Print More Pages at Lower Cost Using Reseller Ink Cartridges

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. That the high cost of acquiring top-quality ink from retailers has led many customers to cheaper alternatives shouldn't be surprising. Aside from the inexpensiveness of refurbished inkjet cartridge and toners, the benefit of recycling plastic containers is a major reason for this shift. 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.

Some OEM resellers add value to their products by refurbishing the genuine inkjet cartridge and toners discarded by the manufacturers. These items have been old stocks in their factory line-up that had to be disposed of when newer printers came out. These brand-new cartridges still work with old printers because they've never been used since they were thrown away. The same is true when these discarded cartridges came from distributors who had to dispose their stock before accepting new products to sell. Finally, the resellers did nothing more than cleaned out the cartridges of debris and refilled them with fresh batches of ink; thus, keeping the originality of containers intact.

More than paying a lot less for ink cartridges, the OEM products from value-added resellers also displayed higher productivity than the popular brands of ink made for 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. It seems the benefit of getting a greater number of prints - whether they're colored, black-and-white, or just text - from aftermarket inks far outweighs the prospect of producing high-quality images that cost more per page to print. 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.