The Truth About Discount Inkjet Cartridges - Comments Page 5

I have been using "pirate" inks in my Brother printer since the initially supplied ink ran out years ago.
On earlier printers I used the self fill inks from Woolworths.
Never had a problem except for inky fingers from the self fill days.
Don't know how much money I have saved but it must be lots.

After my Lexmark printer gave me the "Not Recognized" message for the umpteenth time, I replaced it with a Brother Laser printer. Once I realised that I never needed color prints it was an easy decision. Gone was the half hour ordeal of getting the printer to accept new cartridges. The xerographic printer prints much faster, makes copies that won't smear, and even saves money on paper by printing on both sides. I will never go back to ink jet again. It should go the way of the dot matrix.

In the past, when I was using a lot of ink, to print Acad drawings, I purchased ink from both LD & 123, never had any problems.
They, at that time, were recommended by PC World mag.
Now that I use less ink, I got lazy, and buy from an office supply store.

A long time ago I bought ink from a well established online vendor who I will not name since it may be they have improved. Immediately after installing the cartridges in my Epson, it failed completely and even new Epson ink would not fix it. I have not tried since. I cannot figure out why anyone would buy an HP printer (you need a college degree just to tell it to print) as I sit typing on one of their branded computers. I bought Canon MG2522 at WalMart for about $20 and the ink was not horribly expensive at Office Depot. I like it, easy set up though it's a little slow, but I like to sip some coffee anyway ;-)

I sure wish you could squeeze the size of the "mid-page" ad so that your text isn't covered up by it. You have a sentence that is covered up in today's message.

After our Dell AIO died, clogged jets; took it apart and knew why they were. A virtual mess of ink in a big absorption pad. What a waste! That was it...decided to get a laser, canon, black only($80). Best decision ever made. Use generic cartridges and after 3 years have not had a problem. The is a red error light indicating cartridge is empty but a piece of black tape takes care of that. Oh, the days of dot-matrix printers and tractor feed paper, such memories!

Some suggestions: Do you really need color. What is the cost of OEM vs. generic cart before you purchase the printer. Check blogs/bulletin-boards/reviews on printer problems before purchase.

This is the first time using remanufactured on my Epson workforce pro. Prints ok but has slowed WAY down. Once or twice I got a message..do not recognize cartridge. But it prints ok anyway.

Thank,
For telling the details about inkjet printer.

I have a Brother low cost laser printer and save 80% on toner cartridges by purchasing them online.
I have had no problems in 15 years. I have even used toner refill kits with no issues (the mess however was not worth it!). The 3rd party cartridges have lasted as long or longer than the OEMs!

I have used Office Depot refilled ink cartridges very successfully for several years for HP printers.

I did a study on cartridge printers versus tank printers. I compared a popular cartridge printer from Canon, Epson, and HP versus their own tank printers.
Using their published page yields for cartridges vs ink tank yields I discovered that the page yield of a new tank printer with the initial charge from the included bottles of ink was equivalent to over $900 worth of cartridges.
Canon was the pioneer in 2015 and is a good choice. Epson is catching up. HP does sell tank printers and ink, but not in the US...

Hello! Thank you for useful info re: 3rd party ink; I'm about to order some from LD products now.
I have to comment on this - after reading some of the comments on this article, I noticed the note you have to the right, about the spelling and grammar - now I'm truly laughing out loud. I spelled that out on purpose! People nowadays, especially on the web, HAVE NO IDEA what grammar, spelling, & punctuation are. And I'm not behind the times - I'm only 53. Glad someone else noticed the trend and actually put it on his site.

I have been using other than OEM ink cartridges for years in both my HP Zeen Printer (what a piece of junk...threw it out finally as was so fed up) and Brother printers. The cartridges usually work fine but find with the Brother generic refills my colors are way off. I do a lot of DIY card making and they are not nearly as pretty as they were with the OEM cartridges. Do you know of any fix for this issue?
Thank you.
pz

01/07/20 About 6 months ago I purchased LD Brand Ink cartridges for my CANON ipf8000 wide format printer. I did not see any perceivable differences so I recently ordered three more cartridges. The cartridges arrived, but were not LD Brand and were labeled "made in china" knockoffs. I called customer service to complain and return them. I was assured these would be fine in my printer and informed that if I wanted to return them for exchange the cost of shipping from the East coast back to the West coast would be at my expense... The recent holidays came up so I didn't get to it. I'm about to get into it with this company, call the California Consumer Agencies , etc. They sure know how to ruin a good customer relationship.

LD Products are great! So is their tech support.
My HP (last, never again HP) printer started complaining about the LD ink. I called LD and they gave me a work around that fixed the problem.

Remove cartridges, unplug for 20 sec, replug and reinstall the cartridges. Worked well.

When you unplug a remote HP, it comes up with a new ip address. You have to

remove the printer (ctl panel), then add printer again. I add the last three digits of latest IP address (description) to avoid confustion. Have to do that for all computers using the printer.

Hope this helps! Thanks BOB for this forum!

I have tried re-manufactured cartridges for my Epson WorkForce printer from 123InkJet and others and always get a printer error basically saying they are incompatible.

LD products did not work for me.I bought a whole set of LD Ink Cartridges 952XL, black, yellow, blue and magenta for HP Office jet 8700. I bought one cartridge here in Amazon and the other 3 in Walmart. I paid almost 80 dollars in total (an HP original cartridge pack, not XL is 100$). When I contacted LD, they only offered to send me a replacement for the cartridge I bought in Amazon. They told me that "they operate as a supplier for Walmart", whatever that means, so they are not responsible for those cartridges. So, I am stuck with four cartridges that do not work and wasted 80$. Anyways, I do not want a replacement product, since none of the four I bought work. From now on, I am only buying original HP products not to waste my time and money any more.

I have an HP Color Laserjet CP2520 bought while my wife and I were teaching in 2000 or so. It's an excellent printer and served us well. I bought only remanufsctured cartridges during the rest of our career and ever since our retirement, too. I was going to replace it, but having looked around, it's still the best option I've got for black and white printing. We're both writers and that's the bulk of what we print. I can reload it's black cartridge for around $30. We have grandchildren now and I'm looking at photo printers and may soon purchase a large format Epsom ink jet printer. Thank you for reassuring me that reliable vendors support these, too. I appreciate your commentary.