Peripherals: Poll: How do you refill your printer ink/toner?
- 10/26/07 10:29 AM
Use 2 printers
by tom6200 - 10/28/07 12:30 PM In reply to: Poll: How do you refill your printer ink/toner? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use 2 printers: a Canon ip5000 for photos and an HP laserjet 1012 for almost everything else. Black & white is just fine for the vast majority of my printing needs and using toner instead of black ink is far less costly. I cut my costs even further by refilling the toner cartridge with toner I get from tonerrefillkits.com. I've performed about a dozen refills with never a problem or noticable change in quality of print output.
Canon Pixma IP4000: I refill the color cartridges
by Hedwich - 10/29/07 12:29 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you refill your printer ink/toner? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
with ink bought through Inkclub, but only 3 or 4 times max for each, then I buy a new set of Canon cartridges and start over again. Found that it is not a good idea to refill the black cartridges, especially not the one used for photo's (there is a double size black cartridge for documents in B&W, which you can refill once or twice). For the black photo cartridge I use Motif cartridges, which are cheaper but give very good quality prints. Of these I also use about 3 and then again an original Canon one. Found that photo prints go very 'cold' colored (with too much magenta and cyan) if you refill too often or even if you only refill the small black one once, but this way the quality is very good, and I save a lot of money too.
Photo black is different than regular black
by PolymorphDigital - 10/29/07 7:11 AM In reply to: Canon Pixma IP4000: I refill the color cartridges by HedwichI'm not surprised, regular black in a Canon is pigmented. Photo Black is dye ink, so it will print and absorb differently into the paper.
ink toner
by beatyjenyns - 10/29/07 4:53 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you refill your printer ink/toner? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Don't judge a cartridge just by its price; the number of pages it can print is just as important. That figure will change depending on how much ink you use on a page; the industry-standard is 5% coverage per page for each color. Some companies make yield information available on the Web along with other printer specifications; others will provide it if you ask. FOR MORE DETAILS http://freephotopaper.com/ink_store.htm
How do you refill your printer ink/toner
by oldlady2 - 11/3/07 2:54 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you refill your printer ink/toner? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I buy HP genuine brand inkject cartridges for all my HP PhotoSmart printers. Friends who use generic or proprietary (office supply box stores) refilled cartridges, especially colored, have very muddled results. It is an added expense to insure I get the results I expect.
databazaar.com for me
by psaulm119 - 5/20/08 1:06 PM In reply to: How do you refill your printer ink/toner by oldlady2Instead of the $70-80 HP OEM toner cartridges for my HP laserjet 1018, I buy them from databazaar for $20/25. The HPs are supposed to get 2000 pages per cartridge; I counted the number of reams that I used up with these refurbs, and I got 2000. No thanks, HP. I noticed no difference whatsoever between the printouts with the original cartridge (that came with the printer) and the refurbs that I got from databazaar. Granted, this is a b/w printer and I only do documents. Not sure if there would be any difference with photos--I doubt it.
refillable ink cartridges
by darquara - 5/21/08 12:44 AM In reply to: Poll: How do you refill your printer ink/toner? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
well...I would say it depends - as I understood, many of You had a bad expierience with compatible cartridges...
maybe I'm just lucky, but I haven't had any problems..ok, except the first time refilling - it takes time to learn to do that without getting any ink on You 
but it's ok now...also my help is my boyfriend :*
anyway, buying cartridges on net is faster and...how to say on english - bequemer?? 
I've tried many homepages & services...I liked www.cartridges.net - it's an asketic one....
where do You usually buy cartridges????
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