Canon Ink Cartridges: Buy The Real Deal To Save (Bob Snodgrass)
Oct 31, 2010
These days everyone needs to save a dollar in any way that they can. Many people unfortunately are choosing to save some money by purchasing subpar remanufactured or clone ink cartridges for their inkjet or laser printers. Some are going a step farther and using one of those ink refill kits to refill the original canon ink cartridges that came with the printer. While these methods may save a couple of dollars in the short go they really are not very good ideas in the long run.
Remanufactured cartridges tend to be recycled parts that were used. These cartridges are visually checked and then refilled with cheap ink and sold back to you, the consumer. On the surface this sounds like a good idea. Instead of filling our landfills with excess wasted plastics reuse them and "go green". There are a couple of things wrong with this process however.
The cartridges used are recycled, that much is true but they are recycled over and over again with no regard to breakdown. The cartridges will simply stop printing quality and the quality will get worse the more times they are refilled and reused.
This may not be an issue for those cartridges that only go through the process a single time but out of every 5 sold 4 have been recycled and reused 50 or 60 times. This not only causes the quality of the printing to suffer but the cartridges themselves will break down and leak inside of your printer making a huge mess or outright destroying it.
So for a savings of a couple of dollars you are actually gamboling that you will get one of the few "good" used cartridges and are not just throwing your money and possibly your printer in the trash.
Remanufactured, clone cartridges and refill kits also tend to use the wrong grade inks. Canon printers were developed to use a certain type and grade of ink and will not work right without it. This is especially true of the black inks.
The black ink and actually all of the inks used in most of the cheap ink options is a thin cheap photo grade ink. The cheaper grade inks can not only cause your project to look awful and fuzzy but can damage your printer.
The OEM Canon cartridge is not. Many have tested these cheap options and so far cannot find anything that is even remotely as good as the OEM Canon black. The other inks occasionally cause problems with the printer's jets and clog it up which damages the print head and ruins the printer.
The best way to save money on your printing projects is not by purchasing cheap imitation cartridges and inks but by looking for less expensive stores to buy your OEM ink cartridges from. Look around for coupons and buy one get on free deals if you can find them as well. Most places you buy your ink from will also give you a discount when you buy Canon ink cartridges in bulk.
About the AuthorI know of a site that is one of the United Kingdom's largest vendors of genuine Canon ink cartridges as well as other brands' colour ink cartridges, with nearly 60 million in stock, all available for next day delivery, including over 12 million worth of printer consumables..