Last week I bought an inkjet refill kit for $10.  The idea was to save money by reusing my inket printer cartridges instead of purchasing new ones.  Over a year or so I was expecting to save around $100.

The process for refilling the spent cartridge wasn’t too compicated but a bit messy.  I followed the instructions to a tee and the whole project took about 30 minutes from start to finish.  Plus, future refills would be a lot quicker now that I knew what to do.  So far, so good.

But the print quality sucked!  Totally faded and certainly not usable.  Only when I printed using Best quality did it look acceptable.  Argh.

I removed the cartridge and tried refilling it again but this didn’t help much.  The printouts were very faint.

Instead of wasting more time with the messy and disfunctional refill kit, I decided to bag it and simply ordered refurbished cartridges from a website.  I bought 2 black ink refills for $22 including shipping and they are set to arrive any day now.  This is still half the price of purchasing 2 new cartridges from an office supply store, plus I don’t have to waste time and get frustrated trying to do it myself.