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It really made a difference!
I love to scrapbook and I like to print the pictures from my computer. I have an HP PSC 2355 and had been using the traditional inks. I was skeptical that it would make a difference, but I as much as I spend on other scrapbooking items I thought it was worth a shot.

I was really pleased with the results. One thing I had to learn the hard way, USE HIGH QUALITY PAPER!!! Now I use HP Premium Plus photo paper. Printing pictures from your home computer is one of the areas where the additional money is worth it.

Good product
HP cartridges are the way to go. The only downfall is that if you decide to purchase a cartridge when you DON'T need it, chances are that by the time you use this product, the cartridge itself may not work in your printer (say three months from the day of purchase).

HP is awesome about cartridge replacement. So if it takes a dump, call HP!

Excellent transaction
Very fast delivery and exactly as ordered. Can't be better than that.

A helpful option for photo printing
Just bought one of these to try out for photo printing with an HP 5740 that came bundled with my computer a few years ago.
Printing from RAW (NEF actually) files with a 96 and 97 combination gave me skin tones that were too heavily red saturated. This is less of an issue with JPEG files.
I generally had to go into the levels tool in Photoshop and pull back the reds some for most portraits. Not so with the 99 cartridge in place.
We'll see how many prints I can squeeze out of one of these.
Frankly I see this as a stop gap solution for photo printing. Printers that use multicolor ink cartridges waste a lot of ink when used as dedicated photo printers.
As soon as I can put together the dough I plan to add an Epson 2400 and use it strictly for photography.
Ink will never be cheap but at least when I run out of red I won't be throwing away what's left of two other colors.
Still this does expand the usefulness of compatible HP printers.

Tough Call
I printed the same photo with the photo on an HP 6840 using 99 phot ink cartridge, then the standard black 96 and then 96 w/o HP enhancements. At first I thought the 96 was better than 99 because I got beter red saturation, until I realized that the red hue was stronger throughout the photo at the sacrifice of some green and whites that were not as brite.

With out the HP enhancements, the 2 photos looked similar to my naked eye, but under magnification I could clearly see more eveness and saturation of color With the enhancements.