How Many Pages will I Print from My Ink Jet Cartridge?

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How Many Pages will I Print from My Ink Jet
Cartridge?
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• We get this question all the time at Ink Toner
  Solutions. Its extremely frustrating for the
  consumer to buy an ink cartridge and not have any
  information as to what they are getting in terms
  of how many prints they can expect to get from
  it. Unfortunately that is exactly what the
  consumer encounters when he purchases his ink jet
  cartridge. After you buy your inkjet cartridge
  and get it home you will notice there is no
  information whats so ever on the box itself
  stating how many pages you can expect to get from
  that cartridge.

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• Asking the sales rep will usually yield very
  little information. You could go on line and
  attempt to find what the page yield is on your
  cartridge, some times you can find it and
  sometimes you cant. But in my opinion this is
  the type of information that should be spelled
  out on the box for all to see. Why would the
  manufactures not do this? When your looking for a
  new printer wouldnt it be nice if this
  information was printed in plain sight right on
  the box in bold letters?

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• In this way a customer could make an intelligent
  decision as to what printer model will best suit
  his or her needs. On the rare occasion that you
  do find the page yield it can very misleading.
  Lets say the stated page yield is 600 pages, the
  consumer automatically thinks, great Ill get 600
  pages. Wrong! You could get as little as 200 or
  300 pages. Let me explain. Lets say you print a
  short letter with a header, one or two paragraphs
  and a signature.

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• That would be considered about 5 coverage on a 8
  1/2 X 11 standard sheet of paper.Heres an
  example of what 5 coverage looks like
• Believe it or not this is what the manufactures
  are basing the Page Yield on. Theres a few
  problems with this. The main one is if the page
  yield is not printed anywhere how is the consumer
  supposed to know how many pages he/she is
  supposed to get. If it does state a page yield it
  sure as hell does not say it is based on 5
  coverage.

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• Just for this example lets say you do find out
  your cartridge is supposed to get 600 pages. You
  happen to be printing flyers that has graphics
  and text that covers the entire page. Your
  happily printing away and your cartridge runs out
  after printing only 200 flyers. What happened?
   Your page coverage is most likely around the 75
  coverage mark. Of course the reaction is you got
  screwed, the cartridge was not full and you want
  your money back, good luck with that one.

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• If the cartridge happens to be a remanufactured
  cartridge the consumer immediately jumps to the
  conclusion that the refilled cartridge was not
  filled to capacity. Either way because the
  consumer does not have the correct information
  they need it causes a lot of confusion. Ink
  Toner Solution see this all the time and for that
  reason we keep examples of what 5, 10, and 40
  page coverage looks like, Ive included images of
  these examples so you can see for yourself what
  the different coverages look like.

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• This really helps in clarifying page yield but
  invariable elicits the response why the hell
  dont they just put that on the box. Good
  question and I dont have an answer.Even though
  New Jersey passed legislation that requires
  manufactures of ink jet cartridges to display the
  estimated number of prints each cartridge should
  get they fell short in that they did not include
  in the legislation that they should also add that
  page yield is based on the 5 coverage standard.
  The manufactures fall short because in my opinion
  they should not have to be told to add this
  information to their product.

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• If a prospective buyer only prints short notes or
  letters than the system works. But what about a
  customer that prints a lot and completely fills
  each page with text or graphics, this system
  makes no sense at all. We need the manufactures
  to step up and fix this lack of concern for the
  very people that are buying their product.
  Imagine any other industry not stating on the
  label what you are getting and how much you can
  expect to get out of it. How about the paint
  industry, right on the label it states how many
  square feet the amount of paint you are buying
  will cover, this is just common sense.

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• Could it be that the manufacturers dont want the
  consumer to know this critical piece of
  information? Could it be that they make so much
  money on the sale of ink after you have purchased
  the printer that this kind of information would
  likely hurt them. Even the 5 standard is a dodgy
  one. Different fonts can yield different page
  yields. For example if you took the standard 5
  page coverage example above but changed the font
  to bold and increased the size of the font you
  sure as hell wont get the stated page yield for
  that cartridges.

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• One way to get the most printing out of your
  cartridges is by using the Calibri font, (availabl
  e with most versions of Windows from Vista and
  later as well as most modern versions of
  Microsoft Office)as it is narrower and uses less
  ink per character. Theres also a company called
  Ecofont that has software that is supposed to
  save on ink and toner by printing in their own
  proprietary font.

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• As New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul Moriaty
  said, Printer ink could possible be more
  expensive than Dom Perignon Champagne or the most
  expensive Paris perfumes because you get less
  than an ounce of printer ink in those cartridges
  and yet sometimes youre paying 50 for less than
  an ounce.

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• Think about this the next time you are in the
  market for a new printer. Ask the question, how
  much does the ink cartridge cost and how many
  pages can I expect to get from each cartridge.
  Another way to save on the cost of ink is to look
  into high quality remanufactured cartridges.
  Always buy from a reputable business that backs
  up what they sell with a 100 guarantee that you
  are getting a cartridge that matches the page
  yield and quality of the OEM (Original Equipment
  Manufacturer) version.  

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• By going this route you save your self some cash
  and at the same time your helping to recycle and
  reuse products. No matter where you buy your ink
  jet cartridges make sure to research what the
  actual page yield is so you can match the printer
  and cartridges to your printing requirements. We
  would love to hear if you have run into this
  problem and what you did about it.

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