I have been refilling my HP printer cartridges for years with great success. I purchase from IMS and have even bought black ink in a pint bottle that has lasted for years. Black refills work best for me as refilling color is not as satisfactory. The tiny color reservoirs seem to have more difficulty, but refilling a couple of times for color seems to be OK. I can refill the black cartridges until they stop working, maybe 10 or 12 times.
The only caution I would add for ink refills is that some of those pesky cartridges have built in sensors that
indicate when they're empty and are nearly (or are) impossible to reset. Consequently, refilling them
will still show empty and some printers will shut down if they think the cartridges are empty.
I personally think that manufacturers did this to prevent aftermarket refilling of their cartridges and forces
you to buy their overpriced replacements. What's even more interesting is that OEM cartridges are typically
only 1/2 to 2/3 filled and for their "high capacity" cartridges, which you pay a premium price for, they're just
filled to 100%.
And THAT really twists my tightie whities.
Having said that, for those of you that are Costco members (I think Sams Club also has it), you can take your
empty cartridges in and they will refill them for you for less than 1/3 the price of a new one. I've done that and
they can usually refill them for you while you shop (for the $200 worth of stuff you don't need of course). :-)
Cartridges can usually be refilled as many as a dozen times depending on the condition of the cartridge but if the
nozzles are clogged with dried ink they're totaled and can't be refilled..
Oh, and Office Depot will take empty cartridges and give you a $3 credit per cartridge. Turn in enough of them and you
can buy a new one for nothing.
-aki
From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale S
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:16 AM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DIY] Computer printer ink
I bit the bullet and went to laser printers only. One for full color and the other for B/W because the ink went bad before we would use it up and it just seemed to make sense.
Dale in the Flat Lands:-----Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.~Ronald ReaganCindi Wass wrote:
That is nice to know, because Lexmark used to make cheap printers, but had dedicated ink cartridges for their printers that could not be refilled, but which were very expensive, about the same as their printers.
From: Jerry Hnidy <jhnidy@gmail.com>
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [DIY] Computer printer ink
You are correct. I stopped buying HP because in the past you could not get good clone ink for HP. But now I hear that you can clone everybody.
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Woodhaven, MIOn Oct 30, 2012 8:28 AM, "Ed" <edmcm2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Maybe this can save someone a few dollars. For years I've been re-filling my ink cartridges with fair sucess. About a year ago I got a new HP printer and have had terrible luck with re-filling. My previous one was also HP, a different model.
Anyhow, I've now tried re-filled cartridges purchased on ebay and have great success with them at really low prices.
Note to anyone who thinks I'm spamming:
I have no association with the sellers other than buying from them, and there are a lot of sellers on ebay, but the one I'm using is ezink123.
Thought someone might want to try this. Ed
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