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# Beating the High Price of Printer Ink

So you got a good deal on that ink-jet printer only to find out later that the cost of buying new cartridges is breaking the bank. Each cartridge costing between $18 to $ 34 and producing at most 300 pages. It is easy to spend more on ink during your first year of ownership than you paid for the printer itself. Suddenly that $ 99.95 ~ $ 149.95 color ink jet doesn’t look like such a great bargain.

You can slash the ink cost radically by purchasing refill kits from various suppliers who sell those kits for various ink-jet (bubble-jet) printers like Cannon, Epson, HP, Lexmark etc…. for around $27 per ink bottle that is good for 14 re-fills in my case.

My kit included, 8 oz. of ink, a syringe and a little hand drill with directions.

[Figure: Drawing of a Canon ink cartridge, with the area marked “DO NOT TOUCH THIS AREA”]

You poke a hole in the cartridge with the little drill, then using the syringe, you inject the water soluable ink into the cartridge – doing that over the sink or a newspaper – just in case!!! It is almost like getting ink for free

Voila! you are back in business for a fraction of a penny per page.

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