Ink Refill

There is a common stigma about refill ink that this article is going to totally debunk. If you have been disappointed with the quality of refill inks that you had used, possibly you've used or tried any refill kit from a local retailer, then you owe it to your self to educate yourself about aftermarket inks. Some are better than others and some are better than all. If you use high quality American-made inks, you can save hundreds if not thousands of dollars, without ever missing your OEM cartridges...

The reason I selected such a generic title for this article, refill ink, is because there are so many different aspects that I want to communicate to you that it's hard to really categorize this article into anything other than being generally informative about refill ink.

Most people have no idea...

There is absolutely, positively, no reason whatsoever for anyone to have to buy a new, name brand ink cartridge ever again. If you know what you are doing with just a little bit of basic information and direction, you can cut your print cost down to nearly nothing.

Let's look at a quick fact...

When you buy ink cartridges at your local retailer, then have a brand name label, you are spending thousands of dollars per gallon for inkjet ink. The last time I did the math on a particular ink cartridge it was on HP 02 black. This cartridge, if memory serves me correctly holds less than 20 mL of ink. The average selling price for a new black HP 02 is around $20. If you do the math and convert the milliliters and to ounces, you will find that if you use this particular cartridge, you are spending upwards of $3000 per gallon. Isn't it funny that when gas prices were at their peak of four and five dollars a gallon that people were outraged at the amount that they were having to pay to travel 12 miles? Little do most people pay attention to, is that it costs more to add 1 ounce of ink to your inkjet printer than it costs to fill up the gas tank on most midsized cars. That is, if you are buying name brand cartridges.

Crude oil at the time of this writing, is selling for about $65-$75 per barrel. The cost of the average OEM ink sold in new cartridges is going for about $250,000 per barrel. Printer manufacturers give the printers away at rock bottom prices and then nail you when you need to buy ink cartridges.

So it's clear to see...

Buying OEMs is an outrageous waste of money. Especially if you do a lot of printing. If you print a lot, you might as well be throwing $20 and $50 bills right down the toilet.

Why do more people not use refill ink?

Most people have tried it but it had a bad experience. What you get and the little kits at your local store leaves a bad taste in most people's mouths. The quality is very poor. Generally, it always works that whenever one person has a bad experience they tell 10 people about it. When someone has a good experience with something they may tell one person. So the bad news about the little refill kits at local stores as quickly and easily given refill ink a bad name.

So how can you save money?

It actually doesn't cost but a couple dollars more to buy a very high quality refill ink versus what you spend for the cheap stuff. You can buy high-quality by the 4 ounce bottle, by the pint, or even by the gallon if you're feeling froggy. I can personally attest to the fact that if you use quality American made ink products, that you can save hundreds and yes, thousands of dollars on printing with inkjet printers, without having any headaches, hassles or printer hiccups. The trick to doing this is having a supplier that number one, knows what they're doing and number two, knows exactly what they are selling you and what it will work for.

Not all suppliers are the same.

Now this is getting a little bit deep into this subject, but I'm going to fill you in on something that is known among people in this industry that is not talked about very much. There are vendors online that actually sell high quality American made aftermarket inks, but they don't sell them for the right printers. It's very costly for a distributor to carry a full line of these high-quality products because each printer and each cartridge model can have its own specific ink formula. So, rather than keeping a full stock and having the appropriate ink available for all printers that they sell inks for, smaller vendors of high-quality inks will substitute. For example, they may carry a high density pigment-based black ink for the, let's say HP 88 cartridge. Now, that high-density pigment black is specifically made for the Thermo-based HP 88 print head. What they may do is try to sell this same ink for all HP black ink cartridges that use a pigment-based ink. This will allow for more sales with a smaller product line, however it will result in many failed printheads.

The point is, if you want the best inks to use to save money without compromising print quality, you also have to consider the source that you use for purchasing those products.

How much money can you save using high quality refill inks?

Even buying the best of the best, you can expect your average refill cost per cartridge to be around a dollar or less. Many ink cartridges if you have the right simple tools to refill them with can last for 10, 20, 30 or more refills. If you are intimidated about the idea of reselling, you will find that it is actually very easy if you have good tools to use. They are very inexpensive, easy-to-use and once you get the hang of it you will wonder why you ever paid money for an OEM.

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