8500 Premier All-in-One printer drops offline

Periodically my wireless printer drops offline and I cannot print. This happens randomly on different PCs on the wireless network. Usually restarting the print spooler on the PC that cannot print solves the problem but sometimes I need to shut the printer down and restart it. While that generally clears the problem the printer gives me a warning that it had been shutdown improperly, even though I used the on/off button. Various PCs on the network are running Windows XP and Windows 7 -- all have this problem.

The printer does not disconnect from the network as far as I can tell as other PCs can still print and the Network report from the printer control panel shows me an IP addressl. It just goes offilne for for pne user. In XP we can see the "Printer Offline" status and click "Use online" but that is harder to find in Windows 7.
I have not upgraded firmware or software recently. I had a problem installitng and the HP Solution Center tells me it cannt run as my device installation is not complete. I have donwloaded and tried to install OJP8500vA909_Full_14.exe several times with no success. I also have HP_Smart_Web_Printing_v4.6.exe and hppiw.exe -- not sure if they are still installed.

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Hp officejet pro 8500 premier all-in-one printer

The above printer is 1 1/2 years old and it has stopped printing. When the printing became light, I installed new print cartridges less than a week ago. Now, after five days, the printer is consistently cleaning the print heads and aligning the print heads and my documents are not being printed. And, what is most frustrating, during all the cleaning and aligning, all of my new ink is gone and I'm receiving a message replace ink cartridges.
Re: Problem with HP Officejet Pro 8500 printer: cleans printheads every time it's turned on
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Well,
to this is say, "get used to it", or throw it away. Many, Many, Many people have had trouble with this printer.
The following are common and frustrating issues that this printer exhibits on a regular basis:
1. Constant Self-Checking (usually every 20-30 pages of print)
2. Very persistant Printhead Cleaning/Checking, (Every startup and after about 20-30 pages printed).
3. Worn-out printheads (usually within 1,100 to 1,500 pages printed).
4. Paper mis-feeds.
5. Paper jams.
6. Nearly impossible to use once the printer reports ink-depletion.
7. Nearly impossible to use CIS Ink for larger print jobs.
8. Ink and printheads "expire" regardless of when they are placed into service. (get a deal on ink or printheads last year? Too bad, the warranty is already expired, most likely).
In short, this printer is the most EXPENSIVE printer I've ever owned, and the most frustrating to use.
I have just over 2,000 pages of regular text printed matter with very little color, and have already gone through 4 sets of ink, and 2 sets of PrintHeads.
Although it's true that you can leave the unit on, and let it go into standby, you should NOT be punished with constant and time-consuming "self-checking" everytime it's turned on, or prints a handful of pages, BUT, it does NOT appear that HP will be standing behind this printer disaster. AND, to make things worse, they've gone on to redesign it, giving it a different look, and so there are about 6 different models/versions of the OfficeJet Pro 8500.
Anyone needing a reliable print/fax/scan/copy solution should look beyond this printer, because it will leave you wanting more, and spending more than you ever imagined you would have to on a late model printer.ro
What is going on? Why does it just automatically clean and align? I also get alignment failed messages. Any suggestiions?

