Buying printer ink

TDevlin · 26 Nov 2011 at 19:00

Normally I would just buy the manufacturers own brand of ink, for me it's the hp 364 cartridges. But to buy the 4 necessary colours in xl size is around £45 and it doesn't last long, so was looking at a cheaper option.

Anyone got any experience with non branded ink cartridges. There's loads of places selling them for dirt cheap, around a tenner for the same thing. But I'd need to remove the chip from the empty old cartridges and place them onto the new ones to make them work. Never done it before so not sure how easy this is to mess up.

Nightglow · 26 Nov 2011 at 19:06

Use the same cartridges, so I bought a set of CIS refillable cartridges off the bay.
And buy my ocp ink in 1 litre bottles.

Can't put ink linky, but google ocp ink it will give you the uk stockist.

OCP ink has a life span of over a year, I have some nearly 2 years old, still perfect.

TDevlin · 26 Nov 2011 at 19:18

cheers I'll look into that, could save myself a fortune

Paul11 · 26 Nov 2011 at 21:28

i use a lot of non branded ink , and they are fine

TDevlin · 26 Nov 2011 at 21:36

Looked into the OCP ink but as I only have moderate printing needs I'll stick to cartridges already filled. Has anyone bought non chipped cartridges, and if so was it easy to remove the chip from the old cartridge and add it to the new one?

singist · 26 Nov 2011 at 22:04

continuous ink systems are where it's at! last for ever and cost for the of one set of cartridges.

TDevlin · 26 Nov 2011 at 22:23

singist said:
continuous ink systems are where it's at! last for ever and cost for the of one set of cartridges.

Do you mean buying a set of cartridges and some bottles of ink and filling them yourself as needed, or is this something else?

dal · 26 Nov 2011 at 22:27

TDevlin said:
Looked into the OCP ink but as I only have moderate printing needs I'll stick to cartridges already filled. Has anyone bought non chipped cartridges, and if so was it easy to remove the chip from the old cartridge and add it to the new one?

I bought some non chipped cartridges, it wasnt too hard to change the chip over but the chip couldnt be read in the new cartidges, BUT you can buy compatible cartridges now that come with a chip and they work fine or at least they do with my cannon 610 and they were quite cheap.

TDevlin · 26 Nov 2011 at 22:35

dal said:
I bought some non chipped cartridges, it wasnt too hard to change the chip over but the chip couldnt be read in the new cartidges, BUT you can buy compatible cartridges now that come with a chip and they work fine or at least they do with my cannon 610 and they were quite cheap.

See that was my main concern, if the chip would still work after it had been tampered with. I'm still very tempted though considering the low price of unchipped ones, but I guess it's a risk so will have to think about it.