HP PHOTO VALUE PACK

Average customer rating: 3.0

Don't I feel dumb
Deceptive Marketing!
Beware - If it seems too good to be true...
not a terrific value
Beware! *custom* cartridges are not full!

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HP PHOTO VALUE PACK

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000AY8DDW

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Product Description

Print in 1.2 million colors for as low as 24 cents a print! This affordable combo of HP Vivera inks and HP Advanced Photo Paper includes a set of six HP 02 custom cartridges and 150 sheets of 4 x 6" Advanced Photo Paper.

Customer Reviews:

Don't I feel dumb.......2007-06-06

Thought I was getting a good value and found out that I got taken!!

Deceptive Marketing!.......2007-05-30

As others have noted, these cartridges are not full cartridges, even though HP very cleverly avoids giving you that info. On their website, for a single cartridge purchase, the details list the ML in the cartridge, not so for the Value Pack.

I just bought the C6180 which requires that the "initialization" cartridges in the box be used first. Mine we're faulty and now I've got to wait for HP to overnight new ones, even though I've got a value pack sitting here.

I should have known better. All 5 colors and B&W for $36 (plus photo paper) when individual cartridges cost $10. When you shop in a grocery store the merchant is required to tell you how much product you are paying for, why shouldn't HP be required to do the same.

Shame, shame, HP.

Beware - If it seems too good to be true... .......2007-04-24

I can confirm that the cartridges shipped with this photo value pack have a fraction of the ink capacity of normal cartridges. While there is nothing at all that indicates this in any of HP's marketing materials (bad HP) it becomes clear when you install them. The ink level gauges on the printer show much smaller bars for these than the regular cartridges - and indeed they do run out very quickly compared to normal cartridges.

Face it - HP is all about making very large profit margins from selling ink, and they aren't dumb. If you want to buy an ink combo pack of full cartridges you can search amazon for HEWLETT PACKARD 02 COMBO PACK - you will find this listed as of today at $60 and not that much of a discount vs. buying single cartridges.

not a terrific value.......2007-03-17

I thought I was getting a terrific deal on 6 ink tanks, they look exactly the same as those that came with the printer and those that are packaged individually. But when I later bought a one-off replacement -- not "custom" -- tank I noticed the ink level bar on the printer LCD was not only full but also longer than the other bars! If the "custom" tanks hold only about half the ink, this isn't the bargin it appears.

Beware! *custom* cartridges are not full!.......2007-03-16

There is a reason that the value pack is so much cheaper. The cartridges are not full! I just got off the phone with HP tech support and they confirmed this. The cartridges sold with the value pack are labeled as *custom* cartridges that have enough ink to print 150 4X6 photos. In fact, the tech support rep discribed the *custom* cartridges as having "way less" than standard cartridges, "less than 50% full". On a related note, I asked him if the initial cartridges that came with my new printer were full, and he said they should have been full standard cartridges.

So this value pack isn't such a great value now, is it?

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