Cheap Printers

glitglit

Cheers for the reply.

Too expensive for me unfortunately. Its hard to find a cheap printer with cheap cartridges.
Im starting to pull my hair out:-)

geordie_joe

£19.99 for the printer and £22.99 for the cartridge. Sounds about right these days.

Printer manufactures have realised that the profit is in the cartridges and not the printer. You buy a printer once but buy many cartridges.

The manufactures also add a chip to the carts that won't let you print after a certain nuber of squirts of ink.

I have an Epson printer and refil the carts, I need to use a chip zapper, but all that hapens after I refill the cart is the Epson software complains that it's not a genuine Epson Cart anymore.

I refill my carts about 4 or 5 times then throw them away, it works out very cheap if you buy bottles of ink and not the refil pack that have 3 or 4 tiny bottles in them.

bat999

geordie_joe wrote:

£19.99 for the printer and £22.99 for the cartridge. Sounds about right these days.

Yes geordiejoe, Gillette used to give away razors... and then sell razor blades!

1981

Hi, sorry to railroad the thread, but does anyone know a reputable place to purchase inkjet "ink" and not just OEM/replacement cartridges?

*after buying £59.00 of cartridges and paper, they're all going back for a refund!

geordie_joe

1981 wrote:

Hi, sorry to railroad the thread, but does anyone know a reputable place to purchase inkjet "ink" and not just OEM/replacement cartridges?

*after buying £59.00 of cartridges and paper, they're all going back for a refund!

I don't know any reputable retailers, but I buy my ink and carts on ebay. There are quite a few sellers on there that sell ink refill kits and are very reliable.

I bought a 3 colour and one back kit, complete with a syringe. Small bottles but they did the job. Next time I bought larges bottles separetly, much better value. I also bought another 3 syringes from somewhere as having one for each colour was easier to refill the carts. It saved refilling one coulor then cleaning and drying the syringe before refilling the next colour.

I also have a "chip zapper" as epsom carts, and a lot of compatibals have a chip in them.

Now I just buy some oem carts from ebay, use and refil them a few times then throw them away and buy another lot.

I did try buying a bottle of cleaning fluid, because after a few refills the carts get clogged up. But I found it wasn't worth trying to clean them as the carts on ebay are so cheap, especially if you buy "in bulk".

geordie_joe

Just had a shufftie and the last carts I bought on ebay were 7 Oct 06 £9.99 for four of each colour and four black carts.

I think I must have been short of money in my paypal account as I normally buy more than that.

Just had a quick look at ebay and people are selling empty cartridges!

Mind you I can see why, it's the carts that cost the money, the actual ink in them is almost worthless!

1981

Thanks Joe, wow - that really is some price difference! £9.99 for four of each colour! I felt physically sick when the lady at Staples said the price, I paid out of embarrassment, but they'll be going back tomorrow.

Thanks for all your help BTW.

geordie_joe

1981 wrote:

Thanks Joe, wow - that really is some price difference! £9.99 for four of each colour! I felt physically sick when the lady at Staples said the price, I paid out of embarrassment, but they'll be going back tomorrow.

Thanks for all your help BTW.

No Probs.

If you buy on ebay remember to check the sellers rating and feed back, there are some bad sellers on ebay, but there are also some good ones who have been around for years and have thousands of satisfied customers.

cmc_entertainment

xerox are very good at cheap compat's if you find a printer that is

johnmc

Hi, sorry to railroad the thread, but does anyone know a reputable place to purchase inkjet "ink" and not just OEM/replacement cartridges?

I buy my ink from Aktiv Direct and have done for some years. They do "general purpose" as well as matched to your printer (and there IS a difference).

I buy my cartridges from ND Ink.

Printers;
I only use Epson because the cartridges are just ink pots. The heads are in the machine, which makes the cartridge cheaper to produce.

They are a piece of cake to refill, but you need a chip restter.

Each time they are started they squirt a bit of ink down a tube into the felt in the base and keep count. In normal use it takes a while to reach the preset limit, at which point the printer stops working. Then have 2 options; upgrade or open the machine (a couple of screws), wash the pads and then download some software (FREE) from SSC to reset the chip.

Current printer is on its 3rd run through. Only issue was when I turned it off at the mains without waiting for the cartridges to park properly and the heads dried out. Took 2 full loads of ink to clear it! Silly me!