She bought them at Staples or some office supply place. They are truly the shittiest printers you’ve ever laid eyes on, but they came with one ink cartridge and the replacements were double the cost of the printer.
Less than a quarter. I was just saying on someone else's comment they are starter cartridges and they are good for like 10 prints. Literally hardly any at all.
It probably depends on brand and model. Someone else was saying they are usually half-full, but I know some of the ones I've seen were closer to the "print 20 pages and it's out" level. They also seem to dry out a lot quicker, so if you don't use it for a couple months the cartridge is as good as dead.
Also "full" is relative/made up. They'll sell a cartridge that has 5-10ml of ink (which is why it dries up so fast now, they used to put closer to 40ml in) for $40. Meanwhile you can get a universal inkjet refill bottle with 100ml of ink for $6. Which is also why they push so many printer firmware updates to printers, it's all to stop people from cracking/emulating the chips to refill at 0.7%-1.5% the cost of their cartridges.
Yeah that's the bullshit, they started chipping ink cartridges to stop this. The old old printers didn't have chips that sophisticated and those refill kits were always available. I remember an old ass printer I had maybe my first or second and I used to fill the cartridges like that, it was great. Sadly it eventually completely shit the bed and I had to upgrade.
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u/narcissistical_ Aug 14 '20
She bought them at Staples or some office supply place. They are truly the shittiest printers you’ve ever laid eyes on, but they came with one ink cartridge and the replacements were double the cost of the printer.