HP Officejet Pro 8000 Comments

Hmmm. I've been contemplating one of these, but in the end went for the Samsung CLP-315 (no wireless). Retailing at aroun £120 the Samsung is a tad more expensive (although if you purchase until the end of May you get a £30 cashback from Samsung on its colour lasers. So we are essentially talking about the same price here).
HP usually disappoints me in the long run. Many of its accessories are proprietary (power cables, etc.), thus they come with the usual HP price tag.
The other big problem—for me at least—comes with all inkjets. I usually use my printer in bursts, with quite some time in between actual print outs. Ink dries on the cartridge. Although this issue has been 'overcome' by self-cleaning routines, those self-cleaning sessions tend to waste quite some ink.
I just think that an inkjet pretending to be a colour laser replacement (therefore mostly appealing to office use), which retails at around the same price and still comes with most of the inkjet problems, is not really an alternative (unless you need to print photos. But lets face it, most offices don't do that.)

@Daniel
Well, after battling with the extortionate cost of replacement cartridges for IJ printers. I bought a colour laser and never looked back. IJ printer do fill a market( particularly for me in printing photos) but at a cost- as in cheap printer to lure you in then trap you with ink costs. Caveat Emptor!!

Like Daniel, like most home users I guess, my inkjet (Canon IP5200R) gets used in short bursts. It's never dried out, never gone wrong, but it drinks ink, which I too assume all goes into the sponge, not on the paper. When I see print costs of about 5p per colour page I can only wonder - is this actually measured in the real world? Or is there some element of calculation, based on quoted yields and the like? I know mileage varies, but inkjets the manufacturer figures, like their print speeds, are just simply made up by a monkey on a keyboard!

Just one more thing. I know that Simon mentioned that in his review, but I still think it needs emphasising: This beast is HUGE. Like in Mt. Everest. I honestly think that these machines come with their own birth certificates and a name. "Thank you for purchasing an HP printer. Say hello to Denholm, your personal OfficeJet."

My reason for looking at inkjet for the office is the amount of energy they DON'T use; around 35watts for IJ compared to up to 850W for laser. Save the planet and all that. Under our till point, the laser belches out heat like a small radiator, which is really uncomfortable in the summer. Nice in the winter though :) If you don't need photographs then you could even use compatibles and save lots, and with the money saved from running an extra heater, it would pay for the ink anyway.

Like several of the others who commented, I use a printer fairly lightly and sometimes not at all for several days. This rules out all Epsons as every one I ever had got bunged up.
I have a HP Business Inkjet 1100 which is slow, noisy and the size of Hampshire. It works perfectly even after a week off. After years of not cleaning anything there has been no build up of waste ink, no blocked heads (which it still reports as perfect) - just keeps on working. I ain't replacing it. However, I do need another one but you can't buy them any more and HP cartridges are getting hard to find too.
The 8000 looks to me like a descendant of the Business Inkjet: reliable, clean and slow suits me fine so I am buying one. I am also expecting better print quality due to the pigment inks. Looks like just the job.