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Printer Ink - New Cartridge Vs Refilling?

  • 24-10-2011 10:45am
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    Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭


    Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I did look around.

    Just wondering if buying a refill kit would be cheaper than a 'new' cartridge and do people have any recommendations about where to go for either??

    I've tried inkjet and inklub for cartridges but they still seem expensive...


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  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I did look around.

    Just wondering if buying a refill kit would be cheaper than a 'new' cartridge and do people have any recommendations about where to go for either??

    I've tried inkjet and inklub for cartridges but they still seem expensive...
    What printer? Only newer Brother machines can be refilled for little hasstle afaik. Get a Epson or Canon and get remanufactured cartridges, best option really. Another site to try is www.justmedia.ie, I find them the cheapest, also look at Ebay, although disadvantage here is most sellers are English so long delivery times!

    Nick


  • Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭selfbuildache


    Thanks. Have a HP. Just a cheap one so I fear I'm paying for it now. I used to have a Dell one though and could get them refilled locally so I'm going to try them if nothing else turn up.
    Have tried your website and can't figure out how to find my cartridge number:confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭Cerbera


    I've got a mix of Canon and HP printers and I get the inks / toners refilled off my local Recharge Cartridges place and I have had absolutely no problems with any of them ever.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Thanks. Have a HP. Just a cheap one so I fear I'm paying for it now. I used to have a Dell one though and could get them refilled locally so I'm going to try them if nothing else turn up.
    Have tried your website and can't figure out how to find my cartridge number:confused:

    Just Media changed the site recently and I've found you can't search for cartidge numbers easily any more, best off clicking HP>and looking for your model in the list of items

    Nick


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    We used to buy refills for our HP 2550 , but they sometimes leaked .

    It does work out cheaper though .

    We also used to buy a printer chip like this one below , and it meant that we used to get more value out of a cartridge .
    If you have a printer that counts the number of pages you print , it may tell you that the cartridge is empty , when it is not .:

    HP2550Chip300x200.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 508 ✭✭✭craftypaddy


    refill kits are for sale in tesco, 25 euro for black and colour, gets 20 fills roughly, fairly easy to do just watch a video on youtube first


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    refill kits are for sale in tesco, 25 euro for black and colour, gets 20 fills roughly, fairly easy to do just watch a video on youtube first

    Many printers use Chips these days which stop you from bieng able to print after the countdown regardless of there being ink or not, without a chip resetter and even with some ink cartidges (Epsons especially) are manufactured in such a way that if refilled they just will not work.

    Nick


  • Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭selfbuildache


    Thanks for the replies! These companies are really devious!
    Allthedoyles - where would I get one of these chips and is it the same as the one YoYo is talking about??
    CraftyPaddy - it was those refill kits I was talking about buying - you can get them on Ebay for less so if you think they work I might go that route - thanks.
    Cheers!


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Thanks for the replies! These companies are really devious!
    Allthedoyles - where would I get one of these chips and is it the same as the one YoYo is talking about??
    CraftyPaddy - it was those refill kits I was talking about buying - you can get them on Ebay for less so if you think they work I might go that route - thanks.
    Cheers!

    I think he's linked to a chip resetter, could be wrong though! Even if you can reset the chip some inks just will not refill, Canon and Epson especially are notorious for this, Check this out to see how they do it

    Nick


  • Registered Users Posts: 81,133 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Thanks for the replies! These companies are really devious!
    Ultimately they aren't devious but rather protecting their profits and investments. Granted they could provide a better, mainstream refilling method, but at the end of the day it was refillers that encouraged printer companies to start microchipping their cartridges.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭selfbuildache


    Overheal wrote: »
    Ultimately they aren't devious but rather protecting their profits and investments. Granted they could provide a better, mainstream refilling method, but at the end of the day it was refillers that encouraged printer companies to start microchipping their cartridges.

