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Week 3: Print Speeds

For Week 3 of the HP Officejet Pro Challenge, the participants focused on print speeds and the impact it had on their business’ daily activities. They were asked to share their thoughts on the following topics: Print speeds of the HP Officejet Pro, as compared to their old printer; Impact the printer’s speed had on their business; and Importance of print speed when shopping for a business printer. Scroll down to read about what they had to say. Or click here to learn more about The HP Officejet Pro Challenge! Also, have you had similar experiences with your business printer? Let us know in the comment section at the bottom of the page!

For Week 3 of the HP Officejet Pro Challenge, the participants focused on print speeds and the impact it had on their business’ daily activities. They were asked to share their thoughts on the following topics:

Print speeds of the HP Officejet Pro, as compared to their old printer;
Impact the printer’s speed had on their business; and
Importance of print speed when shopping for a business printer.

Scroll down to read about what they had to say. Or click here to learn more about The HP Officejet Pro Challenge! Also, have you had similar experiences with your business printer? Let us know in the comment section at the bottom of the page!

*Note: All blog entries are authentic submissions from the businesses and have not been altered in any form.

Week 3: August 10, 2009

Week 3: August 10, 2009

Company Name: OVI

For my business, time is definitely of the essence so therefore a printer with high speed is a plus. My older printer was not bad with speed but being that I've had it for so long I can see the difference with the HP printer. I do various projects and love to multitask so being able to do more than one project at such great speed has been a positive impact for my home-based business. My main goal is to get a project done as quickly as possible and have satisfied consumers; and that's exactly what this new HP printer has provided! Thanks HP for a wonderful & efficient product.

Company Name: Content Feast

The HP Officejet speeds through pages which is great when you're looking to pick a page and run out the door (that's me half the time). The other half of the time, I'm printing a really big print job, like when I'm doing a mailout or something. In that case, it's really inevitable to have to go work on something else while your printer goes at it, but it's definitely nice for it to end ... sometime this year.

Printer speed is not something I make my purchasing decision on. Cost and quality are at the top of the list - come to think of it, that's pretty much all there is on the list. However, technology is here to make our businesses run more smoothly, but if we're sitting around tapping our feet waiting on it, how smooth is that? Who can complain about an added bonus of high speed printing in a printer that's loaded with features and has great printer quality?

Company Name: BID Blinds

I’m BA-ACK!

Talk about running a business and taking time…WOW! Late nights all week with more to follow the next two days as well. I could use a machine that either gives me a couple extra hours per day or magically condense my 14 hour days down to eight! Of course, I’d probably end up working some of that magical time too, trying to catch up on things I pushed to the back burner. This 8500 might be doing some of that magic now.

The print time for B&W is about the same as I had before, but the full color options are done in less than a quarter of the time as before. And the two-sided printing has also cut some time from my printing/copying projects. I can tell you that the quality of the end product is the bigger factor for me because it allows me to prepare a more polished and “high end” product for my client base in less time than the pages I would take with me before I got this 8500 Time Saver. In my line of work, having a visual to highlight a “look” or to use to contrast and compare products and options is HUGE! With the quality and, more importantly, CLARITY of the images helps my customers’ confidence in selecting their final products. Because the process is shorter per page, I can include all relevant materials in a more complete package than before in the same amount of time. The pictures will be able to stand on their own without my explanation of what the picture is trying to convey. There is no graininess or shadowy imaging.

Before receiving this all-in-one, I would have said the time of the print process was irrelevant to my purchase decision. I mean, I don’t do THAT much printing. And the quality isn’t anything to write home about. And the colors just blend together, no definition. We all know that any high quality productions have to be outsourced. Right? WRONG again!

I can produce top notch materials in a small amount of time tailored to my client’s specific interests and concerns. My work is all about people. Having the ability to produce documents with that personal touch in moments is something too valuable to remove from consideration. Time may be money, but people are THE necessary resource to success.

Thanks for reading,

Mark

Company Name: Reinhart Marketing

Week Three is here. All my computers are now printing to the HP 8500 Officejet Pro. I re-read my first two blogs and I sound like some psycho stalker raving about this printer. My son said if I love it so much I should marry it. I'm just so happy it's such a wonderful machine. I could have been given some crappy piece of office equipment that didn't work. Since there are so many of those types of machines out there it wouldn't be surprising, but still to get a machine that works so well is amazing. I can't imagine trying to come up with good things to say if the machine sucked. I'd have to make up things like the black plastic case is so crisp, it matches everything in my office! LOL!

