Here are a few facts about inkjet cartridges:
There are lots of companies on the internet that will buy your empty inkjet cartridges. This is an excellent opportunity for raising fund money for any organization from Boy Scouts to baseball teams or to just put a few bucks back in your pocket. This is not chump change either. Some companies are paying $6.50 and more for one cartridge. Collect a bunch of these and you can make some serious money. Laser cartridges can fetch up to $25 each
Most of the companies that will buy your empty cartridges will also pay for any postage charges that you incur.
Inkjet brokers just can't get enough cartridges fast enough to supply the many recyclers that are starting up. They have to rely on people like you and me to keep them supplied.
Now keep in mind that they do not buy just any cartridge. They are mostly interested in those cartridges that contain print heads, like HP, Lexmark, Dell, Some Canon, Apple, Some Brother, Sharp and older Xerox cartridges.
The reason is because cartridges that are just ink tanks, i.e. the print head is permanently mounted in the printer, are cheap for the generic market to reproduce. So there is no profit in commercially refilling them.
Also, in order to keep the highest quality, they are mostly interested in virgin cartridges, those that have never been refilled. You may find some companies buying once refilled cartridges but at a substantially lower price. Many will just tell you up front that they must be virgin cartridges.
These empty cartridge buyers are easy to find. Just do a Google search something like this, "we buy empty inkjet cartridges". I got over 95,000 results with that search.
This company will supply everything you need for fundraisers.http://www.inkbank.com
Here are some others that will buy your cartridges:
http://www.cartridgesareus.comhttp://www.webuyempties.comhttp://www.tonerbuyer.comhttp://www.fundraisingweb.org/listings/recycles.htm
Having Fun With The Printer Support Techs
Many years ago when I was a copier technician my boss would always tell us to push our companies supplies, paper, toner etc.. Of course they wanted to sell more supplies and make more money but their techniques were very questionable. Just like printers you could go out and purchase generic supplies and some worked better than others naturally. Well the supplies that we sold were also mostly generic, however, they were branded with our companies name and logos. Here's where the sneakiness comes in. When a customer complained about a repair cost estimate we were told to blame it on their inferior generic supplies and to further that the repair would have been much cheaper if they were using our over-priced supplies.
My Printer Died - An Epitaph
My printer just died. My Epson C60 that I've had for almost 2 years was my buddy. I loved that printer. It was there for me through thick and thin. Sure it had it's quirks and idiosyncrasies like not printing when my office temperature dropped to 17 degrees because I forgot to turn the thermostat up one bitterly cold morning. I had to open the lid and point a ceramic space heater inside to thaw it out.
When Is Black Not Black?
Did you notice how many different black inks there are available? At last count we have forty different black inks listed on our web site. You may be wondering how many shades of black can there be? Well there are actually different shades of black which I will explain in a bit.
