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Modern day printers should have cheap ink, right? I mean, pens you can get a 20 pack for about $2 at any store. Why should printer ink be so damn expensive still?

About 3 to 4 years ago manufatures made a transition, they used to have the most expensive part of a printer, the jets (tiny little nozzles that squirt the ink onto the paper) on a disposable cartridge that would cost $50 to replace. Now they are placing that on the device and selling only cartridges of ink. Now we are still paying $20 to them for every color we need. That is still, in my case about $100. 3 colors, and 2 black inks.

So why are these little tanks of ink so expensive? This is how the manufacturers make money, they offer free printers and cheap printers ( < $30 ) to the public. They then charge an arm and a leg for ink, and maybe your first born if your still using HP. The tanks also trick you, they have a little chip on board that counts the amount of ink that has been used, or the number of pages printed. When it hits a certain number, even if it isn’t out, it will stop printing. The printer will refuse to print no matter what. Cheap trick, right?

In my search for cheap ink I came across a site ( http://inkrefillable.com/ ) which has a wide selection of compatible ink cartridges that are refillable, the even better part is, they have an onboard chip that automatically resets when you power off the printer to refill it. You don’t even have to refill it, so if you really wanna run it out, go for it.

My printer has 5 cartridges, at retail price, I’m looking at probably $80 – $100 to replace all 5. So lets do the math.I searched for compatible versions for my printer. Holy crap, low and behold I can get a bundle of 4 of the 5 for $18. Add the additional black cartridge, and it is $24. So, I have just replaced all of my 1 time use cartridges that I would have paid $100 for for 1/4 of the price.

Oh, here is the best part. Since they are refillable they sell ink too for them. Dye based color ink is $7. Dye based black ink is $2. Each container of ink has 30mL. Each cartridge can hold 13mL. So, I can fill 2 black cartridges for $2 once. and I can fill 3 color cartridges for $7, 2 times. So now, going forward it will cost me $3.50 to fill my color, and $2 to fill the black. thats $5.50 to replace ALL the colors in my printer. So now I have just replaced all of my 1 time use cartridges that I would have paid $100 for 1/20th of the price.

We are in an economic crunch! Everyone should use these and send a message to the printer manufacturers of the world to quit overcharging for ink!

Site: http://inkrefillable.com/

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