HP B110a High Ink Usage

Question

I have had a HP Photosmart B110a for about 2-3 years now. It seems that the ink usage on it is very high. According to the following site: http://www.hp.com/pageyield/uk/en/PSB8500/index.html, I should expect to get about 800 pages per black XL cartridge, and 750 pages per colour one. Even on supplementary pages, I should expect to get 250/300 pages per cartridge.
The stats of my printer are:
Accumulated Media UsageTotal Page Count: 600
Media Type Pages
Plain Paper: 583
Photo Paper: 22
Other Types: -5
Media Size Pages
A4 (210x297 mm)/Letter (8.5x11): 543
Envelope: 57
Other Sizes: 0
Cartridge UsageCartridge:
 Black 6
Cyan 7
Yellow 5
Magenta 6
The average cost of a cartridge in the UK is £15 each, having now installed a total of 24 cartridges, this is a total cost of £360 over a 2/3 year period, an average of £120 a year, or 60p per print out. Exceptionally high costs for running this printer.
Most pages printed are A4 documents, mainly containing text, some are photos, on a higher quality print. Does this seem exceptionally high? Please do let me know how I can reduce this!

Answer 1

Hi Luke, a couple of things you can do is use Fastdraft print modes and XL size cartridges. As some background, there's more info on ink usage in inkjet printers in the link below......
http://h10060.www1.hp.com/pageyield/articles/us/en/InkUseage.html
Ciara
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