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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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Printer Cartridges Cost More Than The Printer Itself

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We commonly look at the retail price of the equipment or printer specifically, whenever we decide to purchase these machines. But what we should rather look at before looking at the price is the cost per page of the printer, which we often neglect. So most probably, customers won't be buying those equipments. The capacity of the printer mostly relies on the cartridges installed inside the printer. And the actual cost per page could also depend on the printers cartridge. Thus, it's not surprising to know that cartridges cost more than the printer equipment.

There is a relationship between the price of the cartridge and its capacity. Newly bought printer equipment always come with a starter set of ink or toner cartridges which customers often claim that this starter cartridges are half full. But when you purchase new laser toner cartridges or ink cartridges for your printer, definitely you can't check if the cartridges are full even if you shake it. The packaging only indicates the page yield capacity of the cartridge when producing standard prints. 

What if this happens, your printer runs out of ink or toner and you need to rush into town and see if there's a retail shop that sells printer cartridges exactly for the printer model you need. While you where looking for the printer supply shop, you past by a printer sale that only sells a model of printer for about $50, then you also saw the model of the cartridge for your printer, and when you check the price, the black cartridge sells for about $30 and the color cartridge sells for about $39, that's more than the price of the printer on sale. You would definitely think that it's more ideal to buy a new printer instead of purchasing the two cartridges you need for your old equipment.

Purchasing branded printer cartridges can be costly, and once their empty you'll just throw them off. Though we've been used to disposable materials and throw away things, there are still situations and exceptions that should be considered. Do you think that simply throwing away and disposing these small plastic containers would be good enough for the society. You may afford to always buy original cartridge replacement for you printer, but summing up all the expense will show you the real figure. This drives some printer cartridge consumers to purchase alternative products like remanufactured toner cartridges and ink cartridges, which can be risky only and if you buy from non reputable retailers. There are even consumers who tried using non-approved refill kits, which for them is a rational thing to do.

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2 comments:

  1. Perfect review about the print cartridge. Actually normal cartridge are more costly and expensive from re manufactured toner cartridges. So, I think, we want to use remanufactured toner cartridges.

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  2. With all the issues on printing inks, cheap printer cartridges gained a lot because some are good but some are not good enough to match the quality of other brands. When people use cheap printer cartridges, they aim to get good printing at an affordable price.

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