HP’s Officejet 6000 Wireless is an inexpensive four-color ink-jet printer that, as its name implies, has wireless 802.11b/g connectivity. It also has an inexpensive price per print--as long as you buy HP’s high capacity ink tanks. Though office ink-jets are nothing new, HP positions the Officejet 6000 as a greener and cheaper alternative to workplace color laser printers.

Setting up the printer isn’t difficult but required a few more steps than with most ink-jet printers. The Officejet 6000 uses a print head that’s separate from the ink cartridges, and you must open and install the print head before inserting the ink cartridges. You also have to attach the duplexing unit to the back of the printer.

The printer’s design is simple and stylish, with rounded corners and a mix of light and dark gray plastic. There are four small buttons on the front, a Power button, a Print Cancel button, a Paper Feed button, and a Wi-Fi button allowing you turn off the wireless capabilities when not in use . The Officejet 6000 has a 250-sheet paper feed and a 50-sheet output tray. It can print automatically on both sides of a sheet of paper, which can help save both trees and money.

Your three options for connecting to the Officejet 6000 are Wi-Fi, USB 2.0 and Ethernet. The Wi-Fi setup was easy; in my experience, some printers make you struggle with the on-printer menus and keys to type in passwords, but the Officejet 6000 lacks such controls. You need to setup the wireless connection from your Mac during the driver installation from the bundled software CD. Once the printer was configured for our wireless network, it showed up automatically in Bonjour when installing the drivers on other systems.

• Printer
• Power supply
• Power cord
• USB cable
• HP 920 black cartridge(approx. 420 pages)
• HP 920 cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges (approx. 300 pages each)
• CDs with software
• Wireless set-up guide
• Set-up poster