A Color Ink Cartridge: Choosing The Right One For Your Printer

Color printing has been becoming very famous lately due to the popularity of many good quality printers. From printers that can print exclusive looking colorful documents on Conqueror papers to printers that print beautiful photos on Kodak papers, there are just too many of them in the market nowadays. And the usage of the printer in daily life has also increased compared to how printers were used five years ago.

When you run out of ink, you would buy a new color ink cartridge or even when you buy a new color printer, you would necessarily need a brand new color ink cartridge. Many of the ink cartridges nowadays can be refilled when the ink runs out, and there is no necessity to buy the whole cartridge again. However, there are still many printers which need to replace the color ink cartridge when the color ink runs out.

Unlike black ink cartridge, the color ink cartridge basically can be found in two different forms. This depends on the type of printer and the printing head.

Individual Color Cartridges

The first type of color ink cartridge is the individual one. This type of cartridge is very famous nowadays, and can be found in many new printers, such as those from Epson and Canon. Individual here means one cartridge would only contain one single color, and when you are buying, you would have to buy four to five different cartridges for several different colors. Most of the times, they are sold in one single package, so you would not have the hassle of looking for each one separately. And you fix one by one to the designated printing head in the printer.

On top of this, some of the printers have intelligent systems built in to manage these individual color ink cartridges properly, meaning to say that the colors are individually controlled by the system on the release and tone.

Single Three-Color Cartridges

This type of color ink cartridge is one of the oldest known one. In fact all the old inkjet printers all use this type and several new ones do as well. What is the difference here from the individual one is that that there would only be one single color ink cartridge, which would be the size of three or four individual ones combined. Inside the single three color ink cartridge, there would be three sections divided with three different colors filled in respectively. The three colors would normally be yellow, red, and green, or sometimes there would also be some other combinations.