I get mine from Blake Printing Supply off of amazon. They work fine.

In the computer store inside the campus bookstore they have a service where they will re-fill your ink cartridges. I've used them a couple of times. The printer does display a warning "these aren't our ink cartridges, using them may damage your printer, click OK to continue" With the re-filled cartridges I have had to run the print head self clean operation periodically, which I don't recall having to do with the original ones. Also The most recent time I got two black cartridges re-filled, installed one, and the other somehow leaked out inside the bag.

My biggest complaint about the printer is that if one of the colored inks is determined to be low/empty, it will refuse to print anything even if you are specifically only printing something that is black and white and therefore should only use black ink.

Be aware that apparently HP cartridges did have something probably a chip that will prevent them from being refilled after they reached a certain age. I purchased cartridges and had the ones I owned refilled and my printer each time had a message something similar to the cartridge being out of date. No mention of the ink being out of date just the cartridge. This was about 5 years ago so they may have changed.

We don't have a need for color printing so 5 years ago we switched to a mono laser printer. Much less expensive to operate.

I buy mine from Rapid Refill and have never had any problem with them. I don't print whole lot but I try to make sure I print at least a couple of pages every week to keep the ink flowing.

Before I switched out printers, I used to take my empty cartridges to Costco to be refilled. It worked fine.

I found a fantastic online company where I buy my laser cartridges from. $25 with a money-back guarantee. I've used them for my last 3 cartridges and they work flawlessly. They're a Canadian company, so I'm posting the link for fellow Canadians. Perhaps they sell to the U.S. too, I don't know. But shipping is free and I had a new cartridge at my door in 2 days.

Toner and Ink cartridges

No. I have a laser printer. The prices for the reused ones were only a bit less last time I bought one at Office Max so I didn't bother.

We gave up filling cartridges or buying refills. Instead we bought a laser printer and it's been 1 cartridge change in 4 years. Granted, I no longer print volumes, but I probably print at least 10-15 pages per month. Very reliable; no constant cleaning the cartridge heads. We were actually thinking of buying a color laser for printing pictures, but we’ve not seriously pursued it.

I've bought off-brand laser cartridges, but at some point switched to refilling them myself with bottled toner. You do it outdoors, although I've never made much of a mess. Very economical to do it this way.

I tried them - they destroyed my HP printer. It was an expensive lesson.

At my place of employment, after fighting with various non-OEM and refilled toner cartridges word came from the "upper ranks" that we would only by genuine HP cartridges. No more problems, no more printers needing service.

I guess I've lucked out then, because my HP laser printer lived 16 happy and busy years on off-brand toner.

Now, photo printers are another story. The ink for my big Canon printer is ridiculously expensive, but I've never bought the off brands because of the horror stories I've heard online from photographers who went that route once (and never again).

I've used refilled cartridges for years on a variety of printers with no problems. For the last couple of years I've taken my empty cartridges in to Costco where they refill them in about 1/2 hour, and have a money back guarntee. They don't refill all cartridges, but most of the common ones.

While using re-furbed cartridges may work for you, the main problem with HP cartridges is that they actually sputter (burn/boil) the ink onto the paper. If/when the cartridges runs out of ink that little burner usually gets fried and refilling that cartridge won't work. Our company was using 6 HP printers of one type and purchasing insisted that we use re-furbs. Over 75% of them were DOA so we actually weren't saving money and had unhappy customers.

I haven't had good luck with refilled cartridges. I go to eBay and find genuine name brand cartridges for a reasonable price and have no issues with them.

No I don’t I know it might be wasteful, but I just give the printer to goodwill. I have found that ( for me) it is cheaper to buy a new printer. They come with ink and will last me one or two years any way Ink costs more then a new printer.

I use a laser printer for the vast majority of my printing, starting with an HP 4L which cost about $500 in 1995. I bought a "reconditioned" Brother HL-5250DN in about 2008. Ethernet, duplex, does about 30 pages a minute. I replaced the original toner cartridge last year!

Refill cartridges also ruined my HP printer. I don't recall the brand, I bought them from Amazon.

A woman at work asked me a few days ago, which printer I use. I said I bought a cheap $40 HP printer more than 10 years ago that won't die. (I want a wireless one but won't buy one until this one dies). She said her ink leaks in her printer. I asked which one she has: also HP. Then she went on to say she refills her ink cartridges. That's something I've never done, and never will do as it voids the warranty and ruins your printer. I would rather pay for brand new ink cartridges made by HP for the printer it's for than cheap out by refilling and ruining my printer. Even though I want a new printer............ ;)

I tried refilling my own cartridges years ago, and it was simply a messy operation that I won’t repeat, but it didn’t hurt my printer. I’ve bought refill cartridges online at Amazon and the quality ranged from good to fair, but they didn’t hurt my printer. I’ve been using Costco refills for the last several years and they work just fine, and so does my printer.

YES- not so recently but for quite a few years, even at work we used Carrot Ink and were quite pleased.

I used to. My HP inkjet printer now has started rejecting them. I think in one of my upgrades they installed some kind of app that senses and rejects them if they aren't coded by HP. Now I have to pay extra for genuine HP ones. Maybe I don't know what I am talking about, but it seems suspicious that I used them fine for years and now all of a sudden I can't.

Update to OP: We bought refilled cartridges from Amazon for our Epson printed, and so far, so good. Thanks for all the input.

I did when I had a Lexmark printer and had no problems -- I cant' remember if they were refills or just generic off-brand. When it died (unrelated to the ink) I got an HP and have only purchased the HP cartridges for some reason.

pinkmountain-

You do know what you're talking about. HP and others have chips in their cartridges to force you to buy from them. And they and other printer manufacturers have sometimes used an innocent-sounding update that installs code on your printer after you bought it to force use of their cartridges. In response to public outcry, some of them have backtracked on this, and some third party cartridge suppliers have developed their own chips to get around this with some printer models. But the war continues....

I had an expensive HP portable printer, stand alone, no copier/scanner. I don't remember the model. It was a great printer, and I had/have a flat bed scanner, so didn't need the other anyway. It worked great. I used the Costco refills once. Worked fine. The next time the printer wouldn't work. I bought new HP cartridges. Didn't work. Bought new HP cartridges. Worked fine. Next time I bought new HP cartridges, the printer never worked again. This printer was over $200, and only available at Staples. I loved it. Didn't buy a new one. I bought a cheap all in one from Walmart for about $70 that had wireless printing capabilities. No more refills for me.

Having said that DDIL uses refill all the time, something about continuous refill? From Amazon. If anyone wants more information on that, let me know and I will find out.

No, I switched to a monochrome laser printer and generic toner cartridges about 10 years ago.

Note this is a year old thread bumped by a rogue user adding nothing to the conversation.

The person who bumped it (post now removed) has a few threads with spam attached to them, too.

$200 is not an expensive printer, just not a cheap one either.

At one point in my life I was printing a lot so I used refills for a few years until one failed and leaked ink inside the printer (what a mess). Since then I have never used a refilled cartridge.