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Are you sick of spending a fortune on Genuine Ink Cartridges? Are you sick of being told about how compatible cartridges are bad for your printer? Well this article will set you straight on what you should think about when buying your printer ink.
For years all we have heard about is that you have to replace your ink with the manufacturers cartridges as replacing it with compatible ink will wreck your printer. This may have been the case years ago when compatible ink first came on the market but nowadays the quality of compatible ink is somewhat indistinguishable against the branded ink. The main reason for manufacturers to push their own ink is due to the incredibly high mark-up they place on their ink.
There are a few different types of Ink Cartridges on the market in the UK, firstly and the most expensive is OEM (original equipment manufacturer) which will have the manufacturers name on it, then there is compatible ink which will normally come under a completely different name not recognised as a brand of printer, for this you really have to know exactly what model your printer is as once seal has been broken you will unlikely get your money back, lastly there are refilled or remanufactured cartridges which are the cheapest option which are old cartridges that have usually been collected in shops in boxes handed in by customers etc which are then sent to a manufacturer who will take them apart and refilled before repackaged and put back on sale, you can get kits to refill your own cartridges but I would not recommend that as this can be tricky and very messy and can damage your printer.
As for where to buy these the cheapest option is online there are so many places that sell ink at low prices like Cartridge Monkey, Printer Inks and inkXpress who deal mainly in just ink so can give you the best deals on your ink and normally have free shipping and you can get a few good deals online e.g. buy one get one free.
If you are still not sure about buying online, the next time you go to buy your ink check out the prices of all three option we have given you and see just how different the prices are for something that ultimately do exactly the same job!
