Compatible ink cartridges versus original

Neil_Jones

Sandtree said:

Never had any major problems with compatibles but:

1) Colour consistency isn't great, not a problem for printing documents etc but more of an issue if printing photos... its not like someone's skin will come out looking bright blue but colours can take a ting etc

Most budget printers (regardless of ink being genuine or otherwise) will introduce a blue tint of some sort, especially if you're working with older B&W/Sepia photos.  Worse case scenario is far too much blue, so you have to compensate for it by taking (from memory and in my experience) about 60% of the blue out of the image on the screen (assuming a budget screen as well) using Paint.net so it looks a bit sickly and surreal on screen but it looked semi-decent on paper.  YMMV.

HoofeHearted

As already said, disable updates on the printers.

I have used "Internet Ink" for years with no problems (Epson).

Here are the cartridges for the HP Officejet Pro 8600.

https://www.internet-ink.com/product-selector/hp/officejet-pro/officejet-pro-8600

Supatramp

As above, have been on Epson printers for years, had a brief dalliance with Canon and HP but returned to Epson.

From reading a tip years ago, I think on here, the secret is NOT to go for software updates.  Every time I switch on my printer I get a message about updates, but I simply press OK and ignore.

If compatibles don't last as long, so be it, it's not really an issue as they cost only a fraction of the genuines