The Ink Jet Cartridge Book The Ink Jet Guide For Entrepreneurs Sample Chapters: Ink Jet Primer - Introduction - Industry Overview - Industry Outlook - Ground Floor Opportunities - Profit Margins - The Office Products Recycling Industry - Industry Trade Shows and Associations 12 Step Startup Guide - Research Your Market - Perfect Your Methods - Select Goods and Services to Offer - Create Your Business Identity - Identify Target Markets - Build Core Customer Base Sales & Marketing - Identifying Niche Markets - Office and Desk Space Rental Service - Aligning with Service Companies - Getting Referrals Growing Your Business - Ink Jet Cartridge Processing Machines - Cartridge Retrieval Systems - Adding Printer Service to Your Business - Adding Dot Matrix Services - Selling New and Used Printers

Part Four: Growing Your Business Chapter One: Ink Jet Cartridge Processing Equipment At some point, you may find your company remanufacturing large quantities of like cartridges. This can occur through sheer volume of business, large contract agreements, subcontracting, or a combination of all three. Before adding additional staff to handle your increased workload, consider purchasing some cartridge processing automation equipment. There are a handful of manufacturers offering this type of equipment. A listing of these can be found in the resources chapter. Great care should be taken before investing in this equipment, which can cost from $2,500.00 to $25,000.00. Interestingly, machines from manufacturers on the low end are not that much different from the high-end machines in terms of what functions they actually perform, and their production rate. The production increase gained by the adding of automated equipment is roughly 3 times. The most practical machines are usually the low-cost, dedicated, or single purpose units. These inexpensive models are designed to handle one cartridge model (with variations) in high volume. Most often, this cartridge is the HP 51626A, and HP 51629A. As you already know, these two account for roughly 60% of the market. It makes sense for most companies to automate remanufacturing of this cartridge first, unless they have contracted to remanufacture large numbers of some other cartridge for a specific customer.