Ink Refills for the Smart

By Annie S. Green

Who says you have to spend more money than you have to when you're printing out hundreds of pages regularly? Brand new cartridges are really costly to buy even the cheapest ones in the market. For a fraction of the price of the new one, you can extend the life of your cartridge with refills. One or two refills are recommended. You don't have to be throwing out too many cartridges that will cause a lot of garbage anyway. You can buy ink refills online pretty easily so why pay too much for a cartridge when these would work just the same and save you a lot more money in the end? You can opt for this cheaper means but you've got to know what you're doing so you don't break your printer.

When buying a refill kit, get the one that suits your printer model. You shouldn't go wrong on this one. Each printer model has its own ink formula for it to work. It just wouldn't be compatible with any other formula so get the one that would work well with the printer model you have.

Don't let your cartridge run empty. I've made this mistake a few of times and it just totally messed up the printer. You'd have to run the printer maintenance program a hundred times every time you print something out just so it would temporarily correct the damage done to it by a clogged cartridge outlet.

All ink refill kits come with instructions on how to properly refill your cartridge so do follow it instead of doing guesswork. You will be running the risk of doing damage to your cartridge or your printer head. In case you've made this mistake, don't make things worse by running a few prints. When it's damaged, contain it within the cartridge so it doesn't get passed on to your printer. Get a new cartridge in this case.

Don't mix up the colors. Put the right colors in the right cartridge. Can you imagine how the printout will look like when you mess this up? It's just unsightly unless you're in some sort of art experiment. As you're putting in the ink, you don't want the mess all over the place. Unless you're already really good at this, cover your work area with some thick papers or cloth just so your furniture won't take the brunt of your spills which you will eventually clean off anyway.

What happens now when you get some ink on your hands? They don't come off with soap alone. You will have to wash it off with a mild bleach solution mixed with water and then wash the bleach off with the soap.

Ink refills are very practical and cheap compared to buying brand new cartridges. Follow a few steps to the T and you can start taking advantage of the huge savings. - 30529

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