William ChopsWestfield wrote:

> On Mar 30, 2006, at 3:19 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:
> 
>> My question is, does anyone have *real world* figures for typical
>> percentage cover of typical printed pages. This is obviously highly
>> variable with application, but the very commonly quoted 5% figures
>> seems to be low.

> However, all the cartridges are claiming to have a historical
> coverage of right around 5%.  

I printed a plain text document (reasonably full page) to a printer driver
with image writer function (FinePrint) and looked at the result with Paint
Shop Pro's histogram function. About 3.5% black pixels. 

I can easily repeat this, if you want to send me a few sample pages (e.g.
some PDFs).

Gerhard

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