HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge with Vivera Inks (C9414A)

Average customer rating: 4.5

Very Good Ink in VERY Small Containers
Amazon makes a deal

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HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge with Vivera Inks (C9414A)

Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000GAWFPW

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Amazon.com Product Description

Get ready to print brilliant, true-to-life photos and fine-art prints with HP's new pigment-based Vivera inks. They produce a wide range of colors, rich blacks, and true grays on a variety of paper types, plus consistently excellent color rendition and gradation.

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Print long-lasting color photos that resist fading for more than 200 years1

Use with many papers, including matte and high gloss, fine art and photo; the ink is optimized for a wide variety

Ward off water, smudges, and humidity when using HP Advanced Photo Paper and many other photo and fine-art papers

Get precision color consistency and vivid, true-to-life hues

Bring out neutral grays and deep blacks, plus get excellent contrast and smooth transitions in black-and-white photos

Replace only the cartridges that runs out among eight individual colors </ul>

Specifications
Cartridge yield: approx. 840 4 x 6" or 80 13 x 19"color photos; average yield depends on specific use, including images, printer, print settings, and other factors Ink volume: 27 ml

About HP Vivera Inks
Choose original HP Vivera inks for professional-quality, long-lasting photos at home. Benefits of HP Vivera inks include: <ul>

Affordable studio-quality photos: HP Vivera inks offer radiant color, enhanced shadow detail, and reduced image grain for stunning color prints and exceptional black-and-white images.

True-to-life colors: HP Vivera inks create up to 72.9 million rich, brilliant colors to bring your photos to life.

Longest-lasting prints: HP Vivera inks give you bright, vivid, amazing colors that resist fading for 108 years.2 </ul>

1. Based on preliminary light fade testing under glass and storage permanence (thermal degradation) testing by Wilhelm Imaging Research using select HP Paper, including Advanced Photo Paper.
2. Based on Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc., light fade testing under glass (as of January 2005) on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper.

What's in the box
One HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge (C9414A)

Product Description

Print gallery-quality photos with superior fade resistance on a variety of papers more than 200 years on HP Advanced Photo Paper using proprietary HP Vivera pigment inks. Professional photos look just as they did through the lens or on the PC, with precision color consistency you can rely on from your first print to your last. Prints are also exceptionally water, smudge and humidity-resistant. Black-and-white photos show true neutral grays and deep blacks, high contrast and smooth transitions. Photo black ink is optimized for a variety of fine art papers featuring a matte finish, such as photo rag, watercolor and canvas. Easily replace one color at a time not the entire printhead. With eight individual ink cartridges including a photo black there's no need to swap blacks for different artistic finishes. The long-lasting, high-capacity cartridges require replacement less often.

Customer Reviews:

Very Good Ink in VERY Small Containers.......2007-06-01

As inks go, this appears to be very good stuff. In fact, they say it's guaranteed to last 200+ years, although I'm not sure who around me will go ask for a free cartridge if my documents or photos only last 150 years. More to the point, it DOES look great.

On the other hand, these cartridges are around 30 bucks a piece and I need 8, so it rather irks me that the cartridges are so small. Perhaps that's a comment more appropriate for a review of the printer design, but it's worth noting here.

Also worth noting is that you SHOULD NOT immediately replace the ink cartridge in your HP B9180 when you get a message from it saying that this or that cartridge is about to run out. I say this because, when mine said that, I checked the little meter that tells you how much is left and it said 40% of the cartridge still had ink in it. 40%! To me, 40% is not "about to run out," but I did go ahead and buy an ink cartridge -- I just held onto it until it really became obvious that it was no longer printing that color. Only then did I replace the cartridge, because doing otherwise is needlessly wasting money.

I'm not quite cynical enough to say that HP WANTS you to replace (and recycle) the ink cartridges prematurely, but it obviously would make them more money if you do. Just keep your eyes open and you'll be fine.

Amazon makes a deal.......2007-02-20

HP 38 inks are very high-priced, so the Amazon price combined with super saver shipping is the best deal available. As for the ink, as it is essential to use the HP B9180 printer, what can one say. The inks do their job and the printer is sometimes quirky but always produces a fine print.

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