A Complete Guidebook On Toner Cartridges

In our modern environment, printer is a basic need . The cost of print supply is costly if we use the original equipment manufacturer supplies.

To reduced this cost, the compatible replacement and re-manufactured ink cartridges are great choices.

Take an example of HP 60xl ink cartridges. It is an ink cartridge for HP inkjet printer Deskjet F4280, Photosmart C4750. A trustworthy online seller priced $ 25 dollars for the re-manufactured or compatible cartridge while an OEM ink cartridge for the same model is at $ 45. Other than buying re-manufactured or compatible and OEM cartridge, printer owners could take their empty cartridges to an ink refill store. The charge from local refilling service is just about $ 15 dollars per cartridge. The followings describe the differences among re-manufactured cartridge, OEM cartridges and refill cartridges.

What are compatible ink cartridges? They are not  made by Original manufacturer but by a third party manufacturer.   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.   When a third party factory makes the cartridges by new plastic containers and electronic parts, they are called compatible cartridge.  Cartridge that assembled with a professionally cleaned used plastic container called re-manufactured cartridge. Usually, re-manufactured cartridges are made by OEM manufacturer and third party manufacturer.   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.   More importantly, the cartridge factory will test the remanufactured cartridge  before it is available for sale.  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 supply refill kits for inkjet printer. Inkjet refill becomes a service business for some people who do a refilling service for customers. However, if users refill the cartridges themselves, most of them will find too many troubles while refilling the cartridge. The fingers have been blackened; the clean carpet has been dyed with colors; the green desk top has been spilled with cyan ink drops permanently and so on.

Moreover, there are about 19 percent of the inkjet cartridges will not be able to refill or reused by the unique design of the cartridge chips. This makes the refill cartridges yield only fifty percent of the page yields as the OEM cartridges'. Also, the quality of the printed color from refill cartridges is always different 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 encouraged to use refill ink cartridges.

In conclusion, ink cartridges for inkjet printer can be re-manufactured. Quality verified companies offer compatible or re-manufactured cartridges that very similar to the quality of the OEMs in a lower cost. However, some firms offer replacement ink cartridges at a fraction of the cost. From experience, most of these are of doubtful value. These cartridges work very well at the beginning, but their page yield appears to be lower than other types of cartridges. Just be a smart consumer now, make sure you buy the quality verified re-manufactured or compatible cartridges for the best value.

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