scope:

This standard applies to remanufactured and compatible ink cartridges for operation in a typical office environment. The objective of the standard is to provide two areas for common testing: 1) Provide test methodologies to assess potential cartridge/ink interactions with the printer/printhead and to safeguard the continuous functioning of the printer and printhead. 2) Measurement of yield. No other claims can be made from this testing regarding image quality, reliability, etc. In general throughout the text, only printers and prints are mentioned for the purpose of simplification. Nevertheless this standard also applies to copiers, fax machines and multifunction machines as well as to the copies and facsimiles produced by them however the methods described in this standard are for use on the digital input printing part of any of these systems.