    I understand your point and that they have to make profits but I'm annoyed at not knowing this before I bought this latest printer. I think this printer (HP) is cutting me off at a set amount of pages, whereas my previous printer would go 'til the ink ran out basically. Obviously, if I knew beforehand I'd be looking for a non-chipped (if this is even possible now.) printer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Mattryan13


    Don't bother, messy and you don't get a full refill. Huntoffice.ie or www.officespot.ie are cheap and fast delivery. I do our office ordering and this has worked out best for us.


  • Registered Users Posts: 248 ✭✭hanloj1


    I used to get mine refilled for hp photosmart c4380. They were costing me 24e to refill xl one. Got two cartridges for 26e including delivery from 7dayshop.com . good times.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    Get a laser printer. Works out cheaper in the long run.


  • Registered Users Posts: 697 ✭✭✭okiss


    I have a hp printer and the cartridge here in Ireland are expensive.
    I don't do a lot of printing but I looked up the price of these on amazon and found they were a lot cheaper that buying them in Ireland.
    If you buy over STG £25 you will get free delivery.


  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭marknine


    Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I did look around.

    Just wondering if buying a refill kit would be cheaper than a 'new' cartridge and do people have any recommendations about where to go for either??

    I've tried inkjet and inklub for cartridges but they still seem expensive...

    I have a HP C5180 that takes 6 different inks that costs a few bob. A few years ago I started to order bulk ink from http://www.cityinkexpress.co.uk/ and I honestly saved €100’s of euros. Last year I was in Art college and I needed to print photos for my portfolio, but I ran out of two colours of my bulk ink (light magenta and light cyan). Because I did not have my credit card or debit card (long story) so I could purchase the bulk ink at around €7 for a 100ml bottle (a 100ml bottle will fill a cartridge about 20 times) I had to buy the inks in PC World. The cost, just for these two colours was around €70 as I ran out a few times due to all the photos I had to print. Needless to say I have since re-purchased the bulk ink and I bought enough to do me for a few years which cost way less than buying new HP cartridges.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭caddy2


    we get the refills, they are half the price, Recharge do good deal, dont know where you are located but we use a branch in mallow. what we find is that as printers are pretty timid yokes that anytime we have something wrong with the printer itself, (even though we didnt buy the printer in recharge, we get all our ink there) and the guy aidan there is excellent and has a look to do his best if he can do anything to fix the printer for you. Great service I must say


  • Registered Users Posts: 245 ✭✭selfbuildache


    Thanks for all ideas. I'll follow up on all of them. Cheers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 freakystreak


    As someone else commented, refilling is messy and you can't always guarantee results but like anything, practise makes perfect. Epson cartridges are just not worth refilling as the price of compatibles is so low.

    Here's a link to something you may find useful about refilling - http://lifeonthefreakyside.blogspot.com/2012/02/refilling-empty-black-ink-cartridges.html


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    yoyo wrote: »
    What printer? Only newer Brother machines can be refilled for little hasstle afaik. Get a Epson or Canon and get remanufactured cartridges, best option really. Another site to try is www.justmedia.ie, I find them the cheapest, also look at Ebay, although disadvantage here is most sellers are English so long delivery times!

    Nick

    dont use refilled cartridges on an a3 brother 6510 dw printer they will kill the printer. it destroys the printer heads.... had 2 replaced under warranty beacuse of it.


    OP a4 laser jet colours have come down alot in price... i highly recommend getting one.... the quality is far superior and the toner lasts alot longer.


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  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 10,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    dont use refilled cartridges on an a3 brother 6510 dw printer they will kill the printer. it destroys the printer heads.... had 2 replaced under warranty beacuse of it.


    OP a4 laser jet colours have come down alot in price... i highly recommend getting one.... the quality is far superior and the toner lasts alot longer.

    It depends on the refills I find, some are not done properly, have air inside and this can cause print head issues. Remanufactured cartridges are better than refills generally. Also it is physically impossible to refill modern Epson ink cartridges, as Epson design them in such a way you can't inject into the cartridge properly without upsetting the balance of it (Epson inks have multiple chambers, some must have air while others ink, very messy but look up epson cartridge disasembly and you'll see)

    Nick


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