HP Printer Ink Cartridge Yields
How Are the Yields of HP Printer Ink Cartridges Determined?
Hewlett Packard has been selling their HP printer ink cartridges for many years now, but in 2005 they started publishing yields on how long their HP printer ink cartridges would last. So how are these printer ink cartridge yields (or life-times) determined?
Follow the Standard
Well, there is an international standard, ISO 24711, which completely defines a method to test printer ink cartridges, manufactured by HP and others, and determine how long they will last.
Basically this standard defines five different types of pages that are to be printed until the ink in a HP printer ink cartridge is used up. These pages will include combinations of both black and white (plain text) and color (in the form of charts or drawings).
HP runs these tests, per the standard, and then publishes these results on their marketing literature and/or boxes of all their HP printer ink cartridges.
Now what does this mean to you – the consumer?
The only thing that this information is good for is comparing the brand “HP printer ink cartridges” with other brands of printer ink cartridges, like Epson, for example.
Why is this? Because a true comparison can only be made when you are comparing “like things”. If the printer ink cartridges are all tested to the same standard, then the only thing different will be the manufacturer – assuming the printer cartridges are equivalent to each other.
This means that if the results of the HP printer ink cartridges test find that 900 pages, for example, can be printed and the Epson printer ink cartridge test show that only 800 pages, for example, can be printed, then the HP printer ink cartridges will probably last longer than their competition.
What do these results mean for the user?
If the results say that an ink cartridge will last 900 pages, does that mean when you buy it, it will print 900 pages? The answer is - it depends.
Remember, the ISO standard requires very specific types of pages to be printed. Your printing will be different. You may only print black text and only have a little text on the page. If that is the case, you would get much more than 900 printed pages. On the other hand if you print pages with lots of text (like a newspaper) or have lots of black and white photos, you will probably get much less than 900 pages.
So the bottom line is the yields published on boxes of HP printer ink cartridges are there for guidelines to let you know about how long they will last. Your actual usage may be more or less for the reasons listed above.
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