To celebrate this loyalty we reward our customers each and every time they buy from us. This means that every time you shop at inkdepot.com.au you earn Shopping Points.So how do you get something for nothing? Just use your Shopping Points to contribute towards other printer cartridges from inkdepot.com.au or buy yourself a WISH!That’s right; your loyalty shopping points at inkdepot.com.au can be used to buy a Wish Gift card. The Wish Gift Cards can be spent at any participating Woolworths and Safeway Supermarkets including CALTEX WOOLWORTHS and CALTEX SAFEWAY. The Wish Gift cards can also be used at HomeShop, BIG W, Dick Smith Electronics, Dick Smith PowerHouse, Tandy, Woolworths Liquor, Safeway Liquor, BWS, or Dan Murphy’s stores.

Not surprisingly, in these tough economic times we have found the gift of Caltex Fuel a popular one!So why not maximise the purchase of your ink and toner products through inkdepot.com.au by treating yourself or someone else to a Wish.

By the way, we have some very savvy customers who have built their loyalty shopping points even more quickly by earning 500 bonus shopping points each time they refer a new customer to us – that’s equivalent to $5.00 in your loyalty bank.  It is as simple as that to earn free money!So, if you would like to work towards your choice of a reward just keep track of your loyalty shopping points each time your shop at inkdepot.com.au – it doesn’t cost you anything.

Compatible Printers for the HP21/22:
Deskjet 3920   Deskjet 3940   Deskjet D1360   Deskjet D2360   Deskjet F2180   Deskjet F2235   Deskjet F2275   Deskjet F2280   Deskjet F370   Deskjet F380   Deskjet F4185   Officejet 4355   Officejet 5610   PSC 1410

HP  (Compatible) Toner - Q6000 4pk Bundle  $297.39:
Compatible toner cartridges offer great value and for this month you can save over $50.00. Until the end of June we are offering you the HP Q6000 value 4 pack bundle at a very attractive price. The 4 pack bundle consists of 1 x Black, 1 x Cyan, 1 x Magenta and 1 x Yellow compatible cartridges. To see details of this special and our other monthly specials click the Monthly Specials link here:

These compatible HP Q6000 cartridges can be used in the following printers:
Colour Laserjet 1600   Colour Laserjet 2600N   Colour Laserjet 2605   Colour Laserjet CM1015   Colour Laserjet CM1017

Special purchase of the Genuine HP 6000A - Black toner  NOW $109.67! A great price for one of our popular genuine toner cartridges. To see details of this special and our other monthly specials click the Monthly Specials link here:

This genuine HP6000A black toner can be used with the following printers: 
Colour Laserjet 1600   Colour Laserjet 2600N   Colour Laserjet 2605   Colour Laserjet CM1015   Colour Laserjet CM1017

*No loyalty shopping points awarded for discounted products

Here’s a hint: After the latest wave of bank stress tests, the US federal regulators proclaimed that the banks were faring much better than they anticipated. 

If Wall Street continues to rally as it already has since that latest development, oil prices are sure to follow suit. And as we have seen, it has already started doing so.

Yes, oil prices and the US economy are newsworthy, alright. 

But why talk about them in an ink blog? 

Unless of course ink is dependent on oil … Is it?

Apparently, it is. In fact, no less than leaders in the industry are saying that it takes 2 liters of oil to make just one pound of laser toner powder. That’s about the amount of powder that goes into one oil-based cartridge.

Let’s try to put some numbers to work based on that info.

Oil and cartridge relationships

In the US alone, businesses, institutions, as well as their government itself consume at least 100 million cartridges every year. That should translate to 100 million pounds or, if you perform the necessary conversions, roughly 50,000 tons. 

If we factor the 2 liters of oil per one pound of toner into the solution, that should give us a whopping 200 million liters or 1.2 million barrels of oil per year. Based on the current price of $US56.98 per barrel alone, that would be equivalent to $US68.4 million or, using the exchange rate of AU$1  = US$0.75, AU$91.2 million per year.

Obviously, there is a need to reduce the ink industry’s dependence on crude oil. Lucky for us, a glimmer of hope is rising on the horizon. PRC Technologies, a division of Print Recovery Concepts, Inc., has introduced a breakthrough in laser printer cartridges technology - toner powder from soybeans. 

Soybean based cartridges

Under the SoyPrint (TM) brand, PRC Technologies will be supplying soybean-based laser cartridges at prices competitive with brand name, oil-based versions. The products are guaranteed to print the same number of pages as their oil-based counterparts and are safe for todays printers. What’s more, initial tests show that the quality of print outputs are indistinguishable between a branded cartridge and a soy cartridge. 

Since these cartridges are coming from a renewable source (soybean plantations can be put up to meet the demand), it will be healthy for our environment, one big component of our world that is gaining a lot of media mileage but isn’t getting much of the needed protection. The vital role of online and local ink and toner cartridge stores cannot be overemphasized. Once these kind of earth-friendly products are made available through these sources, end users can easily do their part.

Finally, this might also pave the way for more researches on other alternative sources. Corn, coconut, and jatropha perhaps? 

When that happens, you won’t have to leave your work desk for a snack.

Check out our Green policy for what you can do to help the environment.

Paper reigns supreme

Well, take a laptop or a netbook with an LCD screen outdoors under broad daylight and see if you can read comfortably from it. No can do? How about bringing out a newspaper or a book instead? Better. Much better.

