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You Get What You Pay For - Ink/Toner Cartridges

May 26th, 2007 by Jeff Kee
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  • The last time I purchased a refilled toner for a laser printer (a nice big HP printer that cost a lot of money), it had color streaks all along the side, sort of like a rainbow spectrum going through it. I printed dozens of pages, and shook the toners again and again to rectify the printing quality but it did not do it.

    A while ago I took a shot at those ink refill kits for inkjet cartridges.

    Well, the ink was crap. The ink would dry on the surface of my cartridge, so every time I wanted to print a document I had to give it a moist wipe and then print within a minute, otherwise it would dry up again. It was ridiculous.

    Bottom line? I will never buy any kind of refilled toners/cartridges again. Of course, not all of them are defective, but it’s just not worth having to deal with the hassle for a small amount of savings.


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    6 Comments »

    Comment by Wolf Stone
    2007-05-26 18:18:43

    Jeff,
    Since i refilled printer catridges for 9 months at an island injet kiosk i can proudly say refilling works…if done properly…i have shown customers how to use the kits (with great success) and i used the kits myself (albeit on inkjet printers).

    Comment by Jeff Kee
    2007-05-28 14:20:08

    strange, I guess it was just my bad luck perhaps?

     
     
    Comment by Kiltak
    2007-05-28 18:15:49

    There are 100′S of companies that produce remanufactured cartridges.. We tried many at the office, and eventually stoped our choice on a serie of cartridge that one of our reseller distributes. Never had a single defective one from these guys..

     
    Comment by n3rdism
    2007-05-29 05:22:48

    Good Article

     
    Comment by msdanielle
    2007-06-04 15:17:34

    this post could also be called “you get what you pay for: a post relating to everything under the sun”

     
    Comment by Ed Kohler
    2007-06-08 11:21:37

    I’ve had pretty good luck buying toner on Ebay that’s technically expired. It tends to be cheap and is the real deal.

     
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