I have an HP Inkjet and was wondering if anyone here has ever had any experiences with recycled, remanufactured inkjet cartridges? Or better yet, refilling them yourselves? Have you ever bought and used remanufactured inkjet carts? Is the quality as good as new carts?
Major, I have tried the refilling route. It sucked the big one. The problem is, the sponges inside the cartridges start to try out once then run out of ink. Once that happens, its hard to get it to soak up the injected ink. Plus, it makes a HUGE mess, even if you are careful (which I am not, but thats another story). Even when I did get the sponges to soke up the ink, the quality of print looks somewhat bad (lines, etc.). I have not tried to recyled ones. However, you can find 3rd party ink jet cartridges on www.pricewatch.com for significantly less than what HP charges (these have worked out great for me, quality wise and price wise).
lol I guess I should tell the story behind my nick for RH. During the war, rockHEAD made a comment in a war related thread about how the U.S. should parachute troops into Iraq or something like that. His idea was kind of scoffed at by some people (including me). Not a few hours later, the US did indeed send 1,000 paratroopers into Northern Iraq and took an airfield (caught everyone by suprise with this move). Afterwards, I posted that RH must have some type of insider information that the rest of us, and the rest of America, is not privy to. Hence the nick of Major (I think he was uncomfortable being called Major Head).
I've both refilled my color cartridge and used a recycled black ink cartridge. Refilling your color cartridge is not that bad. I have a Lexmark, and I refilled the same color cartridge like three or four times--worked good as new. On the fifth time though, I got lazy, waited too long to refill the red compartment, and the sponge must've dried up, like codell said, because the red ink never would come out on prints no matter how much ink I injected. So I said screw it, bought a recycled black ink cartridge, and it works like a champ.
I've tried PrintPal, and they're not bad at all. I usually save about $15 per cartridge. http://www.printpal.com/
haha... this is why i posted this!! I got spam from printpal!! I went to their website to check out their prices and saving $30 on two carts is a good thing! But I've never used remanufactured carts and wanted some opinions. How is the printing from your carts from PrintPal, Traj?? Like new? Mediocre? Lame?
