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| Thread ID: 45210 | 2004-05-14 02:43:00 | How to get Printer Ink costs down ! | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 236447 | 2004-05-17 09:43:00 | Bought a HP 5550 colour cartridge plus black and white cartridge in Singapore for the price of colour only in good old NZ ! Mind you the cost of travelling to Singapore is slightly more than the cost of a black and white cartridge........................!! Misty :D ]:) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 236448 | 2004-05-17 10:04:00 | Hi Misty I have an HP 5550. Have you used the genereric ink cartridges, if so, how were the results? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 236449 | 2004-05-18 03:51:00 | I look under preferences,pick print black,then economy. Quick printing and cheap if somewhat pale. |
Young Tom (5503) | ||
| 236450 | 2004-05-18 05:50:00 | > Quick printing and cheap if somewhat pale. Bit like the Crusaders chances in the Super 12 ]:) |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 236451 | 2004-05-18 06:04:00 | Winston001! Wash your mouth out! I could understand the comment if Southland actually had a team in contention! I assume the lack of deep south competition stems from the fact there are no heated rugby fields in Invertarctica, and permafrost sets in at the end of February and lasts until November? I understand that the Commerce Commission may try to force the Crusaders to lose the final match. Apparently there is no competition when they play.... But - back to the topic. Printer Ink. My experiences with commercial HP refills is that they are not presentation quality, and only suited to drafts. But perhaps I am fussy about the quality. I use an HP 2100 LaserJet and get around 8,000 pages at normal quality per toner unit. Recycled toner units are fine, they have a new drum and only reuse the hardware. I pay from $60 to $130 for them, though have bought on special for as low as $30. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 236452 | 2004-05-18 08:58:00 | Hi Murray Not quite sure what generic ink cartridges are ? Anyway, we previously used (indeed still have) a HP Deskjet 670C and in a rash moment at the "Home Show" we bought an $80 set of refills for this printer. It was from www.aushome.net/inkwell. They are supposed to do "umpteen" refills and indeed you do get a CD, and a hypodermic needle, with the set explaining how to go about it. We did do one refill and it seemed to work fine. Next, however, for more modern, sophisticated photo printing we bought the HP5550. Mind you to date we have 96% used it only for printing out emails, FAQ's from PressF1 etc and not many photos. The only change from the original cartridges has been to replace them using the legitimate (afore mentioned, if a bit cheaper) new cartridges from Singapore (if anyone wants the name of the place, I will check it out and post it). Because of the basic needs we have I have toyed with the idea of using our refills from the "Home Show" to refill, next time, the cartridges from the HP5550. Am a bit nervous, however. I have noted from comments though that you need to clean the jets, once a blue moon, so maybe I will be a devil. ]:) The other thought has been to have both the HP670C and the HP5550 connected and use the HP670C for most of the stuff, which is pretty basic. The inhibiter here is that we are short of a USB port to do this. We could get an adaptor but when you weight the cost of that against the cost of the re-fills it becomes problematic. ?:| It does seem a great waste, however, to see it sitting idly by, taking up room and not contributing ! See what you have done, Murray - you have opened up a can of worms- I had buried all of these conflicts, putting using both printers in the two hard basket and now I am starting thinking about this all over again. :_| Misty |
Misty (368) | ||
| 236453 | 2004-05-18 10:17:00 | What I do to save ink is have two printers. A HP 520 (black only) and a Lexmark 3200 color printer. They go through a data switch. Print most stuff on the HP which cost $15 on Trademe. Easy cartridges to refill. It is such good quality you wouldnt believe its an old printer. It costs $14 to refill the HP cartridge and it goes for 2500 pages approx. I use the Lexmark for color only. I originaly used some refills from a place in Devonport but they were garbage. Get refills for color cartridge from Warehouse Stationery around $26.00 last me about 14 months. The refilling of these cartridges is getting easier all the time. If you stuff it up and it doesnt work keep the ink and use it with another type of refill kit. The hp cartridge is on its 5th refill and printing beautifully. It got to be so much fun refilling them I look forward to the cartridge running out. Some pointers The trick really is to stop printing just before the cartridge competely runs out but in the real world that isnt going to happen that much. Do it outside on the lawn. Dont put a leaking cartridge in the printer. If blocked put ink holes on wet tissue should see 3 colors. Clean mode on printers never works. Save ink if every thing turns to guano use with next kit. Dont touch the shiny metal bits. Dont be tempted to overfill fill 3/4 put 1/4 in next time. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 236454 | 2004-05-18 10:25:00 | Oh dear. Didn't mean to stir Misty. Unloke some others not too far above this post ;) By generic cartridges I mean, ones that are not made by HP but are a complete clone of the HP ones including ink. Not refills. I used to refill the black cartridges on my old 600c Deskjet and they were ok. But I woulnd't even consider fiddleing with the colour cartridges + HP have made them harder to get into now. I have considered getting them commercially refilled as a tester and as Godfather suggests, I can use them for draft output if they're not too hot on quality. Still going to check out costs to take a disc down to my local copy/binding/digital shop for them to print, copy and bind. My main concern with this is the confidentialality of the information, I have no doubt they can produce quality output. How many Southland bred players play for the Crusaders ?:| Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 236455 | 2004-05-18 10:39:00 | I have a BIC fully manual printer...(bullet proof), ... using high quality Croxley staionary;) |
Capt.Hook (5586) | ||
| 236456 | 2004-05-18 11:49:00 | Digby, for about 5 years I have been refilling cartridges using Calidad kits - from Warehouse Stationary and Dick Smith. Instead of going out onto the lawn, just do the refilling on newspaper and use disposable gloves from the $2 shop. Or you can buy Calidad generic cartridges. I have an old Canon printer that is cheap to run and acceptable for everyday reading, but for classy printing e.g. university assignments, I use a newer Epson which I also use for colour (photos mainly). Your idea of a test comparison is a good one. I wonder what the Dutch results were? It is hard to believe that users did not care about ink costs especially when replacement cartridges can cost more that the printer itself!! Cheers -- Steve L |
Steve_L (763) | ||
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