rammerjammer,
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, your feedback is very important and I want to do my best to help. To answer what is going on, since the printing became light, started cleaning itself constantly, and fails the alignment, the printhead was damaged. Click here to see and use the Limited Warranty for HP Ink Cartridges, Printheads, and Related Supplies. There are many ways to contact HP. The number to call is 1-800-474-6836 for HP and Compaq products for Home & Home Office use. If you no longer have a warranty with the printer you can still use the warranty that comes with the printhead or ink cartridges.
If you have a carepack with the printer that extended the one year warranty then the troubleshooting will be covered along with the printer if the printer needs replacing. Check product warranty here, see HP Out of Warranty Support Options for Select HP Consumer Printers here.
To order a new printhead you can go to HP Sure Supply and enter your printer or go to the HP Parts Store and order the printhead by part number C4900A for the Black and yellow and part number C4901A for the Cyan Magenta. These printheads go by region also so be sure you are using the right region, these were found using the United States region.
The HP Officejet Pro 8500 Premier All-in-One printer has separated the ink cartridges from the printheads. The ink cartridges are on the lower left and the removable print heads are on the carriage inside the printer. The printer goes through a calibration process when turned on that will use ink. Leave the printer on and let it go into stand by mode. This type of printer is energy star efficient and made to calibrate on start up and be left on. Allow the printer to clean or calibrate only if the printer must. If it starts cleaning a lot it may be time to do a little maintenance to the printer (recommend once a month for maintenance). Please see the following links for further details.
Cleaning the Printhead Contacts
Printer Paper Tears, Wrinkles, or is Damaged while Printing from the All-in-One
Paper Path Issues in the Automatic Document Feeder
Officejet Pro 8500 User Guide
The printer has a duty cycle of 7.5k page/month. The XL cartridges have a composite page yield of 1.4k pages with about a third of the black ink left over. To me it would seem that the printhead should last somewhere in between. This printer was designed to save money on ink compared to the rest of the officejets. I hate that it has been causing so much trouble, hopefully the information I provided will help.
HP Officejet Pro 8500 Premier (A909n) and 8500 Wireless (A909g) All-in-One Printers Product Specifications
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Iphone e print/air print issues with HP Officejet Pro 8500 Premier All-in-One A909n

I downloaded the 4.2 upgrade for iphone thinking I would be able to print from my HP Officejet Pro 8500 Premier All-In-One A909n. I have upgraded the HP firmware. I have turned my printer on and off. I get an error message that says "No printer found." I am not able to contact HP due to my warranty being expired--even though I bought the extended warranty from the store. Please help. Thanks!

This printer is listed here:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01619067&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3857218#N46...
has offering eprint. However, some community messages say that it does not work.
I have not been able to get an email address set up for the printer, or to figure out whether or not it is web services enabled.
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Printing problem - HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer, Red color fads on 4th copy

I have an HP HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer, and am trying to print 75 copies of a program for our event. After the first 5-6 pages the RED in my program starts to turn magenta. I have brand new HP ink, and am printing on HP Color Injet Paper. I have renectly replaced the Black/Yellow printhead (at least 6 months ago). At first when I cleaned the printheads, I could print 2 or 3 pages showing my RED color. Then turns back to magenta. When I received the test patterns after cleaning the print heads they are all perfect with no lines.
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Hi TM1997,
I understand you have an Officejet 8500 Wireless that is not printing red properly, it keeps turning to magenta. I'm sorry to hear this, but I will definitely do my best to help you!
As I'm sure you saw, when replacing the black and yellow printhead, that there are two printheads in the Officejet 8500 and the second one controls the magenta and cyan. I would suggest that you first have a look through this Troubleshooting Print Quality Issues document. You can also manually clean your printhead with the steps in this 'The Following Printhead Appears to be Missing or Damaged' or 'The Following Printhead has a Problem... document.
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Printing problem - HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - printer head?

I posted this elsewhere, but I think I posted it on the wrong Forum so I am posting it here now. I hope I did not do anything to upset anyone. I am new to this area, please forgive my clumsiness.
I have a HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer. I've had my printer since December 2009 and no problems. I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 and had to go online to find the drivers that work for my printer. Windows 7 was not compatible with this printer.
Also recently, I am having a problem with what I think may be the black printer head, but when I run diagnostic on it everything comes back saying it is fine. However the problem still exist. When printing the black color will become faded in some areas and in some lines will not only almost totally fade out, but will almost look italic.
Can you tell me if this is the printer head and does it need replacing or is there another problem?
SondraS

Are you using genuine HP cartridges and not refilled or third-party cartridges?
Print the Print Quality Diagnostic page from the setup menu/print report/ on the printer's front panel
Are there any quality issues with this page?
Although I am a HP employee, I am speaking on behalf of myself and not the company.

Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer - A909g printhead

The printer has not been 100% for a few weeks. It would align the printhead fine. When printing, it didn't always print everything - one time blues would be missing, another black would be missing. Received a message saying the ink was out of date. Picked up new ink yesterday, installed it and the printer went thru it's normal routine - cleaning and aligning. It would print the page which was not good and then realign again.
I read up on how to change the printheads. Problem is the printheads are stuck over to the right. I have pressed the * button and done anything else I could find. What do I do now?
Carol Belles

Hey @carolinva,
I understand that you're having print quality printhead related issues on your HP Officejet 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer. I would like to work with you today in resolving the issue of not being able to remove your Printheads. Now I understand that you have already tried new cartridges and run the cleaning and aligning on the product to no avail. At this point you have determined that the printheads are defective.
Just so you are aware there are two printheads in your product. There is a Black and Yellow Printhead and a Cyan and Magenta Printhead. Because your quality issue is affecting blues and blacks than both printheads may be defective. The printheads run for about $64.99 a piece plus tax in the United States. Also, there is a chance that you could replace both printheads and the issue not be resolved because it's a hardware failure of your ink system. Therefore, the next step would be to replace the printer. New printers do not use the same ink systems as your Officejet 8500 printer so the Printheads would do you no good if you have to replace your product.
Part Number for HP 940 Black and Yellow Printhead: C4900a
Part Number for HP 940 Magenta and Cyan Printhead: C4901a
I'm going to provide you steps on how to properly remove the printheads in your product. Because your printheads failed to initially move to the left I'm going to have you start by running a power reset.
Step 1: Power Reset:
With your printer powered on, disconnect your power cable.
After 30 seconds, plug your power cable back in to the printer.
Your printer should turn on automatically.
Once the printer returns to the ready state, follow the steps below.
Replacing the Printhead for HP Officejet Pro 8500 All-in-One Printer Series (A909)
Please let me know if the steps provided resolve your issue. Should you have further issues be sure to let me know. Good luck!
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Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer- A909g Product Code Differences

The Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer- A909g has been offered under several product codes:
CB023A#BEL
CB023A#BEV
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CB798A
CB794A
CB023A#B1H1027
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CB023A#B1H-A1
CB023A#B1H-B2
CB023A#B1H
CB023A#BEQ
CB023A#BEP
CB023A
CB023A#BEL#*KIT
CB874A
CB023A#BEL/KIT3+1
CB874A#799
CB023A#B1H1071
CB023A#B1H-C3
CB023A#BEK?BNDL
CB023A#AKY
Are there any differences between any of these? I have looked at product sheets .May have escaped me, but I could not detect differences in product details, specs or included accessories. Are any of the above worth more than others, to justify any price differences?

The Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-in-One Printer- A909g has been offered under several product codes:
CB023A#BEL
CB023A#BEV
CB023A#BEK
CB798A
CB794A
CB023A#B1H1027
CB023A#B1H1052
CB023A#B1H-A1
CB023A#B1H-B2
CB023A#B1H
CB023A#BEQ
CB023A#BEP
CB023A
CB023A#BEL#*KIT
CB874A
CB023A#BEL/KIT3+1
CB874A#799
CB023A#B1H1071
CB023A#B1H-C3
CB023A#BEK?BNDL
CB023A#AKY
Are there any differences between any of these? I have looked at product sheets .May have escaped me, but I could not detect differences in product details, specs or included accessories. Are any of the above worth more than others, to justify any price differences?

