Anyone know of a cheap(or cheaper) place or site to get ink cartridges?? I wish I had gotten the printer with seperate black & color one's because the 2 in 1 just eats the ink.

Thanks,

Azarae D.

There's also some stores around here who will refill them for about $5. Check around. You might have a place nearby.

But the cheapest is to refill. You need one precaution, refill it immediately - don't let the cartridge dry out or you'll have trouble.

Ken

Here's what I did when I was in college and my dot matrix dried out over the summer: I wrote my papers on my computer, saved them to disk, and then went to one of the computer labs to print them on the laser jet for free. This only works if you have the same word processing program as the college and you have time before class to do it. For other tasks, like creating graphs, if you don't have the same program as the college, you can just do the work in the computer lab (if your schedule permits) as these tasks usually go pretty quickly once you know what data to enter.

The same thing goes with laser printers. A friend got fooled thinking he'd check the cost of supplies and since the Brother printer's toner cartridge only cost $35 while the HP cost $90, he felt he'd have a substantial savings over the life of the unit. However he soon found out that not only did it have MUCH less toner in it but it wasn't as readily available and to top it off, they quit making the printer and there went the chance of getting the supplies! Expensive lesson learned.

There's places to get better deals, but just be a savvy consumer and don't be fooled. Sometimes, cheaper is not better.

Ken

You haven't been getting dozens of offers to sell you low-priced cartridges? Lucky you!

joyful

Ask around among some of the other students - some may know of a local place where they'll sell you a refill/refill yours with short turnaround time, at low price.

I can look up some sources that come in as spam on my email - but I have no idea how legit their service or prices.

If you'd like me to check some of them, let me know.

ole Ed

Thanks so much!

Azarae D.

Here's a few links to sites that various people in the computer forum have suggested in the past. I've never dealt with them so I can't endorse them.

http://inktonerinc.com/

http://www.allyoucanink.com/index.cfm?action=browse&type=category

http://www.inkbarn.com/

Ken

I should know better, by now.

I find that a lot of the spam that clutters (and blocks, if I'm away for a few days) my e-mail storage box - are intended only for U.S. residents (not including me, of course).

So - for their clients to send invitations to me - is absolutely useless for those clients.

And less than useless for me: they take up space until I arrive to delete them - which takes too much of my time.

Surely most spammers could at the very least sort out that basic information.

The more they pre-sort, the higher prices that they can charge per name offered/leased/sold.

Actually, I'm checking out some operators of online surveys.

Survey operators regularly ask for a substantial amount of personal information about participants on sign-up.

Most professional survey operators, deeply concerned to preserve their good reputation, guard the personal information of their participants carefully - they sell only the aggregated information to their clients.

But such comprehensive and varied personal information would be a gold mine for spammers.

So how many spammers have set up shell "survey organizations" - to harvest that substantial amount of information, not related to real surveys, but to allow them to sell email addresses - with quite a bit of accompanying information?

And - if the organizers and the supposed "surveys " are fraudulent, they can obtain a great deal more on a cumulative basis.

It seems to me that quite a few are legitimate.

Good wishes to all,

joyful guy

Oh to the days when email was without spam! LOL

Ken

Actually, I get virtually zero spam, probably because I don't respond to spam, use newsgroups, or otherwise post my e-mail address publicly. And I don't use AOL, Yahoo, or any of the spammers other favorites. Alas, this is a discussion for the computers forum... Sorry Azarae D.

I've asked a couple of entities who were advertising refilling cartridges. First wasn't too interested.

The one I visited today asked if it was computer printer using laser technology - not too interested when I said it was just a plain old Xerox photocopier.

But has a friend who may be able to use it.

I pulled a pair of high top shoes/boots (sort of partial cowboy style) out of a large consignment of garbage the other day (see my post "Bonanza" - I think on Household Finance forum), to take to my shoe repair guy. He said he could offer them on his "available" wall - but he thought they would stay there for quite a while.

Anybody need a pair of medium brown, about size 8, rather narrow, I think, with top reaching to just below the knee (depending on the length of your leg)?

(Maybe I should advertise them on eBay??)

joyful guy

Ilene, good suggestion about the .pdf file "print" software that is free for download. The one I use is primo.pdf. I don't think everyone knows about this useful option.

I get a very long life out of Canon S600 cartridges by using the custom print setting with fast print quality and auto (fast) halftoning. This results in less ink use than with the draft setting. They both say 600 dpi, but this custom setting is faster and the text is grey black instead of jet balck with the draft setting. It also works fine with color maps I print. Text is still highly legible and makes two sided printing not show through the page. Cost per page is very low, even with the Canon cartridges. You can save custom settings with most printers.

They were allowed XXX B&W copies and XX color copies per semester.

Perhaps your school also does that, and you don't know about it??