tj Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Hi Has anyone used the refill kits for their printer cartridges?After long consideration I finally bought a refill kit since the Dell printer cartridges are so expensive, and they commence the annoying reminder to purchase refills when the existing are still half full!A slightly delicate operation but all done in 10 mins, printer up and running no problems.So would recommend it as a it will save a large sum as opposed to new cartridges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 There's a guy in Germany on ebay who sells ink cartridges very cheaply. His ebay id is vhbw-tec and we've bought heaps from him with no problems at all. Great quality etc. And a lot less messy than refilling which is what we used to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Supermarkets sell copy ones at the same price as the propriety ones but with about four times more ink.[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tj Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 HiWhatever floats your boat, I think 15 euros for what amounts to about 10 replacement cartridges is pretty good value! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 woolybanana'sbrother said "Supermarkets sell copy ones at the same price as the propriety ones but with about four times more ink.[6You of course meant four times less ink. Your brother only got a devil smiley Tag? There are others you know[:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybananasbrother Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 he has been very limited since tag went poor chap..Seriously though, the shop assistant whom I know quite well pointed it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philouis Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I have been getting very quick service and competetive prices for compatable cartridges and they don't charge the earth for P & P. All makes and brands are available! I went down the refill road and found it much too messy! ink2you.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 My experience of the supermarket ones has been that they dry up when still showing half full, I did get some off Ebay from inkcapital1 recently, they are the best yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Messy and haphazard results in my experience.Ebay is definately your friend for this sort of stuff, or have the same printer at home as at work [:$][;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob T Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 Got fed up with messing about with ink cartriges so I bought a cheap laser colour printer. Only about 185 euros these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I'm with you on this one. I recently bought a smashing Samsung for my boy at Uni for about the price you mention, came with spare toner carts. With moderate use of colour, should be good for 20,000 sheets. or about 2 weeks as my son put it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Nearly bought the Samsung last week, but was unsure of the print quality and life of the toner cartridge. Is it really good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Somewhere in a cupboard we have a Samsung - bought for me when I was here alone - but declared redundant by Di's brother. Any modern laser printer is of a print quality adequate for most people and most tasks and is often only as good as the paper anyway. To prolong toner cart life just give it a good shake as and when required.IMHO inkjet printers just exist to make money for the manufacturers and sellers of the machines and consumables.When the time comes for brother replacement we will probably buy an all-in-one laser and free up the bit of space currently occupied by geriatric Epson scanner. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmcn Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I have been refilling the cartridges in our Canon printer for some time. It is easy and not all that messy. When it stops wanting to print, I just wash out the bits with washing up liquid. The technical term for that is 'Washing out the bits with washing up liquid.'. We bought separate scanner and printers in case one part decided to 'die'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I think the quality of the Samsung is really good, as John says, the paper is important too but photo's come out very well on photo paper and the day-to-day stuff is spot on too. The toner packs are good for around 10 000 pages (depending on amount of coverage per page of course) and the deal I got was the printer bundled with extra toner pack. It is physically quite small and has a low power requirement. All in all I think it's a great printer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baz Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 [quote user="tj"] Has anyone used the refill kits for their printer cartridges?After long consideration I finally bought a refill kit since the Dell printer cartridges are so expensive, and they commence the annoying reminder to purchase refills when the existing are still half full!A slightly delicate operation but all done in 10 mins, printer up and running no problems.So would recommend it as a it will save a large sum as opposed to new cartridges.[/quote]In the past I used JR Inks refills, it can be sometimes a bit messy. However, due to a leaking cartridge my multipurpose printer was ruined. I would never again use any ink kits as especially now with good compatible cartridges available at less than the cost of the ink refills.Baz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 These refill kits......its just ink right?So how do people get round stuff like the epson status monitor which says the cartridge is empty? As far as I know, each cartridge has a wee chip in it which talks to the printer, and when empty, the chip doesnt know the cart has been refilled, so it still reads as empty and shows an error. I have seen kits on ebay for re-setting these chips. It all seem like a bit of a farce really, only this morning I bought a set of 4 black and 3 of each colour cartridge from ebay for 17 euros all in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 [quote user="dave21478"]These refill kits......its just ink right?[/quote]You'd be forgiven for thinkng so but unfortunately it's not quite so simple, there's ink and there's ink and they are not all created equal. Something they neglect to point out when selling refill kits and using the wrong one can cause catastrophic damage as baz unfortunately found out to his cost.Not all cartridges have chips either. Epson used to be the worst offender in this respect and it meant you couldn't even buy 3rd party cartridges. I believe they were brought to book for restrictive practices but can't remember the outcome or if they mended their ways. You used to be able to buy a special device which could reset the chip !Frankly it's just not worth the aggro or the risk when there are hundreds of companies out there selling compatibles at attractive prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmcn Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 My Canon printer must be from the stone age. I just take out the cartridge, black or color, fill it with the hypodermic needle needle provided, then put the cartridge back in the printer. No chip involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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