19 Kasım 2007 Pazartesi

The Economics of Ink Cartridges

The black ink in my printer has run out again. It seems like I just bought ink. I went down to Staples and found my ink cartridge... around $18 for one (there are 5 ink cartridges total in my printer, so about $90 to replace all of them). Being somewhat of a cheapskate, I decided to go back to my online searching I had done before to see what I could find. For $8.40 I can get a generic cartridge shipped to me. Granted, I have to move the electronic chip from my old cartridge to the new one, but they provide easy to follow directions. Has anyone else had any dealings with non-manufacturer ink cartridges? What have you found? Is the hassle and risk of non-manufacturer ink cartridges worth the savings?
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  1. "Nick"20 Kasım 2007 06:58

    I use them A LOT at work. We actually use an ink refill kit that fills about 2 or 3 cartridges for less than the cost of a new cartridge. We also get the "re-manufactured" cartridges.

    Yours sound a bit different than ours. We don't have to move any chips or anything.

    They have always worked fine (until after you fill them about 3 times, then they stop holding much ink).

    The cartridges work great. No problems that I recall.

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  2. CRCHAIR20 Kasım 2007 08:31

    We have had nothing but problems at work with "re-manufactured" cartridges. We have tried them a couple of times and each time they did not work or worked only briefly. I will not buy them again.

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  3. Nomad20 Kasım 2007 09:57

    I still think it is criminal that printer companies are allowed to insert chips into their ink carts to keep you from using generic ones.

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  4. quizwedge20 Kasım 2007 11:47

    The problem is that the printer companies have switched their model to lose money on the printer and make it up on the ink. I don't know if that's still the case... they may now be making money on both. Either way, they've painted themselves into a corner. If they could bring it back to making money on a quality printer and the ink just being gravy, then they could offer quality ink at affordable prices and not have to try to use chips to protect their bottom line.

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  5. ink cartridges5 Temmuz 2011 07:54

    So far,with my ink cartridges the remanufactured cartridge sounds pretty good. Until you take a look at the independent research. More than 33% of tested refilled ink cartridges failed prematurely or right out of the box but the original HP ink cartridges worked every time, with no cartridge failures.

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