Recently the selling of fake ink cartridges has appeared in the news recently as some of them have been appearing on the shelves of retail shops. Fake cartridges are expensive and could potentially damage your computer so here in this article we shall look at how to avoid buying them. If retailers are genuinely being deceived about their products then you will need to be careful when making your purchases.
Get a list of reputable and authorized ink cartridge dealers and make your purchases from only these, you can comprise a list by looking on the internet. Printer manufacturers regularly have links from their site to authorised dealers and will happily give contact information to online sales and storefront retailers in your area.
Make sure that you pay attention to the packaging of your ink cartridges as counterfeits do attempt to recreate the original packaging as much as possible but there are certain aspects of it that won't look entirely the same and parts that they will be unable to recreate. Also look out for spelling errors and abnormalities in the packaging.
Check the pricing of the ink cartridges, if the prices are suspiciously low then there is a good chance that they are fake. Although there are some counterfeit cartridges that are sold at the retailer's price usually they have a discount of around forty per cent so just be wary of cheap deals.
After purchasing ink cartridges keep aware of how long they lasted, as fake ones run dry very quickly in comparison to genuine ones. If you buy a new cartridge and it runs out quickly after only a small amount of printouts then it is fake and you will not want to purchase that product again as potentially it could be damaging your computer's hardware.
Next check the quality of your print outs with your new cartridges as fake ones will have a lower quality. Compare the print outs with other cartridges in the past, this is the easiest way to see how much of a difference there is in quality.
Finally you will also need to look at the overall performance of the ink cartridges you have brought, a fake one will spill ink over the page. A fake one will also leak, spit, pop and cause blots which will take time to clean. If you find your ink cartridge behaving in this way at all then it is most likely a fake and should be removed from your printer to stop it from being damaged.
Author Resource:
Dom Donaldson is a printer expert.
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