Hi,

I don't know why you've faced problems reinking ink jet cartridges. I've done it for the last 10 yrs. They cost about 100Rs a pop. A original cartridge will last about 3/4 reinkings or refillings.

You could consider epson printers. Their cartridges do not have the printer head built into them. The head is built into the printer itself. Hence their replacement cartridges are a lot cheaper. They cost about Rs 450 against Rs 1200 for HP. The disadvantage is that eventually the printer head will wear out in the epson printers. Then it will cost a bomb. On the HP printers it gets replaced with every new cartridge. But then the cost of new printers is peanuts.

You could also consider replacement cartridges for inkjets hich are substantially cheaper than original ones. They offer comparable performance too. I am using one right now which cost about Rs 800.

Bye Amol

Abhishek Daga wrote:

Has anyone ever done a comparison exercise for printer running costs?

Some time back I had googled, Dot Matrix Printer: 10 paise per page Laserjet: Rs. 0.5/page Inkjet Printers: Rs. 2/page

The cost of the Dot Matrix printing is further reduced because of the low tech and highly reliable reinking costs.

Till date i have never been successful in getting a inkjet cartridge re-inked (though only tried the hp deskjet 670C).

Does anyone have more reliable estimates on the cost comparisons?

Have you been successfully and consistently reinked an inkjet cartridge thus reducing the cost per page? if yes, then which brand/model is the most "re=ink" friendly.

HP deskjets IMO are just ink delivery devices.

-thanks abhi

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