Printer sucking ink

[quique123]

I bought an HP Photosmart Plus 210 printer.  Im not too happy with it because it seems to me its sucking ink like crazy!  Id like to know if there is some sort of a print-counter to know how many pages Ive printed since the last ink cartridge change?

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

I know a number of perople that complain about ink usage in HP printers.   You might want to consider the following:

Print in draft mode

Print in grayscale -- black only

The downside to the above is that when you want quality, you have to go back and change the settings.  It's basically quality verses ink usage.

[quique123]

That's great but my question remains, is there a counter feature?

[Big_Dave]

Hi,

Use the HP Solution Center to print off a diagnostic page. Look for the total page count.  Keep track of this information so that when you change cartridges you can get a page count when you print another diagnostic page.  Alternatively, use the printer's Printer Staus report function on the touch panel that will generate similar information indicating the number of pages printed.

I don't have your exact HP printer but the HP Photosmart Premium that I use does have the have functions and information.

Actually the number of pages printed verses ink use is a bit useless unless you are printing the same exact pages over and over.