Ink usage on HP D7560 Photosmart printer

Hello everyone,
I am appalled at how fast this printer uses ink. I purchased the high capacity tanks, which cost about $20. each, and I am replacing an ink tank about once every ten prints. This means I am using $2. per print on ink. And these are 8.5x11 prints on HP Advanced Paper. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to conserve on ink? I choose Max DPI when printing. Is that causing the printer to use more ink? Thanks.

we bought this printer and it is just garbage. same issue with the ink! I seriously print out many 5-10 pages a month and it needs all new ink! It's like it evaporated or something! Really expensive. My hp all in one in my office lasts forever with ink! Something needs to be fixed with this or I want a replacement. it takes forever to start up and get printing too!!!

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Photosmart 8250 constant maintenance cycles while printing & excessive ink usage

I'm having a problem with my trusty 4-year-old HP Photosmart 8250: Whenever I print a document, whether in color or black ink only mode, it constantly enters maintenance cycles and excessively uses ink.
Two examples: When I printed a color document (color, HP Bright White Inkjet Paper, 17 pages), the printer behaved erratically, with constant maintenance cycles. It also said I had to change yellow ink, but when I re-turned on the printer to install a fresh yellow ink cartridge (I only use original HP ink), it still showed remaining yellow ink. Then yesterday, when I printed a 32 page graphics document (black ink only, plain paper, normal), the ink meter for black dropped from full to 25% full (I had changed the black cartridge only one week earlier), and the printer went through four maintenance cycles. Neither had happened before in my four years of owning this printer, and the black ink consumption for similar documents in the past was barely a quarter of what it was for this document.
Are these issues most likely related to the printhead? I know that the Photosmart 8250, like all printers with HP 02 cartridges, uses a fixed non-replaceable printhead, so does the printhead need cleaning or alignment? Or should I just get a new HP printer, as I have used this printer extremely frequently over the past 4 years?
Thanks for all your help!

Hi johnpd,
There have been some significant upgrades to photo printing and the inks since the MP610 was introduced. With the MG7120, and the XL ink tanks (which are comparably priced to the standard ink tanks used in the MP610), you should receive similar or greater page yields. One major reason for this boost is the addition of the gray CLI-251 ink. When gray appears in your printout, instead of using a mixture of all the other colors, the gray ink is used, reducing your overall ink consumption.
At the risk of sounding like a typical salesman, "I want to get you in the model that is right for you"! If you are looking for a photo printer, the MG7120 is one of my top suggestions for a quality Photo All-in-One. If however, you do not plan to make heavy use of the printer and only occasionally print photos, you might get more value from an Office All-in-One.
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HP Photosmart 309g-m ink usage, etc.

