Here is a story that was relayed today by a customer.  A very informed customer that is that cares about saving money and refilling his printer ink.Today I walked into Best Buy, and browsed the printer section.  I asked the customer service rep what printer he would recommend. He wasn’t sure how to answer me, or what questions he should ask me to ascertain what elements or functions of a printer I am most interested in.  He coughed, said a few unrelated things, and beckoned someone to help.  That someone was very “cool”, called me dude, and also did not ask me any questions.  He just zoomed past the printer aisle (passing by at least 10-15 printers on the way, mostly inkjet by the way – not sure why laser toners don’t feature as much on Best Buy shelves), and quickly pointed to 3 printers: a Canon, an Epson and a Lexmark (called Genesis).  I said “why did you suggest these 3?”, he said “Because they are newer and cool.  But it depends on how much printing you do”.  Go figure.  Anyway, I thanked him for his time, and began to do some investigating myself.

Here is a story that was relayed today by a customer. \u00a0A very informed customer that is that cares about saving money and refilling his printer ink.Today I walked into Best Buy, and browsed the printer section. \u00a0I asked the customer service rep what printer he would recommend. He wasn’t sure how to answer me, or what questions he should ask me to ascertain what elements or functions of a printer I am most interested in. \u00a0He coughed, said a few unrelated things, and beckoned someone to help. \u00a0That someone was very “cool”, called me dude, and also did not ask me any questions. \u00a0He just zoomed past the printer aisle (passing by at least 10-15 printers on the way, mostly inkjet by the way – not sure why laser toners don’t feature as much on Best Buy shelves), and quickly pointed to 3 printers: a Canon, an Epson and a Lexmark (called Genesis). \u00a0I said “why did you suggest these 3?”, he said “Because they are newer and cool. \u00a0But it depends on how much printing you do”. \u00a0Go figure. \u00a0Anyway, I thanked him for his time, and began to do some investigating myself.All 3 printers were multifunction (that is they scan, print and fax), and I think also copy. \u00a0 I did not pay attention to the printer models, I was more focused on the cartridges they use as I am interested in the cost per page and long term usability cost (something I think the store sales rep should have asked me about). \u00a0 The Canon used the CLI226 and PGI225 cartridges. \u00a0The Epson used the T09 series ink cartridges. \u00a0The Lexmark Genesis (very cool looking printer) uses the Lexmark 100 and Lexmark 100xl inks. \u00a0So I pulled out my blackberry, did some online searching and landed on Atlanticinkjet.com – promising to save me money on inkjet cartridges, printer ink and cartridge refills. <\/a>\u00a0I looked up the CLI226 and Canon PGI225 inkjet cartridges. \u00a0Original brand – around $20 or more. \u00a0Remanufactured \/ compatible? Around $7 each. \u00a0Refills available? Yes, but they need chips. \u00a0Chips coming soon. \u00a0On to the Epson. \u00a0Refills are very complicated apparently (read some reviews). \u00a0So scrap that. \u00a0The Lexmark 100, also available. \u00a0Long story short, I decided on the Canon because I have had good experience with Canons and because Atlantic had the cartridges in stock.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,5,6,8],"tags":[57,67,59],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canon-cartridges","category-choose-by-cartridge","category-choose-by-printer","category-classic-refill-kits","category-compatible-cartridges","tag-canon-ink","tag-canon-ink-refills","tag-printer-ink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.atlanticinkjet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}