Preserve on Toner and Toner Cartridges
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In our modern environment, printer is a necessity . The cost of print supply is costly if we use the OEM supplies.
To lower this cost, the compatible replacement and re-manufactured ink cartridges are great alternatives.
Take an example of HP 60xl ink cartridges. It is an ink cartridge for HP inkjet printer Deskjet F4400, Photosmart C4795. A reputable online seller priced $ 25 dollars for the re-manufactured or compatible cartridge while an OEM ink cartridge for the same model is at $ 45. Besides buying re-manufactured or compatible and OEM cartridge, users could take their empty cartridges to an ink refill store. The charge from local refilling service is roughly $ 15 dollars per cartridge. The followings analyze the differences among re-manufactured cartridge, OEM cartridges and refill cartridges.
Compatible ink cartridges are cartridges that are manufactured by a third party manufacturer other than the OEM manufacturer (see toner cartridge ). For example, the OEM 60XL cartridge is packaged by smart box with a clear HP brand logo. If there is no HP logo shown on the package of a 60XL ink cartridge, it is a compatible or re-manufactured cartridge.
Compatible cartridges are different to re-manufactured cartridges. Compatible cartridges are made from all new materials and parts including the plastic cartridge container by the cartridge factory. A re-manufactured cartridge is made by original or third party manufacturer that with a professionally cleaned cartridge container. In the process of making remanufactured cartridge by a quality verified cartridge factory, not only the good quality ink formulations are filled, but also the new nozzles and electronic circuit are installed and replaced. The remanufactured cartridge will be tested before it leaves the factory. Re-manufactured ink cartridges have the same functions and work in the same way as OEM ink cartridges.
Because the large demands of the ink cartridges, it is not surprised that lots of manufactures have started to offer refill kits for inkjet printer. Printer owners always look forward to the cheap source to keep their printer working. Therefore, the ink refill business is more and more popular in nowadays. However, if users refill the cartridges themselves, most of them will discover too many problems while refilling the cartridge. People have soiled their fingers, spill the cyan color ink and drop them into the yellow holder or incidentally dyed the clean carpet with colors.
In addition, not all of the ink cartridge could be reused or refilled because of the secret design of the chips. That is the reason that the page yields of the refill cartridges are commonly a lot lower than OEM cartridges' Also, the quality of the printed color from refill cartridges is always altered to the OEM ink cartridge, which induced by the use of unknown brand of the ink formulations by the refilling service. Therefore, it is not suggested to use refill ink cartridges.
In general, printer owners should be aware what type of cartridge they are using. Re-manufactured and compatible cartridge yields a lower cost and they provide good quality. However, some replacement ink cartridges are in a very cheap price. Please be aware of that they are not the re-manufactured cartridge or compatible cartridge but the refill cartridges. From experience, most of these are of doubtful value. These cartridges work very well at the beginning, but their page yield seems lower than other types of cartridges. No questions that when you are choosing replacement laser cartridges, make sure you purchase the cartridge from the ISO 9001 quality verified factory.