So far the machine is zipping along. Speed is so important when it comes to a printer, so I'm so greatful that this one screams. I was scrambling to finish my last pages and get to my tax protest last week. I had 4 more pages of photos that needed to be printed before I could leave and I was already late. I set the machine to 2 sided and let her rip. The 5 sets blasted out in Technicolor glory in about 2 minutes. Then I had to make copies of some things. I was sweating it because the machine chose to clean the ink heads at that point. The touch screen told me it would "take a few moments." I didn't believe it and screamed a few profanities. I turned on my old machine and before it could even power up my HP 8500 was ready to copy. I couldn't believe it. When my old printer cleaned heads it sounded like some old man coughing up phlegm in the morning. It was a long, drawn-out process. Anyway I won my tax protest, thanks in great part to my new printer and as Arlo Guthrie would say, "the 27 eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows." Nothing says Ike damage like the close up picture of a baseball sized hole in your window frame and a downed tree laying near by.

I still haven't learned to scan. My bad. I know it will be easy since everything so far has been. Haven't had to call tech support yet. I just haven't had time to sit down and play with it due to a friend's crisis with a leaking water bed. That was a two day fiasco as water poured out and we bailed! Still it was nice to know that even though I was away from the office my staff was in good hands. Anything they needed to do the 8500 could handle. As far as I know no one has tried to copy their butt, but it's a very sturdy machine and I'm sure it could handle the weight. Do I really want to know what my staff does when I'm away?!!

Company Name: Pat's Hair Salon

Hi to All on this third week,

I have been coping papers for one thing and another and I love my new 8500 Hp Office Jet printer it is a dream come true to have, it prints so much faster, and I have timed it and it prints about a forth of the time my other printer does it is not very old but now I sit and wait and wait for one page to be printed. So I use My new 8500 printer and I love it. Everyone should have one of these.

I does help with our clients waiting for a print-out they are ready to leave in no time, they are happy about that too.

I would advice anyone to get a printer like this in there business or church for there activitys it works so much faster.

Thanks again
Patricia

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BTBottger	Print Speed Comparison Links	0	Aug 17 2009, 6:55 PM EDT by BTBottger
	Thread started: Aug 17 2009, 6:55 PM EDT Watch A bit more on print speeds of the HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless AiO. Compared to other ink-based printers, the Officejet Pro is also lightning-fast when you look at the high-speed draft mode -- at up to 35 ppm black and up to 34 ppm color after the first page. The Canon PIXMA MX7600 is slower and prints at up to 28 ppm black and 23 ppm color in draft mode. To see an animated video of the Officejet Pro going head-to-head with rival devices, see this web page: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/officejet-pro/comparisonflash/index.html. Or if you’re someone who likes all the details, check out this downloadable table comparing the Officejet Pro with laser and ink competitors on speed specs and other aspects like cost-per-page and energy use: http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/officejet-pro/comparisonflash/supportfiles/ojpro8500w_comparison.pdf Has your printer left you waiting patiently (or impatiently) while a job completes? Feel free to jump into the conversation and share your point of view. Regards, Bret Do you find this valuable? Keyword tags: challenge links Officejet Officejet Pro OJP ppm SMB speed Post reply
BTBottger	Printing speeds and impatience	0	Aug 17 2009, 6:49 PM EDT by BTBottger
	Thread started: Aug 17 2009, 6:49 PM EDT Watch They say, “Good things come to those who wait.” But who wants to wait a long time for pages to print? Like most people, I get impatient waiting for my print job to finish -- especially when I’m on a deadline. It turns out the small business owners in our Challenge feel the same way. This week the Officejet Pro Challenge participants talked about their experiences with print speed, whether the new Officejet is faster than their old printer, and how that affects their business. As an HP employee involved with launching these printers, I can tell you the HP Officejet 8500 Wireless was designed like a sports car to deliver the fastest speeds among our business inkjet printers, while delivering professional quality color or black pages. The Officejet Pro is a zippy choice with equivalent color print speeds to lasers – or even faster. In normal default mode, this Officejet Pro prints professional-quality output at up to 15 pages per minute black or up to 11 ppm color. (For details, see www.hp.com/go/inkjetprinter.) In comparison, the Samsung CLX-3175FN and CLX-2160N laser devices, print color much slower rate, at up to 4 ppm in normal mode. No fuser, no problem! If you’re impatient like me, you’ll be pleased this Officejet Pro can deliver the first-page-out as quickly as 15 seconds for black or color. Typical non-HP laser printers require a warm-up period to heat the fuser – taking extra time before they start printing. According to a test by Buyer’s Lab Inc, the Officejet Pro 8500 had a faster average first-page-out time of 17.52 seconds compared to the slower 28.12 seconds for the Samsung CLX-3175-FN. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2009/HPSMBEvent/BLI-HP-OJ-6500.pdf Regards, Bret Do you find this valuable? Keyword tags: challenge laser links Officejet Officejet Pro OJP ppm SMB speed Post reply

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