Does anyone have experience in refilling ink cartridges?

[RagingInMiami]

There's a place down here that does it for a fraction of the price of what a brand new cartridge costs. But I'm wondering if it will work as good as new cartridges.

I wonder if it would leak ink all over my printer and document.

[El Fuego]

1. Nope

But I still wanted to say HI! :hi:

[RagingInMiami]

4. Hi El Fuego

Good to see you again. Are you going to DC for the protest?

[El Fuego]

5. No, I thought about it

But the hotel rates put me off. I will probably wish I went. . .

[RagingInMiami]

7. This is history in the making

[Dave Reynolds]

2. I have had mixed results,

poor results with HP, okay results with Canon.

I do not do it any more, my wife uses the business write-off on new ones.

[NaturalHigh]

6. I'm with Dave.

We have had really poor results refilling the cartridges for our HP printer. They don't last as long, and the quality isn't as good.

[Ksec]

3. Its messy, wear rubber gloves and do it over

something like newspaper . I did it twice with my HP and it worked fine , but it is messy.

[Guaranteed]

8. My expert computer geek g/f says it works about every other time.

After once or twice the head gets messed up.

[RagingInMiami]

9. I figured it would be too good to be true

[Deja Q]

10. Don't

The internal mechanism in the cartridge may be designed to not tolerate the pressures of refilling

HP and Lexmark also put in print heads to every cartridge. Refilling may damage these.

They've learned a lot since DIY refill kits came about.

I've done one step better: Say "Screw you" TO Lexmark and HP and go for brands whose ink prices won't outprice the printer's price in 6 months.

[RagingInMiami]

11. I just came back from the store and paid another $25 for a cartridge

that might last for a few weeks.