Re-fill or Re-cycle

Computer Forum Printers, Scanners and Digital Cameras
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[COLOR=“Teal”]Hi all,

My HP3900 printer cartridge is empting last night. I want to re-use it. What should I do, re-fill or re-cycle. Few of my friends told that re-fill deduct the life time of the cartridge. What is your comments on this.

Thanks,

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Refilling a Ink cartridge will extend its life as you get to use it twice instead of once.

Allways try to reuse something if you can, recycling takes energy!

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yeah Impotence has a good point, from a quality standpoint, or at least from my experience, re-filled cartridges have worse quality

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but your only paying a fraction of the price, all of the refilled cartridges that i have used (bought from supermarkets) have been fine…

even if the quality wasn’t perfect, just use them for drafts!

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But make sure it doesn’t void the warranty of the printer. We’re supposed to only buy official Epson ones (which are a lot better than the cheapos) - but we don’t.

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[COLOR=“DarkGreen”]That’s what I’m really worried about…

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[COLOR=“DarkGreen”]If the quality is not perfect I think it is useless. Right?

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Exactly, If the refill or recycle make any effect on the printer, I think it is best to have an original cartridge on the printer.

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I don’t know what’s available, but I’ve noticed a few businesses that refill ink cartridges. If they’re available to you, it might be worth checking out.

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[COLOR=“DarkGreen”]Ok:eek: :eek:

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well like Impotence said, if your only doing drafts no prob, otherwise, its not really going to work out right

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Thats the case pal. I used it for specially documentations. So the quality is more important.

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Yea, rather be safe than sorry. I don’t use them, but would only consider using black ink refills on daily use documents. I’ve heard scarey things about cheap inks fading pretty quickly.

Also, just an FYI. Staples gives you $3 off future ink purchases for every empty you bring it. It’s not a lot, but I wasn’t getting anything before when I was recycling them.

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[COLOR=“DarkGreen”]For daily use documents I used low cost re-fill black ink. But it gives lots of issues on professional printouts like printing a project report.

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All the HP cartridges I buy for my printer come with an envelope you can use to send the old one back (postage free) to HP. That way you get to keep using the brand ink and don’t have quality issues as well as recycle! Best of both worlds.

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Yea, I used to send them back to HP until Staples started giving me $3 for each one (see above).

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Oops, sorry missed that part of your post. Think I’ll start taking mine to Staples now, too!

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[COLOR=“DarkGreen”]Where is it? I have to check it, there is no such an envelop given by seller.

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The envelope has always been folded up in the box with the cartridge. Believe it’s even lightly glued to the white protective plastic that’s around the cartridge when you open the box.

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[COLOR=“DarkGreen”]I have with that box, but the envelop is missing. I’ll contact the seller right now.