Ink Cartridge Refills?

Xenocide · 10-02-07, 07:40 PM

I keep hearing about these, and my HP 98 ink tanks are FREAKING TINY. I use B&W alot, and these little suckers are expensive.

Does this stuff actually work, and can anyone recommend a site to buy a kit from?

JamesXP · 10-02-07, 07:54 PM

I've had it done, and I've not been impressed with the results, I'd try to get aftermarket inks.

Krome · 10-02-07, 08:58 PM

If you only printer B&W, consider a laserjet. I picked up a HP LaserJet 1020 for $85, and it's supposed to print around 2,000 sheets per toner cartridge.

SteveLord · 10-02-07, 09:01 PM

Laserjets cost you less in the longrun.

Inkjets are cheap because all the money is made off the ink. HP is getting worse at it. Their newer printers all have bloated drivers/software that is forced upon you and take forever even on modern systems. And they have a higher failure rate.

At my company we use the older workhorse HPs and they last longer all around longer. We've tried 3rd party inks and seem to have more issues with them, so we stick to the official HP brand.

JamesXP · 10-02-07, 09:28 PM

I stick with Epson' cause the aftermarket inks are super cheap.

*hint 15$ for all 6*

Nebulous · 10-02-07, 09:56 PM

I tried the refills on my Lexmark X1150. Dam cartridge only lasted 1/2 of what the new ones do

A waste imho.

I need new cartridges now both color & b&w

ryanmartini · 10-02-07, 10:19 PM

we had a refill kit and usually you are able to refill them about 3 times before the cartridge starts getting bad results.

worked great for us, maybe it differs between makes and models. ours is a lexmark.

Knacko · 10-03-07, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Krome

If you only printer B&W, consider a laserjet. I picked up a HP LaserJet 1020 for $85, and it's supposed to print around 2,000 sheets per toner cartridge.

Seconded. If you're printing b&w, there is no reason to not to go laser. tonerkits.com has full refill kits (3000+ pages) for less than $10, depending on model.

FudgeNuggets · 10-03-07, 07:47 AM

I never had any luck with refills. I too suggest going LaserJet. I too never used color at home and my carts were always drying out on me, so I got a Samsung ML2010 and even with the starter toner cart have printed out well over a thousand pages. The printer cost me $100 almost 2 years ago, I've seen them for $50 with rebates. It is an awesome printer for home.

http://www.google.com/products?q=sam...earch+Products

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SteveLord Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Iowa	Laserjets cost you less in the longrun. Inkjets are cheap because all the money is made off the ink. HP is getting worse at it. Their newer printers all have bloated drivers/software that is forced upon you and take forever even on modern systems. And they have a higher failure rate. At my company we use the older workhorse HPs and they last longer all around longer. We've tried 3rd party inks and seem to have more issues with them, so we stick to the official HP brand. __________________ Core i7 2600k w/ Corsair H50 @ 4.0ghz ASUS P8P67 Deluxe 16GB GSkill Ripjaws 1600 DDR3 MSI GTX 560Ti Twin Frozr II 2GB 2x OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 1x Corsair M4 256GB 2x WD 640GB Black RAID 0 1x WD 1TB Black Corsair 750TX PSU Windows 7 Pro 64bit ---------------------------
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ryanmartini Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: douglasville ga	we had a refill kit and usually you are able to refill them about 3 times before the cartridge starts getting bad results. worked great for us, maybe it differs between makes and models. ours is a lexmark. __________________ Intel C2Q Q6600 2.4 @ 3ghz stock voltage / Stock Cooling Corsair XMS DDR2 800 2x1gb Gigabyte P35 DS3-L HIS Radeon HD3870 864/1300 WD Raptor 36gb [OS/Bench] 2 x Hitachi 250 [The Black Hole of Data] ~Warming Up 11-0-0~ heatware. Nothing is worse than doing something your excellent at, but hate doing. ~me~
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FudgeNuggets Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gone Racing	I never had any luck with refills. I too suggest going LaserJet. I too never used color at home and my carts were always drying out on me, so I got a Samsung ML2010 and even with the starter toner cart have printed out well over a thousand pages. The printer cost me $100 almost 2 years ago, I've seen them for $50 with rebates. It is an awesome printer for home. http://www.google.com/products?q=sam...earch+Products
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