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Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Recently we have found that some of our customers are ordering the incorrect cartridges for their printers. Following these tips ensures that you order the correct cartridges for your printer model number.
- Have your printer model number to hand you can find this on the front of your printer or in your instructions
- Or have the cartridges to hand that you have ordered previously. You can also find what cartridges are compatible with your printer from your printer manual.
- You can search on our website in a few different ways. You can either select the tabs and in three steps you can get your printer model number. Start with your printer manufacturer and then your printer series and then your model number.
- If you cannot find your printer series, when you put in the manufacturer all of the printers are listed underneath for the manufacturer selected. You can also search in the box which says Enter cartridge or printer model number. To search just input the manufacturers name a space and then the printer model number you will get a list on the left in blue when you click on your printer model number at this stage make sure it is the correct one.
- Some printer model numbers have letters after them and when you look on the list and it does not show this when this happens in this instance click on the printer model number and when the cartridge list is showing, confirm that these are the cartridges you require.
- You can also search by just the cartridge number for example you have an HP 27 cartridge input in the search box to do this make sure there is a space in-between the manufacturers name and the cartridge number the cartridge should be listed
If in any way you are not sure which cartridges you need you can always Email us at info@cartridgediscount.co.uk or fill in our contact form or call us on 08456439782 we are always happy to help.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Refilling Ink Cartridges
When your ink cartridge is empty, most people send it off for recycling and buy a new replacement. However, replacement ink cartridges don’t come cheap; it costs a lot less to refill the cartridge yourself using a specially designed kit. Inkjet refill kits can be found on the internet and in most shops selling printer cartridges. There are two separate kits available, one for filling black cartridges and one for colour. The black refill kit is a lot simpler as you are only dealing with one colour. The colour refill kits are slightly more complex as you have three separate colours Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, these are the 3 primary colours for printing. Most kits are the same, however some have slightly different instructions specific to a certain brand or type of cartridge. If your printer model/brand is listed on the outside of the box it may be easier to use than other brands. Generally, a refill kit can be used to fill any type of cartridge.
It is not difficult to refill your own ink cartridges, as long as you follow the instructions you should have no problems. Be warned, refilling your ink cartridge is messy task. Ink can stain your clothing, furnishings and your skin. Make sure you cover your work area and wear old clothes before you begin!
Remember, if your cartridge has a digital chip that moniters the ink levels, you will need to purchase a chip resetter tool to enable the cartridge to work. Check your local ink cartridge shop or online retailer to buy one for your printer.
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Difference between Ink Cartridge, Toner Cartridge and Printhead?
Ink cartridges, toner cartridges and printheads are all important parts of printer. A printer is would not function without any one of these parts. There are differences between all three. We have listed some of them below:
1: Printheads and Cartridges
Cartridges and printheads are two very different parts. Printheads contain the nozzle of the printer. This nozzle squirts the ink from the cartridge onto the paper.
2: What is a Cartridge?
An ink cartridges contains ink, while a laser toner cartridges contains a toner. The toner is dry ink and looks like a powder. Both kinds of ink find their way to the paper through the printhead.
3: Price
Ink cartridges are cheaper than laser toner cartridges. But, laser toner cartridges are capable of printing thousands of pages where as ink cartridges can only print hundreds.
4: Print Speed
When it comes to the speed of the printing , laser toner cartridges are faster than ink cartridges.
5: Print Quality
Another difference between ink cartridges and laser toner cartridges is the difference in print quality. Laser printer cartridges produce better image quality than ink cartridges, but the difference is quite small.
Neither cartridges are better, the choice depends on your own personal needs.
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
How to get the maximum ink from your cartridge?
To get the most ink out of your ink cartridge, you need to carry out a few simple steps; these include cleaning the print heads regularly and also making use of the printer settings.
Step 1: Draft Mode
Maximising your ink usage means maximising the amount of printouts. Therefore, it’s important to select the ‘draft mode’ whenever you can. This reduces the amount of ink used for the printing process, and makes your cartridge last even longer!
Step 2: Select the cartridges
If you want to print a black and white page, do not select the colour ink cartridges for the process. If you select the colour ink cartridge it will mix various colours to create the black ink. This will only waste your colour ink.
