[request] best priced ink cartridges for DELL printer

BumFluffy

The DELL site is just outrageous and DELL/lexmark have made refilling difficult [need to drill holes]

so maybe compatibles?

WILKEL

Dont know if it is just me but I bought a refill kit for the cartridges for the dell 720 and now the black wont work at all !! :mad:
Would also be interested in finding cheaper options.

cantona

Dont know exact prices for Dell/Lexmark but www.7dayshop.com are very cheap for
everything.They are based in the Channel Islands.Recently had a sale where I got 6 black and 6 colour for my Epson delivered for less than €18.Have used them for over 2 years and have not had any bother.They also do cameras,
memory cards, paper, in fact everything.

viking

WILKEL wrote:

Dont know if it is just me but I bought a refill kit for the cartridges for the dell 720 and now the black wont work at all !! :mad:
Would also be interested in finding cheaper options.

Did you get the refill kit from Tesco by any chance?

wolfe25

cantona wrote:

Dont know exact prices for Dell/Lexmark but www.7dayshop.com are very cheap for
everything.They are based in the Channel Islands.Recently had a sale where I got 6 black and 6 colour for my Epson delivered for less than €18.Have used them for over 2 years and have not had any bother.They also do cameras,
memory cards, paper, in fact everything.

I know that vat is not payable on anything under £18 in UK, but is that true here also?

cantona

Yes it is same here.They will break your order down so that no one packet is over £18.Even if they send 4 or 5 packets they only charge for P+P once.

dancin

BumFluffy wrote:

The DELL site is just outrageous and DELL/lexmark have made refilling difficult [need to drill holes]

so maybe compatibles?

Dell got lexmark to change the cartridge shape a little, so they are dell specific for the dell printers. I'm not 100% on the next bit, but I recall reading in a trade mag a while ago that the dell cartridges are somehow coded so that the printer will refuse a non dell cartridge (compatible), making the compatible market more or less non-existant for dell's.

Dell pretty much give away their printers now, and charge a fortune for the ink (Kodak did that in the early days of mass photography and made a killing).

It may be cheaper to just buy a new printer, either a cheap dell, or a something like a canon which is cheap to refill.

WILKEL

viking wrote:

Did you get the refill kit from Tesco by any chance?

Viking - I bought it of this site (see link below).
I think in fairness i made a hamfisted job of injecting the ink.

http://www.inkandmedialtd.co.uk/acatalog/Dell_Refill_kits.html

viking

I got the Tesco one, followed the instructions exactly and it prints crap, like the head is blocked or something. I did wonder whether drilling a hole in a plastic cartridge would cause lots of little plastic shavings to go into the cartridge itself.

beller b

I find this place very reasonable
www.justmedia.ie
They have a shop in finglas so no need for ordering online