Buy HP 74XL & HP 75XL Tricolor Inkjet Cartridges in Foil Packaging-Black

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Dear HP consumer, today is your lucky day! Chances are that if you're reading these words, you have a Hewlett-Packard printer that takes 74 and 75 cartridges. I've gone through dozens of these cartridges and they've always worked very well. They're supposed to use something called Vivera technology, but I don't notice a difference in quality when compared with the pre-Vivera cartridges used by my previous HP printer. The key here is to get the XL cartridges instead of the regular versions. Many people are surprised to find out that their regular cartridges are only half full. What's the real difference? Using HP specs, the regular 74 prints around 200 pages and the 74XL prints 750 pages. The 75 prints 170 pages while the 75XL prints 520 pages. Naturally these are estimates since many pages have a combination of color and black ink, but it's a useful estimate that shows that the XLs are a better value. Keep in mind that while the XLs have well over double the ink, they don't cost twice as much. If that wasn't enough, the combo pack should save a few more dollars. When one cartridge starts to get low in my printer, the other is never far behind, so XL combo packs are the way to go. Depending on the store, prices seem to vary greatly with printer cartridges. Thinking that I was getting a deal, I had always purchased my combo packs through Costco for $65.77. They stopped carrying the combo pack and I found it here at good ol' Amazon for only $46.99. That's quite a savings!

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The description states that the product is a 74XL and a 75XL.

What is sent is a 74 and a 75 (NOT XL).

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Item shown on Amazon site is MISLEADING. Specifically it DOES NOT come in retail packaging. The cartridges are shipped loose of the ones I received one was marked "Made in Ireland" and the other "Made in Malaysia". Apparently these are bulk cartridges that are resold to retail customers. There is no indication of manufacturing date, lot etc. nothing that you can use to follow up with HP if the cartridges do not work.

You get what you pay for. In this case, had I known that I was getting repackaged bulk items, I may have shopped elsewhere.

Bottom line MISLEADING product page.

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I agree with 2 out of 3 of the first 3 reviews. I don't mind paying a little extra for an ink cartridge if it does a great job for me and it does. The XL packs go a very long way. I haven't done the statistics on page counts, but I know that I buy 3 regular cartridges to 1 XL cartridge.

I love the job that my HP AIO does and I really love these XL cartridges, especially when Amazon has them at great prices. Amazon does it again! Thanks....

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At first, everything worked fine. After a few weeks, a message saying "cartridge error" appeared and it hasn't worked anymore.

Peace of mid is more important than saving a few bucks. Can you imagine that happening while printing something important late at night and not being able to get a replacement right away?

I will never buy them again!