3rd party inkjet cartridges - any good?

[Rhys W]

I resent spending 2/3rds of what I payed for the printer on a couple of ink cartridges, not to mention the wasteful aspect of all that plastic being thrown away every time.  I recently got a flyer for these people in a newspaper. Anybody used them?

[pcolbeck]

I have used Jettec cartridges for years and they are fine for general use. If you are photo printing it's a different matter.

[Polar Bear]

I have used different third party cartridges on two different printers in recent years.  Both printers have gone on to fail from clogged heads/jets or whatever they are delivering one of the coloured inks.  One was a Canon, the other an Epson.   Much as I resent paying the price of the real thing, I believe from experience that it's worth it.

[fred the great]

I refill mine.

The important thing is to print a page each week and this stops the print heads from clogging.

I do replace the cartridges after about 10 refills so overall cost is very small.

[Gruff]

I refill my own. Quick and simple, with an equivalent price of about 80p a cartridge.

As discussed here:

http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27188.msg489983#msg489983

[robgul]

... after a long and bitter struggle with useless inkjet cartridges (both OEM and 3rd party) I made a modest investment in an HP colour laser ...... fantastic!   

I have to confess it is ONLY used for colour printing, I have another black-only HP laser for mono printing.

I reckon the cost of wasted cartridges and the time buggering about with them has been repaid many-fold with the colour laser ... and printed OS maps are as good as the real thing!!

Rob