Lexmark 4350 and ink/refill question.

[Ratha]

We have a Lexmark 4350 all in one scanner/printer here, and we now need a black ink cart.. if it were a canon ip3000 or similar we could easily refill them, got a bunch at work that refill nicely every time. With lexmark you can never see whats inside the carts, and without sacrificing one it can be hard to refill.

We need either a #32 black, or a #34 black, however i cant find the differences between these. Currently we have a photo cart that ran out of black so now we need a straight black replacement, or to know how to refill the photo cart.

We have a #31 photo and a #33 color cart in there now.

#32 - 200page, $19.99
#34 - 475page, $24.99 (high yield)

Those are the only differences i can find between them, but i hate to base my buying decision off of specs that lexmark provides. We all know about the various scandals going on in the ink industry. And i wouldnt put lexmark above doing what epson did, they have always been stingy/picky with ink. Solid black carts so you cant see how much ink you have for example.. always makes ya think they are hiding something.

My questions are basically these:

1: Does anyone know the fluid cc's in each of the #32 or #34 ink carts?
2: Does anyone have any information about refilling these things, drill locations and such.

If you can answer those for me that'd take care of most of the decisionmaking.

Thanks for any help you can provide, or anything else that might be useful that you can think of.


Ratha

 

[Ratha]

Im seriously surprised at the lack of information out there about these things, unfortunately searching for anything related to printers or ink comes up with nothing but sites selling ink, and none of em seem to have the information im looking for.

If any of you guys can assist id sure appreciate the help, im comming up totally empty here. I even emailed lexmark about a month ago asking them the difference between the carts. They never replied. Thought id ask here before sending something to them again since they didnt seem to be to interested in responding.

If none of you guys know, perhaps you can point me towards a better place to be asking? Thanks.


Ratha

 

[Ratha]

Still hoping/looking for a bit more information on this, anyone who has used these cartriges before would be great to hear from.