I purchased this all-in-one from NewEgg.com in January 2010 for $119 on sale. I was thrilled because I was looking forward to owning an HP printer. I used to have an old dot-matrix and loved it. I was replacing a Lexmark X5150 which had served well for five years, but was giving me problems feeding paper, especially envelopes. Also, I thought the ink for the Lexmark was expensive. I was replacing cartridges on the Lexmark about every 3 mos. at a cost of $78.
Since buying the HP Photosmart 309g-m all-in-one in January 2010, basically less than 3 mos. ago, I have spent $178.50 on ink as of April 22, 2010. Yes ... One hundred, seventy-eight dollars. I have replaced all color cartridges three times since January and they now need replacing a fourth time. I have also replaced the black cartridge three times and the photo black once, although I have printed a maximum of four 4 x 6 photos -- only those printed as a test when I first installed the printer.
I do not print extensively every day. The printer is for home use, almost exclusively printing occasional greeting cards, five 8.5 x 11.0 pages per week of 5.5 x 3.5 postcards using Microsoft Publisher 2002 (4 per 8.5 x 11.0 page, not using all the page space), greeting card envelopes, or other relatively small projects such as two 8.5 x 11.0 pages per week of 3.5 x 2.0 business-size cards with color images (10 cards per page) for a children's Sunday School class.
I have kept a record on my computer. Since last replacing all color cartridges, black cartridge, and photo black cartridge between 3/31/10 and 4/10/10 -- a MAXIMUM of 22 days, I have printed 112 documents, some of which were entirely black text, and some of which were 4.375 x 5.75 envelopes (i.e., small). That averages to approximately 5 documents per day, although, as said, I do not print every day. NO PHOTOS, and several documents in black text only or small envelopes.
The point of this post is not to ask a question -- unless it is how does HP get away with making and selling such an blatantly avaricious product. The point is to warn others and to vent my EXTREME anger and frustration. This all-in-one is a total rip off.
I have read other posts on this forum from those who have similar ink usage issues, and not just with the 309g. If it were possible, I would post every where on the web to warn people about these HP products. I personally think it is abominable that they are allowed to produce this kind of product when they KNOW they will rake in a fortune on printer ink.
Do not be misled by the sales pitch that individual color cartridges are a bonus. All color cartridges run low within days of each other and nothing color can be printed if one of them is too low. In addition, it is not possible to determine which low cartridge is responsible for the inaccurate colors on the printed page. Recently the color on a project printed streaked and it required replacing the black cartridge to cause the color to print correctly. I have had similar experience with needing to replace a magenta cartridge in order to correctly print a project where most color in the image was green, yellow, or blue. And, it is not necessary to inform me that the cartridge colors must mix to produce the exact color. That is not the point. The point is it is misleading to advertise that it is a helpful feature to be able to replace only the colors needed when that fact is useless practically speaking.
There have also been other issues with the 309g-m. The learning curve was extreme, and I am not a novice. The software is limited. It is necessary to create a new paper size under custom sizes for every project that involves something other than the preset sizes HP has decided "most people" want, and that includes something as simple as a half-sheet of 8.5 x 11.0 paper. It is not possible to print two-sided projects correctly if the project is a 4.25 x 5.5 booklet (half an 8.5 x 11.0 page greeting card format to avoid "quarter folding") produced in Microsoft Publisher 2002, because HP's software arbitrarily decides the user needs certain margins to allow for binding. Thus it is not possible to customize the software to individual creativity. As a matter of fact, if one changes paper size to 8.5 x 5.5 and the format to booklet in Publisher, HP's printer software will not even allow two sided printing.
The scanner bed is slightly raised so that scanning a page from a large book, or a portion of a large sheet does not produce a clear image because the original cannot be placed flat on the scanner bed. Scanner resolutions had to be modified to prevent grainy or speckled image results. The scan to computer option on the LED screen does not work unless one has the HP Solution Center enabled on startup (or takes the time to start it before attempting a scan).
I have read HP's article about ink usage and find that they have designed this equipment to USE INK. Between every document printed, if you choose to print only one copy, the printer "adjusts" itself, using ink. Every time it is turned on, it "adjusts" itself, using ink. Every time it has set idle, even though on, for a period of 5 min. or so, it "adjusts" itself, using ink. And it was designed this way ... not, as HP asserts, the provide superior printing, but, rather, to provide superior bottom lines for HP from ink sales.
It is a travesty that HP is allowed to do this.
This may never be posted, but I hope it is, and I hope people read it, and I hope others do not get stuck with $119 all-in-ones that cost $178 in ink within the first three months to print color documents, no matter how small or how infrequently. I can't imagine what I would do if I were trying to use this for a business! As soon as I am able to afford it, I will ditch this piece of equipment and buy something else. And HP can be assured I will not stop talking about it for a LONG time.

I'm seeing a lot of comments posted on the 309g's ink use, but your experience seems most like my own. I ran into another 309g owner at an Office Depot and that individual reported the same sort of results. My question is this: at what elevation is the town in which you live? I (and the person I met) live at about 7500 feet and the 564 cartridges act as though the ink is is actually evaporating.
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Photosmart printer not printing out new ink colours

