Injet printer cartridge refills

Canon replacement cartridges for my Pixma printer now cost almost as much as I originally paid for the printer!

There are various cartridge refill kits which I could buy. Are these any good?

Reply to
Michael Chare
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are you surprised?

Can be.

You risk entirely clogging the ink paths if they aren't though.

Consider a small color laser.

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Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

I've been using refill kits, both black and colour, for about 7 years, and I've always been very happy with the results.

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Mr Fuxit

I've been using refill kits, both black and colour, for about 7 years, and I've always been very happy with the results.

Same here - never had a problem except once when I didn't use the printer for abour six weeks and the heads dried up. But I believe this could have happened even if I had been using Canon ink.

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Wesley

I've not had much look with refill kits - a lot of faffing about and dubious success for the savings involved - and after using mx2 and then svp for compatible carts, I eventually found these guys up in Darlington:

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worked out at a quid a cart (for a compatible chipped Canon MP600) and they've been indistinguishable from the Canon originals, so personally I wouldn't mess around trying to refill at that price.

I have to say though, I was a bit dubious at first, and what finally made me take a punt was that my niece is up that way and I thought I could combine a visit to her with kicking their door down if they turned out to be conmen!

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mike

In message , The Natural Philosopher wrote

Where the replacement toners cost 4 times the price of the printer.

With my Epson inkjet I have been using third party compatible cartridges for years without problems. These cost around £1 to £2 each excl. postage. With prices as low as this why bother with refills?

Original inks and papers may only be important if you want top quality photos for display or archive. Lesser quality inks may start fading or changing colour when exposed to sunlight over a (short) period of time. However, I'm not sure all manufactures of original ink guarantee the longevity of their product when exposed to sunlight.

A few years back some of the top printer companies used to advertise in trade papers by including a photo printed with their inks and paper. These were placed on a notice board at work with half covered up. After month or so the covering was removed and compared to the part of the photo exposed to daylight. There was always a marked difference between the two halves.

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Alan

Cheap printers and expensive cartridges are all part of the marketing strategy because manufacturers can virtually give you the printer and rely on making their money from ink sales. [Bit like mobile phones, really]

We buy genuine Canon cartridges from the likes of

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- where they are a lot cheaper than in the High Street.

They - as do the likes of Lidl from time to time - also sell 'compatible' cartridges, which are a lot cheaper still.

I've never fancied refill kits - I reckon it could get a bit messy!

Reply to
Roger Mills

Some are good, some are not. Universal kits usually owe more to the desire of supermarkets to minimise the amount of space required on their shelves than to the needs of the user.

I recommend a specialist kit, designed to suit a particular cartridge or a small range of physically similar cartridges. This site sells the InkTec range, which I fully recommend, and, for the more popular cartridges, extra ink that can be used with the tools in a kit for even more savings.

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Nightjar

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newshound

In article , Nightjar

Reply to
fred

For a Pixma avoid the very cheap ebay ones. (£5 for 20) but I have had good results from the ones from large web suppliers priced about 25% of the originals.

Reply to
Ericp

Me too, I use the ones from Argos at £7.99 black and £9.99 colour.

Reply to
Bob Martin

It would appear so, yes :-/

Darren

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D.M.Chapman

Reply to
Nightjar

£19.06 for an HP21 :-(

Another Dave

Reply to
Another Dave

It certainly didn't sound like your style, you have been very discrete in mentioning the ink business in the past.

It might have been an idea to declare your former interest though, just so it was out in the open, as praising a site that is registered to Bignell Online Ltd was bound to get the antennae twitching.

Reply to
fred

Get a cheap BW laser printer and keep the Pixma on Canon original colour inks for use when colour printing really matters.

Going down the compatibles route with cheap ink and then mixing different formulations is asking for weird and fustrating jet blockages, some which may mean in my experience (with Epsons though) scrapping the printer.

For ink carts 7dayshop's prices aren't that bad, and if you go for a Brother HL-2035 laser which has cheap consumables (£33.69 for Brother originals on Amazon) with 1500 page yield, you won't be buying so much ink, and that £70 laser will almost pay for itself.

Also if it's photo printing you are doing, online companies do very fast and cheap next day delivery - at very good quality. I wouldn't bother printing own photos and using up all my ink, unless it truly was an urgent requirement.

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Adrian C

To which most people's response will be "so what".

How much of your printing do you archive? Very little I would guess.

tim

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tim....

Refilling your own at home is far too messy. I use

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and buy their compatibles - 16 quid for a set of four (3 colour and one black) for an Epson Stylus DX4200. Epson originals are over 30 quid now.

Reply to
Pete Zahut

If you use the printer a lot a continuous ink system is well worth considering.

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can remember at different times it being cheaper to buy a whole Colour laser printer with toners than the toners alone. After a number of years of refilling hp1600/2600-family cartridges we now find the Kodak ESP5250 acceptable for our now reduced needs, but for higher volumes I think I'd use an Epson with continuous feed kit rather than return to Laser.

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Djornsk

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