5 Ideas That Will Make You Think About Ink

By Matthew Defusco


If you are a person who tends to print a lot of documents, then you are probably quite familiar with how to use printers. You simply prepare the document you want to print, send it to the printer, and it then gets printed onto paper using ink. In our modern age, though, fewer and fewer people are seeing a need to ever convert a document to paper. This article is designed for those people, and you will get a good understanding of the kinds of ink cartridges you can choose from for your printing needs.

Of all the varieties of printing ink, disposable cartridges likely are the most widely used. Ever since people were able to print off documents at home, these have been the standard. It's a simple matter of installing the toner cartridge and then beginning your print job; the ease of use for these cartridges is a big reason for their popularity. Even replacing the cartridge is easy, as you only need to remove the old cartridge and put a fresh one in its place. Nothing else will be a worry to you.

The one snag that draws people from these disposable cartridges is that they will sometimes cost more than other options, particularly if the printer is a proprietary brand. The trick is to simply align yourself with a good dealer that charges less than the competitors for printing cartridges.

There is another option for printer cartridges, and this is the refillable toner cartridge. Though they are shaped and designed to be quite similar to the standard disposable cartridge (as they must still fit into the printers), they have one key difference. Rather than simply disposing of your cartridges when they go empty, you can use a device that will allow you to inject ink back into your cartridge. This saves money for the consumer, because he does not have to buy a whole new cartridge when his is done. Ink becomes the only cost after that first investment. In the early days of refillable cartridges, the ink quality was not known to be of high quality, but as time has gone on, the quality has improved. Nowadays, it is quite common for the refillable ink to be at just about the same level of quality as the ink in new cartridges, but for a fraction of the price.

Your options for choosing a printer cartridge are pretty simple at this point. Either pay a little more for better quality ink (disposable cartridges), or pay a little less and still have good quality ink (refillable cartridges).




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