Are those ink refill kits for printer cartridges any good?
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NO!!!!!!!! Thats why I'm asking how to get ink off your hands they are a FREAKING MESS!!!!!!
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With Hp and Lexmark cartridges the can be re-manufactured, however with epsons there is really no point due to the lack of print head.  Ink tanks are really cheap to manufacture so nobody really re-manufactures them.\n\nThere are plenty of charities that will take them off your hands, you may not get any cash for them.  However, you do get a little bit of a moral glow, and the satisfaction of knowing they aren't going to end up in a landfill.
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Lexmark cartridges aren't cheap but there are alternative cartridges you can use, they do a black 16 and a colour 26 which also fit your printer but they are only a few pounds cheaper at about £ 16 for 16 black and £ 20 for 26 colour. But it's best to shop around, if you purchase through the net it will cost more by the time you add post & package.Try P.C World or if in uk W.H. Smiths , or a shop " The Stationary Box" in most shopping centres
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Laser printers. They yield so much more for the ink (which is toner) for the buck. The text is super crisp, just like in a magazine. And last much longer. Pages print super fast. There isn't any "printing alignment" that you have to do. You just put the toner cartridge in and you're good to go. They're so much better and easier on your wallet in the end. Think about it: four cartridges at about 30 bucks is 120 bucks. Maybe around 40 pages each is about 160 pages. A toner cartridge with even just low yield is around 80 bucks average, with around 2000 to 5000 pages yield.\n\nNo messy ink cartridges. And many of them you can exchange with companies that will sell you "refilled" toners at a cheaper cost.\n\nYou can get a black and white laser printer for around a hundred bucks now, and color for around 300.
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I get my inks from http://www.ink4art.com/ or http://inkandbeyond.com/. They have good prices and deals.
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I have a couple of new epson printers. \nThe new cx printers are extremely hard to fill. How did you fill them in the first place?\n If you drill or melt a hole in the top, in the EXACT \ncorrect position, and slowly fill them, letting the air\nand ink bubbles exhaust, then, they are "full".\nI weigh the cartridges when new, and when empty, and\nwhen re-filled, so that I know if indeed, they are\nre-filled. You can now buy gram or ounce weight digital scales\neverywhere, including kitchen stores, and retail outlets,\nand they are 20 bucks or so, and very accurate.\n Check the carts to see if on the front, bottom or back\nedge there is a tiny green circuitboard attached to\nink cart with two melted dots of case plastic posts.\n If so, then you have otherwise, a piece of plastic,\ncontaning 35 cents worth of ink, with a self-destruct\nprogrammable chip on it. Every time you use ink, the\nchip is programmed by 7 gold contact points, and the\nprinter "guesses" how much ink you have, and subtracts it.\nAt about 25 per cent to 33 percent full, the chip is\ntold that you are out of ink. This rather full piece\nof plastic, is then DEAD, and cannot be used again.\nI have used a new, FULL cart, and simply run the CLEAN HEAD\nEpson utility a few times, and been told that the carts are now\n50 percent Full ( HALF EMPTY !!! -- and I hadn't printed\nanything yet!!! )\nThe extra caution in telling a cart with ink in, that it\nis empty, is done to prevent the cart from ever really\nemptying, which would suck air into the carriage fill\npost nozzel, and into an inch or two of piping inside\nthe print carriage / head assembly, and in 20 minutes the\nink inside these tubes would dry, and almost permanently\ndestroy the tiny print holes ability to re-wet with any\nnew ink. \n  If you take out a cart, you must either put in a new one\nimmediately, or re-fill immediately. I have seen many \nEpsons in the garbage - all with badly dried print head /\ncarriage assemblies - if you have a SCANNER/ PRINTER, \nsuch as my CX printers, the second the print head is\n"told" by estimation software, that it is "empty" the \nentire machine, including the scanner is DEAD, since,\nwhen you turn it on, you cannot get past the ERROR\nink out message !!!!. \n  The Espon printers with the "new and improved" print ink\nheads and ink carts, are EXTREMELY fragile, and will\nself-destruct at the tiniest problem. If the power goes\noff, and the head is not parked, it dries out. If you\ntake out a cart and go to the store with the cart to \nmake certain you have the correct one, the print head\ndries out. You cannot take out the print head to soak\nit in water without completely tearing the printer apart,\nand removing the delicate microfilm plastic position\nstrip, and the drive belt, and many fragile parts...\n If you do manage to get the print head out, the print head\nis extremely delicate, and ordinary tap water will\ncontaminate the print head holes, and actually\nclog the head worse than the dried ink. Using paper \nproducts with sharp cellulose fibers clogs the heads,\nif you wipe the heads.. ( one webiste uses strips of\ncoffee filters and distilled water, with some success ).\n  The green, self destructing programmable chips on the\nempty pieces of plastic cases, ARE RE-PROGRAMMABLE, and\nprogrammers are available at most decent computer retailers,\nsuch as COMP USA, FRYs, Staples, Business Depot, etc.,\nsince these reputable companies know that the customers\nare being ripped off with being forced to purchase 50\ncent ink carts, that are not even empty, for 40 times the\ncost of manufacture! You MUST make certain that the programmer\nyou purchase LISTS the printer model, or the cart model,\nsince there are dozens of programmers, and Epson keeps\nchanging the programming on new models, so that customers\nare forced to buy only over-priced Epson" carts!\n I am surprised that you state you FILLED an Epson ca
