HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge in Retail Packaging

by HP

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 4.2 x 1 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GAWFPW
• Item model number: C9414A
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

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.

• 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

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:

• 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

<sup>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.</sup>

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

Product Description

Light Gray - Ink Cartridge

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Ink in VERY Small Containers, June 1, 2007

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Greg Robertson (Historic Quincy, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge in Retail Packaging (Office Product)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars $27/27ml not bad for price, August 28, 2008

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Derrick T. (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge in Retail Packaging (Office Product)

Light Grey is the most used ink in my HP B9180. This cartridge has 27ml of ink selling for 27 dollars which is not bad. Canon's inks are around that price range as well but come in smaller 13ml tanks. Also do check the expiration date of the ink as the chip on the cartridge will yield a warning if the expiration date has been reached. So far expired inks has yield the same result as new inks with no fading for the past year.

If you are cheap like me, buy empty tanks online and refill them with HP's 70 ink used for the Z2100 printers which comes to be $75/130ml. The HP no.70 tanks use the same inks but in a bigger tank.

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4.0 out of 5 stars great printer HP - keep supporting it., September 4, 2011

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San Diego Beaches (San Diego) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge in Retail Packaging (Office Product)

I use this PhotoSmartPro B8850 printer for fine art reproduction. HP engineers in San Diego did a great job on it. I hope HP keeps supporting it! Papers are becoming scarce. Amazon delivered on time. Product was well within expiration date. Don't buy this ink from any seller unless they can tell you it is within expiration date, otherwise your printer will make you shut down and use ink in between each print.