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HP 110 Tri-Color Inkjet Print Cartridge (CB304AN#140) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Quality ink for great projects
Comment: This ink cartridge is perfect for our portable HP printer that prints photos. You don't have to replace it nearly as often as you do with other photo printers. No complaints here!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: HP ink for Photosmart printer
Comment: This ink is good but doesn't always last for the amount of prints that it says on the box. Realizing that this is just an approximate amount I try to be selective and print only pictures that I really want to.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: very very very expensive .... per print
Comment: For the price of this ink it has cost me about a $1.00 a print for the 4 x 6's. Unless I'm doing something wrong This is Highway robbery. I did try changing preferences but it did not make much of a difference. I love my Hp 626 as far as getting a great printed picture but I just can't believe the cost of the HP 110 cartridge. We just went on a trip and I had a 100 pictures. It took 3.75 cartridges to print all 100.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Read carefully and you will not regret
Comment: Many reviews point for 40 prints and less..yes I confess that I was printing 40 or less if I use premium plus papers but not any more.

I bought 16 cartridge since I bought my HP A618 but the last cartridge printed 140 and still I can print photos (I got the warning of low ink in 100)

what I did is changed the setting in the HP Photosmart Essential 3.0 the software to use it to print your photos. these are the changes:

1- After you click at the Simple Print, make sure you choose the correct size not bigger or Full Page. (for me usually 15x10)

2- choose Printer Settings at the top right then confirm your paper size (if you use paper with tab, select it)

3- click at the Advanced printer Settings. then select your paper type (advanced or premium photo papers). select print quality, Best. I use the (best) printer quality because I didn't notice any difference while using Maximum dpi and I think Maximum dpi only good when you print 5x7 but trust me, don't ever use it. stick to (best). it consumes less ink than maximum and the output is amazing.

4- Click at the (Features Tab) at the top left. then at the bottom there is a very bad technology which is (photo fix), always put it OFF. this feature makes your ink finish earlier. Don't use it ever.

before I use the new settings, I decided to buy Canon PIXMA mini320 but it was out of stock so I bought 2 cartridges to print 70 photos. but the first cartridge still usable.

soon I'll use the second cartridge and I'll try to update my review.

for now, use the settings above and I hope you get more printed photos of a single cartridge.


Update 13-6-2008:

now I have used another 2 inks of this..one has printed 48 photos and the second printed 81 photos and still in use.

I got a tip from hp life chat support. they told me to buy the longest expiry date ink which means the ink expire date will last 1 year or 2. I bought an ink that will expire at aug-2009 which I'm still using it until now and another june-2008 which only printed 48.

Paper for 110 ink:
don't ever use premium or premium plus HP papers. they will not dry as long as you live or even water-proof papers. they will consume more ink too. you have 2 other options. Canon paper plus glossy or high-glossy and HP advanced glossy. both are incredible. I got stunning photos when I used them and longer life ink.

Photo quality settings:
if you edit your photos in the PC, don't forget to set the resolution of the photo at 600dpi or 300dpi. to know more about the resolution search the net for (PPI & DPI). once you understand them you will know that you didn't ever get a perfect photo. now when I compare the best photo before this method and after, I realized that I was a stupid who wasted money on papers like premium and lost quality of 400 photos I printed by not setting the resolution of the photo which is the same as the printer.

If you still interested in buying this ink, follow these steps above specially the expiry date of the ink and using HP advanced or canon plus paper. and before you buy new printer like Canon, try doing my way and buy oe last ink before spending money on new printer.

one last thing. don't print photos from sd card. use a software like adobe lightroom to set the exposure, light, the black level, remove noisea and colors.

goodluck.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Too expensive
Comment: Bought this as a gift, can't give a real review but I will say that these cartridges are too expensive for what you get out of them.

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