Ink Life: What's the average ink life that most people have been seeing when using to print more photos than text?
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Consumer Reports says that it costs 35 cents to print a 4 X 6, and $1.00 for an 8 X 10 on this printer, and 4 cents per page for text. So you can figure how much the ink tanks cost, and get a good idea of how long they'll last.
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I am a school teacher with a Canon printer, copier, scanner, fax machine in my classroom. I use the 240XXL black cartridge and I can assure you, with about 70% page coverage, I get about 350 pages consistently. Canon's boast of 600 pages is exaggerated.
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I've just begun using these inks. The photo images are super. Can't see any difference in these inks as compared to other brands. As to quantity, I can't give you a number on that. I haven't run a large number of prints to cause an ink color to run out.
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I like my printer a lot, and it's so easy to use. i'm not sure if it uses a lot of ink compared to others. I always order the ink/paper packs from Amazon.
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Actually, I returned this printer for refund after finding out it would not do what I wanted to do and also because the ink consumption was PHENOMENAL!!!! Also, when you run out of ink, it just stops! DEAD! Until you get new cartridges, which do NOT hold as much ink as other printer cartridges. Overall, I was NOT impressed with this printer at all. Good luck! :O) (Oh, btw, I bought a Canon MG 6220 printer and I am very happy with this one!
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These answers appear to be addressed to ink usage on the 800. What about the 810?
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I would say ink consumption is acceptable. You can also purchase economy priced ink that works very well, at a savings that is also acceptable. I get it from Amazon.com too.
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I just bought this printer and am already in need of more ink. The ink multi-package I bought from Epson cost about $45. With the cartridges that came with the printer I was able to print around thirty-five 4x6" high-quality color photos and about ten 8x11" photos of the same quality. Ink does seem to go fast when printing like this. Hope that helps.
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I think I read a review that they were not normal- as in smaller. However- we have had and used the printer for a couple of months- have not replaced the ink yet. We've done a fair bit of bw printing- some color- but no photos.
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I havent use the first original cartridge yet so far about 30 pages, it still show 1/3 left, but I have friend use then same printer with outside ink tank for 50$ he can print for ever, I may try that later.
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The first cartridge printed about a ream of paper--not bad, actually about what an inkjet would do. I then reset the print density down on the printer. My counter on the printer now reads 2665. That means that I just ran about 2000 copies--around 4 reams--on the second cartridge. That's WAY better than I ever did on any injet ever. Thanks for the question. I hadn't thought to check that until just now.
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I've printed 3652 total pages with 2502 being color... I still haven't had to replace the yellow "starter" cartridge. The others were replaced at about the 1200-1500 page mark. Full disclosure, I had the setting on "color saver" for about the first 800, since then its been set back to default. Prints are fantastic quality
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I recently printed some photos of my grandkids on glossy-premium photo paper from Office Max and they turned out beautiful. I also printed some 4 x 6 prints. It is relatively easy to adjust the printer to accommodate different sizes, just read the instruction book. I would suggest printing on plain paper every 8 to 10 prints though, just to keep the inks from slight overrun. This would probably be avoided if you got a more matte photo paper. It's a great printer for any project I've tried.
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I think that mostly depends on wheter you print alot or not. i do average printing - 20 sheets a week and the ink toner has lasted about 7 months on average
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Like any inkjet, it depends on how much you print and what quality. My default setting is gray scale / draft to extend ink life.
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I can't say as to the total number of pages; however, I do know that between my home office use (moderate) plus my university student's coursework (heavy), I can generally get close to six month's worth of usage if I set my print quality on "fast" with the occasional "standard" settings. YMMV.
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That surely depends on how much or how little you're printing, the quality settings you use, types of documents/images you are printing, etc. My experience has been that it is no more or less than the cartridges supplied by the manufacturer.