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| Thread ID: 123129 | 2012-02-05 08:33:00 | Printer and Printer Ink | stingray68 (7305) | Press F1 |
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| 1257546 | 2012-02-05 08:33:00 | Can anyone explain why printer ink is so expensive? If you run out of ink, it make more sense to buy a new printer than new ink? That is not right to me. | stingray68 (7305) | ||
| 1257547 | 2012-02-05 08:44:00 | Depends what the printer is. Brothers are worse. Their printers maybe cheap, but their ink is dear. And, because most of their printers use 4 carts | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1257548 | 2012-02-05 09:06:00 | well people need printer ink so make it expensive and make twice as much money... simple. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1257549 | 2012-02-05 09:06:00 | Same here, I have a MX350 (Canon) which I need ink for. I saw $45 for one colour and $35 for one black. Then saw on trade me the new exact printer for about $40. At the moment I'm using refills, but it just failed on me yesterday, so had to go out and get a new cartridge. Warehouse had a deal - buy one get next one half price, but still very expensive. Might go out looking at an ink-economical printer if that even exists these days lol. |
sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1257550 | 2012-02-05 09:43:00 | Ink involves a lot of technology and testing as maybe does the accompanying printer cartdidges, relative to their complimentary mediums (e.g. paper/cartonboard) and delivery hardware (i.e. PC printer or print machinery). I saw this when I tested inks for packaging/printing companies. Had to constantly switch suppliers, redo pricing, retest/develop testing etc in an attempt (or quest) to yield premium images for consumers (public). But do think that ink suppliers/manufactuers (e.g. HP) seem to have a inherently higher than necessary margins, like the petroluem, paint, and adhesive industry. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1257551 | 2012-02-05 10:11:00 | BS cartridge of ink cost less than 20c to make | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1257552 | 2012-02-05 11:52:00 | In the days of dot matrix printers it did not cost too much to buy a ribbon but who wants to go back to dot matrix. I have bought a laser printer but have not yet had to replace the cartridges. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1257553 | 2012-02-05 12:15:00 | Buy a new printer and throw the old one away, everyone on the planet do this until they get the message. Or buy cheap replacement inks even if they are not as good. It sucks but the only power we have is not to pay these prices.It's ridiculously overpriced, that's where the manufacturers make their money. I buy cheap replacement cartridges but I don't print much and don't care about how accurate or long lasting the prints are. I do find the cheap inks seem to dry up fast and stop working when I leave them in the printer unused for a few months. But considering my printer has 6 different colour cartridges that retail for about $27 each I am never buying genuine cartridges and I'll stick to cheap imitations. www.inkvenus.co.nz for example sells the complete set of 6 cartridges for the same price as one of the genuine ones. I can't remember if I've used that particular site though but it seems like the one I remember. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1257554 | 2012-02-05 18:03:00 | Been using Inkvenus carts for 6 months in a Epson R210 after reading good reviews $4.60 against $25 for the Genuine carts is a no brainer and find there is no perceived difference in print quality Some printers have differing prices at Inkvenus as some are cheaper than others |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1257555 | 2012-02-05 19:15:00 | Same here, I have a MX350 (Canon) which I need ink for. I saw $45 for one colour and $35 for one black. http://www.ezyink.co.nz/ www.consumables.co.nz |
pctek (84) | ||
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