How many pages of, say, a typical Word document can you print off of one printer cartridge?

First, it depends on the coverage. On a laser printer, a cartrdige can yield 2500 to 5000 sheets per cartridge. This is considering that you are printing at 300 dpi or normal mode. At 600 dpi, you will get 2500. At 300 dpi, you wil get up to 3500 if their are no graphics involved.How many pages of, say, a typical Word document can you print off of one printer cartridge?
It depends on what is actually on the document in terms of coverage. There is a standard industry measurement for pages and this is 5% coverage. So if you get a cartridge which says it will do 250 pages it means of 5% ink coverage not actual full pages.





5% coverage is a standard letter which has loads of uncovered area. If you were to bunch up all the text of a standard one page letter it would cover about 1/3 of a page. In real terms that means that a cartridge which states it will do 250 pages with actually do only 85 pages of full text, or as you say, a typical Word document.





If the box the cartridge comes in says it will print 300 sheets then take it be around 100 in real terms. That is about the best I can do as all cartridges are different and have different yields. There is also another trick that some manufactures do and that is to state the page print yield based on it being on draft which is the poorest quality. So it is always 5% but on what quality is not always a question they answer!How many pages of, say, a typical Word document can you print off of one printer cartridge?
It varies dramatically. Some inkjets have cartridges that are only good for a hundred pages or so. That is mainly portable printers but also some desk printers. Few inkjets have cartridges good for 1000 pages or more, and those are at the higher end of the market such as HP Business Inkjets. The average is probably about 500.





Toner cartridges for lasers are much higher capacity. The cartridge in the laser here is good for 7800 page though admittedly that is a high capacity cartridge. I've seen network printers with 20,000 page cartridges, possibly more, but the average for personal printers is probably about the 4000 page mark. This higher capacity typically makes laser a lot cheaper to run than inkjets and they are better at text printing, but they are much worse at photos. If you print a lot of text and some photos two printers may be a good option - laser for text and bulk printing and an inkjet for when you really need it.





Page counts are usually based on 5% page coverage which is a good approximation for printing text. However if you are printing photos they use a lot more ink or toner, maybe the equivalent of ten or more pages of text. The amount used is independent of the resolution used contrary to what another poster has written, it is how much there is on the page that affects cartridge life.





Some printers (mainly lasers) have an option to extend cartridge life by printing less densely, such as HP's Economode. In my experience this is generally fine for text but if you print large areas of black you do notice that is is noticeably greyed instead of black so you need to experiment to see if using that results in satisfactory output.
It varies widely depending on the printer and the type of cartridge. For example, an Xerox laser copier/printer could print several reams worth of pages before needing a toner replacement, whereas say a cannon inkjet printer, would probably run out of ink after one or two reams worth of prints. Either way, you can get cheap toner and inkjet refill cartridges here. http://inkjetinkcartridge.net/
Sorry to give a vague answer but....


Depends on the printer, the cartridge. WHAT you are printing and so on.


A page with just text uses less ink that a page with borders, images, BOLD print %26amp; so on.


Best to look at the manufacturer's specs for the ink cartridges
Depends on the capacity of the ink cartridge and also how much ink is required to print the page. Also depends on what settings the printer is on (eg Grayscale.)
It depends upon your printer whether it has a small/medium/large size cartridge, secondly how much dpi you are setting for printing.
That really depends on printer and cartridge a lot... it varies from 1000 to 5000 (IMHO)