Printer manufacturers define page yield for a cartridge to be the number of pages you can expect to print with that cartridge, assuming a page surface area print of 5%. Of course, the more data on the page that you print (text and/or images), the higher the surface area covered with print, and the lower the actual page yield.
Attached is an example of what a 5% surface area print looks like.
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