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has anyone bought remanufactured Lexmark inkjet cartridges before?

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Chau

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specifically from meritline.com? or in general, is there a big difference in quality between remanufactured and oem cartridges? because the price is almost 50% difference

thanks
 
I've purchased refilled cartridges from Carrot Ink and 123Inkets. While I have to give a passing grade to both companies for no-hassle customer service (returns/exchange), the performance of the cartidges sucked. Clogging, leaking, banding, and generally piss-poor print results, even with plain old black text. I had to return/exchange cartridges two different times with one company, I forget which. The first set didn't work at all, and the second leaked all over hell and slung ink inside of my printer.

PC World did a test of refilled/remanufactured ink cartridges a while back and even included a sophisticated analysis by a leading authority on print and photo permanence. The results of the permanence analysis at least lends some credibility to the explanation of printer manufacturers for why their ink cartridges are so expensive.

Its clear that ink cartridge refillers don't really know ink from dink, they're just marketers and salesmen who buy 'some ink' from 'some where' and put them in cartridges, whereas printer manufacturers actually engineer inks from the ground up through real R&D labs.

Cheap Ink Probed - PC World
 
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