HP 951 XL extremely poor performance life

[dtown731]

All - 

   I purchased a set of 950XL and 951XL cartridges for my HP 8615 printer.  After paying a pretty penny for these 4 cartridges I got a whopping 194 pages of non-photo, non-intensive, completely normal home user printing out of the combination of my setup cartridges and my 951XL cartridges.  This is wildly outside of the expected performance life of these products.  I would appreciate some thoughts on what I'm doing wrong or if this is just the chips on the cartridges artificially killing my product.  Either way this is hugely outside of my expectations for a nearly $100 purchase.  Are these defective cartridges?

-David

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