caitsith2
Printing Apprentice
- Joined
- May 15, 2010
- Messages
- 7
- Reaction score
- 5
- Points
- 16
- Printer Model
- Epson Artisan 837
I got my HP officejet 6500 less than a month ago, as a result of an order through airmiles, about a month prior. Even before said printer had arrived, I had started looking at refilling solutions and was led to CIS systems for the printer.
Ultimately, I came to a choice of two different CIS systems, and decided on inkproducts.com's system, based on positive reviews, and a better price. Pretty much, when the printer had arrived, I did start printing on the cartridges it came with. Within a couple of days of getting the printer, I placed an order for the CIS system for that printer.
Within 9 days, that CIS system arrived. Took me less than an hour to install the system. I did a print test page, saw some slight color blending, probably a result of ink chemistry. An inkjet printhead cleaning cycle took care of that. Following that, I printed over 100 Full 8 1/2 x 11 full color photos. Quality came out consistent.
One thing that is nice with the Officejet 6500 (and 6000/7000, using same 920/920XL carts), is that you can IGNORE the out of ink messages on the printer, and continue printing anyways. About 2-3 cycles for each color, reminding you that said color might be out, (that page does finish printing in these events.), and one FINAL event, stating that color is DEPLETED, (printing totally stops.). Regardless of ALL of these events, you can just HIT the OK button to say continue printing anyways. The final depleted message, if you use the full HP driver suite, does bring up a thing about anti-counterfeiting, not that it applies here, since we know that this is not being sold to mislead customers.
Needless to say, according to the chips being used, the ones that came with the original cartridges of the printer, All four of them are flagged as depleted, ink quantity showing on printer LCD screen as [?], and the photos are still coming out as good quality.
I did a quick calculation on ink volume in the external ink tanks. Approx. 60 ml per ink tank color. Original cartridges, I measured and checked how much ink was left in the liquid side of the carts. 2ml left in black, nothing in any of the colors. Anything left in the colors, was soaked up in the sponge. (I had used approximately 3/4 of the original ink by the time I installed the CIS system. 920 Cyan/Magenta/Yellow each hold approx 3ml of ink, 920 black holds approx 5ml.) I do not know what any of the 920XL's hold, since a full set of them would have set me back as much as the full CIS system, and I used approx one tenth of the ink, printing the 100 full page photos. I expect anywhere from 900-9000 pages, depending on page content of what else I might print.
I will definitely buy my ink through inkproducts.com, since the system is working out well for me.
Ultimately, I came to a choice of two different CIS systems, and decided on inkproducts.com's system, based on positive reviews, and a better price. Pretty much, when the printer had arrived, I did start printing on the cartridges it came with. Within a couple of days of getting the printer, I placed an order for the CIS system for that printer.
Within 9 days, that CIS system arrived. Took me less than an hour to install the system. I did a print test page, saw some slight color blending, probably a result of ink chemistry. An inkjet printhead cleaning cycle took care of that. Following that, I printed over 100 Full 8 1/2 x 11 full color photos. Quality came out consistent.
One thing that is nice with the Officejet 6500 (and 6000/7000, using same 920/920XL carts), is that you can IGNORE the out of ink messages on the printer, and continue printing anyways. About 2-3 cycles for each color, reminding you that said color might be out, (that page does finish printing in these events.), and one FINAL event, stating that color is DEPLETED, (printing totally stops.). Regardless of ALL of these events, you can just HIT the OK button to say continue printing anyways. The final depleted message, if you use the full HP driver suite, does bring up a thing about anti-counterfeiting, not that it applies here, since we know that this is not being sold to mislead customers.
Needless to say, according to the chips being used, the ones that came with the original cartridges of the printer, All four of them are flagged as depleted, ink quantity showing on printer LCD screen as [?], and the photos are still coming out as good quality.
I did a quick calculation on ink volume in the external ink tanks. Approx. 60 ml per ink tank color. Original cartridges, I measured and checked how much ink was left in the liquid side of the carts. 2ml left in black, nothing in any of the colors. Anything left in the colors, was soaked up in the sponge. (I had used approximately 3/4 of the original ink by the time I installed the CIS system. 920 Cyan/Magenta/Yellow each hold approx 3ml of ink, 920 black holds approx 5ml.) I do not know what any of the 920XL's hold, since a full set of them would have set me back as much as the full CIS system, and I used approx one tenth of the ink, printing the 100 full page photos. I expect anywhere from 900-9000 pages, depending on page content of what else I might print.
I will definitely buy my ink through inkproducts.com, since the system is working out well for me.
until it got zapped in a thunderstorm
