I looked at HP's website for their retail prices and some information.
Your DeskJet 722c printer uses the HP 23 color cartridge. It has 30 ml of ink and has a retail price of $34.99. This is about $1.17 per milliliter of ink. (Twinpack available for $53.99, $0.90 per ml.)
The DeskJet 950c printer uses the HP 78 cartridge. The large capacity version of this cartridge has 38 ml of ink at a price of $53.99, which is $1.42 per ml. (The low-capacity 78 cartridge is $34.99 for 19 ml, for an even worse $1.84 per ml.)
HP later came out with the HP 57 ink cartridge. It is $34.99 for 17 ml of ink, a cost of $2.06 per ml. (The 57 twinpack is $62.99, $1.85 per ml.)
HP's newest color cartridge is the HP 95/97 cartridge. The 95 cartridge is $24.99 for 7 ml of ink, which is an astounding $3.57 per ml!
You can also get the HP 97 "Large" cartridge, which is $34.99 for 14 ml of ink. This comes in at $2.50 per ml. (HP 97 twinpack is $62.99, $2.25 per ml.)
Funny that a TWINPACK of the largest volume cartridge gives you 28 ml of ink, which is just UNDER what one HP 23 color cartridge gave you!
What Lexmark is trying to do is protect their revenue stream. Replacement cartridges have always been the money-maker for printer manufacturers. IMO, Lexmark also makes inferior products, so their products themselves are unlikely to bite into HP's large marketshare.
Printer companies HATE aftermarket cartridges. Lexmark wants to kill that competition via lawsuits. HP does it a smarter (albeit similarly devious) way. Make your cartridges incompatible by constantly releasing new printer models with new cartridge interfaces. The latest HP inkjet models with the HP 94/95/96/97 cartriges are just the latest example of this tactic.
Marc Andreesson - NCSA Mosaic, Netscape
Len Bosack - Cisco Systems
Alan Kay - PARC scientist, Smalltalk, laptop computers
Linus Torvalds - Linux
John Warnock - PARC scientist, Adobe
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Your DeskJet 722c printer uses the HP 23 color cartridge. It has 30 ml of ink and has a retail price of $34.99. This is about $1.17 per milliliter of ink. (Twinpack available for $53.99, $0.90 per ml.)
The DeskJet 950c printer uses the HP 78 cartridge. The large capacity version of this cartridge has 38 ml of ink at a price of $53.99, which is $1.42 per ml. (The low-capacity 78 cartridge is $34.99 for 19 ml, for an even worse $1.84 per ml.)
HP later came out with the HP 57 ink cartridge. It is $34.99 for 17 ml of ink, a cost of $2.06 per ml. (The 57 twinpack is $62.99, $1.85 per ml.)
HP's newest color cartridge is the HP 95/97 cartridge. The 95 cartridge is $24.99 for 7 ml of ink, which is an astounding $3.57 per ml!
You can also get the HP 97 "Large" cartridge, which is $34.99 for 14 ml of ink. This comes in at $2.50 per ml. (HP 97 twinpack is $62.99, $2.25 per ml.)
Funny that a TWINPACK of the largest volume cartridge gives you 28 ml of ink, which is just UNDER what one HP 23 color cartridge gave you!
Printer companies HATE aftermarket cartridges. Lexmark wants to kill that competition via lawsuits. HP does it a smarter (albeit similarly devious) way. Make your cartridges incompatible by constantly releasing new printer models with new cartridge interfaces. The latest HP inkjet models with the HP 94/95/96/97 cartriges are just the latest example of this tactic.
Marc Andreesson - NCSA Mosaic, Netscape Len Bosack - Cisco Systems Alan Kay - PARC scientist, Smalltalk, laptop computers Linus Torvalds - Linux John Warnock - PARC scientist, Adobe