The Barn by Ralph Hagen for January 27, 2017

  1. Missing large
    Phred Premium Member almost 8 years ago

    Far more profit in ink cartridges.

     •  Reply
  2. Missing large
    Egrayjames  almost 8 years ago

    Kind of like fishing with live bait.

     •  Reply
  3. Avatar 3
    pcolli  almost 8 years ago

    My printer has reported empty cartridges for the last two months but still prints in full colour.

     •  Reply
  4. Grog poop
    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.

     •  Reply
  5. 70th birthday
    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.

     •  Reply
  6. Biflag
    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.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From The Barn