What is the deal with refilling your own inkjet cartridge? Which brand is the easiest and hardest to refill?

Can it truely be done?What is the deal with refilling your own inkjet cartridge? Which brand is the easiest and hardest to refill?
Physically replacing the consumed ink is possible with almost any cartridge. Getting it to work properly or at all is another matter, for numerous reasons.





--Cartridges now include ';smart chips'; which communicate with the printer driver to determine ink usage and thus an empty condition. These are not resettable, so refilling them is useless.





--Ones size does not fit all when it comes to ink. The nozzle and ejection designs are different for all brands and so the ink is actually part of the design. Things like dot size, placement permanence are greatly deteriorated with generic ink as are color considerations like hue, chroma and intensity.





I too got tired of unfair ink prices, so I went out and bought one of those new Kodak printers. The black replacement was under $10 and the color, under $15. The quality is awesome and I am very happy with it.





Bottom line, better to stick with OEM ink, just try to get at more reasonable prices.What is the deal with refilling your own inkjet cartridge? Which brand is the easiest and hardest to refill?
He is right you need to be able to reset the ink cartridge so the printer think that it is a new full ink cartridge other wise it will see it as empty. Your best bet just have them refilled at a store like Staples. As for the easiest cartridge to refill it would be HP by a long shot as Canon are all most impossible to refill.
never refill ink cartridges. it's a good way to destroy a printer. read http://www.ccs-digital.com/refills.asp for details.





For epsons there's a product which gives you the best of both worlds. The ink is in a separate tank inside the main cartridge. When the ink runs out, you pop out the tank and pop in a new one. You reuse the same chip which resets to full automatically. You save the cost of a new chip which brings the price of the ink tanks to under $3. They also hold almost triple the ink of genuine Epson. You can get $30 for the empty cartridges. That's free ink.





Read http://www.ccs-digital.com/freeink.asp for details.





Does anyone have such a product for HP or Canon? I'd love to spread the word.
Depends. Some manufacturers it wont work with unless you can trick the printer into thinking it is a new cart.