Officejet 8000 VS Deskjets ink quality? Which is better?

Which uses better ink quality?  Officejet Pro 8000 or Deskjets?  
Officejet Pro 8000 uses pigments and the Deskjets uses dye.  Pigment inks are supposed to be better than dye inks.
However, the inks for the Officejet Pro 8000 (HP 940) are so much cheaper that I wonder about the quality.  Is it cheap due to supply and demand (for office use = lots of prints = inks purchased more often) or is it cheap because it is lower quality?
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The reason that the ink cartridges are cheaper is because for the Office jet 8000, the cartridge is just an ink reservoir. the printheads are separate and would only need to be replaced if they went wrong. For Deskjets you buy the ink and new printheads in each cartridge.

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