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I want to use up a spare three color ink cartridge with an old printer by printing out text in a readable . The separate black ink is already gone. Now: Which color would use up the three colors (blue, red, yellow) equally?
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The only color that uses all three colors equally is…Black. You could try printing a processed black; processed black uses the colors to make black instead of using the black ink only, but I don’t know of any way to force the printer to do a processed black outside of a color picture with black in it. Gray would also try to use the black ink and not the three colors mixed. Printer inks are the colors CYMK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta & Black) and mixing them produces the colors Red, Blue & Green.

Cyan with Magenta = Blue
Cyan with Yellow = Green
Yellow with Magenta = Red
All three = Black

You could do a rotation of the 3 doing red, green & blue alternatively. I don’t know why you’d want to use up what’s still in there. You could simply remove the cartridges instead of trying to use up the ink.

Best of luck.

Basic inkjet printer – Lexmark Z640 – good little machine for basic printing. Two cartridges – the black costs £14.97 and the color costs £18.97. Total cost of the two cartridges £33.94. If you go into Asda, a brand new Lexmark Z640 complete with two cartridges costs £18.94. Why spend £33.94 replacing two cartridges when you can just replace the printer for £18.94. Doesn’t this seem slightly ridiculous?

You are right! I was going to buy ink for my printer and the place I went had printers on sale (with ink). The price was just slightly higher for the printer so I bought it instead. Much better printer than the one I had anyway.

Have a Europe HP printer and we are in US and going to buy printer cartridges in USA, but then someone mentioned that US cartridges don’t fit Europe HP printers. That sounded a bit odd and trying to get resolution on this.

It depends on your specific HP printer model. It is definitely true that some US HP ink cartridges will not work in European HP printers.

The customer support at HP is actually really good. I’d recommend contacting them with this question, and be sure to note the printer model you are using.

I need to buy Lexmark 36/37 ink for my printer… what is the difference between the xl and xla?

A cartridges can technically be refilled.

however refilling a cartridge is a difficult and often imperfect process, so you will have to weigh if the the added cost of the A cartridge is worth it.

For a colour ink jet cartridge you have to pay like £40 but why should they cost that much when all they are are a bit of plastic filled with some powered ink.

I cannot believe they cost more than a few pound to make.
OK I understand that these printer companies want to make lots of money on the cartridges to make up for selling the actual printers for less but surely there are lots of companies that make these cartridges and therefore competition should force the price down, but for some reason the price remains incredibly high. Why is this?

yes places like pc world charge a fortune but you can pick them up cheaper else where

http://track.webgains.com/click.html?wgcampaignid=24331&wgprogramid=832

and even cheaper if you buy a compatible, i got an epson c62 black and color pack delivered for under £8

What kind of ink is used in printer cartridges. There are refill systems for refilling your own cartridges, that cost a fraction of new cartridges. So maybe we can go it one better and buy refill ink wholesale and save even more?

I used to buy regular cartridges till one day I pried the top off of one just to see what was inside ,what I found was that the stain in the foam left behind by the ink showed that it was less that 1/3 full when new.. It’s bad enough that they charge you an arm and a leg for the little buggers, but to only partialy fill them with ink is a real kick in the Dupa. Probably some sort of creative revenue enhancement scheme?

It’s true a lot of manufacturers make money on the ink. I just buy compatibles, I haven’t had any problems with them and at the same time I don’t have to deal with the mess of refilling it myself. I usually go to this website (www.thecartridgefamily.net) and buy, I call and one of the reps there usually gives me a better price. They also recycle my cartridges for free. I’m happy with them.

http://thecartridgefamily.net/index.php/cPath/2

I have an HP Photosmart C3180 printer, just got a refurbished color cartridge and the printer keeps telling me there is an error with the cartridge and I can’t print anything. I’ve heard that HP has built in "features" that are basically designed to make it hell if you don’t want to buy their cartridges. Is there a way to bypass all the bullsh*t and use refurbished cartridges?

Well "caviate emptor" . Expect tech related problems if you go against what the manufacturer says. To be direct there is a way around the problem but in this case, I do not want to be responsible for dealing with support related matters. Shell out the bucks or get a printer that is cheap to run.

Circuit City had them until there shutting down now. Staples sells those inks separately and not in a value pack. What other stores can I find the inks at?

Try inksmile.com (see link below). I am very satisfied with their quality, service, and exceptionally low prices. You may have better luck in searching if you search using the model number of your printer. Good luck.

I have a printer that calls for either 16 or 17. There is about a $10 price difference. What is the difference?

The difference is quantity of ink. A number 16 black has 10ml of ink whereas the number 17 only has 5ml. in a number 17 there is only half a sponge so the maximum capacity of that cartridge can only be 5 ml.

If you are doing a lot of printing it is well worth the extra $10 to get the number 16. The same is true for the 26 and 27 colour cartridges. The 26 has twice as much ink as the number 27.

Home use and printing pictures – definitely inkjet printer. Plus refills are cheap.

Office use – go with laser. Fast. Some models very fast OEM cartridges are very expensive but there is a cheap solution – color laser refill kits http://fillserv.com/tonerrefillkits.php
Plus I print labels with it and one thing for sure laser printout kind of waterproof. I recommend Konica Minolta 2400W – you can get it in Fry’s for $250 and toner refills only $45 per color http://fillserv.com/cic/product.php?product=Konica+Minolta+magicolor+2400+%2F+2500+Toner+Refill+Kit