Tips for refilling printer cartridges

Written by Barry Shultz


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6. Black cartridges are usually easier to refill than color cartridges. This is because they are of a much simpler construction. Color cartridges usually have multiple chambers and it's easy to cross-contaminate colors if you are not careful.

7. Never over fillrepparttar cartridges. I know what you are thinking, "How can I see insiderepparttar 107204 cartridge, it's black?". If you can't see inside you can use a tooth-pick. It's like a dip-stick to check your oil, like in a car. You can get a pretty good idea how much ink is left.

8. Don't be in a hurry when you refill and don't rely on refilling to meet important deadlines.

9. Always removerepparttar 107205 cartridge from your printer before attempting to refill it. Drillingrepparttar 107206 top of some cartridges can create a tidal wave of ink inside your printer.

10. Takerepparttar 107207 necessary steps to protect your work area from spills. One small accident can voidrepparttar 107208 warranty on those new $330 Gucci loafers.

11. Never insertrepparttar 107209 cartridge inrepparttar 107210 printer if it's leaking. This should go without saying but I know from my emails that people do it all too often.

12. To store empty cartridges or refilled cartridges you should put them in a plastic zip lock bag or wrap them in cling plastic wrap.

Barry Shultz is the author of Atlascopy News, and President of Atlascopy, Inc. Atlascopy specialized in affordable alternatives to the high cost of printer supplies. Sign up for the Atlascopy Newsletter and get 10% coupons every week in your email. http://atlascopy.com/signup_new.htm Go to Atlascopy to save a bundle on your printer and refilling supplies. http://atlascopy.com


Start Your Own Inkjet Refilling Business

Written by Barry Shultz


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Once you have a good supply of cartridges start refilling some different types to get up to speed. You can test them in your friends printers; you probably know many people with different printers. If you're serious you can buy test printers very cheaply on eBay or other online auctions. Know anybody that works at Staples, Office Max, Best Buy? They have allrepparttar new printers on display.

You shouldn't need to test every one you refill. But you will need to test your refilling procedures to make sure you are doing it right. When you are convinced they are refilled properly then you don't have to test every one of them. Now if you wantrepparttar 107203 best refilled cartridges you will want to eventually get a test printer for each type of cartridge that you refill.

Here is a tip. If you refillrepparttar 107204 cartridges that are inrepparttar 107205 most demand you will be so busy you won't have time to sleep. Most of those will be Lexmark cartridges. Why? Because Lexmark is buying back their cartridges and there aren't many floating around forrepparttar 107206 refillers to refill. Cartridges like 12A1970, 10N0016, 10N0026, 15G0055, 15G0065, 17G0050, 17G0060, 18L0032 and 18L0042. HPC6578, C6656, C6657, C6658, C8727 and C8728. You'll want to concentrate on cartridges that have built in print heads becauserepparttar 107207 other "tank" types are sold so inexpensively that you wont make a profit by selling them.

Make sure you code your cartridges some how. You are probably going to get some duds back and you'll want to be able to identify them as yours. People will sometimes send us back cartridges that we didn't sell them. We know because they are coded. Don't let this happen to you.

This article is getting longer than I wanted so if you have read this far you are probably itching to get started. You'll need some education first. The BEST source is Matt Eve's guide "Inkjet Cartridge Refilling". I have a link to his site from my web site at http://atlascopy.com . Look inrepparttar 107208 left column under Inkjet Refill Business.

There are two other guides that I can recommend, distributed by Asay Publishing. "Inkjet Guide for Entrepreneurs" and "Inkjet Cartridge Book". You can find them here: http://www.asaypub.com/bookstore/author.cfm?authorid=7

Barry Shultz is the author of Atlascopy News, and President of Atlascopy, Inc. Atlascopy specialized in affordable alternatives to the high cost of printer supplies. Sign up for the Atlascopy Newsletter and get 10% coupons every week in your email. http://atlascopy.com/signup_new.htm Go to Atlascopy to save a bundle on your printer and refilling supplies. http://atlascopy.com


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