How long should A960 Printer Cartridges last?

Question

I recently purchased an A960 for a charity I volunteer at. I am not there every day, but they claim that the cartridges needed to be replaced after only one and a half weeks. And then a/f being replaced, it said low ink again within a week.   Is something wrong here or did I just waste the charity's money on getting an awful printer?

sosonyc1989 · Answer

Dell cartridges are not known to last people more than 250 pages MAX.  So yes, you purchased an awful printer.  Sorry! :smileyhappy:   --sOSSo

bapsplat · Answer

Found out many pages they are printing, before you decide you've bought a bad printer.  If they do a lot of printing, you use a lot of ink.  On my Dell printer with the printer on normal print settings, I can get about 550 to 650 pages.  I don't know where the other low numbers are coming from, but you should get more than 200 pages for sure.

sosonyc1989 · Answer

Bapslat,

Firstly, what printer do you have? Because I have an A920 All in one and I can only print 250 pages Maximum. Secondly, if your printer has high quality settings, how can you change it to norma? Thanks in advance

----Soso

bapsplat · Answer

I have the 962 printer and from what I understand the cartridges hold about the same amount of ink.  As for your 920 I believe it holds about 15ml black ink, compared to 20ml for 960, so you probably wont get near as many prints.  Change your driver to print at a lower quality through your control panel on XP and the right click and your printer and select properties.  If you use your printer to do any photos at all, you are going to see a significant drop in the amount you are going to be able to print.  Luckily for me, I won't be using my 962 to do photos and the print quality is acceptable in draft to be able to save ink.  If you are doing mostly text printing, just turn driver down to use draft printing if you can still read it acceptably.  Hopefully you can get more prints out of your 920.  How do you feel about refilling cartridges?  Here's a helpful link for a website I found that let's you refill your cartridge 3-4 times for only $11.95.   http://www.printcountry.com/

william_the_sco · Answer

Most of the 900 series printers use similar capacity cartridges. On my 922 I consistantly get 250 sheets from the standard size cartridges and 500 sheets from the oversize cartridges (at the normal setting, more at the draft setting). It also depends a little on what you are printing. In a 10 year period I have had Dell, Epson, HP, Lexmark, and several others, ranging in price from $29.00 to $299.00. They have all had their good and bad points. I kept none longer than 2 years because of upgrading and they would also become tempermental or dead. The new ink cartridges all gave a similar number of prints for the same price. New brand name regular cartidges cost $19.99 to $30.00. Double capacity Dell cartridges cost $25.00 ea. or you can refill them 3 times(always very messy) for $12.00, so they seem to me to be a pretty fair bargain. If you print hundreds or thousands of black and white pages then a laser printer with a large industrial size cartridge might be most economical. 5000 or so letter quality prints for $90.00 cart.

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