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Customers have always found the high price of authentic inks for printers a difficult pill to swallow. When you are producing a premium product for customer with high expectations the balance between cost and quality is always difficult to juggle. Its easy to see how the marginally lower cost of a refilled (or remanufactured cartridge as they might call them)can be attractive when considering your bottom line. But the facts published by refill cart suppliers regarding their products don't always stack up.

For a get it out the door, fast as you like, the colours don't match, it's bleeding a bit and still feels sticky crowd a cheap as you like refilled cart might be sufficient. But, for the more professional publisher or disc manufacturer quality will always come at a cost. Whether this is in materials, skills or experience these costs are expected and appreciated in the delivery of exceptional products.

It's the same situation with printable discs, not only are the cheaper discs subject to recording problems but printable surfaces can also vary dramatically. On some inkjet printable discs inks never seem to dry, they respond poorly to successive handling or suffer from ink bleed problems.

At CD-writer.com we advise you to ALWAYS seek the advice of a professional supplier when choosing ink or inkjet printable media. If you own a a MicroBoards, Primera or Rimage CD DVD publisher or printer your should be aware that the manufacturer warranty DOES NOT support the use of ink refills or modified ink feed systems. If you were to visit our engineers at our Greenwich facility you would understand why.

The damage that can be done through the use of a highly pressurised refilled or remanufactured cartridge is phenomenal. Always check you are using an authentic ink cartridge produced by the manufacturer of your machine.

Whatsmore; while refilled ink cartridges might be 20% cheaper, you ARE not buying the same quality ink cartridge. The cartridge does not contain the same ink formulation as used by the manufacturer and you may get fewer prints. In an industry where the quality of the finsihed disc really counts our advice is to ALWAYS use the best quality consumables from reputable suppliers and be vigilant with your internal quality control.

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

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Peter theobald said...: Microboards PF2 works well because of the HP print engine but the need to use the Microboards print cartridges priced at over twice the cost of the HP equivalents, even though they are manufactured by HP and the supplied software with the PF2 said use HP replacements, even giving their HP part numbers is a violation of any respectable companies working practices. Don't try to use the HP parts as they will cause the printer to cease working. Sadly the customer service response to a diccussion on this point was that the distributer must have sold me an old product and that if I was not happy with paying over the odds for the cartridges then send the printer back to the distributer. Microboards you have lost any further business from an otherwise faithful customer.; 10:47 AM
Mark said...: I still use a PF1 and I am on the look out for more of these, the cost of the carts is a rip off for the PF2/3, it squeezes my profit margins to such a degree that I would make no money if I am to remain competitive. I also use refills and have only once or twice had a problem in 5 years, their scare tactics over this are unfounded. I wouldn't mind paying full HP rates for the carts £24, but to charge twice as much is criminal. I would never buy a PF2/3 as they cost too much to run- it is cheaper to pay a teenager to put individual CD's in a standard printer one at a time. I would also point out that Microboards no recycling policy is terrible.; 1:34 AM

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