Ink Cartridges And Refills

Wow, how cheap are the new printers, my oh my, they do everything, fax, print, photographs, scanning, take the dog for a walk, well maybe not the last one but today's printers are very impressive and my goodness, the prices aren't bad either, considering what they do but this sounds way to good to be true, where is the catch, surely their has to be one, I after all was not born yesterday.

Yes my friends, a catch exists and its hooked directly to your wallet or purse in the case of our dear lady readers, the catch is that the ink cartridges as supplied are really limited in the amount of printing that they can do i.e. they run out fast and the cost of replacement, well, lets just say that the printer is by far the cheapest part of the equation, in a year of printing, even just leisurely home printing will compound the cost which rises to incredible levels, by the time you have cottoned onto the fact that this is happening you will have spent a few dollars more than you wanted to.

The good news is that some great options exist, below are two great ones, both of which I have tried and can recommend.

Option 1, you can buy ink refill cartridges, these plastic ink bottles come in different colours and have a needle type device which you use to inject the new ink into your existing cartridge, these work very well, no noticeable difference and cost a mere fraction of what an original ink cartridge would be worth so this is a great option.  The only thing to note here is that the new printers seem to know exactly when the companies revenue stream has been adversely affected and pops up with all sorts of warnings about non original ink and the damage it could do and so forth, quite annoying as every time you try to print these sorts of messages pop up, but hey, it works great and has not let me down in a year or so of doing it.

Option 2 is a new one and one that I'm particularly keen on, basically the printer cartridges are so small that with option 1 you are continually refilling them which can be quite messy, so with this method each ink cartridge has an intravenous type tube which is hooked up to a good sized bottle of ink, these bottles sit next to your printer and the Frankenstein tubes connect eerily to the printer and that's that, it all works very well, no complaints so far, this sort of setup will cost say $160 as compared to spending $1800 a year on ink, a really neat option, look into it.