Printer Ink - Choosing the Right Cartridges for your Needs by David Hickman
Introduction This article has been written to help the existing owners of ink printers to identify the various choices available when selecting ink cartridges or ink refill kits for their printer. It is written in New Zealand, for NZers, and while the information may be useful in other... If you do not yet have a printer, or are thinking of buying a new one, please refer to the associated article, "Ink Printers - Choosing the right one for your needs" Cartridges With few exceptions your printer will use one of two types of ink cartridge:- 1.Print Head Cartridges These are...

How Buying Cheap Jet Ink Cartridges Saves Money And Time by Oliver Turner
With the increase in demand for printers, the demand for printer ink has also increased to a considerable extent. With this increased demand for printer inks, the cost of printer cartridges and refill kits has also gone much higher. But you can save both money and time if you buy your printer... Many people hesitate to buy printer ink online but printer supplies sold online are of good quality and most online printer ink dealers offer guarantee on their products and replace faulty products without any additional cost.

Saving On Cost Of Inks And Cartridges by Florie Lyn Masarate
There was a news report about a woman filing a lawsuit against a certain HP printer manufacturer because she said that the inks are programmed to expire on a certain date, whether the cartridges are empty or not. HP representative counters that the reason is because the inks are degrading over... How do they save ink and ink costs? ... People who brought printers tend to buy the ink cartridges from the same manufacturers of these printers also. ... Buy in bulks. ... If a lot of printing is require and expected, you may want to try and buy inks in quantity.

Toner Cartridges: Should You Use Remanufactured or Compatibles? by Andrew F James
First a little history.... In 1938, the first invention that would lead to the laser printer and toner cartridge was patented. The process, knows as "electro photography", used a dry printing method, not that different than today's laser printer. It was 1948, however, before the commercial... Otherwise known as non genuine, after market this is how they work:- - Compatibles are actually a brand new cartridge manufactured to work in the same way (without breaking the trademark, copy protection laws) as the same original cartridge with the same machines.

Printer Ink - Tips on Printing Digital Photos by David Hickman
Introduction This article looks at the issues surrounding printing digital photos and other graphics using an ink printer. It is aimed at users who may not have a lot of technical expertise but who can, with a little help from articles like this, get the best from their equipment. ... See the associated article "Printer Ink- Choosing the right cartridges for your needs" for a guide to buying compatible ink cartridges, refilled ink cartridges and ink refill kits. ... If you are not sure about your ink cartridges see the article "Printer Ink - Choosing the right cartridges for your needs".

Printers - A Practical Buyers Guide by Iggy Quazi
Buying a printer can be a complicated business, there are more shapes, sizes and types of printers available to the home and small business user than ever before. Printers have also become specialised for their intended purpose. It is no longer a case of "a printer is a printer". ... Solid Ink Printers Solid ink printers use solid wax ink sticks in a "phase-change" process, they work by liquefying wax ink sticks into reservoirs and then squirting the ink onto a transfer drum from where it is cold-fused onto the paper in a single pass.

Inkjet Printers in the Office - Print Quality Characteristics to Look For by Jimi St. Pierre
Although laser printing technology today offers printer speeds in exceeds of 50 pages per minute on general office printers, inkjet printers are now commonplace in small business and home user environments. With improvements in inkjet print speeds, the days are long gone when laser was... Colour Printing: Office Documents As well as variations in ink droplet size, the use of colour inks under-laying the black is a contributing factor to the sharpness of text and lines in colour printers, but a downside can be the presence of colour dots outside of the defined edges, which are a feature...

Printer Buying Guide by Jeffrey Lawrence
Printers are essential peripherals, performing a critical role as they render electronic information into tangible records or material output. You’re simply not using your computer to its fullest potential if you are unable to print reports, presentations, letters, photos, or whatever it is you... Some portables offer great extras such as a sheet feeder for automatic page feeding, are able to handle transparencies and envelopes, and even support an optional scanner cartridge that replaces the ink cartridge and turns the printer into a scanner.

Guide to Buying a New printer by Andrew Gates
One of the more perplexing decisions when faced with choosing a new printer is which print technology is going to suit you best. At the moment there are two main printing systems: the laser technology, using toner cartridges and a transfer drum assembly; and ink jets using ink tank cartridges... Just as you replace the toner cartridges in the laser system, you replace ink tanks when they're depleted in an ink jet printer. ... A typical ink jet printer may cost you 40-50 cents per printed page, depending on how much ink you are using on the page, it may even cost more.