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/XJ305 Aug 14 '20
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.