Possibly the most items and reseller has to offer for a given printer model

We're going to go out on a limb here... but we believe we offer more products for a given printer model than any competitor. Here's an example of such a printer model that we support with more product options than others... take the Canon Pixma MP620 printer, a very popular inkjet printer from Canon.

http://123refills.net/cic/eg/inkjetprinter.php?printer=Canon+PIXMA+MP620


We offer the following product categories for this printer:

Compatible Cartridges
Combo Packs
OEM Combo Packs
Refill Kits
Bulk Ink
Refill Accessories
Chips
Photo Paper

Excluding photo paper, we offer 27 items for this printer. And that does not include variations in sizes for bulk inks.

123 Refills prides itself on being able to offer our customers a wide variety of products for all types of customer needs. Need cartridges? We have remanufactured / compatible, and we have OEM. Need refills? We have those too. Need refill accessories like chips, resetters, and refill tools? Look no further.

HP Introduces Its Most Compact Color Laser Multifunction Printer

HP Introduces Its Most Compact Color Laser Multifunction Printer: "M175nw"

Did you know that you can refill your Samsung CLP300 toner cartridges for $6.99?

Refill kits for Samsung CLP300 (CLP-300) are available from Uni-Kit and for sale through 123refills.net for only $6.99. At these prices you're saving around 80% compared to buying a new cartridge from Staples. Quality? You won't be disappointed.

New Toner Refill Instructions Added

New toner refill instructions have been added for Uni-Kit toner refills for:

• Kyocera TK 360, 362, 364
• Kyocera FS-C5200DN/C5300DN (TK-552)
• Epson C2600
• Xerox F2121

To download the latest Uni-Kit toner refill instructions manual, go to www.uni-kit.com/support.htm

Coming soon... ink you can eat!

Coming soon... inks you can eat, or also referred to as edible inks.  Why on earth would you want to eat your inks?  Well, for printing digital images onto your cakes! For example, you will be able to print that photo of your son or daughter to put onto their birthday cake.  Personalize cakes, cupcakes, or other baked goodies by simply printing your desired image onto a sheet of edible paper (yes, you can eat the paper too which are also known as frosting sheets), and apply the printed frosting sheet to your cake.  All this, on a simple sub $100 inkjet printer!

We have been working long and hard to test and bring to market a comprehensive solution for edible inks and edible paper (frosting sheets) and will be releasing it soon.

You will be able to print your cakes and eat them too!

Questions? Comments? Please post and we will be happy to respond.

Glossy Optimizer Inks available in easy to use sizes

There aren't too many printers that use glossy inks (or glossy optimizer inks as they are also referred to), but for those that do their own printer ink refills and have a hard time finding the glossy optimizer inks, there is now an easy to use solution from 123 Refills.  You can now buy Uni-Kit Durafirm Technology brand glossy optimizer inks from 123 Refills in 3 convenient sizes:

• 60ml
• 240ml
• 1 liter

Glossy optimizer inks are used in select printer cartridges, such as cartridges for Epson R800 / R1800 / R1900 and Kodak #10 cartridges.

Poll favors Lexmark as the "least friendly for refills" printer

123 Refills has been conducting a casual poll on its blog asking 2 versions of essentially the same question:

1) What is the most refill friendly printer? and
2) What is the least refill friendly printer?

With around 100 votes in so far, there is an interesting picture that is being painted by voters.

Lexmark is clearly in the lead as the "least refill friendly" printer, with 35% of respondents choosing that brand over any other.  This is not surprising given the high failure rate of Lexmark original ink cartridges (most in the aftermarket industry would agree that the quality of Lexmark cartridges is inferior to other brands - the print heads clog frequently, they wear out faster than other brands among other technical problems).  The voting is also not surprising given 2 other well publicized tactics by Lexmark:

1. The Lexmark prebate program (forcing customers to return cartridges to Lexmark that were offered for sale at a discount - essentially removing them from the pool of refillable cartridges), and
2. The Lexmark firmware / chip encoding issue (according to SCC and other industry giants, Lexmark is purposely causing their printers to not recognize refilled cartridges through firmware updates)

So its not surprising that Lexmark is being selected as the "least refill friendly printer".  Dell cartridges are made by Lexmark, and Dell is the 3rd least popular for refills in the same poll.  What is interesting though, is that HP is currently in 2nd place as the least refill friendly printer, yet, it is also currently in 2nd place as the "most" refill friendly printer.  Lets analyze this for a moment... how can a printer brand be both highly popular for refills, and highly unpopular at the same time?

Our take on this is that HP has flip-flopped over the years, putting out refill friendly printer cartridges, and refill unfriendly cartridges as well.  So customers who have bought the refill friendly cartridges, are happy with HP, and customers who bought the unfriendly for refills cartridges, are obviously unhappy with HP.  Some HP cartridges are easy to fill.  For example, the HP 94, HP 95, and other HP 90 series.  But other HP cartridges like the HP 940, HP 920 and HP 564, are not as friendly because they have chips!  A customer who bought an HP 94, would probably consider HP a refill friendly brand.  But a customer who bought the HP 920, would consider it refill unfriendly.  It would server HP well to continue down the path of being refill friendly.  Yes, they will lose some market share to the aftermarket, but the aftermarket will promote their brand and HP will benefit as well.

That's our short analysis on the poll results so far.  Please vote and let us know what you think! The poll is open to anyone and is visible to the right of the page.