What is a Compatible Cartridge?
A compatible cartridge is a cartridge that is not produced by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). These cartridges are designed to meet or in best case even exceed the standards set by the OEM in terms of performance, print quality and page yield. To achieve this, the making and quality level of the inkjet ink or laser toner is crucial. Up until a couple of years ago, finding compatible cartridges for Epson, HP and Lexmark printers was hard. The reason was that printheads was costly and not all that easy to integrate into the cartridge making few compatible Epson cartridges to come out on the market. HP and Lexmark on the other hand had their cartridge design patented which effectively hindered cartridge copies to come out. Nowadays, compatible cartridges are easy to find for all the larger printer brands such as Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, Lexmark, Samsung and Xerox.
Compatible inkjet and toner cartridges for your printers, copiers and fax machines are brand new cartridges with mostly brand new parts that are not manufactured by the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) but by other certified producers. Our compatible cartridges offer the same print quality of a genuine and have the same standards.
These cartridges are brand new alternatives to the manufacturers’ original cartridges and whilst made sufficiently different to avoid infringing any copyrights, they are still 100% compatible with whichever machine they were designed to fit. Although made to the same specifications, in some instances (where possible) a compatible cartridge will actually contain more ink than the original equivalent. Compatible cartridges can be primarily used in Epson, Canon and Brother machines.
