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HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge with Vivera Inks (C9414A) | List Price: $58.09
Discount Price: Too low to display
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Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Print brilliant, true-to-life photos and fine-art prints with HP's new pigment-based Vivera inks
- Get precision color consistency and vivid, true-to-life hues
- Produce affordable studio-quality photos
- Cherish long-lasting color photos that resist fading for more than 200 years
- Replace only the cartridges that runs out among eight individual colors
Amazon makes a deal [Posted on 2007-02-20]
HP 38 inks are very high-priced, so the Amazon price combined with super saver shipping is the best deal available. As for the ink, as it is essential to use the HP B9180 printer, what can one say. The inks do their job and the printer is sometimes quirky but always produces a fine print.
Very Good Ink in VERY Small Containers [Posted on 2007-06-01]
As inks go, this appears to be very good stuff. In fact, they say it's guaranteed to last 200+ years, although I'm not sure who around me will go ask for a free cartridge if my documents or photos only last 150 years. More to the point, it DOES look great.
On the other hand, these cartridges are around 30 bucks a piece and I need 8, so it rather irks me that the cartridges are so small. Perhaps that's a comment more appropriate for a review of the printer design, but it's worth noting here.
Also worth noting is that you SHOULD NOT immediately replace the ink cartridge in your HP B9180 when you get a message from it saying that this or that cartridge is about to run out. I say this because, when mine said that, I checked the little meter that tells you how much is left and it said 40% of the cartridge still had ink in it. 40%! To me, 40% is not "about to run out," but I did go ahead and buy an ink cartridge -- I just held onto it until it really became obvious that it was no longer printing that color. Only then did I replace the cartridge, because doing otherwise is needlessly wasting money.
I'm not quite cynical enough to say that HP WANTS you to replace (and recycle) the ink cartridges prematurely, but it obviously would make them more money if you do. Just keep your eyes open and you'll be fine.
Runs out too fast! [Posted on 2007-10-18]
Just one thing about this ink--and maybe any ink.
It runs out too fast!
Light gray ink B9180 [Posted on 2007-11-16]
If you can afford this printer don't complain about the ink price. It's pigment based ink, that's how they make money off the printer don't you know. We'd all like to be able to print for free, but it doesn't work that way. People need to get paid for their work and big shots need more houses and boats. The printer is very good and the light gray is the one that runs out fastest. It is made in Singapore, so don't drink it. The printer's software leaves a bit to be desired, but overall print quality is quite superb I think. By the way, try filling a Z3100 if you think this little bugger is expensive. It's a pile for a working man, of course per ounce a bit cheaper though.
$27/27ml not bad for price [Posted on 2008-08-29]
Light Grey is the most used ink in my HP B9180. This cartridge has 27ml of ink selling for 27 dollars which is not bad. Canon's inks are around that price range as well but come in smaller 13ml tanks. Also do check the expiration date of the ink as the chip on the cartridge will yield a warning if the expiration date has been reached. So far expired inks has yield the same result as new inks with no fading for the past year.
If you are cheap like me, buy empty tanks online and refill them with HP's 70 ink used for the Z2100 printers which comes to be $75/130ml. The HP no.70 tanks use the same inks but in a bigger tank.
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