Photography worlds

An inkjet ink cartridges is a removable and replaceable component of an inkjet printer. This contrasts with a dot matrix printer (also called needle printer) that uses an ink ribbon and a laser printer that works with a toner. A cartridge contains one or more ink reservoirs, electronic contacts and possibly a chip to communicate with the printer. There are many kinds of patterns, since almost every brand uses a different format. There are patterns to print in color and black cartridges to print. In general, one finds four colors in one inkjet printer. Black is almost always in a separate cartridge, the other colors can also sit in a cartridge. These are cyan, magenta and yellow. It is also possible that a special photo cartridge is installed with a special black ink which creates a higher gloss.
There are generally two types of cartridges:
- Ink Tanks: Ink tanks are filled with ink cartridges, which the (fixed) printhead into the printer be put. These patterns contribute little to the print quality of the printer. The printhead can usually be replaced separately.
HP delivers a mostly solid color cartridge, but also models with separate ink tanks. Also, Epson and Canon individual ink tanks can deliver.
- Patterns print head: Cartridges where the print head attached. This means that the print is actually the owner himself. Every time you replace the cartridge is replaced, thus the print head every time it a “like new” quality.

Cartridges in the aftermarket sales are very expensive (ink cartridges will cost about 1000 euros per liter converted, in some cases up to 3400 euros). Sometimes it is also cheaper than a new printer on sale now with matching ink (the included patterns are sometimes only partially filled). But there are solutions to the ink in a cartridge to refill, but that is usually only a few times (4-12 times) as possible. Because they are most profitable on the patterns (using the ‘razor-strategy), some manufacturers such as HP, in certain models of their cartridges a chip installed that allows the cartridge does not work after refilling.