Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridge Photo Yields
Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridge Yields for Photo Printing
Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridges have been made for many many years. All during this time, HP has also been investing in optimizing and improving their printer cartridge to give excellent print quality and optimal performance.
So after all this time, how is the lifetime usage of an Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridge determined for photo printing?
As you may read on How Are the Yields of HP Printer Ink Cartridges Determined? International standards exist for determining the yield of black and white or color print cartridges but, unfortunately, these standards do not exist for determining the life time of Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridges used in photo printing.
So, Hewlett Packard has come up with their own standards for determining yields on photo printing, but, as you would guess, these are different than other manufacturers. (The International standards are still being developed, while Hewlett Packard simply prints a specific set of ten 4x6 inch continuously until the cartridge is empty.)
Since there is no standard, this means one can compare yields between different Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridges, but can not accurately compare yields between HP and other manufacturers.
Nevertheless, the results published by HP for their ink cartridges may differ than what you get. There are reasons for this, namely:
The Photo Content – if your photos are heavy with one color, the ink that makes that color up will deplete much sooner than your other inks. So, although you may have lots of some of the inks, the one will be gone and cause terrible photos.
The Frequency of Printing – the more frequent you print, the less ink you will use. As you may have read in 7 Ways Ink Is Used in an HP Printer Ink Cartridge, the longer a printer sets idle, the more ink that will be used in prepping it for printing
The Amount of Ink Used in the Printer Setup - Again as mentioned in 7 Ways Ink Is Used in an HP Printer Ink Cartridge, different Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridges are designed differently and thus work differently and ultimately use different amounts of ink in the normal routines.
The Print Mode Being Used - You can print photos or text in different modes from fast draft to best/ Obviously best uses more ink than fast draft, so the more printing you do in best mode the more ink you will use.
The Type of Paper Being Used. HP has developed different qualities of paper which can be used for a sundry number of things, but each type of paper may use a different amount of ink to print a photo.
The bottom line is that there really is no way to accurately determine how long a Hewlett Packard Printer Cartridge will last in printing photos. It really depends on the user and what (and how) he/she is printing.
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