subject: Printer Ink Refills For The Practical [print this page] Who says you have to spend more money than you have to when you're printing out hundreds of pages regularly? Brand new cartridges are really costly to buy even the cheapest ones in the market. For a fraction of the price of the new one, you can extend the life of your cartridge with refills. One or two refills are recommended. You don't have to be throwing out too many cartridges that will cause a lot of garbage anyway. You can buy ink refills online pretty easily so why pay too much for a cartridge when these would work just the same and save you a lot more money in the end? You can opt for this cheaper means but you've got to know what you're doing so you don't break your printer.
When buying a refill kit, get the one that suits your printer model. You shouldn't go wrong on this one. Each printer model has its own ink formula for it to work. It just wouldn't be compatible with any other formula so get the one that would work well with the printer model you have.
Don't let your cartridge run empty. I've made this mistake a few of times and it just totally messed up the printer. You'd have to run the printer maintenance program a hundred times every time you print something out just so it would temporarily correct the damage done to it by a clogged cartridge outlet.
The set of instructions that come with the refill kit should be followed entirely. Never miss anything or you'll damage the ink cartridge and maybe even the printer head. That would totally defeat the purpose of going cheap as it will end up costing you a whole lot more. You can as might was well throw out the printer if you're careless and went ahead with the refill anyway.
Don't make the mistake of putting the wrong colors in the wrong cartridges. That would obviously give very different results in your printouts. Once you've done it, you'd have to replace the cartridge. You also want to keep your work area clean so just like painting the walls, cover enough space with a lot of papers or some cloth so your furniture won't get stained.
If you've managed to keep everything else clean but at the expense of staining your hands, wash it first with mild soap to remove the extra oil. Wash it with a diluted bleach solution. Wash the bleach off with soap.
Using ink refills are really economical. Just observe a few things and you are on your way to saving yourself a lot of expenses.
