Customer Reviews

HP Officejet 7500A A3 e-All-in-One Web Enabled Printer (Print, Scan, Copy, Fax, Wireless, e-Print)

I bought this printer purely for its A3 printing capability, so the scanner (doubles as a fax) was a bonus. i bought it to replace my HP Officejet K7100, which is a superb machine, but it uses a tri colour cart and my particular printing needs mean that I heavily use yellow, followed by half as much blue and hardly any red, so I needed a single cart machine.

The HP Officejet 7500A seems like a good replacement and ink use looks to be good value. You get the small carts with the machine, which get you up and running, but you really need the XL carts for economy of scale - especially the black as the XL is three times bigger than the standard black.

Print quality is vey good, blacks are pin sharp and do not show feathering. I print out maps onto matt inkjet paper and they result in a really smooth texture, vibrant and no sign at all of any banding or other artifact.

When you select inkjet papers, the machine is slower and puts down more ink (as do all machines I own) but when I used the same graphic onto white inkjet self adhesive lables and used just the plain paper setting, the printer just churned them out and the print quality was as good as when I had used the inkjet paper setting.

The down side of this machine compared to my K7100 is that it does not have a command for booklet printing (or duplex). You can get around this by having the printer do 2 A4's onto an A3 and then manually flip the paper back into the tray and print the reverse side - so on a 12 page booklet, I select it to print pages 12 and 1 (in that order) and then put the paper back in again on the flip side and tell it to print pages 2 and 11 etc etc. it s more time consuming but it is an effective workaround.

When an ink starts to run out the machine advises you that you can carry on running until you think the ink quality drops, but to be frank, once that warning appears, there is not that much life left in the cart.

Photo reproduction is surprisingly good for a 3 colour machine (plus black)with accurate colour and tone transfer.

The machine is fairly quiet and the vibration through the desk is less than my K7100 produced.

Bottom line - very good at most things, does not do booklet printing but there is a workaround and the inks seem to give a very good result but with economical running costs - seems to compete very well against copy shop prices. Buy the machine with a set of XL carts.

This was bought to replace an old HP fax scanner and separate A3 printer for an IT company using windows 7 machines. It was supposed to work wirelessly over our network for multiple users. It has never ever 100% worked since we got it. First it wouldn't give you an option to print A3 - we had to install some apple software to fix that, but we're still having issues with it dropping off the network, you're lucky if you get one document scanned before it falls over, blaming our network, funny the other two much older non HP printers have no problems. The print quality is appalling as well. Fine for home use connected to one pc by cable but don't waste your money for anything more complicated. I think HP has really gone downhill over recent years, their software and drivers are shocking.

I bought this printer as it states iit is A3 printer and boarderless, however you try printing an Auotcad drawing to a A3 sheet of paper and you will find that the Margins on the top or bottom or side to side if landscape are a minimum of 20mm and what ever you try to configure it to you will see the drawing fits in preview mode but when you then print it itdoes not print anything on the edges as it is outside of the 20mm margins - wasted a whole day and most of the ink supplied trying to find away around this.

Do not buy this priner if you actuallly wish to completly fill an A3 sheet with a drawing produced in Autocad or any other application.

Based on the small print that you find in the manual which you can only see once you have bought and registered the product you will find that what I have found is true.

Having said that the scanning sofware SCAN and STITCH Delux is quite clever and does actually do whats on the wrapper, however you can buy this software through going on line and downloading from the manufactures and use it on any scanner.

So I am off to by a true A3 printer and look for a scanner and the software in the future

We are now on our THIRD (yes third) replacement HP7500A. Between software issues and the now endemic HP paper jam 'ghost', we have practically torn out all our hair! We have six HP printers in the office and the last four purchased (7500A, 8500, CP2025, 8500A) have all had issues with either software incompatibility or non existent paper jams which we have wasted hours fixing. Another frustration is that some of the software that comes with their printers doesn't install properly and HP (on the rare occasions they actually have an answer to a customer issue)recommend downloading patched software from their website.

