Refurbished Ink Cartridges Add Value to Every Page You Print

Inventory costs for ink cartridges and toners often occupy a significant portion of the office budget. Most likely, the same is true with solo users who carry twice the burden of keeping a good supply of good quality ink for their printer, photocopier, or facsimile machine at home. It's no wonder at all that consumers have began using less costly compatible inks as substitutes for the original products. Rather than buy high-grade ink products from the popular brands, consumers opt instead to purchase refilled inkjet cartridge and toners from OEM resellers. Actually, the reseller shops sell good quality ink using real cartridges and toners from the original manufacturer at a retail price much lower than branded products.

The resellers generally add more value to their products by reusing the discarded inkjet cartridge from the original brand manufacturers. These items have been old stocks in their factory line-up that had to be disposed of when newer printers came out. Mostly, these items remained intact inside their plastic packaging because they were thrown away straight from the factory. In some instances, the brand's retailers had to unload their previous inventory, which remained unopened, before they accepted a new batch of products. In the end, the only thing needed to be done is to refill the cartridges with ink because they still look as new as they were first released.

Aside from offering a lower retail price than originals, OEM ink cartridges from value-added resellers also proved more productive than the brand-name inks for popular printer brands Canon, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, and Lexmark. A 2008 study of Rochester Institute of Technology and PC World compared the output quality and productivity of branded inks against third-party inks. Although the brand-name inks produced higher quality prints that won't likely fade over time, the reseller ink products more than made up for that advantage by producing a higher number of prints than the inks from popular brands. In effect, this higher page yield greatly reduced the printing cost per page by nearly seventy percent, depending on whether the pages were printed in color or printed in monochromatic black.