Brother Genuine High Yield Color Ink Cartridge, 3 Pack of LC103, Replacement Color Ink Three Pack, Includes 1 Cartridge Each of Cyan, Magenta & Yellow, Page Yield Upto 600 Pages/Cartridge, LC103

I like Brother inkjet printers because they offer the least expensive OEM (original equipment manufacturer) cartridges of all the major brands (e.g., HP, Canon, Epson, Lexmark & Brother) while providing good print quality. As with many of you, I was tempted early on to use the least expensive replacement ink cartridges that I could find. These substitute cartridges worked OK in the short haul. In the long haul, however, for multiple brands of printers, I found myself having to run the print head cleaner cycle more & more frequently with continued degrading of print quality. For just about every printer where I used inexpensive replacement ink cartridges, I had to eventually replace the print head or get a new printer. My conclusion is that use of non-OEM printer cartridges over the long term reduces the life of the print head. I now have two Brother printers. My first one, where I have been using Brother OEM cartridges exclusively, is now over 10 years old and I have not any problems with degrading print quality or the print head. I cannot say the same for the other printers I have owned where I used inexpensive non-OEM print cartridges. I intend to follow the same plan of using only OEM cartridges (LC1003) in my new Brother printer. Unless you do regular broad spectrum color printing, certain colors will tend to be printed more than others. This is why you want to have a printer where the color cartridges can be replaced separately. It follows that you then purchase cartridges only for the colors that you use up. It is more cost effective, however, to purchase the 3 packs of the color cartridges. For me, it means that I may have a extra 1 or 2 yellow cartridges, which is the least used color for my printing purposes.

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