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It features HPs ePrint remote printing and printing apps, and is one of the few printers to support Apples iOS AirPrint technology.

The four individual ink cartridges are easy to install and you can connect via USB 2.0, Wi-Fi, or wired ethernet.

We ran into an issue where, when connected over USB, the printer would stop responding after a Mac restart.

Interestingly, if we used the drivers downloaded through Apple Software Update instead of the drivers on the included CD, the issue went away.

The Officejet 6500A Plus has a small but helpful, 2.4-inch LCD touchscreen that aids in selecting number of copies, faxing options, and setup of the printers ePrint features.

Apps range from kids coloring pages to scanning documents directly to your Google account.

In our speed testing, we found the Officejet 6500A to be an average performer on the Mac, with text speed of 6 pages per minute, 1.5 pages per minute in our PDF test, and 0.4 pages per minute in our photo test prints.

Our print quality tests showed that for a business printer, text was only of fair quality, with surprisingly fuzzy edges.

Our PDF graphics pages showed good color quality, but again we found soft edges.

Photos also lacked the depth and shadow detail found in prints from HPs Photosmart printers, which feature extra inks formulated to enhance photographic images.

Our test scans were of good quality, with slight banding in our line-art test page and dull, flat looking colors in our photo scans.

The inks are reasonably priced below the average in both the standard and high-yield sizes.

The printer ships with a special setup version of the standard size, which comes with a little extra ink to account for whats used during printer initialization.

The standard sizes include a 20, 420-page black (4.8 cents) and 10, 300-page cyan, magenta, and yellow (3.3 cents per color, per page).

The high-yield sizes are impressively cheap: a 32, 1200-page black and 15, 700-page cyan, magenta, and yellow (2.1 cents per color, per page).

A four-color page would cost 14.1 cents with the standard-sized inks and 9.1 cents with the high-yield inks.

Macworlds buying advice If youre looking for an inkjet all-in-one that supports Apples AirPrint and HPs ePrint services, the HP Officejet 6500A is worth a look, if only because such printers are so few and far between.

The 6500A was an average performer in both print speed and quality, with noticeably fuzzy edges in its text printing.

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