Why are there 3 slots for ink, but manual list 4 cartridges?
1782010
In the "black" slot, you can either use a black cartridge or a photogray cartridge (#100). Either one will do excellent documents and black-and-white printing, but the photogray cartridge will give you MUCH better photographic reproduction. I tried the two on a sample photo of a pond with ripples on the water. With the black cartridge, the picture was still clear, but the ripples disappeared. In other words, the black cartridge leaves out the nuances in photographs. After that, I never bought another black cartridge.
1782011
The black 3rd slot is for either Gray Photo or Black cartridge. I use black. The gray photo did not work well for me.
1782012
There are three cartridge slots for this printer; 1 slot is Tri-color, 2 slot is Black and slot three can take either a "photo" cartridge HP99 or Gray/Photo HP100.
206248
My ink cartridges are 4 different colors. I do not wish to cross contaminate.
658313
they have *more* ink than regular cartridges. some ink is used for startup, and after startup the remaining ink is the same as what you'd buy at the store -- 3000 black pages, 2500 CMY.
403959
Sometimes you have to take one out, power cycle the printer, and put the cartridge back in (sometimes more than once) to get it to recognize it as good. If there's still problems, I would suggest that not all of them be removed at once, just one. Also be aware that much of the time, the printer seems to not recognize the ink level of the cartridges unless it thinks the cartridge is empty and you "replace it" after it tells you to. Just filling them up (in or out of the printer) the printer doesn't really refresh what it thinks the ink level is.
1433993
This may be something I haven't heard of. The standard ink supply is in 6 little cartridges.
753424
Yes, however you must have all 4 cartridges installed in order for it to work.
1290648
Unfortunately there are 4 cartridges. They are not ink; they are toner, so they're larger and you get more copies. However, you have to buy a black one, yellow, magenta, and cyan. It's a great machine, I just wish I would've looked at other options, too, since the toner (when we need it), will run around $525!
1129550
That would be a question for the seller. Some sellers include the cartridges, others don't.
209859
Yes four Starter cartridges. They should give the average page count in the description. I've had mine for a few months, and print out invoices and an occasional 40 or 50 double sided sheet for presentations. Still showing 3/4 full.
530628
As many sheets that you have. The printer doesn't have ink, the sheets do. The printer heats up the sheets to activate the ink.
677252
The seller I ordered from was Speedy Inks, and they sent me remanufactured cartridges that were branded "LD", not "V4INK". I've run one of the black cartridges, the cyan, and the yellow cartridges all the way down so far, getting about 2500-2700 pages from them. Um, regarding "combined total"...my totals are coming from my printer's supplies status printout, and most of the stuff I print has more than one color on a page. So I'm sure that if my yellow cartridge printed on 2700 sheets and my black cartridge printed on 2500 sheets, then there were probably 2500 pages that had both yellow and black ink applied?
1967795
I think this is a ploy to force customers to buy color cartridges even if you are only printing in black & white. There's no solution that I know of except to buy store brand ink cartridges. I still don't understand why you need cartridges in the printer in order to scan and fax - that still has me stumped, but I think it's a design flaw.
656073
It has three which prints about 500 sheets total. Not sure of the part number.
1258241
Yes, it does. They're probably "starter" cartridges with a lower capacity than the ones you get off the shelf, that's pretty typical with printers.
2135925
Mine is very economical on ink. Not only that, but the 5 cartridge system is very efficient as well...with a combo cartridge you'd have to replace it any time you ran out of an individual color...run out of blue? replace the whole thing. run out of red? replace the whole thing. run out of yellow? replace the whole thing...with 5 cart. sys. you only replace the one that runs out. PLUS you can get ink cartridges for CHEAP on Ebay or Meritline.
298950
The best way I have done this is keep an empty cartridge in the color slot and a full black in the black slot.. Since it wont work with an empty slot. Black on Black may cause problems.
2004389
Not sure what the deal is! The email shows a red one just like mine but this picture in blue is way off the grid for answering your question. It is not like the one I bought with an insert for the smaller cartridges. e.g. 221 // The 220 or 320 use the back plane of the one I own. I just lift the insert out and place them in to reset them. Mine works well. Again, this is not the one own.