Printer ink cartridges

gregbrighton

New member

Aug 10, 2014

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Brighton

• Sep 12, 2014

• #1

Bought a nice A3 printer a while back.

Bought the Epson branded black ink cartridge for it for £24.

Looked on Amazon this morning for a cheaper deal and found a non-branded compatible version: £10 for 4 cartridges.

It's a no-brainer.

Why do brands try and rip you off?

 

GOM

living vicariously

Aug 8, 2005

3,225

Leeds - but not the dirty bit

• Sep 12, 2014

• #2

gregbrighton said:

Bought a nice A3 printer a while back.

Bought the Epson branded black ink cartridge for it for £24.

Looked on Amazon this morning for a cheaper deal and found a non-branded compatible version: £10 for 4 cartridges.

It's a no-brainer.

Why do brands try and rip you off?

Click to expand...

Never mind the quality, feel the width (they would say !)

 

skipper734

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Aug 9, 2008

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Curdridge

• Sep 12, 2014

• #3

£24 ............That's cheap for Leopard.

 

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amexee

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Jun 19, 2011

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haywards heath

• Sep 12, 2014

• #4

A lot of the compatibles are very cheap for a reason, and speaking from considerable experience the cheapest ones are generally full of a generic black liquid, that gets put into many different types of cartridge, regardless of its suitability in regard to such factors as density, boiling point, and chemical composition.

There are a few compatible manufacturers who go to a lot of research to produce cartridges with inks that will replicate closely the branded ink, they tend to be considerably cheaper than branded ink, but they are not normally found at that sort of basement price.

 

Norman Potting

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Nov 5, 2006

13,967

Sussex, Sussex not by the sea and actually nearer

• Sep 12, 2014

• #5

I used "imitation" cartridges on an old Epson machine with no ill effects for many years until it gave up the ghost recently. There were no obvious effects on quality and the cartridges were a lot cheaper although they had a nasty habit of leaking over one's fingers when installing. I think I will give my new Brother printer (although a cheap'n'cheerful one) a while on the proper cartridges at least until it is out of gurantee!

 

GOM

living vicariously

Aug 8, 2005

3,225

Leeds - but not the dirty bit

• Sep 12, 2014

• #6

I like Jet-tec for replacements, always good, no clogging, in fact no issues at all. At the higher end price wise of compatibles but still cheap.

 

dazzer6666

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Mar 27, 2013

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Burgess Hill

• Sep 12, 2014

• #7

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/23/printer-ink-cartridges-paying-more-getting-less