No they are not interchangeable. Printer companies do this on purpose to ensure that you can only buy a certain type of printer ink, and can jack up the price accordingly.
Chains such as Office Depot offer printer cartridges at reasonable prices. There are a number of online retailers that specialize in selling printer cartridges as well.
Every printer brand has different costs for ink cartridges. They can range anywhere from around $10 to $50. You can go to bestbuy.com and type in your ink cartridge number and it will give you the price.
Yes, Amazon sells HP printer cartridges for nearly all of the different printer models HP manufactures. If you are looking to save money Amazon also sells generic less expensive cartridges for your HP printer.
There are various places where you are able to find ink and toner cartridges for an HP 5500 printer. Stores that sell office supplies and stationary are bound to have ink cartridges for a number of different types of printers.
You have to use specific cartridges for specific printers, some printers will use the same as others but not all cartridges are the same. What printer is it you are using?
Inkjet printer cartridges are very cheap at online stores such as Amazon. Also try PC World and Currys, although these can be expensive as these are specialist shops. For a cheaper option, cartridges can be refilled. Printer Inks is a popular website.
All cartridges are pretty much the same, it's just that some printers require different model number of the cartridge and more or less cartridges. I recommend that you get a printer that has a black and one multi-color cartridge.
Generally speaking, if you can get by with an inkjet printer, buy one which uses ink cartriges that are refills. These are the lowest cost ink cartridges.
You can look at the old ink cartridges to figure out which cartridges your printer needs. Also your user guide should tell you what cartrides you need or you can look inside the outer cover to find the ink cartridge number.
There are a quite a number of blogs that talks about remanufacutred toners and cartridges. Oftentimes, business who offer this kind of printer cartridges has a website and a blog to reach out to their customers.
Your use of printer laser cartridges may be expensive, especially if you print out many pages on a daily basis. This can lead to the cartridge wearing out quickly. People who print a huge number of things out can often go through printer ink cartridges frequently, and this can add up to some serious expenses.
Without knowing your model number, I can't say for sure if your printer has generic cartridges available but typically, yes you can get non-Cannon brand cartridges that will fit a Cannon printer. To find the right cartridge do a Google search and use the term "cannon compatible" and type your cannon cartridge number. This will return a lot of results for generic cartridges for you. One online store I know of that has cannon compatible cartridges is http://www.supermediastore.com .