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![]() What does 5% coverage look like?Were regularly asked by our customers how many pages a given toner cartridge should print. The ISO (the Internation Organisation for Standardisation) set a 5% measurement which most of the printer manufacturers follow as their method for the determination of toner cartridge yield for colour printers and multi-function devices that contain printer components. Comparing color laser yield measurements across manufacturers is difficult. Numerous factors affect yield measurement including the test document, print job size, print quality modes, end-of-life determination, sample size and environmental conditions. The ISO/IEC 19798:2007 defines a method for testing and calculation of average yield measured in the number of standard pages for a color toner cartridge and specific printer printing in a semi-continuous mode under a defined set of conditions. It uses the test page suite defined in ISO/IEC 24712. The ISO/IEC 19798:2007 is only intended for the measurement of color toner cartridge yield. No other claims can be made from this testing regarding quality, reliability, etc. The ISO/IEC 24712:2007 defines color test pages for the measurement of consumable yield. The test page suite includes four customer type documents and one diagnostic page that is used to determine end of ink or toner consumable life. The ISO/IEC 24712:2007 provides a set of test pages to be used in the testing of consumable yield. The procedure for using these pages is detailed in ISO/IEC 19798.Some printing programmes actually can tell you the percentage of text on a page however the below picture shows what 5% of text and colour images looks like on an A4 page. Incidentally different fonts and sizes will obviously give you different word counts, so we examined a test sheet of the 3 most commonly used fonts sized 12 (Arial, Times New Roman and Calibiri) and it appears Calibiri is the most economical one to use as you get more printed words than the other fonts! The ISO/IEC 24712:2007 provides a set of test pages to be used in the testing of consumable yield. The procedure for using these pages is detailed in ISO/IEC 19798. The above pages called the ISO/IEC 19798 Standard Test Suite of 5 Pages are intended to represent some of the document types that are used in the office and home to show 5%. They are not intended to represent special applications such as photo printing which obviously uses far more than 5% coverage. For further information please contact us. |