Solved ink cartridges are sending me to poor house !!!

t-4-2 · Jul 15, 2012

I am using a HP Photosmart D110 all-in-one.
It requires one black/white cartridge and one tri-color cartridge. Total cost about $65 Canadian.
They don't last long, especially the color cartridge.

Is there a printer which will not break my bank account ?
I don`t mind paying more for the printer. It's only an one time expense.
Buying ink cartridges regularly has become an expensive adventure.

Any recommendations ?

t-4-2

marsmimar · Jul 15, 2012

Depends on how often you use your printer and for what purpose. If you do a lot of color photos any ink jet printer will make you poor. If you don't use the printer a lot, the cartridges will dry up and make you poor. I switched to a refurbished laser color printer about two years ago. Cost under $100. B&W toner about $50, color about $65. Toner yield is supposed to be about 2,500 pages. Still on the same two toner cartridges and still getting excellent quality copies. Toner doesn't dry up and seems to last forever.

t-4-2 · Jul 15, 2012

Laser color printer.
I'll check out the prices in my location.

Thank you.

t-4-2

P.S. I still can't give you rep. The rep box told me to "spread" the Reputation around before I can give you any.

OvenMaster · Jul 15, 2012

When I had an HP printer, I had to buy cartridges every six to eight months.
When I switched to an Epson, now my cartridges last just over a year, and they're cheaper!

terz · Jul 15, 2012

cartridges

Dont buy originals, this is how printer companies make their money, buy compatable..... just as good and much cheapers.

Joan Archer · Jul 15, 2012

I've usually gone with Epson printers and used compatible cartridges, works out a lot cheaper. Each colour is a separate cartridge so when one runs out you just replaced that one not the whole lot.

This is on the all in one ink jet printers, we used to have laser printers but the cost of replacement was too much for us so we went with ink jet and we're happy.

mikeymikec · Jul 15, 2012

Be careful picking a laser printer, there are cheap ones around these days with toner cartridges that have very low page yields.

boohbah · Jul 15, 2012

the inks for Kodak are very cheap by comparison to other printers, have a look here for a idea of the savings you could make

KODAK Intelligent Printing - Affordable Ink

t-4-2 · Jul 15, 2012

mikeymikec said:
Be careful picking a laser printer, there are cheap ones around these days with toner cartridges that have very low page yields.

What number is considered low yield ?

The Howling Wolves · Jul 15, 2012

I get my ink from Ink1.com and save a bundle. They have specials going all the time.
Have an HP 620 Deskjet printer and a Canon MP830
THW

t-4-2 · Jul 15, 2012

terz said:
Dont buy originals, this is how printer companies make their money, buy compatable..... just as good and much cheapers.

Pardon someone just coming out from under a rock...
I don't know of " compatible cartridges "....... ha ha ha.
How do I find them ?
Who sell them ?

t-4-2

mikeymikec · Jul 15, 2012

t-4-2 said:
mikeymikec said:

Be careful picking a laser printer, there are cheap ones around these days with toner cartridges that have very low page yields.

Click to expand...

What number is considered low yield ?

A laser toner cartridge normally sells for about £80 or more, and I would expect to get about 3000 or more printed sheets out of it. If you get about 1000 (like some cheap modern laser printers) and a similar cost cartridge, then inkjets can work out to be much better value for money even with official cartridges.

Someone suggested once that inkjet printers and cartridge prices work like this - the more you pay for the printer, the less you pay for cartridges. I did a bit of research for a customer recently who was interested in a higher end printer than the average £50 jobbie they had been going for, and a £200 business inkjet gave better value than all the other laser printers put together, based on cartridge yields (I used Epson as I trust them to build printers that last).

The calculation I used was the cost of their printer and cartridges, factored in the official yield figures and figured out how much that printer would cost to print 10000 pages. One inkjet was £150 cheaper to get to that figure than all the others (several lasers, one other inkjet). Of course, the printer might not last that long, and laser printers tend to be designed for business use / higher volumes.

I wouldn't take the manufacturer's page yield figures as gospel, but I use them for comparing printers from the same manufacturer.

I plan to get myself an Epson SX535WD when my ageing CX6600 needs new cartridges - apparently the new high capacity cartridges for the SX535WD put the ones for my printer to shame in terms of value for money.

Personally I stick with official cartridges. In my line of work I tend to see problems rather than working kit, and it isn't often that customers have problems with official cartridges (unless they've let the printer sit unused for months on end). If compatible cartridges work for you, great. Some customers say that they've never had any problems with them. Other customers say that the colour quality isn't that great. Others say they went through a printer a year until they stopped using compatibles. IMO that means that some cartridge makers are just in it for a quick buck and don't care about their products, and others do apparently.

derekimo · Jul 15, 2012

t-4-2 said:
terz said:

Dont buy originals, this is how printer companies make their money, buy compatable..... just as good and much cheapers.

Click to expand...

Pardon someone just coming out from under a rock...
I don't know of " compatible cartridges "....... ha ha ha.
How do I find them ?
Who sell them ?

t-4-2

Places like this,

HP Inkjet

t-4-2 · Jul 15, 2012

mikeymikec said:
t-4-2 said:

mikeymikec said:

Be careful picking a laser printer, there are cheap ones around these days with toner cartridges that have very low page yields.

Click to expand...

What number is considered low yield ?

Click to expand...

A laser toner cartridge normally sells for about £80 or more, and I would expect to get about 3000 or more printed sheets out of it. If you get about 1000 (like some cheap modern laser printers) and a similar cost cartridge, then inkjets can work out to be much better value for money even with official cartridges.

Someone suggested once that inkjet printers and cartridge prices work like this - the more you pay for the printer, the less you pay for cartridges. I did a bit of research for a customer recently who was interested in a higher end printer than the average £50 jobbie they had been going for, and a £200 business inkjet gave better value than all the other laser printers put together, based on cartridge yields (I used Epson as I trust them to build printers that last).

The calculation I used was the cost of their printer and cartridges, factored in the official yield figures and figured out how much that printer would cost to print 10000 pages. One inkjet was £150 cheaper to get to that figure than all the others (several lasers, one other inkjet). Of course, the printer might not last that long, and laser printers tend to be designed for business use / higher volumes.

I wouldn't take the manufacturer's page yield figures as gospel, but I use them for comparing printers from the same manufacturer.

I plan to get myself an Epson SX535WD when my ageing CX6600 needs new cartridges - apparently the new high capacity cartridges for the SX535WD put the ones for my printer to shame in terms of value for money.

Personally I stick with official cartridges. In my line of work I tend to see problems rather than working kit, and it isn't often that customers have problems with official cartridges (unless they've let the printer sit unused for months on end). If compatible cartridges work for you, great. Some customers say that they've never had any problems with them. Other customers say that the colour quality isn't that great. Others say they went through a printer a year until they stopped using compatibles. IMO that means that some cartridge makers are just in it for a quick buck and don't care about their products, and others do apparently.

Thank you. Quite informative.

t-4-2

DeaconFrost · Jul 16, 2012

terz said:
Dont buy originals, this is how printer companies make their money, buy compatable..... just as good and much cheapers.

Be very careful with this suggestion. Maybe other brands can get away with it, but HP's don't usually do too well with cheaper cartridges. The yield is often lower, with much lesser quality. I used to work for HP, and while I wasn't in the printer division, I had some insider knowledge on how and why those inks wouldn't work. I've also had printers destroyed by using remanufactured ones.

As a solution, when I left HP and couldn't get cheap ink, I switched to a Kodan all-in-one. Quality is just as good, but a full replacement ink set is $29 USD.

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