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Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2582] Cheap Printer Cartridges
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Steve, and others,
For three years, I have been buying cheap black and color inkjet cartridges
by mail for my Cannon printer from:
http://acsmsupplies.com/tourbus.html
So far no problem, and even if they do eventually destroy the printer, as
you point out, printers are cheap.
I subscribe to the Internet Tourbus, where I first learned about this inkjet
vendor. The Tourbus is a free, weekly (more or less) e-newsletter by
Patrick Douglas Crispen and Bob Rankin. Great tips for the general Internet
user in plain English (well, plain Southern English, I guess, since one of
the newsletter's features is Crispen's Southern Word of the Week .) To sign
up for the Tourbus, go to http://www.tourbus.com/
Do others on the NIFL Technology list buy cartridges by mail?
David J. Rosen
DJRosen@theworld.com Steve Linberg wrote:
Those of you who have had to hit up Staples or some such after emptying
aprint cartridge in one of those amazingly cheap inkjet printers you canget
these days have probably felt a growing awareness that DANG, thesethings are
expensive! My Stylus 740 color costs about $40 to refill.Well,
Hewlett-Packard has just crossed a line that I think hadn't beencrossed
until very recently. With their new Deskjet 656C, it is actuallycheaper to
THROW THE PRINTER IN THE GARBAGE AND BUY A NEW ONE than toreplace the ink.
I wish I was making this up.The printer retails on HP's own site for
$49.99.One black cartridge is $29.99, and one color cartridge (the printer
needsboth) is $31.99. Total cost for an ink refill: $61.98. Again, cost
ofthe printer: $49.99.It's the old give-them-the-razor, sell-them-the-blades
philosophy.I wish I had advice for inkjet printer users other than "use your
printersparing
ly," or "make sure you have a big budget for ink." Third-partyrefill kits
can sometimes be had for less than new cartridges, but you'rerolling the
dice on color matches and it almost always involves gettingreally dirty (at
least in my experience). Also, some manufacturers arenow "booby-trapping"
ink cartridges so that once the ink level drops belowa certain level, they
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