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DO CHEAP INK CARTRIDGES HAVE LESS INK?

an Urban Legend unravelled.

Keeping that Inkjet printer fed with ink, especially Black ink is like feeding a hungry puppy. Quality printing at home has become one of the biggest modern day wonders from producing university assignments to printing your own digital full color photos. That first ink cartridge thrown in with the new printer you purchased, does not last even a week and you have to go out and get replacement cartridges to feed the hungry puppy. Original Brand cartridges seem the obvious choice, right? Wow, did you see what they cost? Almost as much as the printer! That’s crazy!
That’s a fact of life- most people, when selecting a printer, do not check what the cost of future ink cartridges will be. An obvious alternative is the compatible cartridge at half the price, and from some online suppliers even a quarter of the price. But you heard someone say that the compatibles have less ink in them, and that you end up not saving anything at all.
That is an urban legend propagated by the Brand name companies together with other outright lies to scare you into purchasing their overpriced product. The fact is that many Printer users do not select their printer according to usage but rather according to the latest special price or some well-known Printer Brand advertised in a local supplier’s brochure. What people do not realize is that certain printers are made for low quantity use, others for medium quantity use and others for high output.
The low output printers have ink cartridges with a low quantity of ink, usually 18 ml while others have bigger inktanks to accommodate a higher output. All original brand and compatible ink cartridges are made using the same amount of ink inside. The cost of the ink is the lowest cost factor in the chain of supply and it makes absolutely no economical sense to cut on the ink quantity. If a medium sized cartridge takes 36ml of ink, that would be about 7 teaspoons of ink. What can a manufacturer save by cutting out some of that ink? How much money do you think a manufacturer can save on two or three teaspoons of ink? The cost factor is so little that it is just not worth it.
The real culprits of skimpy ink quantity are the very people spreading the urban legend. The Brand name companies will throw in a free set of ink cartridges when you purchase their printer but those cartridges are purposely filled with a limited quantity of ink, just enough for a few days. That way they force you to either purchase a set of Printer ink cartridges when getting the printer or force you to replace the cartridges soon enough for them to justify giving the printer away at that low price. Remember the printer companies do not make money out of the printers, they get rich from the replacement ink cartridges.
Here is a suggestion, be a savvy printer shopper next time. First check online to see what is the usage suggestion for the printer you looking at and then what is the replacement cartridge price for a brand name set or a compatible set. Rather pay more for the printer if you can get one that has a low cartridge price, whether it be OEM or compatible. You will save big over the lifetime of that printer.
One more tip. When your Printer says that your ink cartridge is empty,just take that as an indication that its coming to an end, NOT that it IS empty.This is just another trick devised by the printer companies to have you swop out cartridges sooner and that way feather their nests with more of your Dollars.Keep printing with the empty light on untill you see a print come out that is not good and shows signs of low ink. At that point swop out the cartridge. You will be surprised to find that the cartridge still had about 25% ink in it when it registered as empty. And here is another suggestion, try the prices for the PEACHTREE BRAND Peachtree Ink Click on the live link to go to the home page and try out that Brand. You will not find any half filled Printer Ink cartridges there.Most inkjet cartridges are $2-$3.00 each and they are filled to the same capacity as the OEM cartridge. No bull!