SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD/IWORLD 21012 — Silo Ink’s refillable ink cartridges are the last inkjet cartridges you’ll ever buy, according to the company. It offers a lifetime replacement guarantee to back that up.
Once installed, the cartridges are refilled from bottles of ink, which cost about $15 and are good for 10 refills. A special chip that makes the cartridges appear as new to the printer after a refill.
A set of refillable cartridges cost between $100 and $200, depending on how many you need for your printer.
Here’s a quick look at the system, which is being showcased here at Macworld.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.
8 responses to “Quick Look at Silo Ink’s Refillable Ink Cartridges”
Still cheaper to just buy a new printer.
I take mine to Costco and get a refill for 9.99 each, and that last me about 6 months so this would not benefit me.
This product is not new nor is it revolutionary. I actually already been using UltraGamut refillable cartridges AND continuous ink systems for the past 6 years from http://www.UltraGamut.com
Hotzone360.com has the same stuff for less than 1/2 half the price
Good to meet you Leander at Macworld! Thank you for coming by and spending some time with Silo Ink. I would like to invite you to like our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/siloi… Keep in touch!
Tik
Hi Friar,
While there are some inexpensive printers on the market, what you get for that price doesn’t have a whole lot of value. You are given just 1 set of cartridges with the purchase of that printer, which will last you anywhere from 100 – 500 pages. Our products will allow you to print up to 5000 pages on just 1 set of refill bottles. I can not argue with your point on price, but if we’re talking about value, Silo Ink’s refillable cartridges and refill bottles offer much more value than a new printer + 1 set of cartridges.
Tik
This wouldn’t be beneficial to me. I got 4 complete sets of 5 ink cartridges for my Canon printer on Amazon for something like $30, and I can do that as many times as necessary. The cost of this system would never be more economical.
I think the replaceable cartridge is more reasonable in price than this one.