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The Telegraph would have no hesitation using remanufactured cartridges

2012-05-01T11:56:00.000+01:00

This article was selected from the Recyclers email today and makes for some interested reading in these times of austerity.

The Telegraph’s Technology Advice column notes that alternatives and refills can save money and offer an alternative to OEM products, though sounds a note of caution.

The Telegraph article answers a reader’s query about whether it matter that she uses recycled cartridges in printing from her HP AIO, with the newspaper’s Rick Maybury attempting to answer whether compatible supplies have a “discernible effect on quality”.

Maybury notes that both “recycled or compatible cartridge and ink refills can save you money”, adding that from his point of view he “would have no hesitation in using them on most HP models”, as well as on “other makes where the print head is built into the ink cartridge”, as if “you are unlucky and the print head clogs then you can just throw the cartridge away”.

Whilst this reflects the negative trend of trashing and not recycling the cartridges, Maybury warns that “on printers where the head is an integral part of the printer a blockage caused by a cheap compatible cartridge or refill ink can be fatal”.

A German consumer group and an environmental website have both also endorsed the use of remanufactured cartridges in the past few months.

The penultimate paragraph mentions the use of cheap ink cartridges that can block printer heads. This is a valid point when using cartridges with poor quality inks. You will find the fitted printer heads on Epson printers are the main manufacturer that will be affected with clogged printer heads. If you do use cheap ink cartridges ensure that you run a rigours maintenance program for your printer in order to preserve the life of the printer heads.

Genuine or remanufactured cartridges for HP?

2012-04-27T11:55:00.001+01:00

Genuine or remanufactured cartridges for HP, it’s a decision that may make you think are the cheap HP ink cartridges going to work? Or am I better off paying the extra for genuine cartridges?

At Selectafont we try to sell the highest quality cartridges that we can get our hands on. For our remanufactured range of HP inkcartridges, we use Jet Tec and their cartridges come with a full 100% satisfaction guarantee and most cartridges contain far more ink that the genuine HP counterparts.

Recently Jet Tec has proved their commitment to the quality of their cartridges with the HP 364 cartridges. HP recently updated their firmware on a selection of printer that uses the HP 364 cartridges. These cartridges that were affected are refilled cartridge that had an expiry date of before 2012. These cartridges were then rejected by the printer due to the change in software. Jet Tec will exchange and faulty cartridge that were caused by the change free of charge. In this day and age customer service of this kind of quality is hard to find!

Price reduction on compatible T1285 & T1295 cartridges

2012-04-20T11:31:00.000+01:00

We are pleased to announce that we have been able to reduce the price of the new ranges of Epson cartridges

Compatible T1285 £9.75

Compatible T1281 £2.50

Compatible T1282 £2.50

Compatible T1283 £2.50

Compatible T1284 £2.50

Compatible T1295 £9.75

Compatible T1291 £2.50

Compatible T1292 £2.50

Compatible T1293 £2.50

Compatible T1294 £2.50

Multi buy discounts are still applicable for these cartridges with 8% off for 3 or 4 of the same items and a massive 20% off for 5 or more.

Is Kodak going to survive?

2012-01-13T15:55:00.000+00:00

In the press there is a lot on news that Kodak is in a lot of trouble. The famous brand has failed to move with the times. With the introduction of digital cameras Kodaks business was dependant on the old style 35mm films. In recent years it has produced digital cameras but without consumables being purchased, its core business has continued to drop. In recent years it has pushed its printer and with some success with keeping their Kodakink cartridges affordable it has taken a section of the home printer market but it seems that it has not secured enough of a market share to be able to survive.

We are aware that Kodak is in talks with looking to sell many of the patents that they have and this should secure the production of their cartridges but we would expect a shortage of cartridges in the short term while production is moved or restarted under new ownership should the worst happen.

Epson Stylus SX235 printer cartridges

2011-11-30T11:22:00.000+00:00

We recently listed the Epson SX235 printer on the website and the printer is proving to be a very popular printer model with the item on offer at many retail outlets for as little as £35 it is a great buy.

The Epson cartridges are expensive but the Compatible T01285 cartridges have been around for about 6 months now, this has lead to many reductions in the price of the cartridges, we now sell as set of compatible cartridges for only £11.99

New Designer Clothes Website

2011-10-31T18:30:00.000+00:00

Its not a normal post for us but we have a friend who has just started a designer clothes website.

