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Easy Ink Cartridge Shopping

Published on May 15, 2008 One Comment

The other day I was trying to figure out which ink cartridge went to my printer and was having the darnedest time. Then through the Google Powers-That-Be I came across Carrot Ink, a store for off-brand, refurbished, and OEM inkjet cartridges, toner, and other printer related goods.

The set up of the website is quite intuitive. You can chose what you are looking for easily by product or by manufacturer. Once you find your printer it gives a list of compatible inkjet cartridges. For example, I was looking for Epson ink cartridges and canon ink cartridges for my home printers. After selecting that manufacturer a long list of possible printers appears. Just select yours and then it tells you which cartridges you’ll need. It’s much easier then going to the store and looking at those color coded boxes with 5-8 different identical looking numbers, that’s for sure!

The best part, though, is that the saving are huge. Take a look at these savings. For this particular Epson model, Carrot Ink’s compatible inkjet cartridges were $6.95. The Epson OEM cartridges were $16.95! Quite a difference. Not all printers that I saw had that huge savings, but quite a few did. Also an added bonus is that since you shop online there’s no sales tax if you’re outside of Texas.

Before finding Carrot Ink I actually didn’t realize that there were “off-brand” or “compatible” inkjet cartridges available. One thing, of course, that you have to worry about is the quality between these store brand and the name brand cartridges. For example, it would be interesting to see what the difference is in yield and quality of printed paper. I haven’t been able to test out the cartridges yet, though their website says that their in-house tests have comparable yield to the OEM products. Next time my printer needs ink I’ll be shopping here for sure.

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