"Estimated ink levels" way, way off...

Grey_Critic

I only change the cartridge when it runs out,. - remember the manufacturer is in the business of selling Ink so it does not matter to them                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

victor2

Grey_Critic said:

I only change the cartridge when it runs out,. - remember the manufacturer is in the business of selling Ink so it does not matter to them                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Me too!   

forgotmyname

Try a deep head clean on an inktank printer and it can use more ink than a standard cartridge holds.  Mine holds almost 70ml of ink.

Did the test page and one colour was barely visible so did a head clean which actually made it worse.  Topped up the tanks to
the max just in case even though the levels were around the 3/4 mark.

Did a full deep clean and it used approx 15ml of ink.

TELLIT01

Neil_Jones said:

If you seriously go for long periods of time without printing (and its almost always black and white) you'd do better with a little mono laser.  This uses powder to print with and doesn't "dry up", because its already dry

That's exactly what I have done.  Benefits include printing being possible almost immediately after switching the printer on (no waiting for head cleaning or other processes an inkjet goes through); no blocked heads and smeared print, cartridges which will print 100s of pages; cost per page far lower than inkjet.