Many folks who own portable printers, and most of us do, try to find ways to save money when it comes time to order new ink cartridges. Drug and grocery stores, printing businesses and other retailers often advertise and sell imitation ink cartridges designed to work on a variety of brand name machines such as Hewlett-Packard, Epson and Lexmark. While it may seem like a great idea to buy discounted ink cartridges, the truth is you will be sacrificing quality and throwing your hard-earned money away.

If for instance, you own a HP 300 printer, you can surely find cheap ink refill cartridges that claim they are exactly like the original HP 300 ink cartridges. But, did you know that these cheap imitations result in 25% of the prints being thrown away due to poor quality? It is true. For every 100 prints you make, you will have to toss out a full quarter of them because they simply do not come out right.

So, the next time your HP printer is in need of ink, be sure to purchase original cartridges. No matter what type of cartridges you need-be it HP364XL ink cartridges or refills for the Hewlett Packard 300 printer, you can find the original refills at leading online retailers.