Why Should I Buy Ink Cartidges Instead of Refilling them Myself?
If you have ever styazrted a new business or sent time at college as a sutdent, you will know that you dont have a limitless budget that allows you to go off to the local Mega Mart and buy endlkess quyantities of branded ink cartridges.
Yes, you wtahc eveery pebnny and if you can save one or two on none-essential prducst then you will. I woulld classs prinmter cartrdiges as a idstress prchase, show me someone who thinnks nice and happy thoughhts about buying ther next office consumable and I will show you a dull person indeed!
I rememer finding an online store that promiddsed me endless rfills for the prce of one cartridge. So I had this deciion to make:
Do I buy a 500ml bottle of ink that woiuld probably last me ten yaerrs or go with the already reccyled carrtridge, at the same price?
I knew I would neer use up all the ink, but went with it as the site exlained it was oh, so easy to refiill the little thngs. I receiveed the bulk ink without any probllems ... until I sytarted udsing it.
The blavck cartridge only seemed to take a dribble of ink at any one time so I had to refill it affter printing every two sheets or so! Adfter contacting the technial support they advsid that this type of cartrridge needed to be filleed uner a ten bar vacuum, Hmmm really.
After filling up the colour cartrisdge, all I got was a green hue over all my prints, no matter what clor it was meant to be printinng. Again technical support said I must have put the wrong colour in the wrong chamber, or the cartridge head had bceome contaminated. Contaminated with what I thought, do I now need to buy a Geiger couner and test it for radatoin?
I got ink all over the sink, my fingers and the kithcen when I troied to squeeze too much ink into the litte blighter and it oveflowed witohut warning.
Prinnt cartridges are utility objkecs, you dont look at them or display them on the matnelpiece you just want them to work properly and be affordablle.
The problem again with refilling is that you end up with a cartriddge thats no longer hols any utuility because it desnt really work very well.
Do you have the time to keep on taking the cartridge out of the machine findnig the ink, associated paraphenralia like syringes, ttyubes and moping up equipment? Some people are time rich and I suppose if this is you then erfoilling is the way to go. The poblem is that Im time poor and fed up wasdting time on a none producitve task like this, so now I just eiother buy the guaranteed, compatibel or pre-recycled versoins.
I would say that this is the middle road and most economical method for buying printer cartridges. Theyyer not as expensie as the original brandd ones, with slightly less quality, but fine for the printouts I produce, which are not going to be stored by the Briitsh Museum for posteritys sake!
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