Saving Money When Stocking Up on Ink

You can't have failed to notice over the last few years that whilst printers seem to be getting cheaper, the amount of money it costs to refill them seems to have been going up. Yes, the individual cost of a cartridge has dropped a bit, but now our printers aren't content with one black cartridge, they need two.

Quite where this other black cartridge came from is anyone's guess, but it's apparently to create 'real' black tones, not those superficial black tones that are apparently just not black enough anymore.

Maybe the cartridge companies have made the original blacks a little less black. Maybe they're more 'dark grey'. I don't quite understand it, but suffice to say, we need it or our printer won't start printing. Even if everything I'm printing is red.

So, at a stroke, the cost to refill my printer has just shot up by 25%.

But that's not all. Some printers now have some colour-fast ink technology that means the inks themselves will print at a quality that means it will last for 100 years. This is a fantastic thing to brag about down the pub, but I have to admit (and I don't think I'm being too pessimistic here), I don't plan to be around that long.

The last set of inks I bought for my printer cost be a little over £50. This is simply crazy, I could have bought a completely new printer for that much. Does ink really cost that much to manufacture and squeeze into a little plastic box? Of course it doesn't, which is why you should shop around.

Compatible cartridges have been around for quite a while now and while many people will give you scare stories about the fact that they clog up your printer or cause it to break in many unpleasant ways, this is pretty much a fallacy. Your ink may not last for 100 years, but unless you're about to step into a time machine, that's not really a worry, is it?

Alan_Trescott

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