HP 74 and HP 75 Ink Cartridges
It’s Tuesday! Time to let you know about a new cartridge release at Pacific Ink. This week we are proud to announce the release of the HP 74 black and HP 75 tri color cartridges.
These Hewlett Packard manufactured ink cartridges come in both standard and XL capacities. The standard black HP 74 (CB335WN) yields 200 pages, while the HP 74XL (CB336WN) cartridge yields 750 pages. What’s the price difference for the 500 additional pages? The standard cartridge costs $16.99 while the XL cartridge costs $31.99. The difference in price per page is 8 cents (standard) as opposed to 4 cents when using the XL cartridge.
The color HP 75 (CB337WN) yields 170 pages, while its high capacity counterpart, the HP 75XL (CB338WN) yields 520 pages. These cartridges are priced slightly higer becasue they are color cartridges. The HP 75 is priced at $19.99 while the HP 75XL is priced at $36.99. Price per page is 12 cents (standard) and 7 cents (XL).
At this time there are no compatible or remanufactured versions of this cartridge, so consumers are stuck paying the higher HP brand prices.
These cartridges are made with Vivera ink, so they promise radiant colors, enhanced shadow detail, and reduced image grain for stunning color prints and exceptional black-and-white images.
These cartridges work in the following HP OfficeJet J5700 series printers:
These cartridges are one of the first to utilize HP’s new cheaper pricing structure (see previous post) for their print cartridges.
Under this plan they will release different capacity cartridges. It is then up to the consumer to decide which capacity they wish to purchase based on their printing habits. It seems the bigger question is, “How much to I want to spend today?” or, “Am I thinking beyond the price tag in front of me to see that if I buy the lower priced cartridge I will be spending twice as much per page?”
If you have to buy 2 or 3 cartridges at $16.99 to make up for the one you could have bought at $31.99, then you are far worse off. You would be spending $33.98-$50.97 versus the initial $31.99. Our warning, do your math at the time you purchase.
We are also hoping this new plan, which was launched to combat Kodak, does not end up causing consumer confusion. HP used to use a variation of the same type of plan a few years ago, and still does use it a little. Ink cartridge numbers ended in a letter that signified how much ink was inside the cartridge. Customers were never really sure if they needed to buy the cartridge that ended in A or G for their printer. In an area that already has so many confusing numbers, this may just make it worse (they are adding different colored boxes as well).
If you have used these cartridges, let us know what you think.
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June 13th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Still not cheap compared with Canon.
Here in Canada, the PGI 5BK sells for C$34.88 for a package of two cartridges after C$8 rebate from Canon. Staples is now offering another C$5 rebate, bringing the prize of a two-cartridges package down to C$29.88. Canon says the page yield is 600 per cartridge, which means the cost of ink per page comes down to about 2.5 cents (Can) per page for an ip4000 series printer — comparable with a laser printer.
August 10th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
I have a HP Officejet J5780 All-in-One. It uses the HP 74 cartridge and HP 75 tri-color cartridge. I purchased the XL cartridge thinking I’d much rather spend more and change cartridges less often (especially since the regular cartridge looked so small). I was disappointed that the XL cartridge didn’t last longer. I didn’t keep track of exactly how many pages I printed, but it sure seemed to suck the cartridge dry really fast. I can’t believe that I got anywhere close to 750 pages out of it. I’d guess more like 300–although I probably printed about 5 or 6 photos which take more ink.
The print quality of my 5780 is good, but I was frustrated that it wouldn’t let me scan when the ink cartridge was empty. Since scanning doesn’t require ink this was very annoying. It also wouldn’t print anything when black was empty–even though the color was full and I was trying to print a doc that was only in color. Essentially the whole machine shuts down if one of the ink cartridges are empty. So, make sure to have extras on hand (just what HP wants…buy more ink!!!).
December 10th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
How many ml (mili liters) in HP 74 and ml in HP 75 per color??? Its a new cartridge product, but it should be much lesser compared with other brands.
December 15th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Crystal-
HP has yet to disclose the amount of ink inside the their 74, 74XL, 75 or 75XL cartridges. What we can find out, from the HP web site, is the page yield.
Also, be sure to read how the page yield is described on the color cartridges.
HP 74 - 200 pages
HP 74XL - 750 pages
HP 75 - 170 color pages
HP 75XL - 520 color graphics pages
Not sure what the difference between color pages and color graphics pages are, but hopefully it means the same thing.
January 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Before I bought my HP printer, C5280 All-in One, I compared a lot on line. I love the printer and find the the XL cartridges do last a really long time, however, for most printing I use the fast draft/black only setting. I use the fast draft setting for most of the general color printing and the color is fine conserving a lot of ink. Also select the plain paper option instead of the automatic feature. Then when I print photos, I use the best setting. I also love the scan feature that you can put multiple photos on the scanner and they will scan and save each one separately, you have to choose that setting though. Play with the settings. You will be surprised that 300 dpi looks great on plain paper, saving a lot of ink. And don’t use the automatic setting, choose something lower. Most of the time, other that photos on HP Premium Plus paper, you can use lower settings than the automatic. Hope I got you to learn more and play with all the features this printer has to offer to get the most for your money with the ink you buy.
April 5th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Shown on the box . HP 75 has 3.5ml/0.12fl oz
April 16th, 2008 at 8:02 am
i need the compatable ink of 74 & 75