HP 45 Black Ink Cartridge | Works with select HP DeskJet, DesignJet, OfficeJet, OfficeJet Pro, PhotoSmart, Color Copier, Fax Series | 51645A

On Feb 21, 2012 I bought a new HP #45 cartridge and installed it on Feb 23, 2012. I've printed about 50 pages from it so far, and it works as perfectly as it should. I bought this cartridge from Amazon directly, so I was expecting not to have a problem with "old" cartridges that others have complained about receiving from other sellers.The inscribed expiration date code on the bottom of the cartridge is 20131223 (Dec. 23, 2013), and on the box the warranty expiration date is January 2014. So, great!I'll update this review when I run out of ink, which may be a while.=======================For What It's Worth...I recently printed out a very large document on my old HP 950C DeskJet printer that still clunks along, using #45 cartridges that were expire-dated for September/October 2009. So of these two cartridges - bought together in a pack - one actually stayed in my printer (with occasional use so the print head didn't dry out) and the other was stored away for at about 3 years. And they worked perfectly about 2.5 years after the "warranty" expiration.From that second, full cartridge I printed about 400+ 8.5" x 11" full pages of 12pt text, using "Normal" 600 x 600 dpi print quality, before the cartridge faded. I then shook the cartridge lightly to force any ink down to the print head area, and got another 6 pages out of it. :)I didn't get the 833 pages of ink capacity listed on this Amazon page, and definitely not the 930 pages that HP claims on it's own web pages, probably because my text was more dense and covered more than the 5% area that HP quotes using the ISO standards. I was irked that it seemed to fade so fast, but 400 full high quality pages of 12pt text is a lot for any ink cartridge, which is why I still keep my 950c around.

It worked well

Will not exp for over a year and works good. Good vendor who delivered fast.

This is a genuine HP cartridge, so it performs the same. The difference is it only cost $30 instead of $40 at Staples and shipping was free.I have tried having these cartridges reloaded with ink at Costco. Yes, it only costs $10, but you save nothing because they can't as much ink in the cartridge. You can verify this by comparing the weights of an empty cartridge, a refilled one and a new one. When I did this to decide whether I wanted to go the refill route again, I found no savings even at the regular retail price. At $30, this new cartridge is cheaper than refilling an old one.Will definitely buy all future cartridges from this seller.

My order arrived quickly. No problem with expiration date which was May 2014.I hadn't used the printer in a while, and the print quality was terrible. Put back the cartridge I had in the printer that I knew was low and got the same result.Next troubleshooting step .. I checked the bottom of the cartridge that makes contact with the printer. The new cartridge (which I had used just twice to run a couple test pages) was as dirty as the old one I had. Wiped the gunk off the cartridge and put it back in. Works great!In my case, nothing wrong with the cartridge .. blame me for operator error.

Yes, my jet printer from 1995 still works, and these are the Cartridges I need. Thank you

As good as usual

I have always liked the HP printer that I purchased 20+ years ago. Amazingly it still prints very well both color and black/white very well. I am a big fan of HP and it's products.