Frank’s ink cartridge, toner cartridge, printer & photo paper news!

When printer manufacturers say ‘X cartridge has a page yield of X pages’, how is it worked out? Nearly every cartridge manufacturer (including Canon, HP, Epson and Lexmark) uses an arbitary figure of 5% coverage per page. So how much is that? It’s around one page of normal text with a 2cm margin. That’s why you usually get less pages from a cartridge. If you add bold text, headings, graphics or photos to a page, your page yield is going to decrease. If you are printing full colour photos on an A4 page you are definately not going to get anywhere near the stated page yield from your cartridges! This is also another point to consider with generic cartridges - it is well known that most generic cartridge manufacturers put less ink or toner in their cartridges, making them less of a bargain than they seem. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing if the generic cartridge you may buy has as much ink or toner as an original cartridge (even if they say they do). Of course, you would have to buy these ‘cheaper’ generic cartridges more often!

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