subject: Compatible Printer Ink Cartridges Could Save You A Fortune [print this page] We have all bought a printer and been very happy with it and used the free ink that comes with it until it is used up. Then we get the sting in the tail when we go to buy a new ink cartridge. Ink is expensive, in fact gram for gram printer ink is more expensive than gold. Many of us will spend many times the original cost of our printer on buying printer ink for our machine.
Whilst there may be a baffling amount of printers available out there they all have one thing in common, they tend to be a one off purchase or at least not something you buy very often. To be competitive and get their brands into as many homes and businesses as possible printer manufacturers must sell their machines with very low or in some case no profit. Now in any other business these companies would very quickly go bust, however they have one ace up their sleeve - the ink. As long as you use their printer you will need to buy their ink too.
A printer without ink is as good as useless and ink has a fairly limited lifespan too meaning cartridges, toner and drums must be purchased on a regular basis. This is where the printer companies make their money by supplying this need for ink and charging a premium.
Now you may have tried to buy a different brand and put that in your printer. This is nearly always a mistake as all the big brands ensure that only their cartridges will fit in their machines. In this way no other manufacturer competes to sell ink to another's customers.
In this way the printer manufacturer create a mini monopoly and are able to charge almost whatever they like for their ink. This keeps them in business and helps keep the price of printers very low.
However many other companies have noticed that there is a demand for ink from a cheaper source and have started manufacturing compatible ink cartridges.
These companies specialise in ink only so they are not interested in manufacturing printers and so just create ink cartridges for as cheaply as possible. They then pass on this saving to the consumer providing ink cartridges, toner and drums that will work in branded machines but for a much lower cost than the manufacturers own ink.
In many cases the quality of the ink in re-manufactured compatible cartridges is exactly the same as that of the branded inks.
You should be aware that no matter what you may have heard or worried about, using compatible ink cartridges in your print will NOT invalidate your printers warranty. It would be illegal for a manufacturer to do so as you are the owner of the printer and free to use whichever ink you wish in the machine.
Next time you are looking for printer ink why not try a compatible cartridge, you may be surprised with the amount of money you could save.
