The price of printer ink
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The price of printer ink
I have just replaced the ink cartridges in our Hewlett Packard 5520 all in one, wireless printer.
I got a big shock when I looked at prices for a spare HP 364 XL combo-pack (Large Black + 4 larger than normal colours.)
In February, Amazon UK supplied them for £39.99 and they were delivered with a couple of books so the postage cost was reduced. The pack is now £48.22 + delivery and Amazon France want 66,65€ inc. delivery!
A NEW printer is only £69.85 + delivery. It's crazy.
I'm thinking of buying independent brand cartridges. Does anyone have experience of a particular brand they can recommend?
I got a big shock when I looked at prices for a spare HP 364 XL combo-pack (Large Black + 4 larger than normal colours.)
In February, Amazon UK supplied them for £39.99 and they were delivered with a couple of books so the postage cost was reduced. The pack is now £48.22 + delivery and Amazon France want 66,65€ inc. delivery!
A NEW printer is only £69.85 + delivery. It's crazy.
I'm thinking of buying independent brand cartridges. Does anyone have experience of a particular brand they can recommend?
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i have only ever bought Epson printers as their 'copy' ink Cartridges were always cheap and easy to find. (in fact my last Epson was £20 from a Charity Shop and lasted me 3 years!!)....
i have just replaced it with a '3 in 1' (XP-415)
which cost 80€ delivered (even came the next day!!) i have already got a set of Colour +2 Black (copy) Cartridges for +/- 10€, in stock.
i have just replaced it with a '3 in 1' (XP-415)
which cost 80€ delivered (even came the next day!!) i have already got a set of Colour +2 Black (copy) Cartridges for +/- 10€, in stock.
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I use these guys - http://www.cheapprinterink.co.uk
I buy their refillable cartridges and refill myself - it is sometimes a bit messy but the savings are huge.
If you do a lot of printing then their continuous feed system is even more economical
works out equivalent to @50p / cart
Max
I buy their refillable cartridges and refill myself - it is sometimes a bit messy but the savings are huge.
If you do a lot of printing then their continuous feed system is even more economical
works out equivalent to @50p / cart
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I have found it cheapest to use a black-and-white laser printer for most purposes - and also more reliable: the print-heads on inkjets dry out on me if I leave them for a few months, as I tend to do. The cost of replacement cartridges is still silly (though cheaper per copy): but it is usually possible to refill them or get decent "compatible" cartridges much cheaper. It's a point worth researching if you are thinking of buying a new one (which of course you can do very cheaply, with a "starter" cartridge which is three-quarters empty).
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Today's Daily Mail confirms what a lucrative scam printing ink is. Ordinary black ink for a printer is 51 pence per millilitre. Dom Perignon champagne is 15 pence per milliitre. All the big companies are at it; Epson is perhaps the least greedy, but HP and Canon practise a 600% markup. I came across this information online and have never believed anything else published by the Daily Mail, I hasten to add.
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I will be a bit more outraged when Moët et Chandon start selling very cheap printers. The business model - sell the apparatus cheap and the consumables expensive - has been around at least since the days of King Gillette, and is as much of a scam as you care to let them get away with.jethro wrote:Today's Daily Mail confirms what a lucrative scam printing ink is. Ordinary black ink for a printer is 51 pence per millilitre. Dom Perignon champagne is 15 pence per milliitre. All the big companies are at it; Epson is perhaps the least greedy, but HP and Canon practise a 600% markup. I came across this information online and have never believed anything else published by the Daily Mail, I hasten to add.