Walgreen's printer cart refills

Is it my imagination or do the Walgreen's printer cart refills fail to
last anywhere near as long as HP (45) printer carts?

TIA


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"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

On Mar 1, 11:50 am, Ken wrote:
Is it my imagination or do the Walgreen's printer cart refills fail to
last anywhere near as long as HP (45) printer carts?

TIA

--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

I don't know, Max.
You could shake them when they are new. Their should not be much shake
if full. The best way is to weigh them at the start and finish with a
postal scale. They are designed to hold 42ml or anything less. I
refill mine and can add extra. An empty cart goes around 70g and a
full one about 110g roughly. There can be slight differences so
weighing the one you have is most accurate. I would say a new one that
weighed in at under 100g would be seriously short. I believe HP says
over 400 page capacity at 5%.

Al Bundy wrote in news:21e1138f-bd8d-4fb3-8430-
:

You could shake them when they are new. Their should not be much shake
if full.

I don't hear anything, but then my hearing is not very good.

The best way is to weigh them at the start and finish with a
postal scale.

Walgreen ~3.5 oz. full, ~3.2 empty. Nu-Kote (remanufactured) ~5 oz. full.
I have no new HP cart to weigh. Evidently the Walgreen refill has much
less ink. But Wal-Mart seems to have quit carrying Nu-Kote and I've not
seen them elsewhere - like Staples. I'll have to do the math - maybe the
new HP cart is cheaper than the Walgreen refill. Can't recall the HP 45
price at Wal-Mart though. Have to check next time I go.

They are designed to hold 42ml or anything less. I
refill mine and can add extra.

I used to refill my own carts before I got this printer but stopped when
I read cart makers were adding chips to the carts to make them not work
if refilled. They stopped doing that?

An empty cart goes around 70g and a
full one about 110g roughly. There can be slight differences so
weighing the one you have is most accurate. I would say a new one that
weighed in at under 100g would be seriously short. I believe HP says
over 400 page capacity at 5%.

Wish I had a scale that weighed in grams but this situation is not worth
buying one specially.



--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

On Mar 5, 10:53 am, Ken wrote:
Al Bundy wrote in news:21e1138f-bd8d-4fb3-8430-
:

You could shake them when they are new. Their should not be much shake
if full.

I don't hear anything, but then my hearing is not very good.

The best way is to weigh them at the start and finish with a
postal scale.

Walgreen ~3.5 oz. full, ~3.2 empty. Nu-Kote (remanufactured) ~5 oz. full.
I have no new HP cart to weigh. Evidently the Walgreen refill has much
less ink. But Wal-Mart seems to have quit carrying Nu-Kote and I've not
seen them elsewhere - like Staples. I'll have to do the math - maybe the
new HP cart is cheaper than the Walgreen refill. Can't recall the HP 45
price at Wal-Mart though. Have to check next time I go.

They are designed to hold 42ml or anything less. I
refill mine and can add extra.

I used to refill my own carts before I got this printer but stopped when
I read cart makers were adding chips to the carts to make them not work
if refilled. They stopped doing that?

An empty cart goes around 70g and a
full one about 110g roughly. There can be slight differences so
weighing the one you have is most accurate. I would say a new one that
weighed in at under 100g would be seriously short. I believe HP says
over 400 page capacity at 5%.

Wish I had a scale that weighed in grams but this situation is not worth
buying one specially.

--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

If your measurements are accurate, the Wallgreen cart holds 3.5-3.2oz.
or 0.3oz. That converts to 8.5g. of ink. That's only about 20% of the
42ml. that the original HP45 calls for. No wonder they don't have the
guts to print it on the package.
True, newer printers use chipped carts. There are some ways to reset
them and work around it though. I can ride these old printers a long
time and then maybe move to a laser.

I suppose people have even taken things to the post office lobby to
weigh things just in case they wanted to mail them.

On Mar 1, 11:50 am, Ken wrote:
Is it my imagination or do the Walgreen's printer cart refills fail to
last anywhere near as long as HP (45) printer carts?

TIA

--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

Also Ken (not Max), just check the label on the Walgreen to see how
many mls the cart includes. The HP is 42. No reason other than ethics
that Walgreen would need to put the same into theirs.

Al Bundy wrote in news:43b8d603-b538-4995-99d0-
:

Also Ken (not Max), just check the label on the Walgreen to see how
many mls the cart includes. The HP is 42. No reason other than ethics
that Walgreen would need to put the same into theirs.


No indication at all on label - just tech's id number and date.

--
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner