Become 100% Certain About Your Inkjet or Toner Cartridge Types - Know The Difference by Joseph Mercado
Here are your ink and or toner cartridge types and what they mean exactly. OEM: Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) is produced by the original manufacturer. Guaranteed to be free from defect in material and workmanship during its lifetime. Compatible: Manufactured to the original... Generic: These are basically cartridges that contain little or no chemicals in there ink cartridges. ... They are water down and diluted with non-absorbent ink. ... *Note: This is very important for you to remember about ink and toner.

A Guide To Buying A Consumer Printer On A Budget by Carla Weaffer
Almost every home today makes use of a consumer printer for educational, personal, work or home business related reasons. Buying and maintaining a consumer printer can get to be rather expensive however it is possible to purchase a consumer printer and not have it take a huge bite out of your... A quality compatible printer ink cartridge is often less of an expense then a ink cartridge made by a manufacturer. ... If an inkjet printer will let you change the ink tank it can save you more money than printers that require just the ink cartridge to be replaced.

Why The "Brand Name" Printer Ink Companies Hate Third Party Vendors by Rich Martin
If you purchased a Lexmark or Hewlett Packard inkjet printer over the past year, you must have noticed that the price you paid was surprisingly low. However, the ink cartridges that they sell with the printer will cost an arm and a leg, Right? (you might want to read "How to tell which printers... Compatible Laser Jet Printer Cartridge, and Ink Jet Printer Cartridge are specially manufactured to meet or exceed Original Equipment specifications with higher standards of quality and reliability, which produce professional printing results.

What You Should Know About Original VS Remanufactured Inkjet Cartridges by Joseph Mercado
Let’s face it; words aren’t cheap, especially when they are being printed from an ink jet printer. If a picture is worth a thousands words, well, time to get out your wallet. Printer makers may sell their hardware for a pittance, but anyone who’s had to refill an ink jet printer knows that the... If you take the ink that goes into an ink cartridge, it’s costing over $1,000 per liter. ... In a nutshell, here is the bottom line answer: If you own an Epson or Canon ink jet printer, and aren’t so concerned about quality, then compatible is your answer and key to saving money.

The Benefits of Printers Using Individual Ink Cartridges by Eli Fry
Individual cartridges are not a new phenomenon to hit the printing world; in fact, they have been around for years. HP was one of the first companies to have separate color cartridges for their printers, such as the early Designjet series and wide format printers. ... The printer's footprint was equivalent to other contemporary 2-cartridge printers (1 black cartridge and 1 color cartridge) but had the advantages of the older large printers that used separate color cartridges One of the best aspects of having separate ink cartridges in your printer is being able to replace a single color...

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... When purchasing a re-manufactured laser toner cartridge, be sure to read the box carefully and ensure you are selecting the right toner cartridge. ... Otherwise known as non genuine, after market this is how they work:- - Compatibles are actually a brand new cartridge manufactured to work in the...

Help - My Printer's Printhead is Clogged! by James Sodor
If your inkjet or bubblejet printer has clogged printheads there are 2 possible reasons: 1. Ink has dried in the nozzles; or 2. Foreign matter has blocked the holes in the nozzles. If 1, it is important to note that although genuine inks have anti-clogging agents in their formulation, if you... If 2, this is caused by foreign matter in the ink - always from small unfiltered particles from refill ink or lower quality compatible cartridges manufactured in a dusty environment - or the printhead collecting paper dust from poor quality paper, or the printhead picking up muck in an overfull...

The Printer Cartridge Wars: Generic or Remanufactured Cartridges Right for You? by David Amerman
Overview As "generic", "remanufactured", and "new compatible" inkjet printer cartridges and laser toner cartridges creep deeper into the printer accessories market, the choices become varied and often confusing. It is estimated that by the year 2004 the aftermarket share of the inkjet and... Good for the Country, Good for the Environment If you care about recycling or the good of the Country's economy, consider these facts: - 99% of new compatible toner cartridges are manufactured in the USA; most "OEM" brand cartridges are manufactured overseas - Nearly 40,000 tons of plastic are...

Printer Ink by Ross Bainbridge
There are as many varieties of printer ink as there are manufacturers. There is no standardization in the composition of printer ink. All manufacturers of popular brands of printers develop their own variety of printer ink, which works well only with their products. ... Once the cartridge in the printer runs out of printing ink, a replacement has to be looked for. ... They also offer services like refilled printer ink cartridges, refill kits for self-refilling of ink, and remanufactured cartridges.

History of Hewlett Packard and Ink by John Sollars
Hewlett Packard’s tryst with ink took off when it acquired a company named F.L Mosley based in California in 1958. Mosley was manufacturing recorders and plotters for industrial applications such as continuous process monitoring systems, data loggers and the like in the 1950’s. ... The Ink Cartridge The printer cartridge nowadays is not only an object that holds ink but also a highly technical one that has an integrated circuit to control the quality of printouts. ... Refilled Refilling your cartridge means cleaning the cartridge and refilling it with new ink.