3 Cheap Ink Cartridge Options For Your Printer
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Your printer ink cartridges play as big a part in the final quality of your print as the paper that you use. If you use cheap paper, your print quality will suffer and in many cases the same is true of using cheap ink cartridges. This isn’t always the case, however. Discount ink can be bought in a few different ways and each of them has advantages and disadvantages.
Refill Ink
The cheapest of the three options, using refill ink to refill your printer’s empty cartridges usually affects print quality negatively more than the other alternatives.
Injecting refill ink into an empty cartridge is a messy process, not to mention difficult. The majority of new printer models use cartridges that are not easy to refill.
Recycled Cartridges
Many companies clean used cartridges, refill them with ink, test them for quality, and then sell them as recycled cartridges.
This is more expensive than refilling your own because you’re paying for the labor involved, but it tends to give you better results.
These companies have refilling and cleaning equipment that can do a much better job of remanufacturing your empty cartridge. They also generally offer a guarantee on their work, so if the cartridge doesn’t work properly you can either get a replacement or get your money back.
Generic Brand Cartridges
Due to patents on ink cartridges held by their manufacturers that make their reproduction illegal by other companies, use of generic cartridges is less widespread than that of the other alternatives.
There are some cartridges that you can find brand new generic replacement ink for. These generic cartridge are not recycled, they are new but they aren’t made by the printer companies themselves.
These cartridges tend to be the highest priced of the three options, but they are still cheaper than the original cartridges, and work just as well.
Which option will be best for you is going to depend a lot on how much printing you do, and what you’re printing. If you’re printing photos that you want to be able to keep for a lifetime, you’ll have different needs than if you’re just printing copies of web pages for future reference.
