5 ml ink?

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My seven year old HP 694C printer has 40ml of ink in its black
cartridge. The HP1610 which I am considering has 6ml ink in its
black cartridge. Will I go broke buying ink for the HP1610? Bud
 
VERNON said:
My seven year old HP 694C printer has 40ml of ink in its black
cartridge. The HP1610 which I am considering has 6ml ink in its
black cartridge. Will I go broke buying ink for the HP1610? Bud
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Is this the HP PSC 1610? I see 11 ml listed for the black, 7 for color.

Will you go broke? Depends. Do the new cartridges cost about four times
less since they're about 4 times smaller?

-Taliesyn
 
Thanks Taliesyn, I stand corrected. It is the HP PSC 1610 I referred
to and indeed the black cartridge has 11ml black ink. But that's
only 28 percent of the 40 ml in my old printer and the cost of a
black cartridge is about the same - about $20.00. Bud
 
My seven year old HP 694C printer has 40ml of ink in its black
cartridge. The HP1610 which I am considering has 6ml ink in its
black cartridge. Will I go broke buying ink for the HP1610?
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You'll find that ink on many newer printers is more efficent than many
older ones with a few exceptions. The #94 is rated at 450 pages where
the #29 was rated at 720 pages.. so I would expect your black cost to
increase by about 50%.

Whether that printer will take a #96 I don't know... but the #96 gives
you almost double the yield for only about 50% more money. The #02 on
the other hand has a smaller yield but is cheaper than the #94 by a
tad. 10ml but according to HP 480p estimated yield vs the #94 listed
at 450.
 
HP has been developing methods to reduce ink wastage considerably, as
you state, to increase yield with less ink. How much ink is in a
cartridge is not the real concern. How much ends up on the paper,
rather than down the waste ink pads is what matters.

Art
 
VERNON PHYLLIS PAULSON said:
Thanks Taliesyn, I stand corrected. It is the HP PSC 1610 I referred
to and indeed the black cartridge has 11ml black ink. But that's
only 28 percent of the 40 ml in my old printer and the cost of a
black cartridge is about the same - about $20.00. Bud
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The new HP printers do seem to use ink more efficiently than the old ones. I
have a HP6840 and it seems to print as many pages as my old HP895cxi but I
haven't counted them all! Don't be alarmed if the level guage drops rapidly
though - it seems very inaccurate to me - as if out by a factor of three!
 
HP has been developing methods to reduce ink wastage considerably, as you
state, to increase yield with less ink.
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It's probably for its own interests. Customers would end up paying the same
or more. In fact, the customers probably have to pay extra for the cost of
developing such methods.
 
Who cares what HP's motivation might be (and I can't answer that
anyway). The newer systems are suppose to greatly reduce head clogs or
air in the system, to recycle the ink so it can be reused, etc. It
could mean better quality inks can be offered for the same price.
Still, at the end of the day what matters is yield.

Art
 
My seven year old HP 694C printer has 40ml of ink in its black
Or simply buy a Canon printer with cheaper ink cartidges?...

Or better yet, buy a laser printer on sale for <$50 and print
thousands of pages w/o running out.

www.fatwallet.com/c/18/ for the printer deal threads.

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I would say that you'll still be running out of ink faster if you
only have a 6ml tank vs. a 40ml tank - you still have to put down enough
ink to cover a page in text, and if you reduce that amount, the text
will look more gray (not black).
 
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