Congratulations to Kim Chadwick!

Congratulations to Kim Chadwick for winning our July drawing for a $50 gas gift card! You can also enter to win at our Logan location. We will draw a winner each month. Good luck!

Epsons Continued...

Just a little follow-up from last weeks blog. We are having success refilling the Epson T068, T069, and T078 series cartridges when they are brought in before the exclamation point shows up on the ink level screen. If the ink level gets to the point of showing an 'X' - we have had zero successful refills. So exclamation points are iffy, but anytime before that pops up they have worked well. If you have a food scale at home you can also weigh the cartridge. If it weighs less than 22.5 grams it usually is unrefillable. If it weighs above that - you are good to go. We can also weigh those for you in the store and we do have OEM's available if they will not work. Special thanks to Jon Sybenga the past couple of weeks in helping us get these cartridges figured out. Jon is a summer Valley resident and is heading back to Sun City this weekend - we'll see you next year, Jon!

Newer Epson Cartridges...

We are seeing more and more of the Epson T069 and Epson T078 series cartridges in our store. And as many of you are finding out, Epson has made a poor decision with this new cartridge design. They are following in the footsteps of Lexmark and Dell in trying to discourage the refilling and reuse of their cartridges. However, what Epson is failing to understand is that many of their loyal customers DO want to use aftermarket cartridges in their printers. HP seems to be the only major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) that understands that there is a large percentage of businesses and consumers who want the benefits of aftermarket cartridges and that this industry is not going to just disappear.

Anyways... I just wanted to help our customers understand what Epson is doing and how we can beat them at their own game. These new cartridges have an external chip (as Epson has done for a long time now), however, now they have added an internal chip that senses when the ink is gone. Once that internal chip registers 'no ink' it destroys the external chips ability to be reset, thus making the cartridge of no value whatsoever. So the key to refilling these cartridges is to remove them when they are about 75% to 80% empty and bring them in to be refilled. Since you will not be using 100% of the ink available - we have adjusted our pricing to reflect that. We are priced at $7.99 for the black cartridge and $5.99 for the color cartridges. This is compared to Epson's pricing of $18.99 for the black and $13.99 for the colors. We understand that it is a hassle. But these cartridges can be effectively refilled using this method and they can put some cash back in your pocket. This is also the reason why we discourage our customers from purchasing Epson, Lexmark, or Dell brand printers. Please let us know if you have any further questions. We also have a flyer available in our store that covers these cartridges. Here is a list of printers that use these cartridges:

Stylus CX5000, CX6000, CX 7000F, CX7400, CX8400, CX9400, CX9475F, Stylus Photo RX580, RX595, RX680, R260, R280, R380, and RX580.

Getting Started...

Hello and thank you for visiting our blog! We just wanted to create a forum where people could ask us questions, post comments, or discuss anything on our mind or yours. I kind of envisioned this blog to cover anything related to our retail store, Cartridge World Logan. However, we may cover topics ranging from photo printing to recycling to wherever else this takes us! So please feel free to post anything on your mind. Hopefully, most of your comments are positive ;) But we also want to hear from you if there are concerns or problems. We are fairly laid back people so we hope you will relax and enjoy as well. To start out, I will try to post a new blog every week. Then once we get going we can adjust that depending on the amount of participation and the demand. Again, thank you for visiting and enjoy!