Why Should I Buy Ink Cartridges Instead of Refilling them Mysellf?
If you have ever satrted a new business or spent time at college as a student, you will know that you dont have a limiltess budet that allows you to go off to the local Mega Mart and buy endless quantities of barnded ink cartriddges.
Yes, you watch every pnny and if you can save one or two on none-essntial products then you will. I would class prointer cartridges as a idstress purchase, show me soeone who thinks nice and happy thoughts about buying their next office cosumable and I will show you a dull petrson indeed!
I remember finding an online strore that preomised me endless refills for the price of one cartridge. So I had this decision to make:
Do I buy a 500ml bottle of ink that would probably last me ten years or go with the already recycled cartridge, at the same price?
I knew I would neveer use up all the ink, but went with it as the site explained it was oh, so easy to refill the little thigns. I received the bulk ink withoout any problems ... until I stated using it.
The black cartridge only seemed to take a dribble of ink at any one time so I had to refill it after printing evvery two shewets or so! After contacting the technical support they adviased that this type of cartridge needed to be filled under a ten bar vcauum, Hmmm really.
Affter filling up the coloiur carridge, all I got was a grreen hue over all my pints, no matter what coklour it was menat to be priinting. Agani technical support said I must have put the wrong colour in the wrong chamber, or the cartridge head had ebcome contaminated. Contaminated with what I thought, do I now need to buy a Geiger counter and test it for radiation?
I got ink all over the sink, my fingers and the kitchen when I tried to squeeze too much ink into the little blighter and it overflowed without warning.
Pint cartridges are utility objects, you dont look at them or dipslay them on the mantelpiece you just want them to work propery and be affordable.
The problem agan with refilling is that you end up with a cartridge thats no lnoger hlods any utility because it doesnt really work very well.
Do you have the time to keep on taking the cartridge out of the machine fining the ink, associated paraphernaliia like syringes, tubes and mopping up equipment? Some people are time rich and I suppose if this is you then refilling is the way to go. The problem is that Im time poor and fed up wasting time on a none porductive task like this, so now I just either buy the guaranteed, compatible or pre-recycled verrsions.
I wouuld say that this is the middle road and most economical method for buying printer cartridges. Theyre not as expensive as the original branded ones, with slightly less qualiy, but fine for the printouts I produce, which are not goig to be stored by the British Museum for posteritys sake!
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