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Ink for printer cartridges - Costco
Topic Started: Mar 1 2017, 08:24 AM (464 Views)
goldengal	Mar 1 2017, 08:24 AM Post #1
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	When I mentioned we required a new cartridge recently a friend told me they get the cartridges refilled at Costco for $9. The middle of the week last week my grandson had a cartridge filled and so much printing has been done in the past week the cartridge needed ink again so once again he got it filled. There have been thousands of pages. Correction ..... the price was $12.99 plus tax so $14.68. This is a larger cartridge than my friend's. The down side is it takes approximately 45 minutes to fill the cartridge so drop it off before browsing the warehouse. Take care, Pat Edited by goldengal, Mar 2 2017, 10:50 AM.



Dialtone	Mar 1 2017, 09:50 AM Post #2
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	Thanks for the info, good for future reference. We only go through about a black/colour ink cartridge a year, so HP isn't making much on us. I don't print pictures or much of anything anymore and last year one of our cartridges went dry rather than out of ink. If I need copies of receipts, tax documents or anything else, I usually scan them or use the Windows snipping tool to copy the relevant info. I then keep a software copy in Jpg or PDF file format on a separate drive partition for safe storage.



Trotsky	Mar 1 2017, 10:53 AM Post #3
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I got quite adept at filling inject cartridges for my HP printer. I even bought 8 ounce bottles of ink in 4 colors and I mounted little set screws to close and open the cartridges. I was so proud of myself So then Murphy's Law: the printer failed because of a faulty gear that Hewlett backer would not provide. So now I have ink and no place to put it. I will never have another dot matrix printer nor another HP ANYTHING. Now I have a black-only laser printer and I got pretty good at refilling the toner cartridge. Pat, I cannot imagine that a fully filled cartridge could go flooey in just a single week.



Dialtone	Mar 1 2017, 11:08 AM Post #4
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	I tried one of those home refill kits, and made such a mess of me, my workshop, the kitchen, the microwave (don't ask), and the printer, I gave up. I can still hear my wife berating me about how cheap I am, and what a bloody mess you've made with all this F.. ing black ink everywhere. gaah.gif I ended throwing the ink and everything else in the garbage when we moved.



goldengal	Mar 1 2017, 11:41 AM Post #5
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	Quote: Pat, I cannot imagine that a fully filled cartridge could go flooey in just a single week. Kim is being audited and has to provide expense receipts for 3 years and there are many many pages. My grandson was paid in advance and is lagging on the job. Once it is finished a cartridge should last a long time. I loved my old HP Desk Jet printer which bit the dust a few years ago and the cartridge used to last a lot longer than the newer ones seem to. Take care, Pat



wildie	Mar 1 2017, 03:56 PM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Trotsky Mar 1 2017, 10:53 AM I got quite adept at filling inject cartridges for my HP printer. I even bought 8 ounce bottles of ink in 4 colors and I mounted little set screws to close and open the cartridges. I was so proud of myself So then Murphy's Law: the printer failed because of a faulty gear that Hewlett backer would not provide. So now I have ink and no place to put it. I will never have another dot matrix printer nor another HP ANYTHING. Now I have a black-only laser printer and I got pretty good at refilling the toner cartridge. Pat, I cannot imagine that a fully filled cartridge could go flooey in just a single week. I have a HP laser colour printer (CP1025)and cartridges at Staples cost $65 each. I found a place on the internet in Hong Kong and bought a four color refill kit for $50CDN. The kit came with an electric hole cutter at no extra cost. I ordered it on a Sunday night and it arrived from China by Wednesday. These cartridges require an electronic chip replacement and these were supplied also. Edited by wildie, Mar 1 2017, 03:58 PM.



Trotsky	Mar 2 2017, 01:53 AM Post #7
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	wildie, A colored laser: envy, envy.



Delphi51	Mar 2 2017, 07:13 AM Post #8
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	The original HP Deskjet was indeed a breakthrough. A dried out ink cartridge should be left overnight business end down in a saucer of water. It often revives. Wildie, if that cartridge refill works out, please let me know the link. The family artists do a lot of colour printing. I have been buying online, usually genuine HP toner cartridges because the colour wasn't satisfactory on generic ones. I do have a set from a new source ready to try.



Trotsky	Mar 2 2017, 08:36 AM Post #9
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Quote: The original HP Deskjet was indeed a breakthrough. Except the ones that mated steel gears with plastic ones....guess which won.



Delphi51	Mar 2 2017, 01:51 PM Post #10
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	I had a Mac at the time and bought the first Deskwrier model, which lasted for a very long time and printed better than anything else available. This was before the Laserjet appeared. It was later when the market turned to throwaway printers and expensive cartridges. I had another good printer, an Apple brand that was made to be refilled easily from bottles of ink. The early Laserjets were high quality, too. We had an HP Laserjet 4 at school that worked hard for a decade and had a very reasonable cost per page. I'm still using a Brother HL-1030 that must be 15 years old and works well with cheap cartridges. A big Brother HL-4040CN that has colour problems and a Laserjet CP1525 color printer (exact replacement for one that failed - replaced because it prints card stock easily) round out the stable.



wildie	Mar 2 2017, 05:48 PM Post #11
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Trotsky Mar 2 2017, 01:53 AM wildie, A colored laser: envy, envy. I found it on sale at Staples for $99. Now that I can refill the cartridges, I think I died and went to heaven. It has no scanner but connects to my network via wifi!



Kahu	Mar 2 2017, 09:42 PM Post #12
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Dialtone Mar 1 2017, 11:08 AM I tried one of those home refill kits, and made such a mess of me, my workshop, the kitchen, the microwave (don't ask), and the printer, I gave up. I can still hear my wife berating me about how cheap I am, and what a bloody mess you've made with all this F.. ing black ink everywhere. gaah.gif I ended throwing the ink and everything else in the garbage when we moved. The same thing happened to me too!



Trotsky	Mar 3 2017, 01:05 AM Post #13
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	I persevered and mastered filling every cartridge, ink and toner, that I have ever owned. I simply will NOT pay the kind of prices for refills that these companies are demanding. Yes, first tries are usually a horrible mess but advance planning, lots of spread-out newspapers and latex gloves help a lot...and a filter mask for toner handling.



Trotsky	Mar 3 2017, 05:52 AM Post #14
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Muttering under breath about refills. So, we talked the senior center into giving us a toner cartridge because Bob prints many things for Greenwich House. They DID. (I assumed they would give us an OEM Samsung cartridge.) They are rated at 3500 pages. BUT with the one they gave us we got less than 300 pages before the print varied from light to invisible. We asked for another and they said "Buy one and bill us." I bought one for $77 from Amazon thinking I was getting a genuine OEM. Nope, another knock off, but from a different company. I will put in the new one and try refilling the old one. (The wrinkle with toner is that you have to dump the waste container...most toner winds up as waste. If you don't do this, adding new toner is a bust.) Question: Can you reuse toner from the refuse container or must you throw it out...wasteful? Hmmm, consensus seems to be that you cannot reuse toner. So I will NOT. Edited by Trotsky, Mar 3 2017, 06:08 AM.



wildie	Mar 3 2017, 04:02 PM Post #15
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Its much the same problem with the HP cartridges. You are instructed shake all the old toner out before replacing it with new stuff. To clean the chamber out completely I vacuumed it out with my Shopvac using a drywall compound filter bag. It worked well, the cartridge was clean and there was no damage to the vacuum cleaner.



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