For me, because I was able to get a good nearly 20 year old HP printer that doesn’t actually care about reported ink levels and I can just refill the cartridges with ultra-cheap ink from AliExpress.
You can get a 250ml bottle for around 10 bucks. Just make sure to get the correct one (dye vs pigment). My black cartridges were re-filled, but the company used dye ink in them even though they should have had pigment ink. I keep refilling them with dye ink, no idea what would happen if I mixed the remains.
This works, unlike doing it the other way around (pigment ink in dye heads), but it’s a bit of a firehose situation. I have to use at least 120gsm paper (regular is 80), otherwise it just leaks through.
I also refilled a fountain pen with it. That leaks even through the 120gsm paper, but it’s pretty black. Anyway, I could probably only use that with cardstock paper.
It’s cheap enough for me to play around with like this too, or print “dark mode” documents.
For me, because I was able to get a good nearly 20 year old HP printer that doesn’t actually care about reported ink levels and I can just refill the cartridges with ultra-cheap ink from AliExpress.
You can get a 250ml bottle for around 10 bucks. Just make sure to get the correct one (dye vs pigment). My black cartridges were re-filled, but the company used dye ink in them even though they should have had pigment ink. I keep refilling them with dye ink, no idea what would happen if I mixed the remains.
This works, unlike doing it the other way around (pigment ink in dye heads), but it’s a bit of a firehose situation. I have to use at least 120gsm paper (regular is 80), otherwise it just leaks through.
I also refilled a fountain pen with it. That leaks even through the 120gsm paper, but it’s pretty black. Anyway, I could probably only use that with cardstock paper.
It’s cheap enough for me to play around with like this too, or print “dark mode” documents.