Approximately how long will a black toner cartridge last compared with the ink cartridges for, say, an Epson 800 or other ink jet printer used at more or less same capacity/per month--say 300 black and white pages/month? Approximately how long will a black toner cartridge last compared with the ink cartridges for, say, an Epson 800 or other ink jet printer used at more or less same capacity/per month--say 300 black... » Read More Approximately how long will a black toner cartridge last compared with the ink cartridges for, say, an Epson 800 or other ink jet printer used at more or less same capacity/per month--say 300 black and white pages/month? « Show Less
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HP 85A LaserJet Toner Cartridge Dual Pack, black. Average cartridge yields 1600 standard pages so that would be around 5 to 6 months.
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When the print from a toner cartridge begins to fade after couple thousand pages or so, remove the cartridge and give it a good shaking. Then, replace the cartridge. It will behave as new again for an unknown period of time. Good machine.
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I get 500+ mix of excel spreadsheets and copy heavy scripts that fill most of the page. Its longer than you'd think.
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Usually, the cartridges that come with a new printer are just test/sample cartridges, so they tend give less output than the "real" cartridges. Upon installation of the printer software, you will be able to track your toner use but if you also go to the HP site, it gives an idea of max output, which for this cartridge is stated as 2,600 pages, but I would say that average is a little less than a full (letter-sized) page of colour.
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My Epson WF-3540 came with the 126 black cartridge -- within a month or two of normal use (as this was my color printer; had another for general black and white printing) it was depleted. I was not a happy camper! It made me quite disappointed with my printer purchase, but decided to try the higher capacity 127 cartridge to be sure. I noted that it took 8 months of regular-heavy use (my b/w printer died) before I needed to replace -- that was acceptable so I now only purchase the higher capacity ink, no matter what the price of the lower capacity.
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I don't print huge amounts per day, some days a couple of pages, others a few dozens, mosty web pages or word documents. I bought this last year and the only one I had to replace was the black, about 1 month ago. It complained about it for maybe 1 1/2 month but I just took it out and shook it and put it back in until it really was empty. Compaired to ink, toner is 1000% less expensive. As for the colors, it recently started to complain about the yellow, but I suspect it will last many more months. So far I only used the cartridge that come with the printer, except for the black I just started. I'm pretty sure to save money they don't fill those to their fullest, so I would say a cartridge is at least good for 2,500 pages of text. If all you print are pictures, it won't be as many, but it will be a lot more than with an ink printer. The only reason someone might prefer an ink printer is if the picture will be placed against plastic. Toner has a tendency to unstick from the paper and stick to the plastic. It has always done that BTW, not just with this printer. In my case, I gave my ink printers away to Goodwill. They cost me more in ink than the printers themselves. Which is why when I saw this color toner printer at that price, I grabbed it. Plus it's a multi-function. It does copies so good that I had to put a mark on the back of the original to recognize it from the copy. The document feeder works well, and you can use it to feed the copier, not just the fax. I did not scan much with it, but it scanned well. It does scan to OCR, but none of them do a great job, particularly when there are some very small fonts. But what is does is still better than having to type the whole thing.
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My toner doesn't register low and I have ben using it for a year and have printed a few hundred pages. it last a long time compared to ink cartridges.
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Yes, the toners are very small (specially the color ones, black toner is slightly larger) but with moderate use they last a while.
