HP Ink Cartridge Tips

Summmarize Article By: Nadav Snir

Hewlett-Packard is the undisputed leader in today’s electronics market. The very first inkjet and laser printers were produced in 1984 by HP. Today, printers, scanners, and fax machines are all rolled into one, single unit. People can scan photos, touch them up, and print out new copies!

HP Ink Cartridges

Unfortunately, it can be hard to find great deals on HP ink cartridges. As much as consumers love printing with quality ink, department and office stores don’t always carry good bargains on printer accessories. Sadly, some stores sell printers at a cheaper price than ink cartridges! Indeed, this type of ridiculousness is increasingly becoming the norm.

Many office supply manufacturers are now doing business online. As such, it’s not all that hard to find unbeatable deals on HP ink cartridges on the internet. Consumers can save money on any type of ink they need for their printer model by shopping online rather than their local office supply stores.

Many people don’t realize and appreciate the advantages of shopping online, especially in regards to printing needs. Sometimes recycled cartridges are sold online for extremely low prices! It only takes a bit of searching and browsing to find ink cartridge savings and coupons. Most online office supply stores offer free shipping on purchases, so buyers should definitely be on the lookout for such specials.

HP Ink Cartridges Available

Summarize Article By: Sid Cofield

Looking for the cheapest HP ink cartridges available? You’ll end up buying a cartridge remanufactured with Chinese made generic inks. American made inks cost a little more per cartridge, but a well worth it.

HP Ink Cartridge

Save money on printing without compromising print quality. American ink factories provide inks to remanufacturers that are not generic one size fits all inks. They’re tailor formulated for specific ink cartridges. This provides smooth, easy printing without headaches.

The cheapest HP ink cartridges online are just that… CHEAP. You’ll be much better off spending a dollar or two more per cartridge with a supplier that can guarantee that your cartridges will work and offers a no questions asked money back refund policy.

You see, HP spends hundreds of thousands of dollars… probably millions over the last decade in developing inks that work properly in their thermal printheads. The last thing you should do is put an ink cartridge in your printer that will ruin it. Cheap ink cartridges can leak in your printer and not even work sometimes. They clog up quickly, causing bands and streaky prints.

My recommendation, if your looking for the cheapest HP ink cartridges, is to use quality remanufactured cartridges that contain American made inkjet inks.

HP Ink Cartridges Information

Summarize  By : Howard Haines

This information was crucial in differentiating expensive cartridges from economical models.

While searching for ink volume information on new cartridges from HP’s website, we found that there were no longer ink volumes available on any the cartridges we looked up. The new models like the HP 60 black (CC640WN#140) and HP 901 (CC653AN#140) cartridge only showed “Cartridge yield: approx. 200 pages (actual yield depends on printer and specific use”.

None of the new OEM HP 60 boxes listed ink volumes and the page yield numbers were rounded to even 100 page increments such as “~200 pages” which is unusual.

HP Ink Cartridges

We just got another shipment of the HP 74 OEM cartridges so I looked on the back of a new shipment of cartridges, it read “HP 74 ~200* pages”, but the volume of ink had been removed?

The Hp 74 now shows 200 pages and I know it has 4.5 ml of ink because the older OEM box listed it. The HP 74xl contains 18ml of ink and has a listed page yield of 750 pages so let’s assume that it is an honest estimation for now.

Wondering if all of the older HP cartridges now have new information regarding their page yield, I randomly looked up a few older HP models. To my surprise, the page yields listed on HP’s website had changed!

I verified HP cartridge page yields from asapinkjets.com with Staples.com and all of them matched.

C9351AN-HP 21 — (Staples shows 150 — HP now shows N/A)
C9352AN-HP 22 — (Staples shows 140 — HP now shows 165)
C9362WN-HP 92 — (Staples shows 210 — HP now shows N/A)
C9361WN-HP 93 — (Staples shows 175 — HP now shows 220)
C8765WN-HP 94 — (Staples shows 450 — HP now shows 480)

Struggling to find an explanation, I gathered as much information on each HP cartridge from their website. I thought that maybe a change in the ink drop size could explain the changes in page yield if HP changed the printhead on the cartridges?

After comparing the known ink volume of each cartridge to the listed page yield of each cartridge (supplied by HP), I came up with a pages per ml figure. I could see huge variances in page yields per ml of ink between different HP cartridge models with the same size of PL drop. Color ink cartridges with a 5 PL drop ranged from 21 pages per ml to 68 pages per ml? Black inkjet cartridges with a 17 Pico Liter drop ranged from 22 pages to 30 pages per ml?

HP Deskjet Cartridges

Summarize by: Matt Jackson

HP Deskjet printers can be used in the home, the small business, or in the home office equally effectively because they provide the features of a high quality printer with the convenience of a scanner and photocopier. All purchasing decisions are made with a budget in mind and HP Deskjet printers provide an excellent method to keep within your budget range.

Print Quality

HP Cartridge

It is designed to effectively combine photo quality printing with quick black printing and users are able to print on several different print media types. Envelopes, card, paper, photo glossy paper, and transparencies are all within the grasp of Deskjet users.

Print Speeds And Print Costs

Draft quality black pages can be printed at a rate of 20 pages per minute while colour printing at normal quality can be achieved at about 3 pages per minute. Colour photo printing takes between 80 seconds and two minutes depending on the quality. Colour printing can prove a costly business if you use printers for photo or large colour image printing on a regular basis. While some printers, even others within the HP family, use four separate cartridges the Deskjet F380 still only uses two cartridges - black and tricolour.

HP Deskjet Cartridges

As well as the two standard cartridges provided with the HP Deskjet F380 it is also possible to purchase a photo quality cartridge. This cartridge uses higher quality inks that are more ideally suited to use when printing photos. Swapping cartridges can become tiresome for anyone that regularly alternates between printing colour photos and standard business printing but it does offer a greater level of flexibility.

Inkjet Ink Cartridges

The inkjet printer has been around since the early 1980’s but needed a few fine tuning advances to make it more affordable to the average user. The basic concept behind the inkjet printer lies in the concepts of how printers work. Right at the “ya…so”level we find an answer of; a printer puts printer ink onto a piece of paper or other material. In our case we are talking about getting ink from ink cartridges onto paper in a finely defined color.

Printer Ink Cartridges

Thermal bubble - This first choice came largely from the bubble jet era and works by generating a certain amount of heat in the printer ink cartridges. The heat causes a bubble to form which eventually collapses as the printer ink is forced through a nozzle due to the bubble formation. As the crystals vibrate they cause the printer ink to be ejected and replaced by more printer ink. In this particular method there are many more nozzles than in the thermal bubble method so image quality is significantly better. Unfortunately, with the rights issue in place this quality is in limited release which makes the thermal bubble method more preferred.
The costs of inkjet ink cartridges can, unfortunately, be rather high. In this case the user must look to the cost of the unit if there is to be any noticeable difference in Inkjet cartridges bought. Lower cost machines do have a tendency to have lower cost ink cartridges but quality of the copy is poor. Looking in the other direction, higher cost printers will give you high quality prints but ends up costing you more than the printer in ink cartridges over time.
How inkjet printers work and the quality/cost issues appear to have penetrated the average consumers psyche in the first years of the 21st century.