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Refillable Ink Cartridges and Continuous Ink Systems Cis Can Save You Hundreds of Dollars in Printer Ink

Everyone loves a great deal and with computer accessories, the prices have certainly become much more reasonable in the past few years. Printers specifically have come down in price over the past few years and can be purchased for less than $50 in many stores. What a great deal! Even a multi-function printer, were in the past might be several hundred dollars, can now be purchased for under $100.

So why has the price of printers went down so much in the past few years? Is it lower costs in manufacturing or availability of materials? While this may be one of the reasons, another reason is that printer manufacturers have figured out how to make it up in other ways.

Here's a common scenario; you purchase your printer on sale and are thrilled with the low price that you managed to find on such a nice printer. You take it home, set it up and use it once in a while. Then, after only printing what you think is a few hundred pages, or even less, the printer cartridge is empty. You take the printer cartridge out and head to your local computer store to find a replacement. You locate your model of printer cartridge and then glance at the price. $40...Are they joking? You think about how much you paid for the printer: $50. It's going to cost almost as much to replace the ink cartridge as you paid for the entire printer. It's even worse if you have a color printer. The black cartridge might be less expensive, but the color one will cost more. If you purchased a printer with only two cartridges, one color and one black, you're even more disappointed since you know that there's plenty of blue and yellow left in the cartridge. But now you have to replace the whole cartridge, just because you're out of red ink!

How many times has this happened to you? Good news; It doesn't have to be this way. You now have other options. Printer manufacturers want you to bring back your old cartridge and buy a new one and keep doing this over and over. Now you've helped them lower their cost by giving back the cartridge, that they will re-use, but they won't pass the savings on.

So if they can refill the cartridge, why can't you. You can buy a refill kit, often made specifically for your printer, for a very low cost and refill it yourself. It's not hard and does not require any special skill. Usually the ink refill kit that you purchase will come with instructions on how you can do it yourself. Now you have reduced your cost to refill your cartridges from $40 or more, and have reduced that cost down to just a few dollars each time you need a refill.

A good quality refill kit will contain ink, a tool to help you remove the top, or a needle like object to inject into the cartridge, and also instructions. You can usually refill the ink in a matter of minutes and most ink refill kits also contain enough ink for a few refills. For those worried that they may not be able to do it, rest assured that it is very easy to refill the ink yourself.

An even better deal is the Continuous Ink System or CIS. It will continuously feed ink into your printer. You will no longer have to refill those little cartridges every few weeks. Depending on the amount of ink you use the CIS can last months without having to be refilled. I have used mine for the last 8 months without refilling it and I print a lot. I print photos, scrapbook pages, school reports for my children and more. I have been extremely happy with my Continuous Ink System and it originally only took me about 5 minutes to set it up. It was a very easy install and I highly recommend it. The photo quality is exceptional. It is as good or better than I got using my Hewlett Packard or Canon ink cartridges.

If you want to save money and have the ability to print everything you want I would suggest buying a CIS, Continuous Ink System or refillable ink cartridges.

About the Author

I purchased a continuous ink cartridge system almost a year ago and have not had to refill it yet and I print like crazy.

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