The HP Officejet 6000:
The Officejet 6000 is HP’s latest offering in the single-function inkjet printer category. The HP Officejet 6000 uses HP’s 920 series cheap ink cartridges. The top of the printer pops open with a latch on the side, revealing a compact bay for individual black, cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges. In addition to the standard cartridges, HP also sells extra-large models that we use for the highest potential cost-savings in the following cost per page analysis. According to the HP Web store, the XL black cartridge costs $32 and lasts for 1,200 pages, and the three-color cartridges cost $15 each for 700 pages. By our calculations, you’ll pay 2.7 cents for a page of black and 2.1 cents per page of color. HP cheap ink cartridge is capable of producing 3.54 pages of color graphic document per minute.
The quality of the print obtained from HP Officejet 6000 cheap cartridge is of good quality. Full color graphics document printed on HP’s Premium Presentation Paper came out bright and clear. The extreme clarity of facial colors and construction are perfect. It can be said that HP 6000 cheap ink cartridge can produce near “laser-quality” text. Photos printed out with HP 6000 cheap cartridge are accurate and pleasing. We should note that this printer is definitely office-oriented, so don’t expect the highest quality prints (some of the photo elements were washed out, for example), but you won’t be disappointed if you plan to use it more for text, with the occasional snapshot printout.
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims priority benefit of Japanese Applications Nos. 2005-284651, filed on Sep. 29, 2005, and 2005-342686, filed Nov. 28, 2005, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
BACKGROUND
An ink cartridge stores ink to be supplied to an inkjet recording device (inkjet printer). The ink cartridge is provided with an ink storage chamber that stores ink and an ink supply port that supplies ink from the ink storage chamber to the inkjet printer. The ink supply port may also function as an insertion port for an ink extraction tube. When the ink cartridge is not mounted to the inkjet printer, the ink supply port is closed by a valve so that ink will not leak from the ink cartridge.
Mounting the ink cartridge to the inkjet printer is performed by pressing the ink cartridge toward the inkjet printer. In the inkjet printer, a hollow ink extraction tube is protrudingly arranged. When the ink cartridge is mounted to the inkjet printer, the ink extraction tube engages the valve that closes the ink supply port of the ink cartridge, and the ink supply port is opened. By opening the ink supply port, the ink storage chamber and the ink extraction tube are permitted to communicate with each other, and ink is supplied to the inkjet printer via the ink extraction tube.