alvino
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when i was buying my lexmark x1180 last year ie jan2006 i was debating weather to get a epson all in one or a lexmark and i decided the lexmark cos of the origonal cost of the printer but now i think that i have made a mistake cos of the ink prices its like £30 $60 each time they run out and that is for half full cartridges yet my friend could fill his epson 2 or 3 times for that much but his isnt an all in one and cost nearly double the price of mine to buy so i suppose it was a trade off between orig price or running cost and i chose orig price
oh and my lexmark has one colour cartridge instead of seperates which is a waste so i am starting to refil them again cos now i have 2 lexmarks running the same ink cartridges 17and 27 or 16 and 26 so it is gonna become more expensive now
Yeah. I think there are some shops around my area that just refill the cartridges since the cost of the ink itself is cheaper since most of the cost for cartridges is for the cartridge itself not the ink. So why pay so much for ink when you can just save money and refill the ink.
Or if you're a DIY person, you could even hook it up so instead of using cartridges, it's connected to a constant supply of ink. I saw my friend's printer and his dad did that. There's little tubes that go to the back where little bottles of ink are stored and when refilling is needed, he just refills the ink. I don't know how he did that though...it was cool.