Third Party Ink Cartridges

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Who here uses third party ink cartridges?

For my HP printer, 1 black ink cost £18.
If I get third party ink I can get 5 ink cartridges for only £7.

Should I avoid?
 
Yeah official printer cartridges are very expensive. I started using third party ones at home and tbh I don't really notice any difference in quality or no. of pages printed out (only black and white though).

If you're printing photos and whatnot you might want to find a happy medium in price which should hopefully reflect in quality.
 
buy genuine cartridges that are close to use by date from Ebay, similar price to copies and massively better
 
Yeah I use third party cartridges.. Normally Inkrite but there's some court order or something which means they can't produce anymore.

A set of original inks for my Epson is about £75.

A set of third party ones are £10!!

Any photos I need printing i'll just order online cos it's cheap enough.
 
Sorry to go OT, but could anyone recommend a black ink only printer? I have an Epson one and it refuses to print if any of the colour ones are empty/clogged/dried even if i have black :s
 
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You definitely want a laser for black and white printing, much cheaper to run and so much more reliable than inkjets, no more drying up or clogging of the print heads.
 
Energize said:
You definitely want a laser for black and white printing, much cheaper to run and so much more reliable than inkjets, no more drying up or clogging of the print heads.
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Thanks for that, will have look at lasers as almost any printing i do is b&w.
 
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explicit4u said:
Any recommendations?
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2nd hand business printers on eBay tbh!

I have a HP MONO LASERJET 1320 which I paid £70 for. Mine is a 1320DN (I think they come with duplex as standard. Mine also had networking. Currently on 1800 page counts from the cart, amd 6000 overall. Will last for years yet! I bought the extra tray, so has 2 trays now as well. These were used extensivly in the NHS and doctors offices. One of the accessories is a prescription tray.
 
Got me one of these, not to bad.

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not printed anything photoquality on it yet though
 
I find Epsons have a habit of clogging up if you switch from Epson ink to a cheap 3rd party ink. I got round this by shooting some cleaning fluid through the heads so there was no residual ink, then starting fresh with cheapo inks. It's been fine since :)
 
We have a HP Photosmart D7160 printer that takes 6 cartridges if we buy originals then a set of cartridges would run us near 100 Euro.

We use refill cartridges from cartridge world which cost us 36 Euro for a full set and even on full quality photo printing I can't see any difference at all.
 
Be careful, we use them in work because the purchasing department haven't got their priorities right. Third party cartridges are recycled and void the warranty, since we started using them, a lot more printers are breaking down!
 
Jakeee said:
Be careful, we use them in work because the purchasing department haven't got their priorities right. Third party cartridges are recycled and void the warranty, since we started using them, a lot more printers are breaking down!
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yes, it's not the print quality that stops me from using recycled cartridges it's the damage that they do to your printer
 
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