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I've had some sitting around for 6 months or better and did not notice any difference. They are vac sealed in plastic just like epson ink so I would venture to say more than a year if left unopened. I have ordered these twice and yet to have any issues other than my workhorse telling me using non epson cartridges may void your warranty which it's three years old so I don't care and am not paying 50.00 for a set of ink that lasts me a month. I've had one set in for about a month now and printed off a few color Manuals and see no difference in quality or anything like that. To me, they last longer too. I won't buy epson any longer and will be sticking with these from now on. I can't believe all the ink I got for the price! Amazing I paid about 10x for epson. The seller is great and I received it promptly and packaged well. I print off a lot of coupons and patterns for crochet and crafts I need in color and I haven't been dissapointed! I found an article on ehow and will be doing this, storing in the fridge! Also it said you can use a damp q-tip to reactivate if it crusts over. Here's the article: hope this helps!! Ehow on storage if inkjet ink: Store At or Below Room Temperature It is important to keep the cartridge cool as well as out of direct sunlight. Excessive heat will do exactly what direct sunlight would do. If the room or office has a constant temperature in the low 70s, that is fine, but anything higher will begin to dry out the cartridge. If there is no place dark and cool around, it is perfectly possibly to place the ink cartridge inside a refrigerator. This will be both dark and cold. However, make sure the product has enough time to warm up to room temperature before placing into the printer. The plastic will expand and contract in the cool to heat transfer, and putting it to immediate use could cause the cartridge to leak.
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3 of us use my color inkjet EPSON Artisan 800 printer with a 6-COLOR REFILLABLE CARTRIDGE and I need to refill it approx. every 6 months (usually because the black is 100% empty & the rest are about 80% empty). I had 4.0 oz (110ml) ink refill bottles and was able to refill my cartridges 9 times from late 2009-2014 before using the black up completely. If I invested in a CISS I imagine it would last us maybe a couple of years between needing to refill it!
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HP, the manufacturer, tells the buyer on the package info approximately how many pages each ink cartridge should last. I own 2 printers that use this cartridge and I purchased the 2nd printer specifically because it is the newer model of the 1st printer and it uses the same cartridges. I have been super impressed with the life of these cartridges. My Lexmark I purchased a few years back only printer 500 black copies for the same ink cost with HP's 950XL that prints 2500 black pages. I use the XL version of the cartridge and it is supposed to get 2500 pages on the XL cartridge (and that sounds about right on actual use). So the regular cartridge (which is what comes with the printer) getting about 1800 pages does sound correct. I do recommend purchasing the 950XL cartridge if you do a lot of printing. It runs roughly $35 on Amazon.
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We just went through the 225 ink cartridge in 1 month! I wonder how many "typical" pages the 225 will last? 1 month seems ridiculously short.Just looked up the page yield for this cartridge it says 340 pages.
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I've installed one of these cartridges in my EPSON XP-400 Nov 14, 2014 and it stopped printing adequately last week... seemed to be out of ink but the Epson said it was half full. I don't use my printer every day (mu son uses it at times though) so maybe the ink dried up, or maybe the Epson does not accurately sense the level... but I don't think I've used enough ink to run out... still the price is adequate for the value so far... I put in a new cartridge and it works fine... time will tell.
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Sorry, I just bought this a few weeks ago, the printer is about 4 years old now. I have been printing daily with this cartridge and wanted to not have to deal with replacing it for a long time.
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Kind of hard for me to answer as I have it for home use, I have used both the HP version and also refilled cartridges offered on Amazon and have been satisfied with each purchase. Seems like the do last for a decent period of time. Sorry could not give a better answer.
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It probably will for a short period until you replace the color cartridge but long use without all cartridges will probably damage the printer. Even when setting your preference to print only black it uses a little of the color cartridge per Epson. I recommend contracting Epson for exact information. I have not run into this situation since mine is still new. Good luck.
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not sure yet--with the brand new cartridge in the new printer, I have printed over 150 pages and have received ""prepare to replace toner message"" for the last 10 or so printings; the b.s. in the pro-mo literature states cartridge is good for 700 pages; pressing code menu--1--8 allows continued printing, but anticipate shutdown around 200; of course nothing in the promotional information indicates any reference to word density--words per page.....Raines BCNU
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I don't think you'll have an issue at that volume. We have a few of these and I think they get at least that much usage each month, and haven't had any problems. The only thing we've ever had to do was replace toner cartridges.
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Think I dragged mine out to about 6 months, maybe longer. It lasted long after the printer started saying it should be replaced. And I pulled it out and shook it near the end and it went a little bit longer. Was very happy with how much printing was done with the starter cartridge!