| Warning: | | | | You catch a great deal on some compatible |
| If you use HP 88 printer cartridges, you really | | | | cartridges online and you install them into your |
| should read this article in it's entirety. | | | | printer. You print about 10 or so pages and you're |
| The first thing I'd like you to do is open your | | | | really impressed with the print quality. WOW! |
| printer. That's right. If you're near your printer, I | | | | These cartridges print just like the original HP inks. |
| want you to open the top of it so that you can | | | | Hold on to your horses. |
| see inside where the actual printing takes place. | | | | In this scenario, when you go from the original HP |
| You'll know why in a moment. | | | | 88 inks to HP 88 compatibles, you are not actually |
| Inside your printer, you'll see that there is a | | | | going to see the ink from the compatible |
| printhead carriage that does the actual 'printing'. HP | | | | cartridges until you have printed several, and in |
| 88 printer cartridges and printheads are separate. | | | | some cases, hundreds of pages. This leaves you |
| There are ink tubes that connect the two and | | | | with a very misleading impression of the |
| this is the focus of this article. | | | | compatible cartridges and when you have |
| These ink tubes contain roughly 5ml of ink and | | | | problems with your printer days, weeks, months |
| the printheads contain about 9ml of ink. These | | | | later - you may not even realize that it was the |
| numbers are PER COLOR of ink in your printer. | | | | compatible cartridges that caused the problem. |
| So, this is what typically happens... | | | | |