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Marketing tactics.  The printers are sold at an extremely LOW price - the "loss leader."   The companies make their money selling the replacement ink cartridges at a high profit margin for those printers.\n\nIf you are entirely too interested in the subject, here's an article that goes into princing policies and the legal implications of the cost of those cartridges - just don't print it out - too much ink! \n  \nhttp://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112199,00.asp
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Unfortunately that's how printing companies catch you these days, making their printer prices unusually cheap and reeling it in with the cartridges.\n\nYour best bet is to buy a cheap printer and one of the following options:\n\n1. Visit http://www.refreshcartridges.co.uk/\n2. Buy a refill kit and fill them yourself (be very careful of mixing colours)\n3. See if you can grab some on eBay.\n\nIf you have an inkjet printer this shouldn't be a problem, however if you have a laserjet printer already (these aren't too cheap, but offer better print quality) then you must buy a toner cartridge, and unfortunately these also come at a price and cannot be refilled.\n\nHope this helps.
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In many instances, not using genuine brand ink will void the warranty on your printer. Other than that, generic ink is not the same quality as genuine ink. Off brand inks are 33 times more likely to fail than the original inks, and at times can even ruin your printer (users often report off-brand inks dripping inside the printer, or at times the printers may not even recognize the cartridge).\n\nIn the long run, it's cheaper to stay with the original manufacturer's ink. Although, many see the prices of ink as high, part of owning and using a printer is purchasing ink. We all own cars and hate the price of gas. But it's part of owning and driving a car. The only real solution is finding a car (or printer) that is economical on gas (or ink).
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You don't.\n\nThe cartridge has a chip on it which tell the printer the cartridge is empty.  Unless that chip is reset there is no way a refilled cartridge will work in the printer.
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I cannot say how much ink is held in the Lexmark 17 and 27 cartridges, but what I can tell you is that these cartridges are shipped from Lexmark as 'Low Use' cartridges which basically means they are only half full.\n\nThe 'full' cartridges are Lexmark 16 and 26 (10N0016 and 10N0026). As for pricing the originals are substantially more expensive than the refilled ones.
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Don't get caught up in the printer maker misinformation that you can only use cartridges made my Lexmark, or Epson, HP, etc., etc., etc.\n\nI have 3 Epson printers and have been using 2nd source cartridges for several years with no problems or issues.  They are brand new cartridges, not refilled, and heres the price difference for my cartridges.  And yes, the brochure that came with the Epson printers said I absolutely needed to use the Epson cartridges because.....yadda, yadda, yadda.\n\nEpson or Staples   Black + Color Cartridge     $54\n\nimarketcity    Black + Color Cartridge               $3.50\n\nYep that's right $3.50 for a pair.  \n\nGive it a try.  I think you'll be happy with the results you realize.\n\nhttp://www.imarketcity.com\n\nHope this helps.
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WWW.carrotink.com has compatible cartridges for a dell 720 printer at the cheapest prices I have found on the net.
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It depends upon the brand of cartridges.
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In my opinion, stay away from ink jets.  My kids were going through expensive ink so fast.  I hated it.  I finally put a print server on my laser so they can print to it from their PCs.  That was a good move, as toner is much cheaper on a per page basis.
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Buy the cheapest Epson model you can find. Quality is good, and replacement ink cartridges can be bought on eBay for $3-$4 - do NOT buy a Lexmark or HP, the cartridges for those cost more than a new printer..!
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go to http://www.shutterfly.com  Its cheaper way to go then what you are doing.  Your prints will cost you about a buck apeice after you pay for all that ink they charge 20 cents a peice and 2 bucs for shipping if you order say 15 at a time you will save alot of money.  Think about that. \n\nAlso you answered your own question in the question