Member Advice on Inkjet Cartridge Refills

JR Universal inkjet black refill kit. This is rather a long review, and I hope not to boring. For my 50th Birthday, my Family kindly clubbed together and bought me a computer, not a new one, just a basic second hand model with windows 98, but it did me a treat, it had no speakers, or printer with it, but I found a pair of compatible speakers at a car boot for £1.00. My Sister had an old Hewlett Packard DeskJet 600 printer in her garage, which she kindly gave me. This is just a black printer, (not colour) and as there was no ink cartridge in this printer, I promptly went out to buy one… To my ... more

As we all know printer ink is the biggest rip off on the planet right now. The big electronics companies that make inkjets use the refill cartridge for a cash cow to subsidize their other products, like Gillette did by inventing the disposable razor and then making sure it didn’t last as long as the perfectly fine fixed normal blades did so you keep buying new ones. Mobile phone companies went one step further and perfected the ruse by giving away their new technology cheaply on the condition you were hooked into expensive call and text contracts so to claw back the phone cost and then big ... more

Inkjet cartridges are very expensive, particularly so for Hewlett Packard printers, although I am sure that most makes of printer have equally expensive cartridges. You can get the Hewlett Packard printers at very competitive prices now, and I have a Deskjet 710c, which has been replaced by newer models, nevertheless I think it is a good quality printer, quiet, and the print quality is crisp and clear. The only downside to this printer for me, is the cost of new inkjet cartridges, and I do tend to run out fairly often, as I am always printing information which I find on the web, apart from the ... more

Like many people I find the cost of new printer ink cartridges too expensive. I have tried the alternative route of buying refurbished ones where empty cartridges are cleaned, refilled and resold. My opinion, don’t waste your money. The simple reason is the cartridge’s metal contacts are very delicate and are made useless by taking them in and out of the printer numerous times. If you get a well used refurbished cartridge it simply won’t work or packs up after a few days, I know this from painful and expensive experience. A better idea which I now use you may want to try, is refilling your own ... more

At home we use a Lexmark printer (Z31). Actually, we’re quite happy with it. It is good value for the money and the print image is okay. But it has one substantial error: it needs terribly expensive ink cartridges. You can keep comparing prices, you just won’t find anything for a reasonable price. I mean reasonable for the shopper – for the producer it is reasonable! The black cartridges cost about 24 $, the colour cartridges about 28 $. I still had another idea and had a look into a catalogue for office supplies and really – the cartridges were a bit cheaper there. But ... more