It also standardizes the appropriate method of describing the yield of cartridges in documentation supplied to the consumer by the manufacturer.
Manufacturers of printers or devices that use colour ink jet technology are meant to abide by this standard when testing for, and labeling the estimated yields of their products.
The testing focused on sampling yields generated from typical business consumer printing applications.
It was noted that this type of testing procedure may not be typical of some common usage patterns for print devices, as in office settings for instance.
Manufacturers must include the following information in their user manuals, marketing materials or packaging when declaring the yield of an ink jet cartridge: Result derived from testing using ISO/IEC 24711.