HP No. 10 Magenta Inkjet Cartridge (C4843A)

Rating:
Summary: Best for your printer, Worst for your pocketbook
Review: This is a great printer and the ink cartridge system is tops - but this item is available elsewhere for much less. Amazon should do better than this.

Rating:
Summary: Great printer, great supplies
Review: This printer family is wonderful if you do a lot of printing. The printers are pretty costly, but because you can replace each color of ink separately, and replace the printing jet heads for each color separately also, you can save a lot on replacement supplies. These ink cartridges hold a *lot* of ink.

By comparison, with a lot of cheap printers, if the yellow runs out, or the holes in the magenta printing jet plug, you need a whole new cyan-yellow-magenta ink-and-jet cartridge -- and the cartridges usually hold very little ink.

This type of ink has excellent darkness range, from very faint gray to very high-contrast black. The color cartridges have great color range. Together, the overall color range is almost as good as a specialty "photo" printer, but the ink doesn't cost nearly as much. While it really looks great on fancy paper, it works well even on cheap paper...

Rating:
Summary: HP 10 ink Cartridge system
Review: This would be good if you were using up all the ink in each cartridge at least every 9 months or so. The problem HP built into this system is that the cartridges expire (and may not have much time on them when you buy them--and there is no marking on the box or unit to tell you the expiration date). If even one of the colors has expired the printer gives an error message and WILL NOT PERMIT YOU TO PRINT. So the net result is YOU HAVE TO THROW AWAY HALF FULL CARTRIDGES!!! This eliminates any potential savings. The ink is still good and they could have simply given a warning and let the customer the right to decide if they wanted to change ink before it was used up.
DON'T BE FOOLED INTO THINKING THAT THIS PRINTER WILL SAVE YOU COSTS ON INK.