Yeah, the cartridges supplied with new printers are generally nearly empty. The high capacity genuine ones will typically last 5 times as long. It’s worth playing around with print quality settings to save ink. Plus print in black & white when you don’t need colour, and print 2 pages per sheet to save ink.
My old printer was tank fed and due to lack of use the printer head would clog and need a deep clean which would blow through about £10 worth of ink to clear it and as it was almost out of ink it had to go.
I only print about 5 pages a month so I am happy with the cheap printer and it is very good.