Hewlett Packard (or HP) is one of the best brands of printers that are being widely used. It has excellent print quality and outstanding after sales program. Whenever you ran out of ink, it is best to get an original HP cartridge but this is usually more expensive. To cope with these cases, there are other options you can try like the use of replacement cartridge on your printer. It is less expensive but still has the same quality of output.



HP Cartridges are manufactured by Hewlett Packard specifically to work on HP printers. Thus, Hewlett Packard knows what the needs of the HP printers are and what to do to get optimal performance out of HP Cartridges. By doing so, Hewlett Packard is able to guarantee print reliability and quality. In order to prove these, HP Cartridges were tested by a top quality assurance organization named Innovationstechnik. Innovationstechnik found that HP Cartridges are 100% failure-proof when used as ink cartridges on HP-brand printers. It also discovered that printers that relied on genuine HP Cartridges were able to churn out 34% more pages plus prints than the compatible cartridges.

Replacement cartridges, on the other hand, are trying to provide the quality that is being produced by the original cartridge. The processes in creating these compatible is being extensively studied and refined to be able to compete well with the branded cartridges. Each day, there are new improvements on these steps that are being incorporated to create better products. So far, they have been doing great with the changes that they have made.

Hewlett Packard is a big believer in recycling its used HP Cartridges which is why it embarked on its HP Supplies Environmental Programme. More than 90 million kilos of inkjet and LaserJet cartridges have been returned to Hewlett Packard by consumers and recycled to date.

In terms of the ink cartridge being used, it is being recycled by the manufacturing companies. It undergoes several stages to ensure that these cartridges are in good working procedures. The cartridges undergo processes where in it is individually checked and assessed. Only the best cartridges pass this test to ensure that the quality of the ink when installed in the printer is as efficient as the original ink. Not only do these manufacturing companies help in recycling the materials, it also means lower costing for each cartridge for ink users.

If you own HP Cartridges and want to participate in the Hewlett Packard HP Supplies Environmental Programme, then you will be glad to know you can participate as part of the Consumers and Home Office category of users. Hewlett Packard prides itself on producing HP Cartridges and packaging that were manufactured using absolutely zero ozone-depleting substances; and with no elemental chlorine employed in making the external packaging for the HP LaserJet Cartridges. And one of the end results of the Hewlett Packard program is that they have found HP Cartridges to be easier to recycle than other types of printer cartridges out there because of certain components of the recycling program that Hewlett Packard has incorporated into the system.