Walgreens' Printer Ink Refill Service is a Must-Try
Let's first start off with the basics. The cost of having your printer cartridges refilled with ink is just $10 for black ink cartridges and $25 for color ink cartridges (prices may vary by location). The service is usually fast; our printer ink cartridges were filled within ten minutes on our last visit to Walgreens. Your printer ink cartridges will come with green caps to keep the ink from smudging your fingers or leaking out of the cartridge.
When we brought our newly refilled printer ink cartridges back home from Walgreens we immediately placed them into the printer to test out the ink. The pages we printed all came out just fine. There were no smudges or faded looking letters on the papers and so we were happy. Then after just a few times of printing our pages were not printing correctly. When we took the ink cartridges out of the printer to inspect them we noticed that the ink was leaking from the printer cartridge. After cleaning the leaked printer ink off of the cartridge the pages once again printed fine. All other pages have printed fine since then as well.
We have never experienced the problem above with the other printer ink refill service center mentioned earlier in the article. I would not let the problem above steer you away from trying Walgreens' printer ink refill service though. Just make sure to let the staff at Walgreens know about the problem so that they can fix it, if it should happen.
The price of the service along with the speed makes Walgreens printer ink refill service a must-try for those interested in refilling their printer cartridges rather than buying new ones.
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17 Comments
Post a Commentmy hp cartridge worked befor and it shows good at wlgreens but my printer rejects it and tells me to replace it or that it is out of ink(WHY)
I used ink refills from a ups store in east lyme ct called the cartridge expert. Works great used 6 or so times on HP and Lexmark printer cartridges... highly recommend it
good idea i hope my inking experince is good to thank you...
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They claim they are refilling to HP specifications which is a lie. Over one and a half years and I have been getting half the amount of ink from Walgreens. BUYER BEWARE!!
Is refilling your cartridge cost effective now? Even worse is that they are hiding the fact that they refilled my type cartridge to half.
(This is a true story from an actual long term customer in Ohio!!) I am ticked off with Walgreens. I feel as if I have been scammed. Test for yourself!! Postal scale will go a long way.
I have been refilling my cartridges for over a year and a half at Walgreens. Since I think of it as recycling I think it's good to have refills. I have noticed that my cartridges seem weight less from Walgreeens than out of the box at HP (for several months now). The refills sent to Walgreeens are from HP original cartridges. So I decided to weight to see what was happening. Here are the results:
HP 15 Black (original) out of box cartridge weights: 35 grams (tested 4 cartridges)
Empty HP 15 Black weights 26 grams (tested 3 cartridges).
I had three cartridges refilled from Walgreens (empty HP originals) and they each weighted: 31 grams, 31 grams, and 30 grams after the refills.
If the full cartridges weigh 35 grams and the empty cartridges weights 26 grams, then there must be 9 grams of ink in a new HP 15 cartridge right? If Walgreens in only filling to 30 and 31 grams I am only getting my CARTRIDGES REFILLED TO HALF. I complained to Walgreens showed them the results. They claim they
I have used Walgreens refill service for inkjets for some time now. The only experience I have had is that some technicians take more time with the refill especially the colored inkjets which are more of a challenge to fill. While other stores just give up but we have several Walgreens in our town so I found the best technicians to do the job and everything works great.
Tried it and it didn't work well. Ended up going to the inkrefillcenteronline.com. Theirs actually worked!
I got both black and color filled and my printer has rejected them as not being full. Sad to say $21.00 and still not working
NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS ON MY FIVE YEAR OLD HPC4280 WITH RFILLED CARTRAGES OR INK REFILL KITS. JUST MAKE SURE YOU KEEP THE PRINT HEAD CLEAN.
Thanks for your review and suggestions. My ink ran out a long time ago, and its too expensive to refill. I was going to run to Walgreens, but stopped in my tracks when you told about the leakage. My printer is down to printing in light green.;) I guess its the only color left.