Step 3: Manage the colour
If you are printing rough drafts always remember to change the printer settings to draft mode. The default setting is ‘best quality’, you should only use this for the final printout.
Step 4: Current page
There are times when you only need to print out one page on a document which contains multiple pages. Some people just give the command to print the entire document. This will waste ink. In order to get the maximum ink from your cartridge you need to select ‘print current page’.
Step 5: Cost of the ink cartridge
Once you become aware of the high cost of branded ink cartridges, you will notice remanufactured or compatible ink cartridges. These are much cheaper options, work the same and often give you a higher page yield.
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
How to print free graph paper online
If you own a printer you can create and find lots of useful things. One of these things is printing graph paper free using the internet, your computer, and printer. So, if you have some maths or science homework, all you need to do is select the appropriate graph paper and print it out for free! The only cost that you will incur is the cost of your paper and ink.
1. Choose the type of graph paper you need
There are various types of graph paper options available from free websites, which include Cartesian graph paper, engineering graph paper, polar graph paper, isometric graph paper, logarithmic graph paper, and hexagonal graph paper amongst various others. Almost all kinds of graph papers are covered by the free sites offering online printing for graph papers.
2. Choose the Paper Size
The next step for you would be to choose the kind of paper size that you want to go for. The selection should be based on the paper you are using to take the printout. So this could be either letter size or the A4 size or even the A5 size, amongst various others.
3. The Measuring Units
An important part of taking an online printout of graph paper is the choice of your measuring units. It could either be in inches, centimetres or millimetres.
4. Save the file and click print
Typically the graph files are in the form of PDF files. You could save these graph files onto your computer for future use as well.
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
How to Get Maximum Ink from a Cartridge?
To get the maximum ink from your new ink cartridge, you will need to use it very frugally, clean the print heads regularly, and also use the print quality setting. Here are a few steps that will help you get the maximum ink from your cartridge.
STEP 1: The Draft Mode
Maximizing ink usage means maximizing the amount of printouts. Therefore, it’s important to select the draft mode, whenever you can. This will reduce the ink used for the printing process and print more pages.
STEP 2: Select the Cartridges
If you want to take a black and white printout, do not select the colour ink cartridges for the process of printing. A colour cartridge will mix various colours to create black ink. This wastes large amounts of ink. So, just select the black cartridge from printer settings.
STEP 3: Manage the Colour
Once again the printer settings come in handy. If you are printing rough drafts just change the printer setting to draft. The default setting is ‘best quality’. The final version could then be printed in the best quality mode.
STEP 4 – Current Page
There are times when you want to print just one page on a document that has multiple pages. Some people just give the command to print the whole document. This will waste ink. In order to get the maximum ink from your cartridge you need to select the ‘Print current page’ option.
STEP 5: Cost of Cartridge
Once you realise the expense incurred in buying or refilling a cartridge, you will automatically adopt the steps given above!
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Continue printing when only one cartridge is empty!
As you may have found, it’s quite difficult to continue printing if there is no ink in one or both or your ink cartridges. Most printer manufacturers have made sure that the printer stops working from a safety perspective. However, there are some steps you can take if only one of your ink cartridges is empty, read on…
Don’t remove the empty cartridge
If you are using a printer that can function with only a black cartridge installed, then it would be a good idea to keep the empty cartridge inside the printer. You should install a colour cartridge alongside it that is not empty.
Printer Settings
You will need to go into the printer settings, out of the available options choose the ‘black only’. You will also need to change the print quality to the lowest level.
Lie to your Interface
After you have reinstalled the empty cartridge, the printer will ask you if the ink cartridge is ‘new’. ‘Full’ or ‘empty’. This question will be in the form of tabs, always click the ‘full’ tab.
The Print Command
After completing the above steps, the only command that needs to be given is the printer command. Remember, this kind of process might not work on some printers, however the steps given above successful across most printers in the market today.
