Jessman: (Luv yr choppers & your new wife, Sandra, rocks)
There are many mitigating factors re refilling ink cartridges:
1) does your printer use cartridges with smart chips? Most newer ones do. These are teeny micros affixed to the cartridges invented just to preclude us refilling. But there are many sites offering ZAPPERs....devices costing around $10 wHich disable the smart chips. Cat & mouse commerce.
2) There are also many kinds of refill kits. You should avoid those using metal needles, they R not necessary and R often harmful.
2a) If you Go for this and find you luv it.....you can then buy ink in bulk. Been there, done that.
3) The number of times a cartridge can be refilled depends on the type it is: if it employs foam to store the ink, those are more limited but can usually be refilled 3-4X when U learn the basics. The foam filled ones r also more time-consuming given they have to be done slowly and the bubbles tapped out, e.g. the Epsons.
If the cartridge employs the bladder system as opposed to the foam.....e.g. older HP printers often offering only black....but one, huge bladder type cartridge with like 40ml capcity.....when U learn how, those can be rerfilled many, many times. But care is required in every step.
There are refill kits which come with stations to hold nearly all kinds of cartridges....and with fillng instructions for each kind. Some require driling small holes but it's a no brainer, the stations have little drill guides you insert and turn an included plastic threaded bit thru and the stations keep the cartridges stable and close the openings needing closing during refilling. These R quite brilliant, actually.
4) re messy.....if you are careful, wear surgical gloves (often included)learn the basics....refiling does not need 2 B messy. And feeling of triumph is worth a cyan cuticle here & there, now and then, maybe.
5) Having shared all of the above.....time is money, and getting very good, VERY AFFORDABLE generic knockoffs from someplace lIke 123 Inkjets.....where I get mine....is so CONVENIENT AND SO CHEAP, whole refillng thingy may be moot.
But U bet....beating the opportunistic slimes, given wut OEM cartridges go for....and the profit margin which U would not believe....may be worth giving this a try.
At the very least, I wold rather shoot myself than give wut OEM Epson,HP cartridges go 4....because I know wut they cost 2 make.
Good luck with all of this!!!!
Jill