HP Inkjet Ink Use & Cost Mystery Part 2 (HP 02 Cartridges)
Way back in in September 2008, I posted an item titled...
You might want to go back to that item just to read a very interesting and detailed comment to it posted by Eric Hochstein. Eric took a hard long look at the HP 02 ink cartridges and points out a couple of things I didn't know such as the fact that the different HP 02 color cartridges contains different volumes of ink!
I printed out about 200 sheets of paper (double sided) for our annual holiday newsletter last month. This behemoth annual project had over 20 photos of various sizes scattered throughout the 4 printed pages. I bought two sets of ink cartridge packs. The one purchased earlier in the year (2008) included a black. The one bought in December did NOT. The Yellow and Magenta ink were used the fastest followed by Dark Cyan. On the other hand, I still have 2 each of Light Cyan and Light Magenta (pink) cartridges. Based on this, my current belief if that given the kind of things I print (heavy mix of photos and text), it is cheaper to buy individual cartridges.
Thanks again to Eric for posting the detailed comments of his investigation of the HP 02 ink cartridges!
January 20th, 2009 - 06:12
I too was hoping to find a solution that would allow me use the HP 02 light cyan and magenta cartridges for everyday printing. I was buying the multi-paks and those colors are piling up. But it seems their best use is the $3 each Staples gives for (ahem) empty cartridges. What a waste.
January 20th, 2009 - 22:09
I have extra light cyan and light magenta (looks like pink to me) 02 cartridges myself. Too bad there no cheap way to swap 02′s with other printer owners.