What You might want to Know About Toner Cartridges

In our modern environment, printer is an essential need. The cost of print supply is expensive if we use the original equipment manufacturer supplies.

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

Let's explore this in a specific case for HP 60XL ink cartridges. It is the applied ink cartridge model for HP Deskjet F4240, Photosmart C4780 inkjet printers. An online seller with good track records priced $ 24 dollars for the re-manufactured cartridge. The original equipment manufacturer ink cartridge in the Staples is $ 46. If you wish to refill this HP60XL ink cartridge by ink refill service, the service charge should around $ 15 dollars. As you could see the differences in price among these specific types of ink cartridges, let's discuss further more for the refill cartridge, re-manufactured cartridge or compatible cartridge and the OEM 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 manufacturer Amida is a third party manufacturer's product.

The compatible cartridge is different to re-manufactured cartridge. When a third party factory makes the cartridges by new plastic containers and electronic parts, they are called compatible cartridge. 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 prior 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 very large. 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. 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 find too many troubles while refilling the cartridge. People have blackened their fingers, spill the cyan color ink and drop them into the yellow holder or incidentally dyed the clean carpet with colors.

Moreover, there 're about 19 percent of the inkjet cartridges will not be able to refill or reused by the unique design of the cartridge chips. That is the reason that the page yields of the refill cartridges are always a lot lower than OEM cartridges' Also, in comparing to the printing quality, the refill ink cartridges are always worse than the OEM cartridge. The ink color is bad and it might be dried up faster than the ink in OEM cartridge. Consequently, it is not suggested to use refill ink cartridges.

In conclusion, ink cartridges for inkjet printer can be re-manufactured. Quality verified producers offer compatible or re-manufactured cartridges that very similar to the quality of the OEMs in a lower cost. However, some replacement ink cartridges are in a very cheap price. Please recognize that they are not the re-manufactured cartridge or compatible cartridge but the refill cartridges. Most of these are of doubtful value from experience. These cartridges work very well at the start up time, but their page yield seems lower than other types of cartridges. No questions that when you are looking for replacement laser cartridges, make sure you purchase the cartridge from the ISO 9001 quality verified factory.