By Darren Allan
HP is switching its ink cartridges on new PageWide and OfficeJet Pro printers so they use a proprietary type of ink in order to improve print quality among other factors – and also to ensure users can’t purchase cheap cartridges from third-party suppliers.
As PC World reports, the so-called pigment ink has only been pushed by HP in industrial printing thus far, and this is the first time it’ll be used in office printers.
The good news is that print speeds will be nippy, as pigment ink can be sprayed simultaneously across the whole page, with the top of the range PageWide model achieving around 75 pages per minute in basic mode (and 50 PPM when switched to high-quality).
HP says that the print quality is better than an office laser printer, and the ink is also more durable than a standard inkjet, so your printed pages should last for a good deal longer.
Only HP sells the new ink cartridges, with prices starting at $40 (around £28, or AU$54), and the company claims the cost of printing is cheap with a black and white page running to a cent, with colour costing 6 cents – half the cost of printing a colour …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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