Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers

Posted by: burdell1

Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 23/08/2002 19:58

Has anyone tried those "cheap" ink refills for ink jet printers at all for an extended period of time? I was wondering if they were worth buying or would it wreck my printer?
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 23/08/2002 20:17

would it wreck my printer?

too late
Posted by: mtempsch

Re: Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 24/08/2002 00:52

Well, I've done four refills into the same cartridge (black) for a Canon BJC 250 and prints are still looking the same (as far as I can tell) as when new. I mainly print text though...

Just make sure you don't have one of the cartridges with "smarts" in them that refuse to work after X number of pages, no matter if there's still ink in them...

/Michael
Posted by: JBjorgen

Re: Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 26/08/2002 15:10

Generic inkjet cartridges completely hosed our Epson Photo EX. We had to send it off for repair it was so badly clogged. As far as refills go, I've only done a couple, but stay away from the generic compatible cartridges. Also, when viewed side by side with the epson stuff, the quality was quite clearly worse (even the black).
Posted by: tfabris

Re: Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 26/08/2002 15:26

Epsons will tend to clog even with the factory cartridges, I can attest to that.
Posted by: msaeger

Re: Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 26/08/2002 15:37

All inkjet printers are self destructive.
Posted by: DeadFire

Re: Cheap Ink Refills for Inkjet Printers - 26/08/2002 15:39

    Epsons will tend to clog even with the factory cartridges
I can second that. I have a nice cheap Lexmark; it gives me no trouble.