Their website has all the top brands available a low prices. If you are looking for either Men’s designer clothes or Women’s designer clothes we are sure that they will have something you for you for loved ones, as Christmas is approaching.

Designer gift will make an impression that will not be forgotten.

August Competition Winner

2011-08-30T13:50:00.000+01:00

We are pleased to be able to announce this months winner of our competition.

The lucky person is Maria Marston.

Maria forward us the correct anwers

We started trading in 1991

The cartridge capacity of the Jettec Dell 944 black cartridge is 27ml

Congratulations to the Treasure Hunt Winner!

2011-07-07T12:46:00.000+01:00

They win the £20 offered this month to spend online at Selectafont and chose to purchase a Canon CL-38, which is a Canon ink cartridge for their printer.

Don't forget to keep checking the website, blog and facebook pages for details of mid month mini hunts!

Monthly Newsletter and chance to win £20 to spend on Selectafont.co.uk

2011-07-05T14:38:00.000+01:00

With this months newsletter we have not only an offer of a free BIC pen set on all orders over £10.00 but also kicked off a monthly treasure hunt with a chance to win £20.00 to spend at Selectafont.co.uk

Make sure you sign up to receive our newsletter to be the first to receive the clues to find the hidden present, once located click on the product, copy the URL into an email and send to sales@selectafont.co.uk

Happy Hunting!

Also make sure you've clicked to follow the blog as we may sneak in details of extra mini hunts with discount codes, offers and other freebies!

Jet Tec remanufactured HP 364 cartridges

2011-06-20T16:05:00.000+01:00

We are delighted to announce some new arrivals in the selectafont office which we're sure are bound to be very popular indeed with users of HP ink cartridges- The new remanufactured HP 364 cartridges from Jet Tec.

Not only kinder on pocket but being remanufactured cartridges they are also kinder on the environment too! Priced at £5.32 for the Black cartridge and £5.11 for the colours

HP Receives Favourable Ruling on Patent Infringements

2011-06-13T10:37:00.000+01:00

HP follows in Epson's footsteps and is awarded a favourable ruling from US international Trade Commission on the sale and importation of inkjet printer cartridges that infring on its patents.
Like Epson HP lodged a complaint last June with the ITC with the aim to ban imports of ink cartridges that they said infringed on their patents.
The ITC decided that Microjet Technology co. directly violated HP's patents and that Asia Pacific Microsystems attributed to that infringement.
This may affect those looking for cheap ink cartridges for their HP printers as it may well pave the way for HP to agressively pursue and prevent 3rd party companies from producing cartridge compatible with their printers.

The HP Envy 100 printer

2011-06-09T13:26:00.000+01:00

Users of HP ink cartridges may be interested to know of a new edition to their Envy line. HP customers may already be familiar with the Envy brand in terms of the sleek range of laptops, now HP have added a printer to this design orientated range - the HP Envy 100

Its sleek looks will certainly see it fitting better into the home than traditional inkjet printers but HP have perhaps forfeited functionality & performance in favour of looks and design. This printer does however feature a range of apps and HP's airprint facility allows users of all things Apple, inlcuding the ipad and iphone to print directly to the Envy 100.

HP have also opted for a 2 cartridge system, rather than a more economical 5 or 6 cartridge print engine. However the printer takes the HP 300 and HP 300XL range of cartridges, which are towards the more reasonable end of the scale for HP consumables and Jettec are now producing the HP 300XL remanufactured cartridges which can be purchased for around the more pocket friendly £16 for the black.

New Jettec Product - Compatible Epson T1281, T1282, T1283 & T1284

2011-05-26T10:51:00.000+01:00

We now have stocks of the Jettec compatible epson cartridges
The T1281, T1282, T1283 and T1284 cartridges are priced at £5.26 each including VAT & delivery follow the quick links below to view the available all compatible ink cartridges for yor printer.

Epson Stylus S22	Epson stylus SX125
Epson Stylus SX420W	Epson stylus SX425W
Epson Stylus Office BX305FW

HP Q6470, Q6471, Q6472 & Q6473 - New Prices

2011-05-06T10:28:00.000+01:00

Users of HP Toners will be pleased to hear about our great new prices on remanufactured HP Q6470, HP Q6471, HP Q6472 and HP Q6473 toners.

We've just reduced these to £42.00 each for the toners and £161.99 for a set of 4 including VAT & delivery!

