I am participating in the #HPInkChallenge where we’ll put original and refill inks to a test to see the difference between the two. I received two free HP Deskjet 3510 printers and supplies from HP as well as a gift card to purchase refilled cartridges in order to participate the Challenge. All opinions and views expressed are my own.

So last week, I did a post about the first week of my journey in the HP Ink Challenge. I mentioned that there wasn’t really much of a difference in the print quality of the HP Original Ink and the Costco Refill. I printed about 15 pages of both text and image heavy documents that time.

Now for the second week of my HP Ink Challenge journey, I printed 15 pages of text and image-heavy documents again. Let me show you some photos.

Please note that I increased the brightness settings of the photos above so you can clearly see the difference in print quality. The original photo was a bit too dark (blame the iPhone 5 LOL) to actually show the difference.

The pages shown on the photo above are the 29th page printed on each printer/ink. You can see that the Original is still okay while the Refill’s color is already fading and there’s so much banding and streaking.

But here’s a photo comparing the two on a text document.

As you can see, there’s not much of a difference between the two types of ink when it’s just a text document. The Refill Ink just gets tired a little too easily when printing lots of images.

Interesting, right? Please watch out for my next #HPInkChallenge update!

I am participating in the #HPInkChallenge where we’ll put original and refill inks to a test to see the difference between the two. I received two free HP Deskjet 3510 printers and supplies from HP as well as a gift card to purchase refilled cartridges in order to participate the Challenge. All opinions and views expressed are my own.