HP 901XL Black Ink Cartridge (CC654AN#140)

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches ; 1.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016P5CR4
• Item model number: CC654AN#140
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #44 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Office Electronics Accessories > Ink & Toner > Inkjet Printer Ink
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Want more pages, great reliability, and amazing value? You want original HP inks. HP's value-priced XL cartridge provides three times more prints compared with the standard HP 901 black cartridge.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FAST DRAFT FAST DRAFT!!!!!!, December 3, 2009

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Edward Johnson III "ejohn35" (Shreveport, La) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP 901XL Black Ink Cartridge (CC654AN#140) (Office Product)

I see that this product is not getting good reviews so I wanted to chime in. I am a medical student and I go through a lot paper and instinctively A LOT OF INK. I think that the ink problem has to do a lot with the printer itself. I have the HP officejet J4580 All-in-one and it is very good at saving a lot of ink. If you put your printer on fast draft you can get a lot of ink for your money. I am not suggesting you buy a new printer, but maybe putting your documents on fast draft might help you get a lot of pages. Also, if you are printing out pictures, you wont get a lot of paper for your ink. I print out a lot of word documents that have red and black and so far I am pretty happy at how INK 901 is doing on my printer. Hope this helps people. Remember, FAST DRAFT always.

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 901 and 901xl cartridges, August 31, 2009

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J. Whitehead (Meherrin, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP 901XL Black Ink Cartridge (CC654AN#140) (Office Product)

I have brought the 901 and the 901xl cartridges from Amazon several times because of the price. I have never gotten close to the number of pages each one claims to produce. I got excited when I saw the 901xl advertised, but I never got over half of the 700 pages it is advertised for. I feel that the company owes a refund for false advertisement. It will be cheaper for me to buy a new printer.

56 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a Fraud, But Not Legit Either, September 5, 2009

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Stephen Stough - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP 901XL Black Ink Cartridge (CC654AN#140) (Office Product)

Until Kodak came out with a printer that uses a very inexpensive cartridge, all the dot matrix printer manufacturers were able to get away with building and selling horrifically-complex, very high-priced ink cartridges because there was no alternative. As I understand it, the Kodak printer has very poor performance, so there is still no effective competition to the high-priced cartridge manufacturers. That implies that, until Kodak builds an adequate printer, you can complain about HP 901XL yielding far fewer pages than advertised, but your complaints have no effect because there is no competition.

Printing single-spaced text with normal margins, and 11 pt. type, I get about 300 pages out of a 901XL cartridge. Clearly, any claims of 700 pages per cartridge are based on an unrealistic estimation of the amount of ink laid down per page. That's unrealistic, not fraudulent. But, certainly deceptive by any reasonable definition thereof. It is this kind of abuse by an effective monopoly that infuriates the public, who will instantly switch to another brand once an alternative is available. HP is trashing any customer loyalty they once had.