Those are sure to clog up a printer, but they would make interesting prints.
I don’t do refills ever, but all my printers are work printers. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen the (off-brand refill) magenta toner cartridge for a workgroup-class Xerox document center literally explode the part of the cartridge that supposedly lets the toner out a little at a time. The printer itself was fine, but all consumables were a total loss–fuser, imaging drum, everything–and I had to run water through the mechanical bits and hot-air dry it to get all the freakin’ pink powder out.
It was really quite spectacular–there was so much gunking up the fuser/drum that anything you printed was pink-tinged until I replaced them, no matter how many self-cleaning cycles I ran.
Hmm…might look into something like this for my HP printer.
At our local OfficeMax, they sell re-filled cartridges and I buy the black ink for $10 as I mostly use my printer for school stuff - tests, forms, etc.
Have only once had a problem, took it back and they replaced it for free.
It seems to me that this would negate some of the disadvantages of inkjet printers, because work printers are probably in use on a regular basis.
Inkjet printers are pretty good if you use them a lot; it’s when they sit idle for long periods of time that they really start to get wasteful, because the cleaning process just wastes so much ink. That’s one of the main reasons we bought a laser. While there are times when we print a lot, there are also times when the printer can sit for days or even weeks without being used. With a laser, firing it up after three weeks of inactivity isn’t a problem, and wastes no toner.
That’s probably true too, although the absolute worst are the commercial/workgroup wax ink ones.
I don’t own a home printer–I just mail stuff to myself and print at work, and bill myself seven cents a page. =P