Moving To Another Country? Contact HP Customer Services First.

Planning to emigrate? Probably the last thing you're concerned about is making sure your Hewlett Packard printer works in your destination country. Yet a little known Hewlett Packard policy means this is one thing you should ensure before stowing your bags and catching that flight. HP region encode their printers to only work with ink cartridges bought in the same nation. Hence consumers who replenish their printer with cartridges bought in their new homeland will find them incompatible, and their printer useless.

HP encode their printers in order to guarantee consumers only pay locally dictated prices: an English consumer becomes unable to exploit a favourable exchange rate with the dollar to buy cheap ink, for example. This is perfectly within Hewlett Packard's rights as the manufacturer. Inadvertently however, the policy persecutes consumers who emigrate, unaware that their printers will be incomptible with locally encoded cartridges.

Fortunately, consumers in this situation need not shell out to buy a new HP printer: the region code can be easily reset over the phone. Simply call Hewlett Packard customer services, explain your situation and be persistent: HP may be initially reluctant to distribute the correct code, though ultimately should do so without charge. Calling HP will ensure your printer works once you've emigrated, and save you a major headache.

Happy moving!

Lexmark Printers To Be Sold Through UK Apple Store

The connections between printers and Steve Jobs' branding behemoth Apple may not be immediately obvious; yet the two realms are strangely entangled. Last year for example, printer manufacturers like Hewlett Packard raced to become the first company to release an iPhone application for their wireless printers. Now meanwhile, speculation is rife as to when Jobs will announce printer compatibility for the recently released iPad. Printers and Apple have proved natural partners.

Yesterday's announcement by Lexmark that they will soon begin selling wireless printers through the UK Apple Store then is less surprising than first appears. Indeed other manufacturers must be kicking themselves that they missed the cross-branding opportunity.

Initially only three Lexmark printers will be available through Apple: the Interact, Interpret and Prospect wireless printers. Each of these models includes Smartsolutions software, enabling (with the proper app) nearly instantaneous printing from your iPhone. Moreover though these printers normally cost £120-170, Apple is offering a special deal: anyone that buys a Mac alongside their Lexmark printer receives a £70 rebate.

Hewlett Packard and other ink cartridge producers will doubtless be watching closely to see how the promotion fares.

Of course those who take advantage of the offer will need to keep their Apple-friendly Lexmark printer stocked. For great quality ink cartridge and paper supplies, 999inks.co.uk remains your premier online retailer.

Epson Release World's Fastest All-In-One Office Printer

Small business owners frustrated by the glacial pace of their printing equipment may rejoice: Epson have recently released the fastest All-In-One printer in the world. The Workforce 520 prints 15ppm (pages per minute) in black and 5ppm in colour, in addition to scanning documents at 2400dpi resolution direct to your email inbox.

Currently retailing in the US for $129.99, the Workforce 520 features ink cartridges great for reducing costs too: the colour cartridges are sold separately, meaning you need only replace individual colours as they run out. The Workforce 520 therefore saves not only time but money too. Of course, as soon as the printer becomes available in the UK, look forward to quality discount cartridges from 999inks.co.uk.

Switch Your Font To Century Gothic And Save Money

It’s too easy to tally your printing expenditure at the end of six months and find it rivals the national debt. There’s the cost of stocking the paper tray, replenishing the ink cartridges, and maintaining the machine itself. The occasional minor outlay contributes to (what is before long) a shockingly large total!

Of course, there are several means to bring down the cost of printing. Perhaps the most important is switching from official to remanufactured ink cartridges. These remanufactured cartridges (available at 999inks.co.uk now) offer comparable printing to OEM cartridges at a much lower price. They’re an incredible way to create savings!

In addition, printer owners can further reduce their printing costs by making one change to their word processing habits. This change? Switch the standard font to Century Gothic. According to recent findings from the University of Wisconsin, Century Gothic is the world’s most economical font – using 30% less ink to generate letters than Arial. Over the course of several documents, that creates a massive saving – so go Gothic!

Come back soon to the 999inks Blog for more money saving tips!

999inks Anounces an Ink Giveaway!

999inks is the one place for all of your printing needs. Hopefully you know by now where to find all of your ink at discount prices, so you never have to pay high street prices.

For the month of April, 999inks is giving you TWO chances to win £50 in ink, that gives you alot of ink at 999inks!

You must be on Facebook by now.  If you have not already done so, Become a Fan of 999inks on Facebook.  Once you are a Fan, simply post to our Facebook wall why you want to win £50 in ink from 999inks and you will be entered to win!

Are you on Twitter?  Twitter is a great way to share, too.  Follow @999inks on Twitter and Tweet "@999inks is giving away £50 in ink! Follow and RT to enter!" to be entered to win the 2nd giveaway of £50 in ink from 999inks.co.uk! 

Enter now, and you could be a lucky winner!

Can You Recycle Ink Cartridges Through Local Government?

In the UK most local councils run recycling programs. However, they differ depending on where you live, leaving many people uncertain what they can recycle. For example, can you recycle ink cartridges through your council?


Fortunately help is available. Visit RecycleNow.com and enter your postcode, and the website tells you what items can be recycled in your area. No more uncertainty about whether to recycle ink cartridges!

You may discover that your council does not recycle ink cartridges. If so, contact your cartridge manufacturer: brands like Lexmark run recycling programs, free to their customers. Alternately these charities run recycling programs:

CashForCartridges.co.uk

Cartridges4Charity.co.uk

EmptyCartridge.co.uk

Recycool.org

RecycleInkCartridges.co.uk

999inks March Prize Giveaway

Throughout March, 999inks.co.uk is giving you the chance to win a Tom Tom Navigation unit, simply by showing us you are a fan of 999inks!

Become a fan of Facebook.com/999inks page, and for an additional entry follow us on Twitter.com/999inks!

Copy a screen shot of your updated page showing that you have become a fan of 999inks.

Email your print screen and you may win a Tom Tom GPS!