I'm not familiar with cc inks, but it depends on what you print, your 
equipment, budget and time if it's worth buying aftermarket brands of 
cartridges or doing your own refills.
Lower end printers are almost given away today and the co. makes it back 
on the ink cartridges several times over.  I used aftermarket new 
cartridges in an Epson, worked fine (from Compusa, don't recall brand).  
I've also had 3 Epsons die with clogged jets using only fresh-dated 
Epson cartridges.  I've been refilling my old HP cartridges for several 
years with generally good results.  HP cartridges (mine are #41 and #45) 
are simple to refill, hold lots of ink and they also contain the 
inkjets.  So if they don't work after refilling, I chuck them and buy 
another.  I paid about $30 for a pint of black ink, that's about the 
cost of one cartridge and will refill mine about 20 times.  Also bought 
several brands of tricolor cartridge refill ink sets for a few dollars 
at clearance stores.  They work ok too.  I've bought several brands of 
refilled cartridges (NCR, etc.), mostly when I see them cheap, and 
occasionally got a dud, but for $5 or $10, they have worked fine too.  
Refilling works ok for me as long as the cartridge gets refilled 
promptly when it runs dry, otherwise the heads may clog up with dried ink. 
So far, I've never had any cartridge, whether new, commercially refilled 
or refillled by me, leak when inside any of my Epson or HP printers.  It 
was also suggested that to prevent clogged heads, printing a page with 
some color  every couple days will help keep them clear.  Also turning 
off the printer when not in use (with the printer power switch) will 
properly 'park' the ink heads to reduce ink drying out in the heads.   
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Ron Kaplan wrote:

>Seeing as though I'd like to avoid OEM catridge prices, I have a question re: aftermarket replacement cartridges for my Canon ip4000: I have heard that gg inks are of good quality and not like some of the cheap imports (many/most from China I think), which can clog the print heads. Are there any other ink vendors that a reader of this forum can recommend? Actually, I'd try the manual refill method, but the potential mess doesn't seem worth it. Thank you very much.
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Paul Hachmeyer

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