New Compatible Canon PGI-525 & CLI-526 sets

2011-05-04T15:17:00.000+01:00

Compatible Canon PGI-525 & CLI-526 sets

Users of Canon's Pixma IP4850, Canon Pixma MG5150, Canon Pixma MG5250, Canon Pixma MG6150 or Canon Pixma MG8150 will be pleased to hear that new compatible sets of 5 cartridges for their printers are expected to arrive here at Selectafont the 2nd week of May.

Like the recent new compatible Epson T1285 and compatible Epson T1295 sets, we expect initial stocks to be very limited, so we have listed them now for customers to pre-order to avoid missing out on our first delivery.

These sets of PGI-525Bk and CLI-526Bk, CLI-526Cyan, CLI-526Magenta and CLI-526Yellow will be priced at £24.75 including VAT and delivery.

These cartridges are due in stock 2nd week May and are available to **pre order** now as we expect initial stocks to be limited. Click your printer below to order.

Canon Pixma IP4850	Canon Pixma MG5150
Canon Pixma MG5250	Canon Pixma MG6150
Canon Pixma MG8150

Not all Compatibles are Created Equal

2011-04-15T15:54:00.000+01:00

We like to think that we offer our customers great products and unbeateable value, so we were rather delighted to discover that once of our closest competitors are not offering the much awaited compatible T1285 and compatible T1295 sets of 4 cartridges, not only at a higher price, but also containing just a measly amount of ink! In some cases as low as a 10ml black cartridge & 7ml in the colour cartridges.
Our great value cost just £18.99 including VAT & delivery sets and contain the following:

T1295

1x T1291 Black 19ml cartridge
1x T1292 Cyan 16ml cartridge
1x T1293 Magenta 16ml cartridge
1x T1294 Yellow 16ml cartridge

T1285

1x T1281 Black 16ml cartridge
1x T1282 Cyan 14ml cartridge
1x T1283 Magenta 14ml cartridge
1x T1284 Yellow 14ml cartridge

Trouble could be on the horizon for users of Compatible Epson Cartridges

2011-04-14T14:58:00.000+01:00

There's news today that Epson has started proccedings in the High Court against Dynamic Cassette International Ltd, the people behind JetTec cartridges for alleged infringements to Epson's patents surrounding inkjet cartridges.

Epson have been aggressive in following up alleged patent issues, in a bid to protect its lucrative cartridge sales within the inkjet market and to scare off potential 3rd party companies from producing compatible Epson cartridges to fit their printers.

The company spent three years persuing Medea Ltd who distribute cartridges under the Inkrite brand, between 2007 and 2010, which resulted in an out of court settlement and Medea withdrawing their compatible Epson products under the Inkrite and JR Inkjet brands.

Don't be seduced by cheap printer prices only to pay later...

2011-04-12T12:05:00.000+01:00

It's easy to be enticed by printers being sold at cheap prices but make sure you don't end up paying for it several times over when it comes to replacing the cartridges.
It's a failry well known trick of printer manufacturers to sell printers a cost or below, only to inflate the costs of their ink cartridges to boost profits.

Let me explain further.

Espons recent printer releases in the Stylus and Stylus office range have been produced to accept the T1285 and T1295 range of cartidges.
If you compare the these two different ranges of cartridges on capacity, the T1285 series are filled with just 5.9ml ink in the Black cartridge and a shocking 3.5ml of ink in each of the 3 Colours!! You get more in a sample size nail varnish bottle!

The T1295 series are a little better containing 11.2ml Black and 7ml in each of the Colours.

Out of the range of the range of printers which accept these cartridges the cheapest are the Stylus S22 and the Stylus SX125 starting at around £29.99-£39.99. Very tempting... but which cartridges do you think these printers will ONLY take?
Yes, thats right the T1285's!

If you purchased the SX420W, SX425W or the Sylus Office BX305FW there is some good news, as these will accept both T1285's and T1295's

Luckily our epson T1295 compatible cartridges and epson T1285 compatible cartridges are filled with nearly double the amounts of ink compared with the Genuine Epson sets

The table below shows the Epson Printers which accept the T1295 range of cartridges

Epson Stylus SX620FW	Epson stylus office BX320FW
Epson stylus office BX625FWD	Epson stylus office BX305FW
Epson stylus SX420W	Epson stylus SX425W

So next time you think about replacing your printer and the price seems too good to pass up - it probably is! Just make sure you research your cartridges....

T1285 Compatible Sets - Temporarily Sold Out

2011-04-07T13:25:00.000+01:00

We predicted our sets of compatible epson T1285 cartridges would be popular and we were proved right! These have flown off the shelves and our first allocation is now sold out, with the bulk going to customers who placed pre-orders. More stock is expected soon and we will be updating our website 'news' section and blog with all the latest information and delivery schedule.

