Is there a rear upright paper feed on this printer, or only a cartridge?
359556
Yes, there is a rear upright paper (envelope) feed and there is no tray feed. if that's what you meant by cartridge.
359557
It is a rear upright paper feed, and feeds straight through printing on top of the page and out the front
359558
It has a paper feeder that adjusts to 11 x 17 or smaller size paper. I use this printer exclusively for the large prints. I have another Cannon printer, and MX870, that I use for documents, correspondence, or photographs.
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Yes. It prompts you to insert the output (the front pages) back into the feeder so it can print the back side. It guides you on how to do this. Reading the other responses on this thread, I agree this requires human intervention, but it's not a big deal. I do a lot of double-side printing. It works well. To put this in the proper perspective, this is the same process as for my more expensive HP LaserJet Color 300 which cost twice as much.
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I have never received one that way, but as long as nothing is broken just pop the Cartridge in screw the body to the front section and write.if the nib is off it can be pushed on the feed easily, just make sure the lips are straight on the black feed rails.
1289950
Big no, was purchased based on the description of a rear tray. But the printer does not have any.
1428284
Mine came with a cartridge. There is a converter available to be sold separately.
13651
No, it is just the paper tray. You have to buy the ink cartridges separately.
651315
Never looked. Figured I bought a cartridge a month before I installed it there should be no problem. Unfortunately I threw the whole cartridge out and box as I needed this printer functional for my business.
2171373
There are two kinds of cartridges. The printer comes with "starter" cartridges that are required to "charge up" the print head. The capacity of these cartridges is less than the standard cartridges what you will purchase when the starter cartridges are exhausted.
2050333
Not really, but the back side of the backing paper is printed with "Labels" which really helps with feeding the printer properly!
138443
Howdy! 8) I can't find any info on this site or HP's site about manual feeds for this printer. I do some printing on fine art metals and need to hand feed the metal paper (usually through a slot in the back) so it doesn't bend. Usually when your printer feeds from a paper tray, it grabs the paper and bends it up, into and through the printer. But fine art metals don't bend so they can't feed through the auto/paper tray. Does anyone know if there's a manual feed option on the B8550 that would keep the paper flat?
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Mine was shipped with a full cartridge. I paid the $68. I think the higher priced option has an extra cartridge.
456057
It does have a manual feed tray. I have it set up so that it will only pull from the manual feed tray when paper is loaded, otherwise, pull from the other tray. You can set that up in the "Tray Behavior" section of the printer's settings. I hope that helps!
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Card stock works fine from the rear sheet feeder but not from the tray, of course. You get pretty good quality if you tell the printer you're using "matte photo paper" instead of "plain paper".
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I don't know what you mean by auto feed feature. The paper is put in at the top of the machine and it is mechanically pulled in for printing. Standard feature on all printers of this type as far as I know.
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I have printed on both sides of the paper about 50/50 text and color graphics 2 packages of paper 500 sheets per pkg. before needing to replace cartridges. Those are the original cartridges that came with the printer. I am using windows 8.1 and using the HP compatible printer settings. I had problems with the postscript settings and changed to the HP settings. Chuck Frodermann
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I have the printer for a few years and don't think it came with a parallel cable. You should be able to find a parallel cable very cheap these days since almost no one uses them anymore. Places like Radio Shack or even Goodwill would probably have one for $5. This printer is a inexpensive to operate utility workhorse.
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Wood? I am not sure, it would have to be thin enough to fit in the front end paper feed - there is definately no white cartridge.