posted on July 1, 2007 06:47:06 PM new
If you bought an inexpensive printer that requires hard-to-find, expensive ink cartridges like I did, you can save some money. Trying to find the cartridges in my neighborhood, I ran into Walgreen's online and found some stores fill your used cartridges with ink for half the cost of new cartridges. Great, I went there and found they could not fill Canon cartridges. The clerk was very helpful and pointed me to a kiosk in the mall 2 blocks away. He was $2 cheaper than Walgreens, was locally owned and guarantees his refills 100% He warned me that my printer software will still warn me that I'm out of ink, a ploy they use to get you to buy new cartridges. It did, a minor inconvenience for the money saved. I have heard that refilling cartridges can shorten the life of your printer. Perhaps this is propaganda, perhaps not. In any case, a few trips to the refill station will pay for a new printer, if needed.
[ edited by pixiamom on Jul 1, 2007 06:49 PM ]
posted on July 1, 2007 09:23:39 PM new
Inkjet technology is mature. There aren't going to be any big breakthroughs in inkjet printers. Everybody makes great ones and they all essentially give them away, with dire warnings about the horrible fate that awaits those who dare to use non brand specific or refilled cartridges. The most transparently bogus business model imaginable.
Refill to your heart's content and know that when your printer takes a crap, it would have anyhow no matter what ink you used. If you get a year of good printing out of one model, figure you're ahead of the game.
