| Perhaps one of the most important questions | | | | documents that are predominantly text based, |
| and one of the most frequent questions asked | | | | then they are going to find that on average |
| in the world today relates to ink cartridges | | | | each of their cartridges will last longer |
| and the capacity that they have. People want | | | | than the cartridges used by a person that |
| to know for reasons related to toner refill | | | | regularly prints photographs, color drawings |
| products and replacement cartridge purchases | | | | and a number of other things that tend to |
| how many pages their ink cartridge will | | | | cover a piece of paper in far greater measure |
| print. While this is certainly a question | | | | than simple text documents do. |
| that is worth discussing, unfortunately there | | | | |
| is no real answer when it comes to putting | | | | Printer companies from HP to many others used |
| down an exact number on paper as to the | | | | to give estimations as to the number of pages |
| capacity of a specific printer cartridge. | | | | that could be yielded from a single cartridge |
| | | | and doubtless you have heard the phrase this |
| Why is there no answer? Well, this is | | | | estimate is based on 5% coverage. Well, the |
| primarily because the different manufacturers | | | | unfortunate truth is that even text documents |
| have different ink levels in different | | | | cover more than 5% of a page, making those |
| cartridges. Taking an average value of pages | | | | estimates useless. Also, ink cartridges used |
| that were printed by the different cartridges | | | | to have quite a bit more ink in them |
| would be a useless average because it would | | | | (consider that the HP 45 has 42 ml of ink and |
| be possible for there to be a huge deviation | | | | the HP 96 has 21 ml of ink) which is another |
| from the average value for a number of | | | | reason why the older estimates are unreliable |
| different cartridges. For example, if ten | | | | today. |
| cartridges printed a thousand pages each and | | | | |
| ten printed a hundred pages each, the average | | | | So why did companies stop giving out |
| amount would be 550 pages per cartridge; a | | | | estimates of the capacities of their ink |
| value that corresponds to none of the | | | | cartridges? Well, with the advent of the |
| cartridges that were looked at. | | | | internet and the subsequent ease of sharing |
| | | | of information, it was widely publicized that |
| In addition to the capacities and | | | | a lot of the estimates were just plain wrong |
| construction values of the actual cartridge | | | | when held up to empirical information and |
| manufacturers, there is also the small matter | | | | therefore to avoid potential lawsuit |
| of what the printer ink cartridge is actually | | | | problems, ink creation companies have simply |
| used for. People that use their printers to | | | | just stopped giving those types of estimates |
| just print things like essays, thesis | | | | out. |
| statements and other black and white word | | | | |