Hey guys, I own a HP Photosmart b109a and have for a couple of years with no issues.
About 4 days ago we brought some new ink cartridges for the printer as it had run out of colour ink and we were wanting to print out photos since we had heaps of photo paper and had thought it would work out cheaper than going to a store and paying for heaps of prints.
It was the correct ink used but on the first print everything came in shades of blue, no other colour had printed, so after removing the printhead I noticed it had been covered in blue ink as if it had leaked, so I cleaned it as shown online, but then only the black ink would print. I tried printing things with colour only and it would print but come out blank?
No issue with the ink would pop up and cartridges were shown to be full.
After much messing around I finally found how to do a cleaning cycle but only ran one as I didn't want to waste ink and didn't know if it would work.
Eventually the blue and yellow ink started to print and my photos came up as green in colour, but still no Magenta.
After moving from house to house I no longer have the disc to this printer so can't run the HP solution centre as it refuses to find the printer which my Windows 7 has found. I can't even remember how I found the cleaning cycle to try and do it again.
I've tried running many washes and printing heaps of coloured pages but the most I got was magenta appearing as a faded yellow.
So last night I tried to soak the head in hot water overnight as someone insisted it was clogged, which it also looked to be. This morning it was again a lot cleaner but now no colour will print! Only black ink!!
Any help with what can be done!? Getting these photos printed is super important as it's due to a loss of a family member and after paying for new ink that can't be returned, we can't afford to print at a store
Thanks in advance!

No one has a solution? Might just add, an old Calidad cartridge that requires you to carefully remove the chip of an old cartridge then add it to theirs, works perfectly in my printer right now....? the other inks don't want to work though....?

What can be done with the excessive ink usage on the HP6700 printer?

I just replaced all the cartridges in a HP6700 printer so I could print a black only page (that issue has it's own thread of disappointed customers). Now after very little use, perhaps 20-30 pages at most and again mostly just black type, the message that cyan ink is low comes up. Yes, I set it to print black only and grayscale most every page but I think that is false. I use the Draft setting on most things in another hopless effort to save ink. I think I did better from the starter pack that came with the printer which also ran out about the same time but I did at least print have the pages with color then. Does anyone know of a way to get this thing to stop using up ink so fast other than leaving in unplugged in the corner or placing it in the garbage can.??

Hi oceanbob,
I appreciate your frustration, I really do. However, this particular printer uses some color inks even when printing in black only. The reason for this is for servicing tasks and to make sure your printhead does not dry out and cause problems in the future. If you did run out of color and kept printing black only, you will cause problems with the printhead.
For more information here is your User Guide to your printer, see page 74.
To get a better understand of the ink usage, take a look here: Ink Usage in Inkjet Printers
Thank you for your time!
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Photosmart 7520 ink usage

I have a photosmart 7520 all in one printer. Question: When regular black ink cartridge is depleted, does the printer automatically use the photo black cartridge to provide ink in order to continue printing? If so, does it continue to do so until the photo black cartridge is depleted?

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Short answer: No, the cartridges are not interchangeable in this sense. The photo black and regular black are for different "black" uses. Need both.
You might be able to get away with switching the Printing Preferences > Advanced > Print in Grayscale (On)
You might be able to get some sort of output from the printer that way if you really do not want to replace the black cartridge for some reason. The only issue is the one mentioned: different backgrounds, image printing, documents, the like -- need different blacks. ??
Maybe one of our Printer Experts can tell us more.
You can order replacement ink to ship to your location from HP SureSupply
Free shipping and shipping is ultra-fast, too, at least in the USA.
I use the 564XL cartridges of all the colors in my 7520.
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HP B110a High Ink Usage

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
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A4 (210x297 mm)/Letter (8.5x11): 543
Envelope: 57
Other Sizes: 0
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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!

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
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Hp photosmart printer

I have a HP photosmart d110 printer... I have put in a new black ink cartridge but have not changed the color and it is empty... will that cause it to not print at all?

