Hp Officejet Pro 8600 User Manual Pdf
Kahlil Algya
I am trying to print some invitations and the printer will only pick up one or two of them before giving a message that the paper tray is empty. I have attempted troubleshooting per the HP website, including the rollers and nothing. I think my best bet is just feeding the paper manually but I cannot figure out how to do that. It is nowhere in manual that I can find. Thanks.
When I use Tray 1 (the only tray I have) and change the guides in the tray, I get an error message that the page-size does not match the software. Printed on the inside of the tray is "4x6". I am able to print when I change the document to 4x6, but that's not really what I'm trying to get done--and it ends up (obviously) very off-center.
SO JUST TO RE-CAP, FOR THOSE THAT ARE PRINTING INVITATIONS OR WITH CARD STOCK PAPER USING THE HP OFFICJECT PRO 8600 PLUS...YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR MEDIA. CHANGE YOUR PRINT OPTION PREFERENCES FROM "LETTER" TO "INDEX CARD LETTER" AND THEN YOU WILL SEE "CARD STOCK" SELECTED FOR YOU DOWN BELOW UNDER 'MEDIA'.
"The printer can operate with one or more depleted cartridges. However, printing with depleted cartridges slows the printer and affects the quality of printed documents. If the black cartridge is depleted, blacks are not as dark. If a color cartridge is depleted, output is in grayscale. When possible, replace the depleted cartridge. Do not remove the depleted cartridge until you have a new ink cartridge available to replace. "
You may be able to print in grayscale or black and white only. Please let me know which OS you are running so I can verify that for you. As for the ink itself, yes you will have to change the depleted yellow cartridge to protect the health of the printhead.
When there is sufficient ink in the printhead, the printer will offer you the use of black ink only when one or more of the color cartridges are out of ink, and the use of color ink only when the black cartridge is out of ink.
I am annoyed. There is nothing on page 91 of my manual to indicate that there needs to be ink in all cartridges. I can understand now why it won't print when one is empty, but one of the reasons I bought this printer is because it is supposed to print black only when up to 2 cartridges are depleted. My manual (page 90) says:
"The printer can operate with one or more depleted cartridges. However, printing with
depleted cartridges slows the printer and affects the quality of printed documents. If the
black cartridge is depleted, blacks are not as dark. If a color cartridge is depleted,
output is in grayscale. When possible, replace the depleted cartridge. Do not remove
the depleted cartridge until you have a new ink cartridge available to replace. "
When there is sufficient ink in the printhead, the printer will offer you the use of black
ink only when one or more of the color cartridges are out of ink, and the use of color ink
only when the black cartridge is out of ink.
What exactly is your printer model? The verbage of the above is that for an IPH printer (with a black and a tri-color cartridge or perhaps a black, tri-color and photo cartridge), it does not apply to printers with separate ink supplies and printheads. Can you give a link to the manual online, or scan the page and post it here for your printer?
I can find several manuals online but not the one that I have and I don'tknow how to upload anything here. I have copied and pasted the relevant information from "my" manual, which has a black cover, says Officejet Pro in green, and says 8600 User Guide in white. I can see the other information in other manuals which explains about printing with LOW ink but not with NO ink. If you can tell me how to upload "my" manual, I'd be happy to do so. Meanwhile, here's what I've copied and pasted, and thanks for your interest.
Print with one or more depleted cartridges
The printer can operate with one or more depleted cartridges. However, printing with
depleted cartridges slows the printer and affects the quality of printed documents. If the
black cartridge is depleted, blacks are not as dark. If a color cartridge is depleted,
output is in grayscale. When possible, replace the depleted cartridge. Do not remove
the depleted cartridge until you have a new ink cartridge available to replace. For
information about how to install new cartridges, see Replace the ink cartridges.
CAUTION: Wait until you have a new ink cartridge available before removing the
old ink cartridge. Do not leave the ink cartridge outside of the printer for an
extended period of time. This can result in damage to both the printer and the ink
cartridge.
I am extremely, extremely upset. My rpintewr is telling me it cannt print because cartridges are deleted, but it is not telling WHICH cartridges are depleted. I have loaded a new black cartridge in but am getting the same message and my job is frozen.
BEFORE I bought the HP 8600, I checked THOROUGHLY that it could print in black when the color cartridges were empty. I even got on the phone with an HP tech and double- and triple-checked that this was true. He mentioned nothing about cartidges being either fully or partially depleted, and nothing about 2 out of 3 color cartridges being depleted or not, or indeed any of the other ifs, ands, and buts I am seeing here in this forum thread - which descriptions I might add are murky and anything but clear and straighforward. I specified I wanted to be able to print in black with all the color cartridges empty, and he assured me this was so. If all these other ifs, ands, and buts apply, why did he misrepresent the situation?? And what will HP do to make me whole when its rep gave me inaccurate information???? And where do I go to get justice?
I am unable to get the printer to print a single check when not part of a full sheet. If I put in custom size for tray 1, it defaults to tray 2 for a full sheet. If I remove tray 2 it states out of paper. I've changed settings to use tray 1 and still cannot get t to print.
Did you feed the check sideways, on the left edge of the tray or centered (depends on how you can feed it into the printer)?
Some printers tend to lose short pieces of paper between transport rollers along the paper path, so printing sideways may work.
Workaround:
If you can't resolve the size issue, you can try to use form leaders to feed your printer with a proper 8.5x11" sheet while printing a partial 1- or 2-checks page in normal portrait orientation.
See for an example of form leaders. Check your local office supply store, search on the Internet or order from Intuit.
My 2cents' worth:
I use Voucher Checks (1 business size check + 2 stubs on an 8.5x11" sheet). My printers do not have a manual feed tray or 2nd paper tray that can easily be reconfigured to feed partial pages (1 or 2 checks left from a 3-checks-per-page sheet), so for my occasional check printing needs Voucher Checks are easiest to use.
When making a purchase decision for a new supply of check forms and considering your own check stock to use, consider how easy or difficult it is to feed special forms or odd-size partial pages into your printer.
There must be a way to override the printer defaulting to tray 2. There are several places I need to specify the tray to use for printing checks. For my OfficeJet 8600, I have to say "Tray 2" in 3 places!
Already tried that. Got error code "paper too short", then spent the next 15 minutes clearing printer. Also tried fooling it by using #10 Envelope setting, didn't work. Also tried custom paper size for tray 1, even selecting tray 1, it then defaulted to tray 2.
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