I found it a little strange that I could buy this kit which includes a HP 343 colour cartridge and a pack of photo paper for cheaper than I could have got a standalone HP 343 cartridge.
Anyway. I normally refill my own ink cartridges, but every so often I need to purchase a new original HP cartridge due to the fact that HP cartridges have the printhead built into the cartridge and as such will eventually wear out after a time. I normally find Amazon are cheaper than anywhere else for HP cartridges.
After refilling my own ink cartridges and seeing how cheaply I can refill them, it is a shock to the system when I have to purchase a new HP cartridge : 0 but this is not that often happily and Amazon make this experience more bearable for me.
Has you would expect from a new HP cartridges the results are excellent. Although I have to say that they are NO BETTER than when I have refilled them myself. I have owned my HP printer for around 3 years and I find HP printers are the best by far for overall print quality and also I do not need to do any head cleaning with my HP printer all this is due to HP building the printheads into the cartridge.
A bit of advice for anyone who has a HP printer and is fed up with the cost of original HP cartridges or even compatibles (which are still expensive), is refill your own. I use the Jet Tec refill kit for my cartridges and the results are identical in my opinion to the original HP inks, the only thing is try to not let the ink cartridges run out of ink, basically keep topping them up, letting them completely run out of ink can burn out the printhead on the ink cartridge.
If you google jettec you will find the refill kits I have mentioned, the quality of results are excellent from the jettec inks.