I bought an off brand and it made a mess of my printer. So now I have this HP brand cartridge and am back in business. I surely won't buy an off brand thinking I am getting a deal again.
The product is excellent once it is installed in my HP printer. The online purchase form and its related shipping choice options are very easy to use, very customer-friendly. The timeliness of shipping is almost always reliable. On the other hand, the product is hugely expensive and the price no doubt includes an excessive profit margin for HP. In addition, the product does not print as many pages as advertised and must be replaced often, always with "sticker shock."
Only the Cyan cartridge has "Product of Japan" on it. The Cyan and Magenta cartridges have no product manufacturing info on the boxes. Not sure if this is a "standard" HP product. Haven't tried to use it yet. Hope my HP printer doesn't reject the 2 cartridges with no manufacturing info. Cartridges are ridiculously overpriced. The 3 cartridges cost more than the printer price I paid for it new.
The cartridge installation was easy but I had asked why there are white patches on copies. I was told that a new black cartridge would help. It did not. Peter