What this boils down sadly to is that HP is no longer a reliable printer (this model is possibly the worst in the range for trouble), their quality control is awful, customer service sound exasperated when they answer the phone. Worst of all they deny these is any widespread issue. Just google any HP issue and there are thousands of complaints - HP pretend the complaints exist!

I'm sure there are people who have bought a 7500A and got a good one. We have had three lousy ones that have driven us to the edge of madness and wasted hundreds of man hours. You pay your money and take your choice (or risk) in this case.

I bought this printer as I needed an A3 printer for CAD drawing plus occasional photos, the scanner and copier just as a welcome bonus at this price.

Very easy to set up, no problems, linked to the wireless network straight away.

The problems started when I tried to print, very slow to start the process, timed at over 25 minutes at its worst. Sometimes it would start immediately, but not very often. Frequently dropped the wireless connection and would only connect if I used the printer utility program.

From the outset, printing at A3 has never been satisfactory. It will not recognise the A3 size in my CAD program. The maximum area I have been able to print is 410x285! A4 prints are fine.

Regrettably, it looks like this is not the printer for me and I have reluctantly sent it back and am now looking again for a suitable A3 printer.

Easy to set up, but it often freezes when you try to copy something after printing out a document from the pc. The only thing that clears it is to unplug it and re connect.

Also where the paper comes out of the machine it catches on the top of the paper tray, so you have to watch it come out and remove it, otherwise the paper can be withdrawn back into the machine and chewed up!

Poor website with no rear technical help

Always previously found HP pretty good.

I bought this printer because HP have a good name when it comes to printer this is supposed to be able to bring photos as well as documents and articles the colours are either dull or dark so you cant seen the picture I didnt buy this from amazon. I will be buying anew printer that can handle photo's. As for printing in A3 thats just a pure horror.

I was quite excited when I bought this product from PC World. The reviews were excellent, and I liked the fact that it was a fast printer. Having put this to the test (with a stop watch), I couldn't believe that it printed 12 pages in black only in 2 mins 45 pages. That is on average 4 pages per minute !!! This was in NORMAL print setting. There is also a BEST setting, and there is DRAFT. I changed it to DRAFT, which was much much faster, but I doubt it was 33ppm, more like 20. However the pages that came out with DRAFT setting had the ends of words missing on the right hand side of the page, despite the fact that the original was lined up correctly on the patten glass. Therefore I can't use this. Far far too slow in NORMAL print selection which is a good quality print, for what is classified as a business printer. I expect using the BEST print setting, which I didn't do, copies would be even slower at 2-3 copies per minute. Very disappointed.

This HP Officejet performed well for the first year or so but in recent months has proven unreliable to the point where now it can't be recognized by my pc on wireless or even (my last hope) when hard wired. Frankly if this kit is built to last for only 18 months then it is rubbish.
Doon't buy HP.

This printer is fantastic.... It does everything a printer should do, plus loads more! The e-print facility is great, and the ablity to print from templates etc without having a computer switched on is brilliant.
Print quality is impressive, and its surprisingly quiet.
Copying facility is good. Its really smple to use - you just put the sheet in the feeder, and press the button, you don't even have to lift the top. Likewise for scanning.
It took hardly any time at all to set it up on my wireless network, and works seamlessly printing from all devices (pc's, laptops, ipod, ipad, phones, memory card etc ec)
I have never thought it possible for a printer to have so many features! and it's the first printer that I have been able to "play with" for ages without having a device attached to it. You can edIt photo effects before you print them, you can even print puzzles via the hp e-print centre! The only thing most other printers can do is print a test page, or photos from an sd card!
I can just randomly email things straight to my printer from anywhere in the world, and it'll be there nicely printed, waiting for me when I get home!
The only thing I have not used yet is the fax facility, so I can't comment on that, though I have gone through the motions as such, but without the final "send" - and again there are preloaded fax header sheets on board as well!
Highly recommend this printer! It is so much more than just a printer, but be sure to get it on your network to take full advantage of all the features!
Note to technophobes: do not be put off by the fact that this marvellous machine can do so much - it really isn't complicated to use!
Nuff said..... I'm off to play with my printer now...!