When was the last time you were trying to find an ink cartridge and spent forever trying to figure out what a WD-x4g9s3 ver.
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8 cartridge is? If you're anything like me, this is a long part number that is very easy to misinterpret, purchase the wrong cartridge, then have to take it back a half dozen times.
HP has realized how confusing this is, and they have developed a nearly idiot-proof system for their ink and toner cartridges.
DeskJet and Office Jet ink cartridges are now easily numbered with two to three-digit codes, such as the 45.
Having such simplified codes make it easy for even the most computer illiterate person to purchase the correct replacement with certainty.
Another nice feature of HP's cartridges is that they include the print head with them.
If you don't use your printer very often, the print heads can clog, and this makes it a lot easier to fix that problem.
Traditional replacement print heads are difficult to find, contain even more complex part numbers, have to be ordered, then your dissertation that is due tomorrow morning can't be printed out.
With the HP system, you can run to Wal-Mart at 2am, remember the simple "45" code, and viola, you have a new working print head and ink! Ink Jet Cartridges, gasoline, the opposite sex; they are all annoying at times, but we need them in our lives.
It's a tossup typically between a laser printer and an ink jet printer, as these are the two main types of machines people have in their homes and businesses.
"Ink Jet is better!!!" "Pssh...
Laser - it's what's HOT!!!" "I like my ink!" "I like my heat!" The debate will rage for years to come.
There are other companies out there which have started simplifying their part numbers, however I have an HP Office Jet, so that's why I wrote about it.
It's just listening to the customers and they are getting better.