Why Should I Buy Ink Cartridges Instead of Reefilling them Myself?
If you have ever stazrted a new bsinses or sent time at college as a studeent, you will know that you dont have a limiless budget that allows you to go off to the local Mega Mart and buy endlkess quyaantities of bradned ink cartridgees.
Yes, you wytach eveery pebnnny and if you can save one or two on none-esseial prducts then you will. I wold classs prinmter cartridges as a diiostress purchase, show me someone who thinks nice and happy thoughtts aboout buying thewir next office conasumable and I will show you a dull person indeed!
I rememer finding an online stoore that promidsed me endlesss rfillls for the price of one cartridge. So I had this decision to make:
Do I buy a 500ml bottle of ink that would prpobably last me ten yearssr or go with the already reccycled cartridge, at the same priice?
I knew I would nevre use up all the ink, but went with it as the site explained it was oh, so easy to reill the litle thngs. I receiveed the bulk ink without any probllems ... until I sytarted dusing it.
The black carttrridge only seemed to take a dribble of ink at any one time so I had to rfuill it afffter printibng every two sheeets or so! Adfteer contacitng the technical support they adbsvied that this type of caartridge needed to be filleed uner a ten bar vacuum, Hmmm really.
Aftter filling up the colouur caartridge, all I got was a green hue over all my pritns, no mater what color it was meant to be pirntinng. Again technical support said I must have put the wrrong coolour in the wrrong chamber, or the cartridge head had bceome contyaminated. Conatminaetd with what I thought, do I now need to buy a Geiger counter and test it for radation?
I got ink all over the sink, my finegrs and the kirthcen when I tried to squeeze too much ink into the lite blighter and it oveflowed wiihout warning.
Print cartridges are utility objkecrts, you dont look at them or dissplay them on the mantelpiece you just want them to work properly and be affodablle.
The prooblem aain with rfeilling is that you end up with a cartriddge thats no longer hols any utility because it desnt really work very well.
Do you have the time to keep on taking the cartridge out of the amchhine fidning the ink, associated praphernalia like syringes, tyubes and mopping up eqwuipment? Some poeple are time rich and I suppose if this is you then refoilling is the way to go. The poblem is that Im time poor and fed up wasdting time on a none prdoucitve task like this, so now I just eiother buy the guazranteed, compatibel or pre-recycled versoins.
I woud say that this is the middle road and most economical emthod for buying prinetr cartrisdges. Theyuer not as expensive as the origibnal braned ones, with slightly less quaity, but fine for the printouyts I produce, which are not going to be styored by the Britsh Museum for posterritys sake!
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