HP 2050 Ink
Deskjet 2050 Ink Cartridges

Looking for an inkjet printer that can produce around 1,000 pages a month for the home office? If so, take a look at the HP Deskjet 2050. An all in one, it can print, copy and scan, which will be great for personal users with versatile needs. The only downside really to the unit are probably its slower-than-average speeds of only 20 pages per minute for black-and-white documents and 16 pages per minute when using HP 2050 color ink. Photos take about 60 seconds to be produced. Though that may be a problem for some home office users, most probably won't need speeds that fast if they are only printing one or two pages at a time. However, patience may be needed.

For operation, buyers only need to keep up with two HP 2050 ink cartridges—black and tricolor. The tricolor Deskjet 2050 tank is filled with cyan, magenta and yellow printer ink, and using this nearly every color imaginable will be able to be created. While there is some inconvenience when two-cartridge systems are used, the pros probably outweigh the cons. The problem with systems like this is that buyers have to replace the entire tricolor HP 2050 ink when one color runs out. That means users are usually going to have to waste a little bit of printer ink in order to replace it. In systems that use four or six tanks, users only replace what has run out.

There are two sizes of Deskjet 2050 ink cartridges available—standard capacity and high capacity. The standard black ink will last 190 pages, while the color lasts 165 pages. The high capacity tricolor tanks last 330 pages, and the black high capacity lasts 480 pages. For most, the high capacity inkjet options seem to be a better option because they lower the cost per page.