[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Yes, I stand corrected. However, it doesn't matter. Let's just say for kicks and giggles, you buy a brand new printer. And let's say you use after-market re-filled ink cartridges. And let's say those ink carts are inferior, and haven't been tested by HP and approved for use and their heads have dried out old ink lodged inside them, causing the cartridges to leak by the third month you have them in the printer. And let's say that those cartridges completely ruin your printer.

The warranty is a LIMITED warranty, not a FULL warranty. So you'll have to send the printer back to HP at your cost - they'll discover that some other company's subpar inferior defective products caused the problem AND that you intentionally chose to use those inferior defective products.

So they'll remove the ink cartridges (since that's what caused the problem), clean your printer, and send the printer back to you - at your cost for shipping. And you'll STILL have to buy new inks for them.

Now, you can do this over and over again for the entire first year that there's a limited warranty on the printer.

It'll cost you more than you paid for the printer in the first place, but hey - you saved $3 on ink right?

Or - you can buy the real deal OR the approved substitute (Canon has authorized compatible substitutes) that aren't remanufactured, but are new cartridges, made by the same people who make the actual brand-name cartridges, but simply have a generic label on them.

And you'll save yourself a lot of time, energy, frustration, and money in shipment costs, just to prove that your product is under warranty so you can use the crappy inks and not have to worry about them ruining your printer.

Since all I need is black and white, buy a laser printer use toner and not worry about ink cartridges ever again