Since I printed a lot of 100% ink covered labels for my software I got a HP business inkjet printer with cartridges that do about 2000 color prints each, but since I didn't use anywhere near the 10,000 page/month duty cycle I decided to offer a color printing service and am getting 500-3000 page orders since I can beat anyone's price while offering better print quality, but the ink cartridges had to be refilled often, so I bought medical grade tube and connected them to each cartridge, out the gap between the printer and scanner and to ink bottles (the photo shows 2 and 4oz bottles, but I have 16 and 32 oz bottles on their way).







For $98 I got enough ink for 30 000 color prints or 60 000 black and white prints, toner for as many pages for a laser printer would cost around $5 000-10 000, that's the main reason why I prefer inkjets.

My printing service is working so well I'm considering getting the business inkjet 3000 with a 30-50 000 page/month duty cycle and/or the business inket 2800 large format 13x19 printer since a few are requesting large format prints.

I had seen ink kits like this with tubes connected to the cartridges but they are being sold for $340 US, it cost me $4 to build it myself, and the $98 of ink is many many times more than came with the kit. I can finally forget about refilling which I hated doing, rather than refill cartridges every 2000 prints, I will now replace ink bottles which is much easier and only every 30-60k prints.