How much ink does it take to print black and white documents ?
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The amount of black ink required to print depends heavily on the percentage of the space that is actually covered with ink. Text requires very little ink because, generally speaking, the area printed for each caracter represents only a small percentage of the area occupied by that character and much blank space is usually provided between words and lines. So, all in all, for text only, the percentage of the space covered with ink is normally quite small; it does vary however with the font style you pick. For instance Comic san (MS) require more ink than say Eurostyle. For images and photos, the situation is quite different as the percentage of the image covered with ink tends to be considerably greater than for text on a per square inch basis. Having said all this, you should know that not all printers use the same amount of ink to print identical text pages. This adds yet another variable in trying to answer your question. So, in final analysis, I suspect that the best way to answer this question is to experiment with your printer using the font style you like and see how far a cartridge will go. Sorry, but that's the best I can come up with at the moment.
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Output at up to 12 pages per minute in black and white, and at up to 8 pages per minute in color. Good quality. No jamming problems for 3 years now. Really like the colors vs. my old Brother printer.
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Yes, it has support for black and white printing, and prints documents with plain text extremely fast. It uses very little ink for this kind of work. This is pretty similar to other printers that have dedicated blank ink tanks.
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I have printed on both sides of the paper about 50/50 text and color graphics 2 packages of paper 500 sheets per pkg. before needing to replace cartridges. Those are the original cartridges that came with the printer. I am using windows 8.1 and using the HP compatible printer settings. I had problems with the postscript settings and changed to the HP settings. Chuck Frodermann
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About 20-30 ppm for b/w and 16-20 color. I have a wireless set up. Had no problem with the set up. I print from my Dell desktop, Apple laptop, iPad and iPhone.
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Nope. None. Nada.I'm saving up for a black only laserjet instead and I haven't used this thing in over a year other than for excellent scanning. Refuse to buy magenta and yellow ink just to print a 1 page word doc in black.
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The printer comes with a starter cartridge, which will print 800 to 1000 pages. A full cartridge usually prints about 3000 pages.
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Many printers today come with both a color and black ink cartridge. A printer will only print black ink if there is the only cartridge is the black ink cartridge, the color cartridge has run out of ink, or you select the print option to print either in black and white or grayscale.
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I hate to say it but the truth is .... it depends. If you are just printing text, you could get 400 to 500 pages easily. If you are printing a lot of gray-scale graphics, your output will drop considerably.
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HP says it will print up to 450 sheets or 250 photographs. But I wouldn't buy it from Amazon. I bought a black and tri color last year, and had nothing but hang-ups and "check cartridge" messages with them. So I went back to Costco and bought the pair, black and tri-color, and voila, no more problems. I have a feeling the supplier to Amazon is selling refilled cartridges, so beware.
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Absolutely. You just choose color on the printer options before sending it off to be printed. All color printers can print in black and white. You just need to see if they print black and white separately. Some printers will mix all colors to make black and white printouts, others have a dedicated black and white cartridge or drum. It is more ideal to have a separate unit for black and white as mixing the colors to make black and white eats the levels of ink or toner very quickly. I hope that makes sense.- Damon
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I can't give you an amount but I am still using the cartridges that came with my new printer HP Officejet Pro 8600 and I do a lot of printing! I have my print setting on Draft and it prints very legible. I bought the XL cartridges because I print so much but I haven't had to use them yet. I was told that the ink that comes with the new printer isn't nearly as full as are in the cartridges that I bought to replace them. I hope this helps.
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Kodak 30. Black is approx. $13 and color, $20. They do sell a 30XL in each, but I have not found that they are worth the extra money. They don't seem to last any longer. This printer produces a good quality print, but frequently loses connectivity and goes through ink like it's water. The printer takes one black and one color cartridge. I'm not sure why the other person who answered said it takes 5.
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As long as you have black ink, you can make black and white copies. The color cartridge is only needed for color copies. Also, if you don't have a color cartridge and try to print a color copy, it will just come out black and white.
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A lot! I don't know how many sheets, we installed 6 months and have not used 10 % of the ink yet! It takes about 30 minutes of time to set up, but is well worth it in my opinion!
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All cartridges must have some amount of ink left to continue printing, even if you're printing in black and white. See below for how fast the color drains on the 901, it does not drain like my Canon did.
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How many pages does this ink print out? What is the capacity of each cartridge ?