People often ask the question ‘How can we save money when shopping for printer ink cartridges?’. The answers are sometimes so simple, but are generally overlooked.
Imagine if you are printing documents over and over again, the amount of printer ink your printer would use would add up to a huge amount.
I would advise you as your fist choice to think about buying compatible printer ink cartridge. Compatible cartridges are much, much cheaper than the originals because they are not branded by your printer make and are generally also sold in bulk.
When you buy your printer be positive that each colour has its own ink slot. Many of the older models had the colours bundled together into 1 cartridge, but in this day and age you find that most new printers have more than 1 colour ink tank, which are black, cyan, magenta and yellow, with other printers also allowing for light cyan and light magenta for better colour printing quality. Having a printer of this type allows you to change just the colour that has emptied and not the whole cartridge that contains 3 seperate tanks, so you are not throwing away excess ink.
Check the capacity of the ink cartridge. Dont forget this when it comes to purchasing your printer ink. Some manufacturers may only fill about 75% of the cartridge and state on their advert that the cartridge contains X amount of ink in mililitres. This allows them to sell their cartridges a little bit cheaper.
An industry that has been rapidly growing is the cartridge recycling industry, although many of them only accept certain types of ink cartridge. Many people generally either throw away their compatible cartridges or throw them in the draw where they will be forgot about. In this day and age you can send back your old empty cartridges for cash, or for money off your next order if the ink cartridge company website allows for you to open your very own account.
Bulk purchasing. Many printer ink companies manufacture their cartridges in bulk packs, inserting all of the ink cartridges for your model printer into the same packing, which will help save on postage costs, so buying in bulk can again save you more money.
Overall, the best place to purchase your printer ink cartridges has to be online, once you find that printer ink company that you like to shop with then it makes buying ink cartridges a walk in the park.