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How reliable is refilled inkjet cartridge?

Some businesses out there can refill inkjet cartridges. If you have tried it and either you liked or disliked it, please explain why.

Update:

It's a three-in-one (CMY) cartridge for HP D1420. After the refill, I could get full color on first half of page 1 at the startup, then just magenta and black. It was nearly free when I bought it. Never thought if it could last this long.

Black-only works fantastic. I now have a different opinion about HP Deskjets.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That depends. The quality of the refillled cartridge is going to depend upon the condition of the cartridge itself.

    A cartridge which is older, not printing well or has been out of the printer for a long period of time is going to yeiled a terrible result. However if you are refilling a cartridge which has just emptied, was printing great and you are doing it withing a day or two of that last great print you should have a decent result.

    Keep in mind that cartridges need to be maintained, even the original manufacturer cartridge needs to be cleaned and used to keep printing. Upon refilling you want to take extra steps to clean and maintain, this will prolong the life of your cartridge.

  • 4 years ago

    i replenish carts each and all the time. some artwork and a few do no longer. i purchase ink it is synthetic to the specs of the unique. now and returned the buyer would not take the mandatory precautions to guard the printhead for refilling, it is why some do no longer artwork. as quickly as the buyer is knowledgeable on a thank you to guard the cartridge and the printhead, then theirs have a greater suited fulfillment fee. on the producing plant, the ink is inserted into the cartridge and then the lid is glued on. a number of those cartridges have been bougt back and are being refilled, some are new. with lexmark cartridges, you pop the top to replenish the colour and on the black, you in ordinary terms could strengthen the vent hollow to insert a syringe of ink. comparable on the greater moderen variations of HP. notwithstanding, on the older variations of HP you're able to shop rigidity, by technique of removing any extra air. there are particular procedures you're able to purchase to try this. so a techniques as bugs . . . I have no concept what you propose. sorry. desire that facilitates.

  • M F
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    That's a tough one to answer in more detail than "It depends".

    It depends on the make and model of your printer, but above all else it depends on the refilling company. If they do a good job it's 100% reliable. If they do shoddy work it gets very unreliable.

    I use a local refilling company here (in China, unlikely to help you much), and am very happy with their work. A previous company I used seemed good until the prints started fading savagely a month or two after being printed.

  • 1 decade ago

    Printer companies are trying to get you away from that. Why? Because they lose money that way! lol

    The biggest profit for Hewlett Packard.. aka HP is printer ink to corporations who purchase their products.

    I would just find a simple printer w/ cheap ink purchases! Keep it simple... printers that look really cheap... may not be so cheap!

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    inkjet cartridge is very bad i fill this again and again but third or forth time your cartridge will leaked and that's why i don't like inject printers

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