Advantages and disadvantages Of Cheap Toner Cartridges

Nowadays, we require print outs every day. Businesses print flyers, students print assignments, teachers print handouts, government departments print documents and so on. In the meantime, the cost of print supply is too costly if we use the OEM supplies. so as to spend less, the compatible replacement and re-manufactured cartridges are ideal alternatives while maintaining the similar quality of original supplies.

Take an example of HP 60xl ink cartridges. It is an ink cartridge for HP inkjet printer Deskjet F4235, Photosmart C4680. 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. 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 discuss the differences among re-manufactured cartridge, OEM cartridges and refill cartridges.

What are compatible ink cartridges? They are not manufactured by Original manufacturer but by a third party manufacturer. For instance, the HP 60XL cartridge's OEM manufacturer is HP; the 60xl ink cartridge from producer Amida is a third party manufacturer's product.

The compatible cartridge is different to re-manufactured cartridge. 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. More importantly, the cartridge factory will test the remanufactured cartridge before it is available for sale. Many users find that there are little or no difference among remanufactured cartridges, compatible cartridges and OEM cartridges.

The demand for ink cartridges is huge. Refill kits, as one of the cheapest approaches to replacing the cartridge, are very popular on the market. This is the reason that there are so many manufactures offering them. Inkjet refill becomes a service industry for some people who do a refilling service for customers. However, if users refill the cartridges themselves, most of them will find too many problems 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 're about 19 percent of the inkjet cartridges will not be able to refill or reused by the special design of the cartridge chips. This makes the refill cartridges yield only half of the page yields as the OEM cartridges'. Also, in comparing to the printing quality, the refill ink cartridges are commonly worse than the OEM cartridge. The ink color is bad and it might be dried up faster than the ink in OEM cartridge. 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 great quality. However, some replacement ink cartridges are in a very inexpensive price. Please recognize 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 start up time, but their page yield seems to be lower than other types of cartridges. Just be a smart consumer now, make sure you shop for the quality verified re-manufactured or compatible cartridges for the best value.