Last year I bought a new Canon printer at Walmart for $39.97 (Canadian). The replacement ink cartridges cost $79.99 at Best Buy. So when the ink ran out I went back to Walmart and bought two more new printers and sold the old one at a garage sale for 25 bucks.
The average black printer cartridge uses 8 ml of ink (the end of your pinkie) I paid $30 a litre for the stuff and used a standard vet hypo to refill. The best we ever did was a dozen refills of an HP60. Costco can refill most with their $30,000 machine for about $10. You get a new chip, so printer thinks you have a new cartridge and often there is more ink than factory. Professional refillers (hard to find) will ultrasonic clean & vacuum the heads and run test strips. (Except Canon, ultrasonic destroys them) All I have is lasers and still running one cartridge for two years now. You can find aftermarket color on eBay but most don’t have much powder.Most printers come with a Starter which is half fill, you can tell by weighing.
Phred Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Far more profit in ink cartridges.
Egrayjames almost 8 years ago
Kind of like fishing with live bait.
pcolli almost 8 years ago
My printer has reported empty cartridges for the last two months but still prints in full colour.
GROG Premium Member almost 8 years ago
It may not be cheaper, but it may be easier than trying to find the no longer stocked cartridge.
Doug Taylor Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Last year I bought a new Canon printer at Walmart for $39.97 (Canadian). The replacement ink cartridges cost $79.99 at Best Buy. So when the ink ran out I went back to Walmart and bought two more new printers and sold the old one at a garage sale for 25 bucks.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe almost 8 years ago
The average black printer cartridge uses 8 ml of ink (the end of your pinkie) I paid $30 a litre for the stuff and used a standard vet hypo to refill. The best we ever did was a dozen refills of an HP60. Costco can refill most with their $30,000 machine for about $10. You get a new chip, so printer thinks you have a new cartridge and often there is more ink than factory. Professional refillers (hard to find) will ultrasonic clean & vacuum the heads and run test strips. (Except Canon, ultrasonic destroys them) All I have is lasers and still running one cartridge for two years now. You can find aftermarket color on eBay but most don’t have much powder.Most printers come with a Starter which is half fill, you can tell by weighing.