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Storing your Ink Cartridges
Ink cartridges should always be stored in their original packaging in an upright position with the printhead facing up. If you have several cartridges in the same package, ink might start leaking and mixing if cartridges are stored on their side. Ensure the storage space is not too warm, excessive heat can cause air bubbles inside the cartridge to expand causing ink to leak out.
How do I store partially used ink cartridges?
There are times when it is necessary to remove an ink cartridge from your printer and store it for re-use. It is frustrating to reinstall an expensive ink cartridge that you know still has plenty of ink remaining, only to find that the printhead where the ink comes from has dried up! You are left with a dry cartridge with ink still left inside that you can’t use. You can easily prevent this frustration by storing your partially used cartridges correctly, read on …
- Place the used ink cartridge into a zip sealed sandwich bag, if you have more than one cartridge to store; use a separate bag for each cartridge.
- Wet a sponge or small towel and wring out the excess water so the sponge or towel is left damp but not dripping.
- Add the sponge or towel to the plastic bag holding the printer ink cartridge.
- Seal the bag with the sponge or towel and the ink cartridge inside.
- Store the sealed bag in a dark, cool place until you are ready to reinstall the printer ink cartridge and continue using it.
Don’t remove the ink cartridge if it’s empty and you don’t have a spare cartridge to replace it with. If you remove the cartridge then air will cause the ink to dry within hours which will clog the nozzles. This is especially important if you have an Epson printer where the printhead is attached to the printer and not the cartridge.
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Printing on both sides of the paper
Even though ink is a lot more expensive than paper, printing double sided can save you money and help to preserve the environment. If your home or office printer supports duplexing, this is very easy to achieve automatically. Printers capable of printing on both sides of the paper are usually more expensive, but manually printing double sided sheets can be time consuming, so the extra cost could be justified if you print often enough. If you need to print double sided manually you will need to use the process below:
1. Firstly, you will need to determine which side of the paper your machine prints on. Mark a sheet of paper with a pen and then print a test page if you aren’t sure. If you do not use your printer very often it would be a good idea to take a note of the orientation of the printed sheet so you will remember in the future.
2. Once you have determined which way the printer will orient the pages, select print from the file menu and manually enter all the odd page numbers, for example 1,3,5,7,9 etc … click OK and allow all of the pages to finish printing.
3. Take the printed pages and flip them around so that the printer will print on the other side of the paper this time.
4. Repeat step 2, but this time enter even numbers.
You may be able to select ‘odd numbered’ or ‘even numbered’ pages only from the file menu, on most Mac Operating systems this is under ‘Copies and Pages’>>Paper handling.’
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Printing from an Internet Browser
Using a printer to keep a physical copy of pages you are browsing online can be frustrating and an unnecessary waste of paper and ink. Not only does the advertising print, but also the formatting doesn’t work properly, and printed sheets with two images and no text or text only are not uncommon.
Selecting print from a browsers file menu causes the browser to send everything showing in the window to the printer. To avoid this you will need to plan ahead before clicking ‘print’.
Option 1
Keep an eye out for the special ‘print page’ button. Many web pages include a print page version now. Google Maps, for example, allows you to bring up another window where you can customise your print options, including how many and what size maps to add to your printed directions. Many news or text based sites offer a downloaded PDF or Word formatted document for printing purposes. These pages will save you time and materials.
Option 2
If there is no specific print version button on the web page, you will need to decide how much you want to print. If you only want to print a small section or a block of text, highlight what you want and right click it, and then select ‘copy’. Open a new blank text page and right click again, this time selecting ‘paste’. You can now format the text as you wish.
Option 3
If you only want to print an image from a web page, you can usually right click and copy the image and then paste it into a photo editing program or a simple ‘paint’ type program to print it from there.
Option 4
If the web page you wish to print from is mainly text, or the amount of text is too great to copy and paste into a whole new text document, you will have to print it from the web browser. This means you may get more graphic elements then you want. You can control the extent of this by ‘right clicking’ on a frame (section of a page) and then selecting ‘open this frame in a new window’. You can then print only what is showing from the browsers file menus without as much waste.
You must remember that websites were designed to be read by web browsers and not printers, and the two do not interact well, but following the simple instructions above should solve you a lot of hassle and time!
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