Cheapest Ink Cartridge Option

Buying a printer is a one-off expenditure but to keep the printer running, you have to buy the ink cartridges every now and then. You have few buying options:

• OEM ink cartridges: It is the acronym for "Original Equipments Manufacturer". OEM ink cartridges are sold with the printers and are manufactured by the manufacturer of the printers such as Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, IBM, Konica, Lexmark, Oki, Panasonic, Samsung, Xerox.
  
• Compatible ink cartridges: These ink cartridges are manufactured by 3rd parties or generic manufacturers but these ink cartridges work with all printers and resembles OEM ink cartridges. Most best selling printers have their corresponding compatible ink cartridges. These ink cartridges are cheaper than OEM ink cartridges.
• Recycled ink cartridges: Recycling means destroying anything by melting, smelting or reprocessing. A recycled ink cartridge is made from such material. These cartridges are much cheaper than OEM and compatible ink cartridges.
• Remanufactured ink cartridges: A remanufactured ink cartridge is manufactured by reconditioning the OEM ink cartridge. These are made from used ink cartridges by cleaning, refilling and testing. This is the cheapest ink cartridge option available among all.

Buying a cheap remanufactured ink cartridge is not an easy task because of the tall claims made by different suppliers. It is good to check the below points before making any purchase:

1. reliability of the supplier: specially manufacturing facilities
2. quality control: full print testing of all ink cartridges
3. product liability insurance: should have such insurance
4. warranty system: should have such system in place
5. dispute mediating system

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