Making the Most of Your HP 78 Inkjet Cartridges

HP 78 inkjet cartridges are manufactured by HP or Hewlett Packard Company. This IT company is one of the biggest and most well known in the world. The brand even has fans that are purists who would use HP, and only HP, for all their printing tasks.   

OEM (original equipment manufacturer) toner cartridges carry the brand’s name, HP in this case, and use the brand’s many proprietary technologies. HP 78 inkjet cartridges come in three selections: standard inks, value inks and specialty inks. Standard inks are for everyday and personal printing needs. Value inks, on the other hand, are for printing in large quantities. And specialty inks are for printing special projects and pictures. These selections are great because they let you choose according to print quantity and print frequency.  

The HP no. 78 has two variations or models: HP 78 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge and HP 78+ Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge. HP no. 78 +    is slightly more expensive but it also features enhanced print quality, particularly for special projects, with photo prints that are said to last longer than 50 years. 

If you need to replace the ink cartridges more frequently – every four to eight months, for example – you should use high yield color inkjet cartridges. Doing so not only saves on printing costs, but also gives you the added convenience of longer intervals in replacing the cartridges. If, on the other hand, printing is mostly for personal use and you do not really print out large volumes of papers, you can just opt for the economy color Inkjet print cartridge. For correspondences, school reports and the like, this kind of ink cartridge would do.   

To make the most of your brand new, OEM inkjet cartridges, keep them sealed safely inside their original container. Take them out of the packaging only when you are ready to use them. Keeping the cartridge sealed inside the original container helps prevent the evaporation of ink which, of course, drastically cuts down the shelf life of your inkjet cartridge. Once the packaging is taken out, ink can evaporate through a number of ways: through the cartridge body and through the nozzles, for example. Ink cartridges, like HP 78 cartridges, will definitely last longer if you keep them sealed and then stored at recommended storage conditions. While we’re on the subject of storage conditions, which you should definitely find out by reading the information on the cartridge box to keep the ink in good condition, you should always keep your unopened ink cartridges in an upright position.  

Properly shut down your printer to let all the parts return to their proper places and keep the printer components protected. In this particular case, the correct way should be pressing the power button first, instead of just unplugging the printer, to turn off the printer. When you hit the power button, you allow some of the printer’s components to be in place to protect the HP 78 print cartridge, which is in the printer’s service station. This prevents the ink from drying out in the nozzles of the print cartridge.