This review will only be of interest to someone researching whether to buy a printer that requires these cartridges because once you've bought your printer, you're stuck with the cartridges!Easy to buy, easy to change but I'm on my third cartridge and I'd say I'm lucky to be getting 250 pages of text on fast draught print quality.Also, just in case this differs from advice you've been given, the cartridges do dry out if you don't use them. I've hardly used colour printing and now those cartridges barely function ....... don't believe those "experts" at ** World!Update: Sad I know but I hate being ripped off - kept a record and only got 202 pages in "fast draught" print quality out of this ........ I really should get out more!

My expensive HP Scanner printer would not work, I bought replacement packages of ink, but still it wouldn't work? The only black I could get was the large black ink. I was on the verge of getting rid of my printer as I needed to print my essays for uni. But finally I solved the mystery of why I couldn't buy a regular sized black ink to make my printer work. It had to have a large black ink cartridge and this 'photo' black ink before it would work, hurrah! What a relief my printer is now working fine, though still guzzling ink at a rate of knots and saying 'low ink' and not printing when the cartridges still look half full. Someone should investigate this ink scam many people have talked about it but nothing is ever done.

These cartridges contain pathetically small quantities of ink. If you have a print problem and run print cleaning a few times your ink may well be gone before you've actually printed anything. I've owned four HP Deskjets over the years and have had enough with the poor performance, they always end up with clogged print heads that can't be cleaned. The cartridges seem to have a lot less ink in them than they used to as well as being a lot less reliable. Time to buy something else I think and it wont be HP.

Purchased a while ago, stored as a backup because who wants that stressful situation when an important document must be printed with signature to add and there is no ink in the printer?
Only fools don’t prepare for all eventualities and all that.
Well on Friday the 13th, no less, I did urgently need to print said document and the laugh really was on me because I felt assured that my stored, sealed cartridge only purpose had been to sit there in the drawer just waiting for it’s moment. As I lifted it out of the drawer, I imagined how awful it would be to have not had this cartridge on this day.
I clicked it into place - fresh, crisp black ink against white paper would soon be mine.

The printer thought about it, clattering ensued as the paper began to emerge. But what was this? Second attempt, third attempt. Blank sheet after blank sheet with each amused repeat drawing me closer to that expletive word salad finale when I would realise that this had been a horribly, hopeless pride in HP’s ability to grant me identity. I didn’t exist on paper. Unless my document was intended to be deciphered by a secret agent at a later date, all I had was invisible ink. As the clock’s minutes accelerated, I knew I must relinquish any Smidgel smugness over that lone, ink cartridge - saviour of the day.

I prised my sweaty palms from the sides of the printer to see the words ‘Error, this ink cartridge is faulty’.
My brain said “Bahahaha, and you thought you were prepared, pah! Life is hard and cruel, understand this”

So now, here I am on a Sunday, yet again, buying black ink cartridges. Three this time! All in the hope of overthrowing any propensity for despair.

The problem with HP printers is that they often throw a wobbly when using so-called compatible inks, as I found out to my cost, so I now stick to the originals. They are expensive – but not as expensive as a new high-end printer. I wonder if they are trying to force us into their 'instant ink' subscription service?This is a handy way to buy original HP ink cartridges, although you'll still need to buy the photo black ink separately. These are the high yield cartridges though they certainly don't seem to last as long as they used to.

This is the second purchase and another faulty cartridge! What is going wrong? It reads as full on the printer but when I print no black at all. Trouble shooting nothing works. Doesn't seem to be any reply to the many complaints on here. How can I be refunded please?

It all worked - recognised as an official HP ink cartridge and I could print photos again. Normally I don’t bother buying the HP ones but for the photo one it made sense. Lots of packs of the generic ink cartridges don’t include the photo cartridge and it’s hard to find on it’s own as a generic one. Yes it’s overpriced compared to the non branded ones, but it was better for me to buy this than spend more on a full pack of generic non branded ones.

Printer failed to print in black ink when other colours worked. It was recognised as genuine HP brand, so possible the printer at fault, despite running it through every diagnostic and print head cleaning. Thought I would report issue in case others found same problem.

It came very fast indeed and my computer excepted the black one no trouble at all not put others in yet but my computer very fussy if it's not the original one it won't take it.. So l was happy to recommend them. but now.well have to say that I had mega problems with all of the ones i bought so much as it used up all the ink getting it sorted it was the black that caused me all the problem and the second time i tried to used the black it really failed i lost all my ink just trying the so it out the printer normally has no problem.. so I got nothing printed just used all the ink up and paper trying to get it to print..so I wont be using those again but you may have better luck than me...

Terrible experience with this last set of cartridges. They were mostly empty on arrival, revealed by the dedicated HP Smart App, which helps maintain your printer, apparently.

The perfectly functional printer was damaged by the new cartridges and will no longer printer in black or properly in cyan or magenta. The quality gets worse with more cleaning (for some cartridges) but improves if untouched. The bottom line is that this batch of cartridges have damaged the printer beyond usefulness...

This is very disappointing given that I purposefully have only ever used genuine cartridges throughout its life. This feel like the printer "firmware update" has decided its time for me to buy a new printer, but maybe time to try another printer brand...