One subscriber to the Lockergnome newsletter
(http://www.lockergnome.com),
Brian Eickholt, brings forth a word of caution: "HP has recently been
fixing the lower-priced printers so their consumables don't last as
long.
The three HP printers I know about are the 612C, 812C and the three of
these printers use a special black cartridge that looks like a normal
cartridge, but only holds 21ml of ink in comparison to 42ml of ink for
the standard cartridges. The printers are designed to only accept
these
special cartridges and cannot use the standard cartridge. The kicker
is
that both cartridges usually cost the same price at the store, so in
the
end, you pay twice as much for the same amount of ink. I am not sure
about
other manufacturers of printers if they use similar tactics on their
lower priced printers."

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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