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I see that this product is not getting good reviews so I wanted to chime in. I am a medical student and I go through a lot paper and instinctively A LOT OF INK. I think that the ink problem has to do a lot with the printer itself. I have the HP officejet J4580 All-in-one and it is very good at saving a lot of ink. If you put your printer on fast draft you can get a lot of ink for your money. I am not suggesting you buy a new printer, but maybe putting your documents on fast draft might help you get a lot of pages. Also, if you are printing out pictures, you wont get a lot of paper for your ink. I print out a lot of word documents that have red and black and so far I am pretty happy at how INK 901 is doing on my printer. Hope this helps people. Remember, FAST DRAFT always.
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Until Kodak came out with a printer that uses a very inexpensive cartridge, all the dot matrix printer manufacturers were able to get away with building and selling horrifically-complex, very high-priced ink cartridges because there was no alternative. As I understand it, the Kodak printer has very poor performance, so there is still no effective competition to the high-priced cartridge manufacturers. That implies that, until Kodak builds an adequate printer, you can complain about HP 901XL yielding far fewer pages than advertised, but your complaints have no effect because there is no competition.
Printing single-spaced text with normal margins, and 11 pt. type, I get about 300 pages out of a 901XL cartridge. Clearly, any claims of 700 pages per cartridge are based on an unrealistic estimation of the amount of ink laid down per page. That's unrealistic, not fraudulent. But, certainly deceptive by any reasonable definition thereof. It is this kind of abuse by an effective monopoly that infuriates the public, who will instantly switch to another brand once an alternative is available. HP is trashing any customer loyalty they once had.
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I have brought the 901 and the 901xl cartridges from Amazon several times because of the price. I have never gotten close to the number of pages each one claims to produce. I got excited when I saw the 901xl advertised, but I never got over half of the 700 pages it is advertised for. I feel that the company owes a refund for false advertisement. It will be cheaper for me to buy a new printer.
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I bought this cartridge on the 7th of April and it's already out! It's definitely not worth paying the extra money for a supposed 3x the printing capacity if it's not true. I don't even print a lot. I got approximately 60 pages out of this cartridge. I bought the cartridge from Staples so I'm not sure if I should say shame on Staples for selling this product or HP for selling a product that doesn't live up to its hype. Buyer beware.
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There are numerous posts on the 901 and 901xl about low number of pages printed for the moneyso what do you do? Make an impacts with your dollars and actions: I've had good expereince with the refill kits by non-HP vendors (just do it outside and do wear the gloves to protect from any ink droplets). I'm sure I'm not supposed to mention names here, so google the HP cartride-type you want and then find a refill kit vendor that is highly rated. It's pretty easy to do. Maybe HP will address the situation/product value per dollar if their cartridge business falls off sharply? As most folks knowmost companies in this space make more profit from the replacement cartidges than the printer/copier/hardware themselves.
