What's the difference between a genuine ink cartridge and a remanufactured ink cart

esuhl

I've always used cheap compatible cartridges in my printers and, as cloud_dog says, the savings have been immense.

My last printer had branded cartridges costing £15. The compatibles were £1.50. Sure the colour accuracy wasn't as good, and the image faded much quicker than genuine ink, but it was dirt cheap and I don't care about image quality that much.

I was saving more than the cost of the printer within a few months. And the printer lasted 8 years before failing.

Robisere

As I said before, if you don't need the quality and reliability that I need from genuine cartridges, compatibles are fine. But I emphasised the point to wait until the Warranty is over, because, in the event that your printer stops working and you need to have it repaired, there may be 2 options as I understand it. You may be asked to return it to the store where you bought it, or you may be asked to take it to an appointed repairer. The ink will be tested in either case. It will show that the ink is not the manufaturer's ink and, immaterial of the component which has failed, they will refuse costs. I have a relative who works in the trade and this is his information.

dipsomaniac

cloud_dog. out of interest how many colour pages are you printing a month?

cloud_dog

dipsomaniac wrote: »

cloud_dog. out of interest how many colour pages are you printing a month?

It varies significantly, depending on the projects I am working on.

For the example I gave (approx 4 packs of cartridges per year) that would have been approx 2000 sheets (about 150 per month).

I went with the MG7750 as I wanted a decent printer for images but due to space (WFH) I needed copier facilities included. I set the default printer setting to draft and grey scale....for other household reasons who may not actually think about what they are doing/printing

EDIT: Not all of the printing is colour but the majority (just noticed the key word in your question)

EDIT EDIT: Good win for the Cherries on Friday

justaquestion

Since we are on the subject of printer ink anyone have an idea why the compatible ink for Epson XP 235, XP 332, Xp 325, XP 432 and Xp 435 is so expensive on ebay just 4 cartridges for £8.50 or more whereas you would get 12 cartridges or more for older Epsons for the same price.


The chip different or what?


Thanks

interstellaflyer

justaquestion wrote: »

Since we are on the subject of printer ink anyone have an idea why the compatible ink for Epson XP 235, XP 332, Xp 325, XP 432 and Xp 435 is so expensive on ebay just 4 cartridges for £8.50 or more whereas you would get 12 cartridges or more for older Epsons for the same price.


The chip different or what?


Thanks

They are more expensive because they fit Epson's current range of low/lower end printers so developments cost for the chips needs to be recovered, there have been issues with machines that take those cartridges, Epson factory installed updated firmware on certain batch runs I believe the latest compatible cartridges are now on version 3 chips.

rubble2

Just for context, I used to work for a company involved with industrial over printing (best before dates etc.)
We had a relationship with commercial ink manufacturer and although it wasn't part of our business activity we used to buy ink cartridge ink from them for our own office use ( never any problem with it - apart from the faff of refilling cartridges,) but the cost to buy the ink was £2.00 +vat per litre. I am sure you can work out how many cartridge refills you would get out of a litre bottle.