I went to Walmart in Salisbury today and found a special on HP printer for $29. It contains two printing cartridges, B&W and color.
I look up the replacement cost for ink at printcountry.com and the replacement cost for my present printer was $29.40.
The lesson here: don’t replace the cartridges – buy a new printer!
11 comments:
you only get 18% as much ink with new printer as a refill is 5 times more.
going broke saving money
There is only a little bit of ink fluid in a new printer. Raplacement cartridges sometimes have up to 10 times the amount of ink.
I am assuming the the poster is talking about HP inks.
The problem here, is that the cartridges that come with the printer may only be starter ones. Not full ones.
It's not that simple. New printers come with starter cartridges that have about 25% capacity of standard cartridges.
It's best to not buy an inkjet printer at all. As the cartridges are so tiny and frequently dry up and clog.
Your best bet is a laser printer. A B&W one can be obtained for about $79+ and a color one for about $199 (perhaps even less) well worth the extra cost, as alot of people will probably never need to change the toner cartridge ever as little as they print, and you don't have to worry about the cartridge getting clogged from non-use. Plus the print quality is so much higher.
Stories like this bring the technogeeks out of the woodwork.I mean that in a good way because I'm getting ready to buy a printer.This has given me insight as to what type to get.Currently I don't have a printer.
HP sucks anyway!
Buying a new printer every time you need ink is bad for the environment. Where do you think all the old printers go?
Buying a new printer every time you need ink is bad for the environment. Where do you think all the old printers go?
October 29, 2011 2:23 PM
Then why don't the makers put bigger ink wells in them?
"Then why don't the makers put bigger ink wells in them?"
Because there is very little markup (profit) in the printers. The manufacturers make all their profit on the aftermarket products; ink. Think about it.....$30 for a printer = not much profit. $30 for an ounce or two of ink = lots of profit.
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