Hi , Welcome to the HP Forums! I noticed that you cannot print with your HP Photosmart d110. I am happy to look into this issue for you! Please, try the steps within this guide, Printer Prints a Blank Page or Does Not Print Black or Color Ink for the HP Photosmart e-All-in-One (D110a and D110b) Printer Series. In solution two, it states: Check the estimated ink levels, and then replace any low or empty cartridges. This tells me this printer may need color as well, in order to print black, due to the type of printhead. According to this guide, Ink Usage in Inkjet Printers: There are several circumstances when color ink may be used—primarily to improve print quality, and sometimes to improve printer reliability—even if the document appears to be only black text-and-graphics. Many HP printers utilize chemical interactions to improve the quality and permanence of plain paper black text-and-graphics by adding small amounts of color ink to certain black areas. Some dark images which look black may contain a combination of black and color inks. For black and white images and photos, a blend of colors called "composite black" may be used to achieve significantly better image quality and smoother gray tones than can be accomplished with black inks alone. Some inkjet printers utilize pigmented black ink, which is incompatible with some inkjet photo paper. In this case, dark or black areas are made up of color inks. Page yield testing is conducted with all cartridges (black and color) installed in the printer. For more information see Inkjet page yields . I would suggest also changing the color, to see what happens. Also, what is the Operating System you are using? Windows or Mac? What version? If you do not know the Operating System you are using, please visit this website. Whatsmyos. Hope this information is helpful, and hope to hear from you soon! “Please click the Thumbs up icon below to thank me for responding.”

PhotoSmart printer 7520 has life of it's own

My PhotoSmart printer 7520 makes noises and sounds like it is completing some printing or action command very frequently at night when we aren't using it. What is it doing and why? It makes the exact sounds as when we are printing. It is wireless.
This is a new computer(install less than a month) and the smaller black ink cartridge is already empty. It ony gets casual usage by 2 people, and we don't print in color. How can switch the printer to only use the large black cartridge?

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On your printer, press the wrench on the screen and choose preferences. You can scroll down and choose a couple of things. I've set ours to go into Energy Saving mode at 5 minutes and have the Printer Effects volume set to soft. We don't hear any printer activity at night.
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This should force the printer to use the black only cartridge. When printing in color again, you would need to go back into Printing Preferences to take the check out of grayscale.
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Black Ink Cartridge not working HP Photosmart 5510 series

I replaced my black ink cartridge in my HP Photosmart 5510 series printer and it doesn't print. I don't know how long I had the cartridge, so I went and bought a brand new cartridge and it still won't print. I did everything the help menu said and it still doesn't print. I cleaned print head and copper on both the cartridge and print head, I did an automatic cartridge clean and nothing is working. The printer recognizes that the cartridge is full---there are no error messages---but it won't print. I also replaced the three color cartridges and they print fine, but the black doesn't. Any help would be appreciated. My printer is fairly new, I haven't done a lot of printing with it and it was printing untill the black ran out and I had to replace the cartridge.

Hi, please see links below on cartridge changes
Change to electrical chip (new design has black dot)
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03154756
Black XL size
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&docname=c02750681
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Officejet 4620 Brand new HP Black ink cartridge and it won't print black at all

Greetings, my printer recently ran out of ink. So I purchased a set of cartridges from Staples. I installed them and ran the Clean Printhead function. I now have great color and NO BLACK. I ran the clean printhead function numerous times. Its so frustrating to watch the evolution of printers over the last 2 decades go from reliable to unreliable all for the purpose of financial gains. I've had printers since the 80's, I used printers when they came with ribbon cartridges, which hardly failed, though they would indeed dry out. At least when they did dry out you would be able to put a new one in and continue. Now they have engineered replaceable printheads (because they were made knowing they will fail), ink cartridges that are not interchangeable (knowing that once you've had it with one printer model, you'll most likely switch to another brand or model) which uses a DIFFERENT model ink cartridge. All for finacial gain. Between my office and home, I've been through 4 printers in the last 2 years. I was a loyal Lexmark fan, untill my old one died and I purchased a new one, first thing I noticed was the changeable printhead, and I said to myself, uh oh, thats going to fail, and so said, so done, within 3 months of using the printer, Lexmark sent me 2 printheads and 2 sets of replacement inks free of charge. I still have a set of ink and a printhead because the LCD screen went blank, lol. Had to toss it. Ended up switching to HP which I believe is made in the same factory as Lexmarks after much comparison of models. Now I have the newest HP at my office and its been great thus far and SUPERB on ink usage, THUSFAR. I'm almost afraid to find out what my future has in store. I know I ran on alot off topic, BUT HP, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES. I've now wasted $60 on a new set of cartridges and will most likely need a new printer since my warranty is expired. SMH. Bad Business!!!!
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Is your printer still in warranty? You can check with HP's warranty tool here. Are you located in the US?
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Is there a way to password protect a photosmart printer so that others cannot use it?