Scanning to Computer, HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All in one Printer A909g

I am unable to scan to computer with Win 8.1 using my HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless all in one Printer A909g. I can scan to email. The system says my drivers and software are up to date. When trying to scan to computer all I get is a blank scan file with no scan number (Scan_Doc0054) as I used to with Vista. In Vista I was able to drive the whole process from my computer. When scanning to email now I have to drive it from my printer as opposed to the computer.
I restarted an old computer running Vista and the 'scan to computer' function is operational. As far as I am aware there are no other functional problems with the printer.
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Hi John046,
I am sorry to hear that did not work for you, I do have some more options for you to try:
Uninstall the software. Uninstalling the Printer Software.
Clean boot the computer. How to perform a clean boot in Windows.
Disable any antivirus programs. Windows Defender - Turn On or Off in Windows 8.
Disable any firewalls. Disable firewall Windows 8.
Re-install using the HP Printer Install Wizard for Windows.
If that does not resolve your issue, please call our phone support at 800-474-6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get the support number for your region. Country-language selector.
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HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless all-in-one printer

Just bought second-hand HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless all-in-one printer. Have no clue how to get it working. I plugged it in and it seems to be operational, but when trying to print, it did not work. Have an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 8.1. Can anyone help me?

Hi @trudi39 , and welcome to the HP Forums!
I can see from your post you are experiencing print issues. I would like to help!
Do you receive any errors?
Does it print a blank page, or nothing at all?
Are you connected via wireless, ethernet or a USB cable?
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I am unable to scan using the hp office jet pro 8500 wireless all in one printer from an I-MAC

I have a new I-MAC OS Lion computer and an older HP Officejet Pro 8500 wireless all-in-one printer, scanner, fax, photo. I cannot scan, though I can print and I can fax. The error message says I must be connected to the network, and yet I am connected. The only diagnostic tool available is for MS systems only. Help???

Hi,
Make sure to use any scan method available for Lion.
If you have the HP Scan application installed, be aware that the used software version is not intended for Lion.
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If there is still any problem while trying to scan, also make sure to install the latest HP Printer Driver 2.9 by clicking the Apple icon and then Software Update.
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Officejet pro 8500 premier all-in-one

good morning from a frustrated user of a new 8500. a few days ago we junked our other all-in-one and bought the new one ref above. this init is equipped for wireless operation like our otherone was by using an hp print server. we are using a netgear range max dual band wireless-n usb adapter on our computer. when we insered the install disc and went through all of the directions several times the computer would not recognize the 8500. the store then told me to hook the printer direct with usb cables and after doing that and rerunning the disc the printer worked fine. however when i removed the cables and reran the cd for wireless it would not operater the all-in-one.
please help and thanks to evryone in advance.
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Have you run the Wireless Setup Wizard to connect the printer to your router? If not, then do this first. Touch Setup(the Wrench symbol on the display)>Network Settings>Wireless Setup Wizard. This will let you choose your router and enter any security key. Then the printer should connect to your network.
Now unplug the USB cable and run the install CD again. Either select Add A Device or Install from the autorun menu. This time, the software should find the printer on the network and install it.
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HP Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-In-One Printer A909g

My current firmware is: DLM1FN1344AR.
I am due for a firmware update. I still am using my original 32-bit Sony PC (soon to be put out to pasture), and there are now 2 newer 64-bit PCs which will remain on the network.
Should I wait to update the firmware until I remove the old Sony from the network, or would it be safe to update the firmware for the 64-bit OS which exists on my 2 newer PCs?
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Hi Alla-guy,
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If you have any other questions, please feel free to write back.
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Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-In-One Windows 8 driver not working

Hello!
I recently got a new Dell Inspiron computer running the 64-bit version of Windows 8, and I have an Officejet Pro 8500 Wireless All-In-One Printer from a long time ago. I don't have the disc version of the driver, since I purchased the printer before Windows 8 came out, so I tried to download it from the HP website. Whenever I try to run it, however, it says that it is extracting, but once the extract is finished, nothing happens. The Installation Wizard doesn't pop up, and there is no error message explaing it. Help please?
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Hi,
Can I check if your Officejet Pro 8500 is A909 or A910? Alternatively, you can install the class driver built into Windows 8 to print to your printer. There are also a couple of Windows Store apps (HP AiO Remote and HP Scan and Capture) that would work with your printer.
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Does the 8500 wireless all-ion-one support AirPrint

I bought the 8500 in late November 2010. I am getting an IPhone and want to know if I can use AirPrint with the 8500?

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