Lexmark Ink Cartridges
Based in the UK, Ink2U are a major supplier of ink cartridges and toner cartridges. They have been supplying most brands of these products since 1999. Unlike most suppliers in the industry they produce their own brand of remanufactured inkjet cartridges. These mainly consist of the recycled printer cartridges produced by Dell, Hewlett Packard and Lexmark.
New Lexmark ink cartridges are produced by Lexmark International, Inc. Once used it is imperative that these cartridges are recycled, as the plastic materials that are used in the production can take over 1000 years to decompose. In fact approximately 90ml of oil is used to produce each one. Apart from that disturbing fact, there is no point in throwing something away that can simply be recycled. Not only does recycling these cartridges save the materials used in production it reduces each individual consumer's carbon footprint on the earth. Lexmark has become a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing and imaging solutions for offices and homes since their inception in 1991 which as a matter of fact was a spin-off of IBM
With regards to Dell ink cartridges and printers, these are typically based on the Lexmark engine so utilize the same production and refilling techniques. As a consequence of this therefore, the same inkjet remanufacturing processes, testing equipment are utilized. Also they are associated with the same recycling and environmental issues.
Next we move on to Hewlett Packard, HP was founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939. Most people have heard of this giant of a company as they sponsor such things as the Williams Formula One racing team. Amongst other things they produce items such as personal computers, inkjet and toner printers including hp ink cartridges which are installed into their inkjet printers. Once again these cartridges once recycled make up part of the remanufactured product band.
Next let's take a look at compatible inkjet cartridges. The majority of these that are sold go into inkjet printers such as Canon and Epson. Compatibles as they are known in the trade are brand new cartridges (unlike the remanufactured types) that are not produced by the printer manufacturers. Albeit there are some UK manufacturers, obviously due to current production costs these are primarily produced in China.
Firstly we have Canon ink cartridges, these fit into printers such as the Canon Pixma MP460which is an excellent multi function machine.
Last but certainly not least are Epson ink cartridges, these fit into printers such as the Epson Stylus DX5000 which take the new breed of Epson chipped cartridges namely the T0711 black, T0712 cyan, T0713 magenta and T0714 yellow carts.
Hopefully this information is of use as this is a vast industry with a lot of myth to sift through to get to the truth. The end thought is please be green and continue to recycle whatever you can.