Original HP 56 Black Ink Cartridge in Retail Packaging

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000069LI9
• Item model number: HEWC6656AN
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (73 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The HP 56 black inkjet cartridge provides laser-quality black text for home users. HP printing supplies and printers are designed together to work together for crisp, sharp output every time. Thanks to HP's exclusive formula, you can enjoy laser-quality, fade-resistant black text from pigment-based black ink. Get reliable results and genuine HP brand quality. The cartridge is easy to use, simple to install.

Product Description

HP's advanced inkjet technology is well suited to a wide range of applications, from printing simple text documents to producing vivid, complex graphics on all types and sizes of paper, film, fabric, and other media. The versatility and affordability of inkjet technology make it the ideal choice for today's value-conscious consumers. With proprietary ink formulas, patented printheads, and a wide variety of compatible media, HP offers integrated inkjet printing solutions that produce low-cost, high-quality color output quickly and economically.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ink!, December 8, 2003

By A Customer

I bought a cute little mobile Hp Deskjet 450cbi for college, which has proved to be tiny but reliable, and it's definitely worth the money. While three months of use of our Epson printer at home drains the cartridge, three months of printing out two to three several-page papers every week using my HP 450cbi leaves the cartridge drained only to 40%. Great moneysaver for a poor college student like me!

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good quality black ink cartridge, September 10, 2005

By	Gillian Buchanan "Classical Music Editor at B... (London, UK) - See all my reviews

I upgraded to a new HP printer/scanner/copier 1350 earlier this year having used an old Deskjet 610C previously and was frankly very pleased with the quality that the new printer produced with this cartridge. The text is very crisp and clean and unlike the old printer ink does not smudge if left in the printer whilst the next sheet is sliding onto it.

HP cartridges always are a little more expensive than others but I do think they're worth the price. And they are coming down in price, I can remember when a black deskjet printer cartridge cost nearly £20 and a tricolor cartridge nearly £30.

You can ignore the warning that the cartridge is running low in ink as it comes up much sooner than is necessary. Generally speaking when HP cartridges (laser and deskjet) start to run out you get portions of the page text faded out in the printout and that doesn't usually happen for quite some time after the warning message appears.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be better, but could be worse!, November 4, 2002

By	Alain M. Miller "Roadwarrior" (Trinidad, West Indies) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just recently purchases an HP5550 and the printer, despite some negative reviews on speed... is excellent. The Ink is another story altogether. The cartridges are very small and after 1 week of regular use (home business printing, 4 or 5 pictures on sample paper) the ink is almost 1/2 finished!!! This could be a problem in the end as the ink is more expensive than other printer manufacturers. I guess watching ink consumption is something HP did not warn us about!