HP OfficeJet Pro Plus 8600 time date problems
I got this new printer/fax/scanner/toaster the other day. It’s a cheap home version of an office multifunction copier. So far it’s nifty enough for the price. One giant complaint I found online is people being unable to accurately set the date/time on it, which effects time stamps for emails and faxes. After fiddling I believe I’ve figured it out. It is, perhaps unsurprisingly, completely unintuitive.
Above is the time setup in the web config. You can hit this with it on wireless – no need to have your computer physically plugged into the printer. Set the Current Device Time to actual GMT using the Date field and stupid drop downs for Time. No, not the current time in your zone…. GMT. Check the box for Use the same time zone set on this computer and Apply it. This should make the device subtract or add the correct amount of hours from the GMT setting to correctly time stamp correspondence sent from it. When you return to this page the Current Time will continue to show GMT, not your zone’s time. I know, I know, that’s stupid too. An easy test to confirm things are set up correctly is to go into the scan/email set up and send a test page.