Officejet 6600 New Ink Cartridge Shows Empty

I bought brand new color ink cartridges from Bestbuy for my Officeject 6600.  I printed one color page.  After a week when i tried to print in color, it is telling me the color cartridges are empty or near empty! Can you believe it -- only after one page printed. This looks like a scam by HP to me. Please tell me that it is not.  That HP does not sell color ink cartridges that you are obligated to use EVERY DAY or else it fails after one print.  It makes me never want to buy an HP product again. Hope there is an explanation.  Please help!

Hey ,  Welcome to the HP Support Forum.  I understand you're concerned about the page yield in the colour cartridges of your HP Officejet 6600 e-All-in-One Printer. I would like to assist you with this.   For your information, depending on whether you were using regular or XL sized colour cartridges, you can yield approximately 330 to 825 pages per colour cartridge.  One colour print job, barring manufacturing defects in the cartridge, is not enough to drain a full set.  Click here for more information on the limited warranty on HP ink supplies.  Have you been printing a lot of text only (black ink) print jobs?  If yes, as you will see here and here coloured ink is often used in black only print jobs, unless you've configured your printer settings in Windows or Mac to be otherwise. In the HP Ink Usage in Inkjet Printers article that I've linked above, you can learn how and when ink is used by your printer in print jobs and other features.  Further to that, some ink (including coloured ink) is used to service the print head and to prevent clogging.       If after reviewing the information I've provided, your printer settings on PC or Mac you're still feeling something's amiss, I recommend you reach out to our tech support team.  You can click on the following link to initiate a case: www.hp.com/contacthp/
Once you fill out the online form to create your case you can choose from different direct contact methods.  On my end I cannot exchange or provide compensation for faulty cartriges, but this is something you can bring to the technical support team's attention.  I hope this helps.  Regards, 

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