Ink, Printer and Cost

[weber]

In your country, how's the cost of the cheapest printer compared to the ink it uses? Considering the black and colored ink, the price is almost the same as that of a new printer with ink in our country. The printer then becomes disposable because of instead of buying an ink, people prefer to buy a new printer. How's your experience with this?

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[moonmagick]

For general day to day printing, I have found it is just as cheap to buy an inexpensive "throw away" printer that comes with ink as it is to buy ink to refill one.

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[FourBear]

I've found some pretty cheap ink refills though, so it is actually worth keeping the printer instead of just tossing it to get a new printer with ink.

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[3plus3]

I can't seem to find any refill kits that will work with my printer, it is a lexmark anyone know of any?

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[tater03]

I haven't tried the refill yet but I am going to this time when I run out. The black ink isn't all that bad pricewise but the colored ink is outragous.

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[aspire]

The ink is cheaper than buying a new printer. There is also some grey market availability of such ink.

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[tribefan788]

I've never bought ink refills...is the quality as good as the official ink?

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[gscs]

I am still remember few years back when i purchased a Lexmark printer. It's cost me around $150.00, but the ink is $110-120! What the? Sometimes, i rather go for cheap refill ink for my general printing usage.

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[bigbrimhat]

I concur. Printer cartridge is very expensive and its almost cheaper to get new printer and use the free cartridge. One alternative are these places that re-fill your empty cartridge for ~$7. I think its called Cartridge World.

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[hoeyou]

In my country, most people prefer refill. because buy a new catrige ink-black and colour will equal buy a new printer already for the cheapest printer.

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