The price of printers has come down over the years to be really economical, in regards to the hardware. Printers these days are so inexpensive that you could even manage to buy 2 printers - one printer to be used as a normal printer, and the other to be used as e.g. an image printer. The issue, nonetheless, lies in the cost of a cartridge.
Colour ink jet printers, for example, use both a black as well as a colour cartridge. This pair of cartridges will often amount to as much as the hardware, if you purchase original cartridges. So, it's a matter of almost freely giving the hardware to reap on the replacement of cartridges as presumably many, many cartridges will be bought in the lifespan of the printer hardware. The question then arises on how one could save on the cost of printing using an ink jet printer? There are lots of approaches to save on the cost of an original print cartridge, being: fill your own cartridges, buy reused cartridges or buy a compatible cartridge.
The initial option requires buying one of those refill kits you see advertised in the media. Using this type of kit involves drilling a little hole into the cartridge and utilizing a syringe to inject the ink into the several ink wells. After this you seal the little drilled holes with tape and voila A possible problem is that this is reasonably sloppy and it doesn't work as well as you might have anticipated. The true reason for this is that dried ink remained in the cartridge and on the print head, sometimes creating dodgy print quality and not a very long print life. The next option is to buy re-cycled cartridges. Here you pay for a cartridge that was filled by a supplier company. What is meant to happen is that the old cartridge is to be dissembled and flushed and then refilled, which will create a better alternative product than trying to refill the cartridge by yourself. The chance you take, however, is whether the supplier didn't merely drill and refill anyhow. Your best option is to buy compatible cartridges, where a different approach is used in the manufacturing process. There are two approaches to this process where either ink jet cartridges are simply manufactured cheaper and sold less expensive by specialist companies in the Far East or 'old' cartridges are used and reworked. In the case of the reworked cartridges the cartridge is fully dissembled and cleaned. Any defective part is replaced and the cartridge is then filled with ink to the specification of the original manufacturer. The cartridge is then analyzed by checking the circuits and by printing a test page on the original printer to ensure total compatibility, before product packaging. This technique delivers a product not far from the original cartridge but at a small percentage of the price.
Whereas one doesn't begrudge any supplier a fair profit on any product or service, the price tag on original cartridges simply makes the use of a home printer extremely expensive on even relatively small volumes of printing. There is an answer to expensive printing costs. Buy a compatible cartridge!
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