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High Capacity Ink Carts

Bures

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I see that some Canon ink carts may hold 9ml or possibly 15/16ml
ie PG540 and PG540XL
Presumably ink carts themselves are the same physical size to fit the carrier:-
Does the XL cart just have a bigger lump of foam inside
or
can I replenish the standard cart with double the ink volume.

Just wondering what I am getting for my money with a high capacity cart, which I can emulate with the standard cart
 
Good question and I suspect it's an issue of foam because in the old days, back when I actually used Inkjets, I could never get more ml of Ink into a cart than stated on the cart itself (well maybe I could squeeze some extra in but then you run the risk of overfilling and it might take a few prints to equalize).

You should get 7-8ml in the PG-540 and up to 21ml in the PG-540 XL, according to the official specs.
 
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Just wondering what I am getting for my money with a high capacity cart, which I can emulate with the standard cart

The problem with all the cartridges that I have ever used (Canon, HP, Lexmark, original or copies) is that the ink dries out in the nozzles before you get chance to use them up ! Bigger capacity doesn't help....
Regards,
Martin
 
Interesting viewing Watchdog last night 1/5/2013
Shows how cutting open an HP cartridge revealed how the size of the foam had reduced over the past five years
Latest HP cart only holds 7ml of ink
This applied to all of the top printer manufacturers
An independent manufacturer estimated cost of producing a standard ink cart was 29p
 
It's a similar story for laser printers too, albeit with toner. Ten years ago if you could afford a colour laser printer then the included toner would last you for years but today you'll be lucky to get a few months of hard printing out of one. It does vary though, some lasers still take big cartridges but the funny thing is.. prices are still just as expensive even though you get less.
 
Gram for gram, OEM ink now costs considerably more than gold. This is because the printer companies are selling most printers at the same price that it costs to make and distribute them. They rely on ink sales to make their money.
 
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The other scam with lasers is the machine claiming the toner cartridge is empty when it is not, our Laserjet Pro 100 mfp has been running on 4 "empty" toners since late January!!!

I have noticed the bottom end Samsung mono lasers are now cheaper than the refills by a substantial margin as well; however I came across an ad to have the toner and drum chips reprogrammed so they didnt need replacing when you refill the toner.
 
It does depend though as a lot of third-party firms are now making replacement toner carts that can be 10 times cheaper than the official ones. Sadly the one I have here is too new for that but I suspect that there will be cheaper toner carts around within the year.
 
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