Now, surely you’ve tried reading an ebook, those lengthy documents on a PDF file, on your PC or laptop. Can your eyes last as much reading from those devices as on a real book? Imagine reading any of Peter Carey’s books in full on both media and you’ll know what I mean.

Until when?

Reading books, magazines, and newspapers are still better done on paper. That was until a technology called e-ink or e-paper came along. That’s the kind of technology that drives the displays on most e-book readers. There are other similar technologies in the industry but they all serve the same purpose: to make displays look like paper.

E-ink has attracted the attention of certain publishers. In fact, the cover of the 75th edition of Escquire magazine was produced in e-ink. So, not only are we seeing e-book readers, we’re actually seeing the possibility of publications headed towards this direction.

Is ink in trouble?

What does that say for ink and all the other related industries for that matter? How about cartridges? Well, let’s look at it this way. How much does a reader cost? We’ll not bother with the magazine thingy since it obviously was just a marketing ploy. Otherwise, you would have been seeing succeeding copies produced on e-ink already. Going back to the price of an e-book reader. Let’s start with the most popular; the Amazon Kindle. Kindle 2 is currently priced at $359 USD. That, by all counts, is nowhere near what one might call inexpensive.

Let’s take some examples. When a teacher prepares some exams, should she upload it somewhere where students can download them to their readers? How about a businessman submitting a  proposal to his associate? Or an employee submitting his report to his superiors? While there are those who do these submissions electronically through emails, quite a number of people still prefer to read these reports from a printed copy. This holds true especially for reports that are quite lengthy.

Until the price is brought down to levels that are competitive with the formidable tandem of ink and paper, these products will be nothing more than novelty gadgets for those oozing with extra cash. And at financially troubled times like this, only few can live up to that moniker.

Apparently, the best way would be to have inks with semiconductive properties. Right now, we don’t have those on our shelves … yet. But the way things are going, it won’t be long ‘til you’ll find them alongside our regular inks. So how does this stuff work?

Get some positively charged ink to make it work

As early as 2004, researchers from Xerox were already able to develop special “inks” for printing p-type semiconductors, conductors, and dielectrics using inkjet techniques. These are the basic components to produce transistors or modern circuits. Unlike other methods that produce similar circuits at very high temperatures and very low pressures, this type can be done in ordinary room conditions.

Its applications? For starters, think RFID (radio frequency identification) tags that you see on many consumer goods. You can also imagine electronic paper, the technology used on paper-like displays of e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle. Then of course there are the ubiquitous super thin flat panels. All these are made possible by putting circuits on flexible surfaces. The problem with the current technology is that their techniques are just so expensive. On the other hand, producing circuits using inkjet technology would translate to low production costs.

Mix with negatively charged ink to make it faster

At around January this year, researchers at Polyera and BASF Future Business GmbH were successful in producing an n-type polymer semiconductive ink. When Xerox Corp developed its own ink 5 years ago, it was only a p-type semiconductor. Meaning, it was only able to carry positive charge. So what makes an n-type any better than a p-type semiconductor for this particular print job? Not much. But when you make them work together, you can “print out” a faster/high performance electronic circuit.

Ready to print that circuit?

Hold your horses first. The technology is not yet perfect. In fact, it will probably take a little more time before it becomes commercially available for household use. But when it finally is, it would be advantageous to know where to find inks and cartridges where the standards are higher and the prices are lower.

Recently introduced -Bundles – providing great savings for our customers. Purchase premium compatible ink cartridges in bundles. For example in our Canon 5 pack bundle you can purchase 2 x Black, 1 x Cyan, 1 x Magenta, 1 x Yellow and save yourself $11.46 whilst still earning your loyalty points.

Don’t hesitate, visit our website today and enjoy huge savings.

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Earn points while you shop for your ink cartridges and save your rewards for future purchases with us – it’s that easy.

For every $1.00 (incl GST) spent at Ink Depot, you’ll earn 1 point for Genuine Cartridges and 2 points for Compatible Cartridges. Each point is currently worth $0.01. The number of points you earn will be displayed near each product so you’ll know exactly how much you’re saving. In addition, your shopping basket will keep a running total of the points you have earned on your current order.

Referrals
At Ink Depot we believe that “Word-of-mouth” advertising is the most powerful form of advertising there is. Referral Points are based on the idea that we should both benefit from your referrals. So all you need to do is refer a friend, who places an order with us, and you will earn 200 points.

Popular printers now supported are Brother HL2140, HL2170, Dell Laserjet 1700, 3000, 3100, C3010, Epson Stylus Photo R1900, Lexmark X560N, Oki C3640MFP, Samsung SCX-4500, SCX-6345N, ML-1630 and Xerox Docuprint C1110.

Take for example the Brother LC-47Y compatible cartridge. Currently the genuine OEM version of the cartridge sells for $18.17 incl. in our store and the compatible LC-47Y sells for $11.00 inclusive of tax. The Buy 2 Get 1 Free price of the compatible means that if you take advantage of the offer, you will end up paying $7.33 per cartridge, which is a massive saving of 34% over the normal compatible price.

We have many popular cartridges that qualify for this saving, namely the Brother LC-21, LC-37, LC-47, LC-57, LC-800 compatible cartridges; Canon BCI-24, BCI-3e, BCI-6 compatible cartridges and popular Epson printers include the Stylus Photo RX510, Stylus Photo R230, Stylus Photo R350, Stylus Photo RX630, Stylus C79 amongst many others.