Cartridge MD

12/24/2025

Hello Everyone, sorry about not posting in over a year, yes we're still in business. But, I do want to wish everyone Happy Holidays filled with love and joy.

09/05/2024

Why doesn’t Cartridge MD, LLC do much advertising?

With our prices being low (sorry, not as low as eBay or Amazon, that’s another story), we continue to grow through word of mouth.

To advertise, it could be between $500 to $1,550 or higher per month (and that just local, 35-mile radius). Showing how that impacts pricing, let’s say we sold 500 cartridges a month (easy math), then our cost would go up by $1 to $3 per cartridge higher, which would be passed on to you.

So, that’s why we do not do much advertising, other than FaceBook.

Plus, the fact that there’s no guaranty on return, meaning if we were to run an ad and get one or two new customers, then each customer would have cost us $500-250 to $1,550-775 each and we’d be lucky to get that kind of return. To us, that is a bad return on an investment.

So, that is today’s lesson on why advertising sucks and why things cost so much.

07/02/2024

Why purchase from Cartridge MD, LLC, well it's a simple equation - Little Advertising, No inventory at office (home), Website (not ecommerce, but has prices) equals low prices. Those three items have a major impact on pricing. Also, flat fee shipping is only $10.50, if purchase is over $70 it's included. Name Brands (OEM) and third party (after market) inks and toners.

04/19/2024

Why is remanufactured cartridges more expensive than compatibles in most cases. Simple fact that the remanufactured ones had to be purchased, filled/refurbished, transported (2x) before it can be purchased.

02/28/2024

If you have these Brother Hl-L3210Cw, Hl-L3230Cdw, Hl-L3270Cdw, Hl-L3290Cdw, Mfc-L3710Cw,Mfc-L3750Cdw, Mfc-L3770Cdw printer(s) and are using third party (non OEM) cartridges (TN223 or 227) and purchased them before the summer of 2023, they will not work now. It looks like Brother is taking a page from HP playbook, they changed the firmware, when you put it in it will show as being EMPTY.

02/28/2024

Now offering OEM (brand named cartridges) cartridges, sorry, the prices are not as good as non-OEM.

01/15/2024

HP gets hit again with lawsuit over it's ink and tone cartridges and firmware updates. If you want to use third party inks or toners in you HP printer, turn off firmware updates. Run a search for "turn off HP (printer model #) firmware".
Https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hp-gets-slapped-with-yet-another-lawsuit-for-blocking-printers-using-anything-other-than-its-own-inky-liquid-cash-cow/ar-AA1n0rIb?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=faf0e68cb76b4cf4988235f84be8f9ff&ei=39

It's already paid out millions of dollars in such cases, so this one may well be another success.

11/30/2023

It's that time of year again. For those of you that may have their Printer/PC in a 3 season room, BE AWARE. Just about every printer has an operating range of 50-90 degrees Fahrenheit. Which means, your machine will have issues when you operate it. As for your ink or toner, ink will freeze at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and toner will clump together (yes humidity is in the cartridge). In either case, they must be thawed completely before using, otherwise you will have issues. Stay warm.

09/29/2023

For those of you know, a class action suite was brought against HP (printers) back in Dec. 2020 (https://www.classaction.org/news/class-action-claims-hp-printer-firmware-update-blocked-use-of-third-party-ink-toner-cartridges -document). To date (almost 3 years), it has not made it to a hearing, if I had to guess, the court is backed up or HP has filed a number motions to stale the case.

08/10/2023

Once again HP has released a firmware (the latest firmware 20230708) update on 8/8/23 for anyone using a CF289(A or X, any color) or HP 89(A or X) cartridges. If you are using a third party cartridge it may no longer work if your printer was updated.

On your printer or HP's website (for this cartridge) make sure firmware is turned off, if you haven't done this already.