We still have plenty of stock of the compatible epson T1295 sets, which lucky owners of the Epson Stylus SX420W, SX425W and SX620FW can still take advantage as their printers accept both the T1285 & T1295 sets.

If you have any enquires or would like to reserve a set(s) of the T1285's from our next allocation on pre-order, please email sales@selectafont.co.uk

Our compatible T1295 sets fit the following group of Epson printers, simply click your printer model in the table below to view the available cartridges for your printer

Epson Stylus SX620FW	Epson stylus office BX320FW
Epson stylus office BX625FWD	Epson stylus office BX305FW
Epson stylus SX420W	Epson stylus SX425W

Compatible T1285 & T1295 New Product Update

2011-04-06T10:36:00.000+01:00

We are delighted to announce our stocks of the much awaited Compatible Epson T1285 sets of T1281-T1284 and Compatible Epson T1295 sets of T1281-T1284 cartridges will be arriving 07/04/2011 ready for immediate dispatch.

Initial stocks will be limited and our pre-orders have already accounted for over half our first allocation, so order now to ensure you are not disappointed.

T0715 Cleaning Cartridges are back!

2011-04-01T13:29:00.000+01:00

Our popular set of T0715 cleaning cartridges are back in stock. Each set comes with the following:

Set of 4 Cleaning Cartridges
100ml Cleaning Fluid
Pipette

These clever cartridges will help clear blocked nozzles which can cause banding and streaking in your printing.Why waste precious ink running cleaning cycles, when these cartridges will break down blockages caused by solidified ink and clean your print heads for you.

Simply fill each of these cartridges with the cartridge cleaning fluid, place them in your printer then print a test page with black, cyan, magenta and yellow block colours. Replace the original ink cartridges, print the same page and you're good to go!

Once these cartridges run out of print head cleaner, simply refill them again, so you only need to purchase them once.

Selectafont Monthly Newsletter

2011-03-28T14:00:00.000+01:00

One Week to go until our next monthly mail out and we've got something very EGGciting on offer!

To make sure you don't miss out on all our news, updates and offers sign up by visitng the Selectafont website

You'll find a wide range of cartridges in toners on our website, we specialise in offering you the best compatible ink cartridges for your printer, because we source the highest quality from trusted suppliers and not just the cheapest. So you can be confident that if purchasing from us, cheap cartridges don't have to mean poor quality.

A range of compatibles for all your needs

2011-03-14T15:50:00.000+00:00

We specialise in compatible ink cartridges and toners, but did you know that we offer two different types within our compatible range?
For those wanting basic cheap ink cartridges for their printers, we have our economy range which will suit those who's main requirement is that text can be easily read and pictures to be good example of the original.

If you require a little more from your printing or print a lot of photo's then we have our high quality Inkrite cartridges that offer OEM quality without the high cost of genuines.

Every compatible cartridge comes with a 100% guarantee to offer you complete peace of mind and unlike some other online retailers, we source the best quality cartridges, not simply the cheapest - even within our economy range.

So if you're looking for the cheapest compatible ink cartridges, but don't want to sacrifice quality why not check out what cartridges we can offer for your printer. We are always happy to answer any questions and advise you on which would best suit your printing needs, just drop us an email at sales@selectafont.co.uk

Its not all about Cartridges!

2011-03-04T11:17:00.000+00:00

For those of you who may think we're just a bit of a one trick pony in the Selectafont office - don't forget we also stock a wide range of Photo Albums too.

We have a wide range of self adhesive photo albums , 6 x 4 photo albums , 7 x 5 photo album , plain and patterned as well as ones for those special occasions such as weddings and babies. They also make fantastic presents for people, either empty or full of shared memories.

So there's no excuse to keep all thoses photo's saved up on your computer for no-one but yourself to see

Genuine Epson T0711H Black Twin Pack Now In Stock

2011-03-04T10:45:00.000+00:00

We now have the Epson T0711 twin packs available online. These packs offer you great value for money, not just as a double pack but also because each cartridge has 11.1ml of Ink compared with just 7.4ml in the standard T0711.

These Genuine Epson ink cartridges are filled with DuraBrite Ultra Ink offering exceptional printing performance in your everyday printing. They provide vivid, bright, laser quality printing so are perfect for your everyday print needs giving great results time and time again.