WHAT IS THE EASIEST PRINTER CART TO REFILL ???

[Ron in NY]

I have 2 old Canon 5000 printers which have worked flawlessly for the past 8
years, and they are a breeze to refill the cartridges. I am thinking of getting
2 new "combo" printers, copiers, scanners. Who makes the best and the easiest to
refill ???

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[Taliesyn]

I have 2 old Canon 5000 printers which have worked flawlessly for the past 8
years, and they are a breeze to refill the cartridges.

8 (eight) years! And the Measekite troll can't believe I'm running one
of my current printers almost 2 years without trouble while refilling.
Measekite will just LOVE to hear you've been refilling successfully for
almost a decade.

-Taliesyn

 

[Impmon]

I have 2 old Canon 5000 printers which have worked flawlessly for the past 8
years, and they are a breeze to refill the cartridges. I am thinking of getting
2 new "combo" printers, copiers, scanners. Who makes the best and the easiest to
refill ???

Defiantly not Epson. I've had major issue with all-in-one Epson
printers and have always steered everyone away from those.

Also Lexmark are poor choice. Their cart are prone to drying out if
you only print a few pages a week or less. $20 cart for 10 pages are
bad deal.

Some HP carts are refillable but I don't know which all-in-one printer
are easy and which are picky about reused carts. Canon is probnably
also a good choice to look at.

 

[Burt]

I have 2 old Canon 5000 printers which have worked flawlessly for the past
8
years, and they are a breeze to refill the cartridges. I am thinking of
getting
2 new "combo" printers, copiers, scanners. Who makes the best and the
easiest to
refill ???

Ron - there may still be a few multifunction Canon printers in the pipeline
that take the bci-6 and bci-3ebk carts. These units have the ip4000 printer
engine and are quite good. I saw a post about a week ago about sealed-box,
refurbished mp780's. Any of the multipurpose Canon units that take four
bci-6 and one bci-3ebk would be desirable if you can't find an ip5000 or
ip6000. I understand that the refurbished units come with a new sealed
printhead as well as a full set of OEM inks. That would give you an extra
OEM cart set which are the best for refilling anyway.

If you can't find one of these units you might consider an ip4300 which
would give similar results to the ip5000. They are selling for under $100
and often have rebates. There are ink sets available for them from several
good vendors. Refilling is the same as the ip5000 except that the carts
are chipped and when they show empty give you the warning screens about
continuing to print with an empty or refilled cart . You can get rid of
this screen, but you will lose the ink monitoring function. No big deal as
you have been refilling for years and know to visually check your ink levels
before any extensive print job.

 

[mike.j.harvey]

I have 2 old Canon 5000 printers which have worked flawlessly for the past 8
years, and they are a breeze to refill the cartridges. I am thinking of getting
2 new "combo" printers, copiers, scanners. Who makes the best and the easiest to
refill ???

Be careful! I was thinking of refilling some cartridges, but a really
clever guy called Measekite on here showed me how doing this could
cause my house to burn down, my young daughter could catch syphilis, my
cat could die, and maybe even cause a mini black hole (or cyan or
yellow or magenta) to develop and swallow the earth! So I just buy
regular ones, and keep the world safe.

 

[Wolfgang Schmittenhammer]

Be careful! I was thinking of refilling some cartridges, but a really
clever guy called Measekite on here showed me how doing this could
cause my house to burn down, my young daughter could catch syphilis, my
cat could die, and maybe even cause a mini black hole (or cyan or
yellow or magenta) to develop and swallow the earth! So I just buy
regular ones, and keep the world safe.

You are sooooooooo lucky!!! I didn't listen to Measekite and all those
things happened to me, and I didn't even have a daughter before I
refilled a cartridge, but now I do........

 

[Jan Alter]

You are sooooooooo lucky!!! I didn't listen to Measekite and all those
things happened to me, and I didn't even have a daughter before I refilled
a cartridge, but now I do........

The easiest cartridge to refill?
Have to say it's the spongeless type that I use with our Epson C84's at
school and the Epson R1800 at home. Takes about 25 seconds to refill and
another 30 seconds to reset the chip. A pity that they don't make them for
all printers at this point.

 

[Burt]

Be careful! I was thinking of refilling some cartridges, but a really
clever guy called Measekite on here showed me how doing this could
cause my house to burn down, my young daughter could catch syphilis, my
cat could die, and maybe even cause a mini black hole (or cyan or
yellow or magenta) to develop and swallow the earth! So I just buy
regular ones, and keep the world safe.

You've just hit on the lyrics for a whole new country song hit. Quite a
change from "I lost my job, my woman left me, and my pickup broke down."

 

[milou]

You've just hit on the lyrics for a whole new country song hit. Quite a
change from "I lost my job, my woman left me, and my pickup broke down."

Using the tune and music of "Five feet high and rising" [Johnny Cash]