Is there a way to password protect a PhotoSmart printer?

The core printing system (CUPS) can apply a print quota to a printer, such as 5 pages per day, but this limit would apply to all users - not just the kids.
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How do I get the little screen back, that tells me how much ink I have left in my print cartridges?

How do I get the little screen back, that tells me how much ink I have left in my print cartridges? It used to show up whenever I would print something, now it doesn't and I have no idea how much ink is left in the cartridges. I have a HP Photosmart C4180 All in One Printer. I recently purchased new computer, a HP Pavilion P7-1254 AMD Vision, which runs Windows 7. I just want to know how to get the screen back that tells me how much ink I have left. Thanks.

Hi there pyesangel,
Open the Printer Toolbox . There are two ways to do this:
Open HP Solution Center , select the Settings menu, then the Print Settings submenu, and finally the Printer Toolbox .
Open Printers and Faxes in the Windows Control Panel , then right-click your printer icon and choose Properties . Click Printing Preferences . Click the Features tab, then click the Printer Services button.
The Printer Toolbox opens. Click the Estimated Ink Level tab. A cartridge may be running out of ink even if the graphic shows ink remaining (see the note at the start of this section). Lines or streaks always appear in printouts when the cartridges begin to run out of ink. Replace print cartridges that are out of ink or low on ink.
Figure 1: Estimated ink levels
Give it a shot and let us know if it helps.
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HP 5510 Photosmart Printer - will not print in color

Just installed brand new HP color ink for Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow cartridges in my HP 5510 Photosmart Printer.
Printer will only print in black .
After doing Print Quality Report, it still only prints in black. Also, tried cleaning print head. Still no color!!
Window 7 Operating System. No error messages.
HELP!!

Hi @scvalleygirl can you try solution 2 at the link below as the supplies may not be vented correctly, 
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Why is my printer HP Officejet 6600 using color ink even though I'm not printing in color?

I've had this printer about a year now. I've replaced the entire line of ink cartridges at least 3 times now, working on 4. I don't print much at all. A couple of sheets a day or so. I always thought that it was using color ink very quickly so I thought I'd put it to a test. I changed the default settings to black ink only. I replaced all of the ink cartiridges, color and black. I decided this time I wouldn't print anything in color just to see what happened. Well the same thing is happening as if I were using color ink. The color ink is draining out much quicker than the black ink. This seems weird to me. Now we are at the point where it won't print unless I replace the magentia cartridge. This also seems unfair that they do not mention this clearly when you purchase the item. Something like "Oh, by the way, we aren't making enough money doing business as we should, so we will make you replace your ink supply even though it really isn't necessary and that should pick up the slack". I've paid for a new printer already with ink costs. Is there a way to get around this or am I stuck with it. Thanks.
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When you set the printer to print in grayscale did you also select "Black ink only"?
HP and other printer manufacturers have different printer technologies for different needs.
Some have printheads built into the ink cartridges. These printers can typically print with one or more of the colors completely empty, or even with color or black (but not both) cartridges removed. The Deskjet 6980 series is an example.
Other printers have separate ink supplies and replaceable printheads. An example would be the Officejet 8600 printer. The printhead in these printers can be replaced if they are damaged by running the printhead with colors out. Some of these printers will allow printing with a color out, other will not. If the printer is run without ink in one or more colors the printer may be damaged, but the user may be able to recover without having to send the printer for service.
Other printers have permanent printheads. To run these without some ink in all the colors would risk causing damage to the printhead due to clogs, air ingested in the printheadvor burned out printhead firing resistors. The Photosmart 6600 series is an example of this type of printer. For printers with fixed printheads this could require service to get the printer to print properly again when the ink is finally replaced.
The document here describes how ink is used. While the document is written for HP Inkjet printers the same principles apply to inkjet printers from other manufacturers.
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