There is a bit of confusion surrounding Dell’s introduction of their regular use ink cartridges and what exactly does it mean. As some of you may know, Lexmark owns Dell and Dell ink cartridges are essentially Lexmark ink cartridge rebrands. For those familiar with Lexmark’s attempt to stomp out the remanufacturing industry this will ring familiar bells, but for the rest of us it only provides confusion. The introduction of Dell’s regular use ink cartridge range could be a change of direction from Lexmark after they have seen heavy losses in their printer and ink cartridge sales.

Dell Regular Use Cartridges

Dell’s regular use cartridges could be an attempt to give its failing company image a facelift and give it a chance to reshape for others to see it as a pro-recycling company. However, this is, after all, just a simple illusion as there is no difference between the single use and regular cartridges in terms of design and page yield except a 75% increase in price between the two.

There is very little information regarding Dell’s regular use cartridges, but what we think is that the regular use cartridges can be for use with a continuous ink flow system or refilled. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is essentially bottles of ink connecting directly to your ink cartridges via little tubes and can be in use whilst printing. (See the picture provided below). The type of cartridges which Dell are using with their regular use scheme (ink tanks) would be very strange to refill. That’s why we also think they are intended for use with a continuous ink flow system. Customers can, however, run the risk of refilling these ink cartridges themselves but run the gauntlet of a tricky and a potentially disastrous mess if it all goes wrong.

Continuous Ink Flow System