Installation was simple: I popped out the empty HP cartridge and inserted the Cartridge World tank. If you ever needed a compelling reason to shop around, here it is.Īs with remanufactured cartridges from other vendors, the Cartridge World tanks are visually indistinguishable from the OEM ones, aside from the company’s stickers on the top and side. So you may pay more or less at a Cartridge World in your area than I did at mine in Los Angeles, and your store’s price may be lower–or higher–than the price you’ll find on the Web. Why the discrepancy? According to Sharon Kinkade, director of marketing for Cartridge World North America, store franchisees can set their own pricing. Add $1.99 for shipping, and that comes to $35.86. The black cartridge was $15.32, and the tricolor was $18.55. Weird: The online prices were significantly higher than what I paid. When I got home, I compared Cartridge World’s brick-and-mortar prices with those on its Website. The sales clerk tried to upsell me to the high-capacity cartridges, which, she said, “cost twice as much but print three times as many pages” as the standard tanks. I paid $12.99 for the black ink cartridge (model number CWH-60K) and $15.99 for the tricolor unit (CWH-60Tri). I drove to my nearest Cartridge World store to buy two remanufactured HP 60 ink cartridges for my Photosmart e-All-in-One printer. Print quality compared with OEM ink: Satisfactory, but not as good as OEM * Cartridge World remanufactured HP 60 tricolor cartridge: $15.99 at a store, $18.55 online * Cartridge World remanufactured HP 60 black cartridge: $12.99 at a store, $15.32 online Cartridge World Pricing Varies From Store to Web
(In all my tests, such page yields will likely differ from those that HP or the third-party company quotes, just as your own mileage will vary depending on what you print.) I also compared the print quality of the pages using Cartridge World ink versus those printed with the HP cartridges.
I counted the number of pages that printed before streaks appeared, to get a sample page yield. With both the HP and Cartridge World inks, I printed out a set of pages–ranging in content from plain text to a full-size color photo–over and over again until the ink started to run out (blank streaks appeared on the page). Nevertheless, my hands-on trials will give you a taste of what to expect if you try a third-party alternative with your own printer. You can also buy direct from the company’s Website.īecause I used just one set of Cartridge World cartridges, and with only one printer, my experience is anecdotal and does not test the durability or archivability of third-party inks, nor how the printer will fare after repeated use with them. You’ve probably seen one of Cartridge World’s 1700 retail stores, 650 of which are in the United States and Canada. The company sells toner and ink cartridges for assorted printers, including numerous HP, Canon, Dell, and Lexmark models. This time I tried remanufactured cartridges from Cartridge World. The best option I’ve found so far is Costco‘s onsite refilling service, which saved me more than half the cost over the OEM ink, with little effort and acceptable print results. Office Depot‘s remanufactured cartridges provided meager savings and middling output quality. A do-it-yourself refill kit from InkTec offered the best cost per page and print quality, but it also caused the most mess.
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As a serial refiller, my quest is to find good third-party options–including remanufacturers, refill services, and do-it-yourself refill kits–and tell you whether the savings are worth the trouble. That’s why I won’t buy the original (OEM) printer cartridges for my HP Photosmart e-All-In-One inkjet MFP.
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