The specifications on the HP website for this printer http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/printers/product-detail.html?oid=4323650 say what's included:
What's in the box
- HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus e-All-in-One Printer, automatic two-sided printing accessory
- HP 950 Setup Black Officejet Ink Cartridge (~1000 pages)
- HP 951 Setup Cyan Officejet Ink Cartridge
- HP 951 Setup Magenta Officejet Ink Cartridge
- HP 951 Setup Yellow Officejet Ink Cartridge: composite yield (~700 pages)
- power cord
- phone cord
- setup poster
- Getting Started Guide
- CD-ROMs (for software, Windows and Mac printer drivers, and User's Guide).
[Average based on ISO/IEC 24711 or HP testing methodology and continuous printing. Actual yield varies considerably based on content of printed pages and other factors. Some ink from included cartridge is used to start up the printer.
Cable included
- No, please purchase USB cable separately
Software included
- HP Printer Software
- Microsoft Toolbar
- HP Update
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Warranty
- One-year limited hardware warranty, 24-hour, 7 days a week Web support, business hour phone support within warranty period
That leads to two remarks:
1. It's quite common for a printer to come without USB-cable. Most people already have a cable from their old printer. And the specs are quite clear, so I see no reason to start such a rant about it.
2. The cartridge in the box should be for 1000 B&W pages. If yours only lasted 1 page (as you say) something is wrong. I'd go back to Best Buy and complain about it. It seems a warranty issue to me. Asking for a rebate equivalent to 1000 B&W pages and 700 color pages on your next set of cartridges might be a good start of the negocations. But it might help to be a little bit more polite to the sales person when going back with the printer than you were here.
Best of luck.
Kees
In my opinion - as an ENGINEER - All I can say is crappy deal crappy deal crappppyy deal that HP has given me after all the heartache of buying being bamboozled by all the informapropaganda
I bought HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus for freaking $300 ! From BEST BUY !
They - on the box SAYS - include **Ink Cartridges as any stupid normal fool would be fooled 99.99% of the world over!
The ink cartridge is just a gimmick ... it lets you set up the printer then it is USELESS after THAT use ... you are supposed to go F'N buy another $150 worth of Ink Cartridges that will NOW work after the FAKE cartridges are DEAD after ONE single use (SETUP) !!!
NO USB cable even !!! HIGH END PRINTER MY SMELLY FOOT!
Go figure ... what the FFF heck has taken over HP ???!! The Chi NESE?
CRAPPPPP That is all I can say !!! to this HIGH END Printer BIG FISH BAIT HOOK LINE AND SINKER !!!
That is my HONEST opinion to this PUTRID dishonesty creeping all over !

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