Printer Ink Secret - True or false ?

Yes Ziggy, you warned me about the Kodak the day after we bought it! Reading back throught this thread it looks like Canon's come out well, but they are probably a bit toppish in price. Good stuff though, I have a Canon camera.

We had an old Epson before the Kodak, so don't know whether to go back to one of those or perhaps HP.

 

Sorry

 

Until fairly recently I was involved in Printer Inks.
Certainly the Epson range has good quality 3rd Party Inks available which gave £7 for a set of 4 retail price for a large portion of the Epson range - and they were interchangeable with the originals, so you didn't need to change all if only 1 ink emptied.

 

It's not your fault Ziggy. it's just typical of my luck!

 

I use Epson, four seperate colours, I replace my ink via IJT INKS very cheap
It does come up with the nag you are not using Epson ink do you wish to continue

Off course I do, I am not paying £8 for yours when I get if for £3 from IJT

I have pix from five years ago still strong colour no fading

Jack McH

 

We got our replacement for the Kodak printer today and decided to go back to an Epson. Problems though.........I can't get it to install, typical! So I'll be making a phone call in the morning to the shop I bought it from, if that doesn't work I'll be shouting for my son-in-law.

 

Not had a printer for over 5 years now - never missed it ! If I need a print just forward it to work and print it - Personally I think printers are the work of Beelzebub , they know exactly the right moment to fault out ---- "printer not recognised" and hundreds of other "What the hell does that mean ! " messages - go paperless

 

Oh the Luxury, I hate printers and all the hassle they bring, plus the expense, unless they are up and running

Julie trusts me so much she just goes to Boots and prints them off herself :-)

Jack McH

 

I just refill my own cartridges, HP printer had 5 spare cartridges so i bought some ink and refill them, alot cheaper than buying new cartridges but it can be messies

 

Problem solved and it's now installed. Believe it or not the printer wasn't recognising my computer. Shouldn't it have been the other way round.

 

Another good deal on at the moment with Tesco giving 500 points with every 2 HP carts, so I've been stocking up on singles rather than combo packs to maximise the points. The ones I use are now all sold out at Tesco Direct where a further 13% was possible (£10 off £75).

On our last instore shop we also used a double points voucher, so this is how it works (based on only 2 catridges, rather than clearing the display as I did):

Spend

2 x £7.99 (I use HP364) = £15.98

Points

Double points on purchase = 3
Promotional points = 500
Bage re-use = 1
Recyling points for empty catridges = 200

Total points = 704. These points will be worth £14.08 at the next 'double up' promotion, can be sold for double their face value on ebay, or exchanged for 4 x their face value to get 'deals' such as National Geographic subscription, RAC, RHS, NT membership, etc., but as these always have a more expensive 'full price' than getting a good deal elsewhere, you're probably only getting 3 x their value.

So basically, if you double up and/or exchange for deals you get free (my favourite price) HP ink cartridges. Before they sold out online (which hasn't surprised me), and by using money off codes they were even cheaper than free (every little helps).

 

The offer's now finished - I hope somebody made use of it to get some 'free' stuff.

I might exchange some the the points I got for T&M vouchers (500 points for £15 off online code) http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=2280& bci=4294966483|Home & Garden*4294960047|Garden meaning I'll have got all my ink carts for absolutely nothing. But obviously I'll wait until T&M have some 50% off seeds weekend, etc.