InkJet Refills

High Price of Inkjet Refills

Are you fed up with the high prices of inkjet refills like I am? I bet you are. I think that the price of these inkjet refills are way over priced and we are being taken advantaged of. If we don't buy the refills, then our printer just sits there dead and useless.

Typical printer refill costs

Let me give you an example of what I mean. I own a Lexmark Z600 series printer. It takes a #16 black cartridge and a #26 color cartridge. The last time I bought them at Wal-Mart, the #16 was $29.99 and the #26 was $31.99. That is a total of $61.98! Yikes!

Is this Corporate Irresponsibilty?

Now what gets me is that in the aisle at the same Wal-Mart there is a stack of Lexmark all-in-one printers for $49.97! It would be cheaper for me to buy a new printer than to buy the ink refills and the new printer comes with ink.

So are these companies just throwing cheap printers out on the market just to make up the profit on the inkjet refills? If so, that is totally irresponsible of these companies. So this lens is dedicated to finding the best way to get your inkjet refills for less.

So What Can YOU Do?

There are a few things that you can do to fight back at these greedy Gus's. The cheapest way is to refill them yourself. You have seen the refill kits at the discount stores, but they have the potential to be very messy and if the cartridge gets damaged then you have to buy a new one anyway.

The best alternative is to find a decent online retailer that offers discount prices on the cartridges you need. I have scoured the internet and have put links to a few of them below. You can go and pick and choose the one you feel more comfortable with. These places have the best deals on the Internet for inkjet refills.