous HP printer does (which I'm suppose to be replacing with this one - FYI: that won't be happening), it's crazy to have two printers, but apparently that's what I'm stuck with and oh-by-the-way, I lack that printing space in my small office.

(The main reasons for the purchase of this printer was for the Wide Format print & scan sizes for my scrapbooking, as well as the wireless WI-FI printing and scanning process)

2. I can't even print a 12x12 print from a 12x12 print, nor can I scan a 12x12 page. When I print on 12x12, it gives me a border that I'm not really wanting or needing, and no other print option included. The printer is quite large, therefore, my expectations of print sizes were not met. I personally view this as a trial printer gone wrong.

3. Connectivity with the WI-FI print/scanning requires a cable cord that DOESN'T come with the pkg. So I'm not using this wonderful option at the moment either.

So, to sum it up, if you intend to purchase this for scrapbooking or just for quick normal printing and scanning, or unless you have an extremely bad printer, I wouldn't recommend this one. I even bought this printer for half the normal price, and it's still NOT worth it. However, the quality of the prints are really phenomenal if you plan to use it for picture printing, that's about all it's worth. Hope this helps...

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