When purchasing a printer, users primarily pay attention to print quality and functionality. During operation, when ink runs out, the question often arises: "How many sheets can be printed before the ink in the cartridge runs out?".
Options Affecting Cartridge Consumption
You may have been surprised when the ink in the printer ran out much faster than what the manufacturer stated. A lot of factors affect the flow rate, let's analyze the main ones.
Layer Saturation and Page Fill
The manufacturer, when calculating the number of sheets, takes only 5% of the page fill. If you print full-length texts, then the cartridge resource is consumed twice as fast. In addition, when printing images with deep saturated colors, ink consumption will also increase.
IMPORTANT!To save, you can use specialized fonts. For example, Ecofont was designed specifically for this purpose. And when switching from Times New Roman to Ecofont, toner savings are about 20%. Which ultimately equals several tens of pages.
Cartridge Technical Condition
After long work, the internal elements wear out. This is especially critical for the drum unit. The longer the cartridge lasts, the less photosensitive the drum becomes. Namely, the inner layer of toner, which provides printing, depends on this indicator.
The larger the inner layer, the more toner goes into waste, is already difficult. With severe wear, consumption increases up to 3 times. This can only be detected by physical examination or by increased toner consumption.
Printer technical condition
In the process, not only consumables wear out, but also the structural details of the apparatus itself. The main part of breakdowns occurs with the following details:
- A thermal unit is a heating element that prepares ink for printing.
- Optical system - a design responsible for controlling print quality and adjusting the amount of pigment.
- Moving parts - a set of elements that ensure the movement of the printing nozzle and sheet inside the machine.
If any of the listed printer parts does not work correctly, ink consumption increases markedly. The thermal unit can overheat and "too well" cope with its task, increasing the amount of toner spent on one point.
If the optical system fails, it will incorrectly control the printing process and either underestimate the amount of pigment or overestimate. You should be especially serious about such malfunctions - starting with minor inconveniences, damage can completely damage the printer.
How many pages is the ink cartridge in the inkjet printer
It is impossible to give an exact answer on how many sheets the cartridge will last. The average is 250-350 sheets, but this number may vary due to different conditions. The main, perhaps, will be filling out the sheet. Also, when printing color images, one of the shades may end earlier than others and replacement or refill of the ink supply will be required.
Also, the saturation of colors affects the flow rate - the deeper and darker the color, the more pigment you need to spend on it. The average deviation from the number of sheets declared by the manufacturer will be 15%, most likely, downward. Which is not so critical, but it should still be considered.
Cartridge life after refilling
Due to the high cost of new cartridges, it’s more profitable to simply refill them. And you can not say for sure that the resource will remain the same as that of the new cartridge. It will depend not only on the type and quality of the print object itself, but also on such things as:
- ink or pigment toner quality;
- technical condition of printer parts;
- the number of previous refills of the cartridge.
In addition, the built-in sensor reads the number of skipped sheets and limits the work when a certain value is reached.
It is worth saying that laser cartridges have a significantly higher resource. But they also have to replace not only the toner, but also the drum, which becomes unusable after 3-4 refueling. But the number of refueling that can withstand the cartridge of such a device is several times more. On average, the number of sheets is reduced by 5% after each refueling.
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