If you own an inkjet
printer, you must know that an ink cartridge is a major component of
your printer. The role of the cartridge is to store and distribute
ink.
A vast majority of inkjet
printers make use thermal technology. The ink reservoirs in the
printer contain a small metal plate or resistor for conducting heat.
An electrical current is made to pass over the thermal device to make
it hot. The heat allows the ink to form a sort of air bubble in the
nozzle. This further causes the ink to come out of the nozzle onto
the paper that is being printed.
Most printers make use of
two ink cartridges. One contains black ink and the other contains
coloured ink. Coloured ink cartridges consist of coloured ink of all
the primary colours. Depending one one’s printing needs and
requirements, one may buy an inkjet printer that may separate the
cartridges into specific primary colours.
It is important to know
that the ink cartridges made for one brand of the inkjet printer are
incompatible with another brand of the printer. You just can’t use
a
Brother printer ink cartridge with an HP printer or Canon
printer. If you try using it, your printer can be damaged without
repair.
Original
ink cartridges as those produced by the manufactures of inkjet
printers are quite expensive. The price of a black or coloured
cartridge is most cases is almost equivalent to that of a new printer
itself. Rather than buying expensive original ink cartridge a lot of
people prefer to buy compatible ink cartridges.
Compatible Printer cartridges are sold by manufacturers other than the Original
Equipment Manufacturer but they adhere to all the product
specifications given by the OEM for a specified brand of printer.
By buying remanufactured
inkjet cartridges and bulk buying, one can further avoid paying
exceedingly high price for the inkjet cartridges.
