subject: Refill, Remanufactured, Compatible And Oem Ink Cartridge [print this page] Nowadays, we need printing very oftenNowadays, we need printing very often. As we can see, businesses print flyers, students print assignments, education institutions print booklets, government departments print documents and etc. However, the prices for the original equipment manufacturer print supplies are too expensive. To reduce this cost, it is a good idea to buy compatible replacement and re-manufactured ink cartridges.
Let's take an example of the cost for different types cartridges of HP Deskjet F4240, Photosmart C4750 inkjet printers. These two inkjet printers use HP 60XL ink cartridges. It is $24 for the re-manufactured cartridge at a good reputation online seller. The OEM ink cartridge in Staples is $46. If users want to refill this HP60XL cartridge by ink refill service, the service charge should around $15. As you could see the different prices among these types of ink cartridges, let's step further more for the refill cartridges, re-manufactured cartridges, compatible cartridges and the OEM cartridges.
What are compatible ink cartridges? They are not made by Original manufacturer but by a third party manufacturer. For example, the 60XL cartridge packaged by smart box with a clear HP brand logo is an OEM product. If there is no HP logo shown on the package of a 60XL ink cartridge, it is a compatible or re-manufactured cartridge.
The compatible cartridge is different to re-manufactured cartridge. A third party factory makes the compatible cartridges by new plastic containers and electronic parts, but the remanufactured cartridge is assembled with a professionally cleaned recycled plastic containers. Usually, re-manufactured cartridges are either made by the OEM manufacturers or the third party manufacturers. In the process of remanufacturing the cartridge, these manufacturers checked and integrated nozzle and then replaced the electronic circuit and drum to finish up by filling with good quality ink formulations. The remanufactured cartridge will be tested before it leaves the factory. Therefore, many users find that there are little or no difference among remanufactured ink cartridges, compatible ink cartridges and OEM ink cartridges.
Because the huge usage of printing, the demands for the ink cartridges are extremely strong. Tons of manufactures have stepped into the ink cartridge supplies industry by offering refill kits for inkjet printer. As printer owners always look for the cheap source to keep their printer working, the ink refill business is more and more popular in these days. However, if users refill the cartridges themselves, most of them will find too many problems while refilling the cartridges. Such as the fingers have been blackened; the clean carpet has been dyed with colors; the green desk is colored with cyan permanently by the spilled ink.
In addition, not all of the ink cartridge could be reused or refilled due to the special design of the electronic chips. These chips are the information recorder for the cartridges and it makes the refilled cartridges yield only at a little fraction of the page yields as the OEM and remanufactured cartridges'. Also, the quality of the printing color of refill cartridges is always different to OEM ink cartridges'. This is induced by the ink formulations from unknown brands. As a result, it is believed that refill cartridges are not good quality print supplies.
Last but not least, re-manufactured and compatible cartridge yields a lower cost and they provide great quality. Some sellers offer remanufactured ink cartridges in a very cheap price. Please be aware that they are not the re-manufactured cartridge or compatible cartridge but the refill cartridges. From experience, most of these are of doubtful value. These cartridges work very well at the start up time, but their page yield seems a lot lower than other types of ink cartridges.
In general, when you are trying to find replacement cartridges, make sure you purchase the cartridge from the quality verified factory and reputable sellers for best returns.
