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caudio51

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Still using that cheapie, now I hardly print that often (that's what work is for) but it's holding up good.
 

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The sales clerk at Staples recently talked me into buying the Staples brand black ink cartridge for my Lexmark at a slightly lower cost than the Lexmark brand, claiming theirs had much more ink and would last longer.
I put the new cartridge in the night before last and it ran out last night right in the middle of a batch of coffee bag labels, ruining about half of them (since I wasn't paying attention). I'm pissed. Granted, I was doing some heavy duty printing between labels and brochures but no more than I'd been doing the past week or two with the Lexmark cartridge.
The brochures eat a lot of ink so I got a price for Staples to print them for me. .78 cents apiece for two-sided color trifold! I think that comes out to much more than Lexmark ink cartridges. I need to find a good print shop.
For any professional color labels I'd spring for a color laser printer. It would probably lower your cost per label, but the initial investment is higher because a nice lowend color laser will run you $300 I think.

I actually put all my color InkJets in storage because the cost is just too high. My B&W Samsung ML-1210 Laster cost me $120 new. It is for years old and I just put in the 3rd Toner Cartridge which cost me $60. So I'm getting about 2 years out of a toner cartridge. Anything I want to print Color which is mostly just photos I take down to Walgreens or go online. The cost of Ink is just way to high.
 

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been using these guys for a while now, saves me big time! All our outside sales force uses them...

www.ldproducts.com
I bought a color and a black today from them. I've been happy with the black so I figured I would try out the color. That's the true test. I saved 19 bucks by going with the cheaper version than the name brand.
 

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I used the color today and it looked good. Definitely a good company. Thanks Randy
 

caudio51

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Ha, I'll get ya a drink at the herf




They included a discount coupon code: INK765R
 

caudio51

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Well my black cartridge lasted three months with printing a few pages every couple days.

Just placed a new order to refill.
 
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