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An NFR question for the computer guys

1.1K views 10 replies 10 participants last post by  Tom House  
#1 ·
I have an old DeskJet 970 cxi printer that needs new ink cartridges. Brand new ones are pretty expensive and don't seem to last too long. What is the deal on refilling the old ones or buying rebuilt units?

I saw a place called Inksell advertising the 78 & 45 cartridges I need for $20.45 and $16.95 respectively. They also advertise a refill kit for both for $41.

Are these a good deal and how difficult are the old ones to refill?

Any alternate suggestions?

Ive
 
#3 ·
the old (used) cartidges can be refilled if you are lucky, maybe once, you will get ink on your hands, your counter tops, sink, what have you. I tried that half dozen times, before I got tired of it. In my opinion, the best bet is to buy the remanufactured carteridges.:hmmm:
 
#4 ·
Ps. Have you looked into a lazer printer, you can buy a used one on E-bay for next to nothing, and a cartidge cost a more than an inkjet, but lasts into the years mark, in the long run, it is a whole lot cheaper than replacing your cartridges in your inkjet at the cost of a new printer, every month or so.
 
#7 ·
use anything but ink jet. I use a phaser color make by zerox for color prints and advertising. Great In house printing. better then kinko or the like because it is based on solid ink. I use an 8500 dx The pages are magazine quality and all the graphics are raised and touchy felly like awsum. And much cheaper for prints.
 
#10 ·
If you don't need color, I would suggest a monochrome laser printer. I did the inkjet thing for way too long, and it was expensive replacing all those cartridges that would then jam or fail, meaning that I had to replace all of the cartridges at the same time. When I looked at my usage, 99.5 percent was to print documents. I didn't need color.

So I dropped less than $100 at Costco for a HP monochrome laser. I've used it for over two years now, and I'm still using the original cartridge or whatever that thing is called in a laser. No fuss, no muss, and the few times I've wanted to print pix, it did a good job in B&W. The replacement cartridge costs about as much as did the cartridges I needed for my inkjet.
 
#11 ·
I have used refilled cartridges from one of the brick and mortar places. The quality of the ink was poor, particularly colored inks and worst of all it clogged my printer nozzels if I didn't print every day or two.
It was a lot more trouble than it was worth.

You should just get a newer printer. Sadly, with so many businesses either downsizing or going under the market is flooded with barely used office equipment.
Think laser printer.


TC